Mycelium Wandering Growing Oyster Mushrooms

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Safety: • Pressure cookers are dangerous if misused; follow manufacturer’s instructions. • Sterilize and do not eat any mold you see. • Mood music: “Ratio Smatio” and “Frog Machine”, Infected Mushroom • Oyster mushrooms are tasty and relatively easy to grow. Let's find out how!. • First, rye berries are suspended in boiling water and left to sit overnight. While those are soaking, let’s prepare some media jars. We start with a canning jar. The lid is clamped down and air holes drilled in it. The rough, sharp edges are pounded down. A porous filter is cut out of denim. This will allow gas exchange while excluding mold spores. • Once they have soaked, the rye berries are drained. Calcium carbonate (chalk) powder is stirred in; this will buffer the acidity. Calcium sulfate (gypsum) powder is stirred in to prevent caking. • The rye medium is packed loosely into the medium jars, and then loaded into a pressure cooker. They are autoclaved for 15 minutes to sterilize. • The media jars can be inoculated with a log plug like these. They can also be inoculated with an older jar. Once inoculated, the jars are incubated in a warm, dark place for a week or two. • During incubation, the grain is overtaken by a fine, fibrous network called the mycelium. • Oyster mushrooms are well known for growing on a variety of substrates; let’s try out a few. Here we have: • *kitchen scraps • *yard clippings • *coffee grounds • *shredded paper • The kitchen scraps released too much water, becoming waterlogged and ultimately catching mold. The yard clippings were a little dry, but otherwise hosted healthy mycelia. The coffee grounds were a little compacted, but they worked well anyway. Paper also worked well, though it’s difficult to see the mycelia against the white background. • The waste can be sterilized in the pressure cooker before cleaning. This is especially important if mold develops. • I have been experimenting with scaling the process up, using spent grounds donated by local coffee shops. I’ve even managed to grow fruiting bodies. Progress is tasty! • More reading: • Mycellium Running - Paul Stamets • / 239395.mycelium_running • 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World - Paul Stamets • https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamet... • ArkFab Mycology pages: • http://web.archive.org/web/2012092904... • http://web.archive.org/web/2012093006... • The procedure shown is adapted from the Rattray Armbruster 2011 ArkFab protocol: • https://pastebin.com/LtwwBJp9

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