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Mushroom spawn laboratory
Producer of top quality mycelium for a large number of fungi
Supplier of mycelium reproduction technology
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Operating instructions for the cultivation of Shiitake on coco waste blocks:
Requisites:
- 3 coco bricks, or 2 kg of coco- fibres
- a 2 liter (1,4 kg)- portion of spawn
- 1 large Microsac
- a pair of disposable gloves
- adhesive tape
- a long pin
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Substrate-preparation:
- Put disposable gloves on before unwrapping the coco-blocks
- Put side by side 3 blocks (or fill 2 kg of coco-fibres) in a Microsac
- Pour 6 litres of boiling (!) water over the blocks
- Fold up the Microsac in order to prohibit any air-borne microorganisms to land on the substrate.
- Let soak for 6 - 8 h, till the temperature has sunk below 25°C, and the blocks have entirely absorbed the water
- Loosen up the fibres without opening the bag, in order to aerate the substrate.
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Inoculation:
- Crumble the spawn inside its original packaging. Open both Microsac and spawn-bag, and quickly strew the spawn over the surface of the substrate
- Seal up the Microsac (e.g. with adhesive tape), and mix thoroughly spawn and substrate.
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Incubation:
- Place the bag in a room with a temperature of 15 - 20 °C. After ± 14 days, the mushroom mycelium will have entirely turned white the substrate.
- Prick, by means of a long pin (e.g. knitting needle), 50 deep holes through the bag till the centre of the substrate block.
- Leave the bag in the same room till, after ± 14 days, mushroom primordia with a diam. of ± 1 cm have formed under the plastic.
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Fructification:
- Tilt the substrate block inside the closed bag as is demonstrated by the drawing. This will create room enough between plastic and substrate to allow a normal mushroom- development.
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Harvest:
- Cut the actual top (= former side) of the bag, remove the mushrooms entirely, and sprinkle the substrate before resealing the Microsac.
- Keep the block at 15 - 20 °C; and after a few weeks will form a second series of primordia, which will grow into firm mushrooms.
- Remove the plastic, harvest the mushrooms, and place the block in a shady corner of the garden. In every spell of damp weather, you may harvest a few mushrooms, till depletion of the substrate.
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© 2000 Mycelia, SacO2, Combiness
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