Preparing compost for mushroom spore contamination
Growing mushrooms on your site is very simple. Summer residents use stumps infected with mycelium or grow mushrooms in cellophane bags filled with mycelium. Mycelium is the filament of a fungus that grows out of spores. Later they intertwine and form a central mushroom. For reproduction, the fungus, located at a depth of more than 20 cm, forms fruit bodies, which people eat.
The life cycle from the formation of the central mushroom to fruiting of the mushrooms takes two months. The mycelium lives and grows for about three years, then the fungus dies off. During this time, from the mycelium with an area of 15 m2 you can collect up to 300 kg of mushrooms.
How to grow mycelium
Mushrooms should grow in a shaded area where the soil is constantly moist. Such mushrooms will not grow on stumps. Even if you infect the logs with their spores, the mushrooms will only sprout from the ground.
If you want to get your mycelium and grow a large number of mushrooms in your area, you need champignon spores and special compost for infection. The benefits of kombucha - read on our website!
Composting
To compost, use:
- wheat hay;
- cow dung;
- superphosphate;
- gypsum or alabaster;
- urea;
- mowed lawn grass;
- a piece of chalk;
- biological product "Shining3".
Soak the straw in cold water for a day before preparing the substrate for the mushrooms and divide into four equal parts. Lay oilcloth or plastic on the ground so that pathogenic bacteria and mold do not get on the mycelium.
Place the first layer of straw on the oilcloth, then add lawn grass and ¼ part of urea and superphosphate. Cover everything with manure to cover the straw. Pour the manure with the water in which you soaked the wheat hay. Thus, prepare all four layers compost... Stir the substrate every four days.
Add all the components from the list according to the instructions. Add 200 g of urea and superphosphate to 15 kg of substrate. Chalk and gypsum at the rate of 150 g of each substance must be added to the fourth mixing of the compost. To ensure that these ingredients are completely sun-fired, stir the substrate every four days. Add the biological product "Shining3" after the first stirring at the rate of 200 g per 15 kg of substrate.
The substrate will be ready for spore infestation after 40 days. All this time, it must be in a sunny place so that the plaster and chalk will burn out. Champignon spores must be collected from a mature mushroom, mixed with boiled water and infect the substrate.