Growing oyster mushrooms for food on coffee grounds. An update.

in #coffee7 years ago

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Starting with an idea to grow fungi/mushrooms on coffee grounds I found on the internet. Using milkcartons as a container to start with, this was one of my first results. A totally with mycelium invested block of coffee grounds.
The first mushrooms I produced were these ones. The start looked promissing, but because of not enough moist it failed.
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So I changed the habitat, and placed the block in a bucket with water on the bottom.
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One mushroom was born...
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But not satisfied with the result I placed the block in a bigger bucket.
And what happened was not realy what I was looking for but another mushroom appeared.
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But it didn't even look like one.
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Well, this was almost too bad to be true. And I am not the person to give in easily, so another change I made.
Instead of plain water I covered the bottom of the bucket with a Japanese baked clay pieces called Akadama and made it moist.
And than something nice happened.20170819_114657.jpg
Instead of one monstrous bulb as mushroom, three came popping out.
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And this was the result after three days..
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Not bad, I guess.

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Great job! I am into mushrooms too and I think that mycelium is the most interesting thing in nature. I will soon start growing mushrooms too. For now I just forage.

Cool! I knew they kept coffee grounds at www.cosm.org to grow mushrooms on, interesting to see how it's done!

You're getting the hand of it quite fast!

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