Mushroom Cultivation For Everyone

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Mushroom CultivationFor Everyone
Tradd Cotter Mushroom Mountain, LLC
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Log and Stump Cultivation

• Spawn Run
• Storage and Stacking
• Water requirements / Soaking
• Fruiting Parameters and cycles
• Yields and expectations

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Diamond Drilling Pattern
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Log and Stump Cultivation

• SOAKING
• Replenishes lost water
• Swells dehydrated mycelium
• Signals biomass there is enough internal moisture
  to produce viable fruit
• Evaporation creates a slight drop in log
  temperature

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Shiitake Primordia Pushing Through the Bark In
2-7 DAYS
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Shiitake Yields

• Average 2 pounds per log per year
• Investment of 3-4 in plugs per log
• Lifetime of log return 10 pounds (6-8 inch log)
• Price per pound varies with quality (8-15/lb)

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ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND SPECIES
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ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND SPECIES
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Mushrooms on Wood Chips and Composts
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King Stropharia Yields

• Average 3-5 pounds per year (4x4x1)
• Investment of 30 per cubic yard of chips
• Lifetime of return 6-10 pounds (2 years)
• Price per pound varies with quality (8-15/lb)

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• Recycling with Mushrooms
• Growing Media
• Spent Coffee Grounds and Filters
• Cardboard Cereal Boxes, pasta boxes, butter
  boxes, tissue boxes, paper towel rolls, toilet
  paper rolls, paper towels
• Shredded Office Paper, Newspaper
• Old Cotton Clothes

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Cultivating on Ag waste and Weeds

• Spent Coffee
• Cereal Straw (oat, wheat, rye)
• Cotton Waste
• Corn Waste
• Kudzu
• Water Hyacinth

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HOT WATER PASTERURIZATION1-2 HOURS AT 160 F (71
C)
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VOLUME EXPOSED SURFACE AREA
CHOOSING A CONTAINER
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VOLUME EXPOSED SURFACE

• 1 KEY TO SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION
• DETERMINE BEST RATIO
• MINIMIZE EXPOSE SURFACE AREA TO MAXIMIZE YIELDS
• MUSHROOMS ARE PHOTOTROPHIC AND STIMULATED BY
  LIGHT
• BLACK OR OPAQUE CONTAINERS BEST

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Mushroom Psychology

• BECOMING A MUSHROOM
• FUNGAL EMPATHY AND INTUITIVE GROWING
• PREDICT THE BEHAVIOR AND CYCLES BASED ON SKILLED
  OBSERVATIONS AND NOTE TAKING (RECORD KEEPING)

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SPAWN RUN
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Secondary Decomposers

• Agaricus ( Portabellas and White Button )
• Utilize composting process to achieve a substrate
  suitable for mushroom colonization.
• Presence of thermophilic bacteria and other
  beneficial fungi stimulate mushroom mycelium and
  production

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Fruiting Structures

• Controlled, clean environment
• Gases, insects, and humidity control

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Fruiting Structures

• Bigger not better Think small/modular.
• Modular systems have less contamination vectors,
  easier to maintain and isolate diseases. Large
  rooms are difficult to prevent cross
  contamination.
• You can simply add more modules to increase
  production.

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Harvesting and Storage

• Eliminate watering 4-6 hours before harvesting
• Pick when caps are tacky to dry
• Store under 38-45F Refigeration
• Store in lightly ventilated boxes, paper bags,
  never sealed plastic or plastic bags
• Species specific longevity

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MARKETING
BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER WITH RECIPE SUGGESTIONS
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MARKETING

• Know your products
• Know the nutritional values of each species,
  incorporate into signs and handouts
• Never falsify medicinal claims, only cite
  scientific journals, not websites, blogs, and
  neighbors
• Be your local expert

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Alternative Products

• Powders
• Medicinal Extracts
• Soaps, Lotions, Cosmetics
• Mycobrewery???
• Dream up your own products!

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Mushroom Pests and Diseases

• Insects Fungus gnats, sciarid flies, beetles
• Fungi Molds, wilts
• Bacteria Brown Blotch, Orange Staining
• Viruses

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FUNGUS GNATS AND FRUIT FLIES
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Bacillus thuringiensis sp israelensis
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