FAE isn’t the Fae or Faeries that people often think with Mushrooms in the growing community. FAE is an acronym for Fresh Air Exchange. As it turns out, Mushrooms Breathe in oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide, much like humans. So Fresh Air Exchange is essentially -not suffocating your mushrooms- as you grow them. Typically […]
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I was able to talk to a few Fungi Business Farmers and they put me on the recommendation for a Strain of Lion’s Mane provided by Appalacian Gold, ran by Jeff Manganaro at Appalacian Gold Fungi. I’m merely spreading this information, definitely worth a look if you’re into cultivating Lion’s Mane. The strain is available
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Gordo Tek on youtube has a nice build for a very affordable Flow hood that was under $100 at the time; The purpose of a flow hood is to create an environment of net positive air pressure with clean air, the HEPA filters filter out most particulates and spores that are naturally found in the
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While I (Duke) was able to chance upon a lecture by Coakee William WildCat talking about Mycoremediation and replanting trees. The Prefix ‘Myco-‘ relates to ‘Fungi’ and ‘Remediation’ is about ‘restoring the environment’. So Mycoremediation is using Fungi to help restore the environment. We can use Fungi to filter water, eat cigarette butts, eat trash
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Find a local composter, and do one of the following; This tip is geared if you have a lot of mushroom blocks and wondering what to do with them- while you are producing more each week (or day even). -And this applies to Spent Mushroom Blocks, Bags, and Bricks. Basically the necromass of myceliated substrate.
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The big difference between the two is simply that Sterilization kills virtually all microorganisms and pasteurization kills vegetative or hibernating spores or bacteria. When dealing with many types of mushrooms and fungi, it helps to have a controlled setting with controlled atmospheres and environments to avoid unwanted growths and contamination from outside entities, other bacteria,
Substrate is just a fancy way of saying food for your mushroom. The word ‘substrate’ translates directly to ‘to spread underneath’, for mushroom substrate, it would be the stuff you spread under your mushrooms. A platform, but also food. In ecological terms, a substrate is the substratum that the subject in question is attaching itself to. But simply, substrate
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Flushes are essentially the waves that fruiting bodies of mushrooms grow (fruiting bodies are the actual mushroom cap and stem). So when you grow mushrooms, you might get a harvest, and after your pick the caps and stems, you might get a second harvest. So don’t throw out mushrooms immediately, whether your growing Oyster Mushrooms,
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The big difference between the two is simply that Sterilization kills virtually all microorganisms and pasteurization kills vegetative or hibernating spores or bacteria. When dealing with many types of mushrooms and fungi, it helps to have a controlled setting with controlled atmospheres and environments to avoid unwanted growths and contamination from outside entities, other bacteria,
Substrate is just a fancy way of saying food for your mushroom. The word ‘substrate’ translates directly to ‘to spread underneath’, for mushroom substrate, it would be the stuff you spread under your mushrooms. A platform, but also food. In ecological terms, a substrate is the substratum that the subject in question is attaching itself
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