Types –
• Shitake – very easy to grow
• Grows on white oak logs (best 40” x 6” diameter maximum size) or wood chips
• Chicken of the woods http://www.mushroomexpert.com/laetiporus_sulphureus.html
• Oyster – forage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_mushroom• Chanterelle – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanterelle
• Be aware of similar looking poisonous mushroom – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_chanterelle• Morel – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella
• Be aware of false morels – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_morels• Hen of the Woods – Maitaki – pick when young – http://theforagerpress.com/fieldguide/octfd.htm
Resources – Paul Stamets – be sure to read before you starting eating and growing mushrooms
• Mushroom Cultivator,
• Mycelium Running – Best
• Growing Medicinal Mushrooms
Different propagation techniques –
• Buy spores
• Buy syringes
• Buy plugs
How to inoculate for growing mushrooms
• Attend Frank Michael seminars
• Use any dead trees you cut down
• Choose 6” diameter sections of tree
• Cut tree into 40” lengths
• Drill holes in a row 6” apart – all the same depth
• Next row – 2” down
• Drill all the way around the log
• Introduce spawn
• Plug holes
• Tag with the types of mycelium you inoculate with
• Wax it
• Crib it for 6 month (stack in piles – alternating layers for ventilation)
• For best production – soak the logs for 24 hours and crib
• If you stack in 7 stacks, you can soak one pile each week, then re-stack
• Inoculate in the spring or fall on freshly fallen trees
• Takes a year to get mushrooms
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