Vermicomposting mycelium

Wetdog said:

Boy, you stepped in it now. I want to do some oysters in straw this spring and am now waiting for my copy of "Mycellium Running" to arrive. I have it as a PDF, but prefer real books. It shipped 2 days ago, so the questions won't be long in coming. LOL

Wet

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haha that's awesome its quite an experience you learn alot about the natural cycle of life around us, just put my spent oyster mycelium blocks in with a pound of red wigglers about a dozen crushed up eggshells and around1.5 lbs of sun dried blue oysters and approximately 2 pounds of dead oysters on spent straw blocks that happened to recruit and then has been frozen outside since November (gotta love northern Maine) also have been melting snow to water for a couple months now because of the hard water in my well, its testing at 50 ppm with a .1 -+ neutral ph. And mycelium running is a great book read it from front to back.

Richard Drysift said:

That many oysters will increase co2 but just a couple monotubs like I usually run once a year the plants barely seem to notice. I think I get more of a benefit from the co2 emitting from my worm bin than my myco lab.

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im going to play with it mostly an experiment, i try to observe the systems of our natural surroundings and replicate, I do my oysters using simple lime pasteuration in 5 pound plastic bags, alcohol hands, and a 12x8 room that was wrapped I plastic and built to replicate the natural environment of oyster mushrooms and my last grow I did 400 5lb blocks approximately and I only had 9 blocks contaminated and it was a very rare version of pink mold I chucked blocks and had no other problems.

Richard Drysift said:

That many oysters will increase co2 but just a couple monotubs like I usually run once a year the plants barely seem to notice. I think I get more of a benefit from the co2 emitting from my worm bin than my myco lab.

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and oysters are one of the highest co2 producing fungi.

I wish I had the space and the means to do that kind of operation. I'm working on it atm. and trying to get my online store back up. to sell spores again but domain sites are seeming to get more expensive.

cap master said:

not sure if its possible but great idea if it works.

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I deffinatly think its possible, Oyster mushrooms can produce enough co2 to cause harm to humans if left unproperly vented. And in some of my rooms that I had sealed during colonization actually affected my breathing capabilities in the room, so I think it would be more than possible, I plan on doing 20x10 foot no till beds with very cage running in an oval, in the middle of the bed with a scrog net placed around the cage to train outer branches that are to much of a hassle for the inside of the cage with verts I the middle, a rail on both sides of the outer edges, and supplemental cobs placed inside the walls for lower branch lighting etc if I find I'm not getting the proper amount of light needed. My theory with the mushrooms are I could build out my wall with 2x4s then place large clear plastic between studs, fill with straw and innoculant then cover with black rubber while colonization remove rubber cover to give light to clear bags (I say clear they would need to be more of a whitish color so that the high intensity of grow lights didn't affect them oysters use light during pinning and fruiting to regulate there direction and growth but only in moderation, and then cut holes where I plan on having the fruits pop out regulate co2 with air filtration and harvesting the needed mushrooms, now if I could get it tuned in enough to have the opening and pinning of the mushroom fruits with the desired flowering times, that will be the difficult part, but probably the most fun. But that's what i plan to have up and running by July.and actually after saying that I probably wouldn't cover with rubber I'd use a mylar cover to reflect light and block from spawn, rubber would just waste my electricity.

sounds like a serious plan I'm limited to a small 3x2 space for my shrooms atm and 4x2 for my plants as well so not mutch room there currently building a flower room detatched form the house and I could aslo create a shroom room but then I would have to get another area for storage.

cap master said:

sounds like a serious plan I'm limited to a small 3x2 space for my shrooms atm and 4x2 for my plants as well so not mutch room there currently building a flower room detatched form the house and I could aslo create a shroom room but then I would have to get another area for storage.

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I'd like to think its serious, but only time will tell see how far I can make my good ol' ged and red neck observation can get me. ill be doing a full log on here and ic mag of the transformation from old garage to no till medicinal super producer. I've got some other theoretical experiments I plan on trying that ill have up here in around 3 weeks probably. Keep an eye out, thinking it'll be a decent one.my bad for spelling, little stoned and working with a cracked phone screen.

ill keep an eye out I also have an old shed I was trying to convert I took the windows out re plywooded it tor the old roof off and put on a metal one. than built a small room in the back with a false wall for my cannabis and the other side was a work shop separate from my garage. but I may have to reorganize the garage and use my main shed to produce my magical fruits.