Mushroom lovers can not only collect them in the forest, but also grow homes. You can grow your own oyster mushroom at home, which has high nutritional qualities and is an environmentally friendly product.
Growing mushrooms oyster mushroom at home does not require special material and time costs. At the same time oyster mushrooms are characterized by high yields. Using a special material - mycelium, you can get these wonderful mushrooms in a ratio of 1: 3.
Therefore this kind of activity can become interesting both for ordinary mushroom lovers, and for those who want to build their own business on this.
Asked how to grow oyster mushrooms at home, you should think first of all about the special room where you will grow it. As such premises it is possible to use a cellar, garage, a greenhouse. Premise it is desirable to pre-treat with bleach.
Substrate for oyster mushrooms at home
You need to buy a specialized mycelium store. You can make a substrate yourself. Proportions are as follows: 0.4 kg of mycelium is prepared 10 kg of substrate. With this proportion, the oyster mushroom yield will be 8 kg.
To prepare the substrate, wheat or barley straw, sunflower husks, buckwheat husks, corn stalks or corn stalks, wood shavings are used. Raw materials need to be crushed to an average of 5 cm.
Prepared substrate should be boiled for 1.5-2 hours. Then drain the water and cool to 25-28 ° C. The substrate must be moistened, but not too much. If it is squeezed, then water should not flow, only the appearance of a few drops is permissible.
Then it is possible to start packaging the mixture of substrate with mycelium in polyethylene bags. They are pre-washed and allowed to stand for 2 hours in a two-percent solution of lime. After that, the mycelium, mixed with the substrate, is placed in the bags. Packets are tied, holes are pierced in them at a distance of about 15 cm.
How do oyster mushrooms grow at home?
Prepared packages are left in the room for 10-15 days. In this incubation period a mycelium is formed. At the same time, it is necessary to maintain the optimum temperature regime - 18-22 ° C. Several times a day, the room must be ventilated.
After the end of the incubation period, the fruiting period begins. In order for it to pass well, it is necessary to ensure proper conditions:
- maintain the temperature at 10-15 ° C;
- provide access to light for 8-10 hours a day;
- as much as possible to humidify the room. This can be done by spraying walls and floor. But water should not fall on the packets;
- several times a day to ventilate the room.
Within two weeks, the first batch of mushroom harvest is collected. The oyster can be cut with a knife, but it is advisable to do without it and twist the mushrooms.
After the collection of mushrooms, two weeks in the room keep the temperature 10-12 ° C. At this time, the second crop is formed. In total, you can collect 4 lots of oyster mushrooms.
If you have a question about how to grow oyster mushrooms in winter, then it should be noted that they can be grown all year round. The main thing at the same time is to provide all the above conditions (about temperature, light, humidity and airing).
Packages with the used mixture of mycelium and substrate can be used as a fertilizer.
Knowing how the oyster mushrooms grow at home, you have the opportunity to constantly receive a plentiful harvest of these mushrooms.