Inoculation Process for Stropharia
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Stropharia, also known as red wine cap or garden giant, prefers to grow in hardwood wood chips rather than hardwood totems. Unlike some of the other cultivated mushrooms, they are less particular when it comes to the freshness of the substrate and don't mind mixing with other organisms in the soil. Steve Gabriel, Agroforestry Extension Specialist for Cornell Small Farms, explains that the process of spreading substrate and spawn is like making lasagna. Remove leaves to expose the soil. A five pound bag will adequately colonize a four by four foot square. Spread hardwood saw dust on the ground and then break up the five pound block of spawn into small pieces. Spread that across the sawdust and follow with a layer of hardwood wood chips. Watering the stropharia bed will help keep the mycellium moist. Stropharia tend to fruit after rain events and during fluctuating temperatures but their fruiting is somewhat haphazard so it's best to keep the mushroom bed close to the house, garden, or pathways so as not to miss a flush of mushrooms.
great video! I just got my first bag of garden giant and excited to inoculate my garden with it :)
Thank you Jesse! Best of luck with your mushroom garden.
That's awesome, Jesse! n How did it go?
How can I add mushrooms from the forest into my Wood chip pile? For example if I find a lot of turkey tail or oyster mushrooms or whatever, do I need to dice them up or pulverize them.. I’ve read about collecting wild mushrooms to add to a wood-chip pile, but I couldn’t find anything regarding method. Thank you for your response.
I hope this is helpful! If you cut up a bit of the oyster mushroom stalk, you can make your own spawn. I've done it with coffee grounds in a mason jar. I cut the pieces to about an inch in diameter with a sterilized knife (dip it in alcohol, then run it over a small flame), and layer it between moist cardboard and coffee grounds. You have to be really meticulous with pasturizing your coffee grounds or you'll get mould. There's many different growing mediums to experiment with. Some might work better, coffee grounds is just what I have on hand. Its essentially the same process as growing spawn with store bought spores. After you have your spawn, I imagine you can inoculate whatever you want with it. That being said, I've heard pine and other conifers are very antifungal, so I guess it would depend on what kind of wood you have.
It’s easier to use mycelium from the base of the stem than it is to use spores. Pasteurization of the coffee grounds or straw or other substrate I think is good at 160 degrees or you can pasteurize for oysters with lime.
How can I make a garden giant bed with a syringe?
What time of year would be best to inoculate?
Just sayin , how big are your feet ?
If I were to grow King Stropharia in a very hot and dry area with a 2' bed of wood chips and sawdust on top of poor clay soil, how might I inoculate it? More or less inoculant than 5lb can be used.
The amount of inoculant you use won't make much of a difference. You can use less than they did, or the same amount. The problem you will have is that they need to remain moist, and they eat wood and other organic matter. The clay soil won't help them grow. You should be successful if you keep them moist and add more wood chips every year.
Great video, has it fruited yet?
+Ruben00021 Hi Ruben, I couldn't tell you. As the videographer, I came up to visit Steve and film on his farm. This Forest Farming channel is put together by a network of forest farmers and eXtension specialists. The videos were meant to complement the resources on our Forest Farming eXtension page (articles.extension.org/forest_farming). Feel free to check it out for more information!
I was always wonder if you can grow mushrooms on a poisonous material like if the whole plant or tree contains solanin or magnolin or something like that and you shred them to grow mushrooms on will mushrooms actually pick this up and become poisonous as well?
That's a good question!
Stamets talks about that in his books. Mushrooms have been used as remediation in petroleum spills (as experiment, not sure if it has been done "in vivo.") He makes plain that the mushrooms used as remediation are not safe to eat.