Briquettes offer a smilar source source of substrate to wood pellets. Commercially available compacted sawdust easy to obtain and store. It is common to find oak and beech briquettes so…
Briquettes
Briquettes
Woodchip
Wood chips serve as an excellent substrate for growing various types of mushrooms, offering a sustainable and cost-effective option for home cultivators and commercial growers alike. The process involves inoculating…
Woodpellets
Wood pellets are mass produced for the biomass market through a process whereby the sawdust is passed through a pellet dye at high temperature and pressure. The act of compression…
Straw: Pellets
Possibly the easiest way to grow oyster mushrooms. You can also grow golden reishi on straw pellets. The method detailed below describes slight variations depending on the type of crop…
Straw: Lime Pasteurisation
Using lime, calcium hydroxide (CaHO2) to create a highly alkaline solution that effectively kills most microorganisms. By adding 12g per 100l of water you will increase the pH of the water…
Brown Rice Flour and Vermiculite Cakes
This is a technique for growing many different species of medicinal and gourmet mushrooms indoors relatively quickly. The porus structure of the vermiculite provides the surface area for the fungal…
Casing
A casing layer provide a moist porus structure for the primordia of the particular species of fungi to develop. It is a way of imitating an ideal soil structure. Some…
Enriched Sawdust Blocks
Sawdust can be used as growing medium either directly as a substrate, or, as spawn for other substrates such as logs, outdoor mushroom beds and straw. Depending on the species…
Straw: Pasteuristaion
Heat pasteurisation of straw is a commonly used technique by mushroom cultivators. It is a prcoiess of heating the substrate to approximately 70-74c for a period of time, usually 1…
