Re: [sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] sudoShroom

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all (from a lurker & fan) -- I am not sure I would recommend fruiting your oyster mushrooms indoors, at least not without significant ventilation & filtration in place. Oysters are notorious sporulaters to the point that wild foraged ones are often left outside to drop spores before being brought inside for drying or cooking. Commercial facilities use personal protection as well as central HVAC to manage spores. A heavy sporeload can cause acute symptoms (mostly involving the lungs) but more commonly long term exposure can lead to spore sensitivity/allergies. Basically spores are just nasty (and also magic). That being said -- propagating mycelium, making plugs, preparing & colonizing growing media and the like is totally safe & fine for indoors and I totally encourage it Fruiting is best in a green house/garage/back yard. Also some other types of mushrooms are less aggressive in their spore production. Stamets' Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms is *the* reference: http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Gourmet-Medicinal-Mushrooms-Stamets/dp/158008… As a lurker on this list I don't want to be a downer, but also wanted to share what I have learned from my experiments in fungi. I have cultivated two kinds of oysters in my garage and can attest to the vast quantity of spores they produce if left too long (which can be hard to gauge for a novice). I can also attest to the deliciousness of said mushrooms breaded and fried. :-) I am also happy to share whatever else I have learned in that process if y'all sudoShroomers wanna hit me up. I think this is a great project! Best, Jonah Silas Sheridan hol(a)gaskill.com: that can be found for edible species, along with good substrates, particularly spent grain, straw, and hard wood or preferably hardwood chips. Any ideas on container could be brainstormed to fruition - right now I'm thinking of using milk crates with up to 4 different inoculations in 4 different HDPE milk cartons, which would make for a stackable design. Also important is humidity control. The first idea is to use a timer and mister of whatever sort we can hack together - there is a pump and set of nozzles at sudoroom for testing - but it would be nice to be able to close the loop and provide misting using some logic to keep humidity within a preset range. _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss