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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/1580081754
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@gaskill.com:
> -->
> Hi folks,
>
> Not all is clear yet but we definitely could use any spores or mycelia
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.
>
> Cheers,
> Hol
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