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+ | # Move bags to humidified room an wait about two weeks for fruiting | ||
+ | **Bags may fruit heavily and then fruit less heavily again in a week | ||
+ | # Harvest mushrooms and store or dry for longer-term storage |
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This is an example of a commercial-scale straw culture operation:
Basic Steps
- Obtain mother culture and keep refrigerated
- Replicate small piece of mother culture in petri dishes with agar
- Sterilize barley or other grain in a pressure cooker
- Mix culture from petri dishes into sterilized grain in bags kept in a sterile, temperature regulated environment
- Sterilize straw in steam boiler room (or other method)
- Mix 1:4 inoculated grain with straw in bags
- Keep bags hanging for three weeks in temperature regulated incubator room
- Move bags to humidified room an wait about two weeks for fruiting
- Bags may fruit heavily and then fruit less heavily again in a week
- Harvest mushrooms and store or dry for longer-term storage