Project Papershredder Phase 2
Apr. 4th, 2010 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaBoth spawning cakes were highly successful with no signs of contamination so I've moved to the next phase of the project.
I am following this process pretty closely.
Last night I mixed up a half cup of bleach and five gallons of boiling water, then shredded the various paper products and immersed them and let them cool overnight. It turns out this was just about the right amount of time. The materials were still warm 9hrs later but not so hot as to harm the mycelium.
Broke up the cakes and packed them between layers of paper materials. The mycelium smells delicious. The wonderful faintly licorice like scent of young oyster mushrooms. ^_^
We made a house to hold the spawn bags and eventually birth them using a couple of bricks, a large shallow plant dish, a tomato cage, and screen. Then Stacey constructed a shell from a heavy gauge plastic.
With some luck, we should have our first crop within a month.
I am following this process pretty closely.
Last night I mixed up a half cup of bleach and five gallons of boiling water, then shredded the various paper products and immersed them and let them cool overnight. It turns out this was just about the right amount of time. The materials were still warm 9hrs later but not so hot as to harm the mycelium.
Broke up the cakes and packed them between layers of paper materials. The mycelium smells delicious. The wonderful faintly licorice like scent of young oyster mushrooms. ^_^
We made a house to hold the spawn bags and eventually birth them using a couple of bricks, a large shallow plant dish, a tomato cage, and screen. Then Stacey constructed a shell from a heavy gauge plastic.
With some luck, we should have our first crop within a month.
