What is mushroom.
The mushroom is a fruiting body of microorganisms
called fungi that have a stem, a cap and gills on the underside of the cap.
To prepare 70 bags
Saw dust 30
Rice polish 3 kg
Soya flour 300 g
CaCo3 600 g
Magnesium sulfate 60 g
Water 15 l – 20 l
Preparation of the growing media
·
Mixed well all ingredients manually
using shovels.
· Dissolve Magnesium sulfate in water and spray water to keep moisture content between 65 to 75%.
Ingredients and preparation of the growing media bags
§ Polypropylene
bags 7 x 14 inches
§ PVC
tube as caps About 1 inches
§ Rubber
band
§ Cotton
- ·
Filled the bags with media and compact
it.
- · Place the PVC cap and pull out top of bag through PVC neck.
- · Cover the hole with cotton and small piece of paper.
- · Tie with the rubber band.
Sterilization of
media bags
·
Add water to a barrel up to 6 inches.
·
Place iron screen inside the barrel and
place bags.
·
Close the barrel tightly.
·
Sterilized around 2 – 3 hours.
·
Let it cool down through out a day.
Required materials and inoculate bags with
mushroom seeds.
§ Mushroom seeds
§ Sterilized square paper
§ Mask
·
Incubation house – room temperature 25 C
keep for 28 – 30 days until grow bag was fully covered.
Moved to the fruiting house
Fruiting house requirements
Ø Temperature 26 C – 28 C
Ø Humidity 85 C
Ø Light 50%
Ø Good
ventilation
·
Moved bags to fruiting house to prepare
for fruiting.
·
Cut bags at the shoulder of the bag
using a knife.
·
Spray water to control humidity in
mushroom house.
Fruiting house
Harvesting
Mushrooms are ready to be picked 2 - 3 days after moved the fruiting house.
Harvest stage mushroom
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