Growing Mushrooms for Profit and Pleasure: The Definitive Guide, was designed for beginning and intermediate mushroom growers who wish to delve into the finer points of cultivating edible mushrooms at home. This book is divided into three parts. The first part of the book deals with the general method of cultivating mushrooms in four distinct phases. If you want to know more about mushrooms in general, and what they are, head over to the introductory section titled “What are Mushrooms?”.
If you want to know more about the general method of cultivating the fruiting bodies of edible fungi, you can start reading the section “The Basic Process of Growing Mushrooms” located in the first part of the book. Information about pure fungi culture can be seen in “Phase One – Obtaining Pure Culture”. When you’re done obtaining the pure culture of the target species, you can go ahead and create a grain spawn. Learn more about this topic in the section “Phase Two – Creating Grain Spawn”.
When that phase is done, you need to learn how the initial grain spawn can be increased for mass inoculation. You can find out about this step of the process in the section “Phase Three – Increasing the Grain Spawn Supply”. And finally, when the spawn is ready for the substrate, read the section “Phase Four – Bulk Inoculation”.
Information about how to collect the fruiting bodies can be found in “How to Harvest Mushrooms”. Specific information on cultivating oyster mushrooms can be found in Part 2: Cultivating Oyster Mushrooms. Enthusiasts of the shiitake mushrooms should head over to the third part of the book.
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- A complete guide to basic and advanced mushroom culture.
- The 5 things that you need to understand about growing mushrooms before trying them at home.
- When and when not to remove mushroom spawns from their holding areas.
- How to add mushroom spawn to the substrate for the first time
- The importance of understanding the reproductive cycle of the edible mushrooms of your choice.
- How to create the perfect environment for mushrooms at home, in your backyard!
- The 6 surefire ways you can improve your chances of success in home mushroom farming.
- An entire chapter is devoted to maximizing the available space you have allotted for your mushroom project.
- Why do some people have a difficult time understanding what is needed to cultivate edible mushrooms successfully
- A complete guide to the different varieties of edible mushrooms that you can grow at home.
- Which type of cultivation method is best for your circumstances and skill level
- Why the wrong type of substrate can cause growth failure in edible mushrooms
- How to prevent parasitic mushrooms from growing in your substrate.
- Which type of mushrooms are more appropriate for specific countries.
- Where to go to get more information regarding mushroom culture in your area.
- A crash course on the simple ways to improve the process of creating a pure culture...
- All about the proven steps to increase the grain spawn yield in just a few steps.
- What to do if your mushrooms are not growing well on your chosen setup and substrate.
- The importance of knowing the specific requirements of spawn for mushroom culture.
- All about the things you should never do when it comes to preparing pure culture...
- An entire chapter devoted to the simple keys (that are right in front of your eyes) to ensure that grain spawn will be viable after two or three generations...
- How to sterilize dry grains and containers for the grain spawn...
- How to closely monitor your substrate...
- How to avoid common pests that hamper the growth of mushrooms...
- How to use bottles and plastic bags to grow mushrooms...
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