Oyster mushroom

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In this post I will share photos from one of mushroom cultivation.

Oyster mushroom cultivation is suitable for tropical climates such as Indonesia. The investment required to start the cultivation of oyster mushrooms is quite cheap and can be done gradually. The hardest part is making baglog, planting medium that has been inoculated with fungus seeds.

The Latin name of oyster mushroom is Pleurotus ostreatus, belonging to the Basidiomycota group. It is called oyster mushroom because the shape of the canopy resembles the oyster shell. Semi-shaped white. In the wild, white oyster mushrooms are commonly found on rotted logs. Perhaps because of that, oyster mushrooms are often called wood mushrooms.

There are two main activities in the cultivation of oyster mushrooms. The first stage is to make the planting media and inoculate the seeds of mushrooms into the planting medium. So the media overgrown with white mycelium like cotton. The second stage is to grow the mycelium into a fruit body.

For newcomers, usually start cultivation activities by growing baglog into fruit flesh. While procurement, baglog ready to grow obtained by buying from other parties. Then after the cultivation effort grows and the volume is much, just try to make baglog own.

In this paper will, I will review the steps that must be prepared to start the cultivation of white oyster mushrooms.

Harvest cultivation of oyster mushrooms

When the baglog used by its surface has been perfectly covered with mycelium, usually within 1-2 weeks of opening the lid of baglog, the fungus will grow and can be harvested. Baglog mushrooms can be harvested 5-8 times, if the treatment is good. Baglog that weighs about 1 kg will produce mushrooms as much as 0.7-0.8 kg. After that baglog removed or can be used as compost material.

Harvesting is done on mushrooms that have bloomed and enlarged. Precisely when the edges have been seen tapered. But the hood has not broken the color is still pure white. When the harvest period through half a day only then the color becomes a bit brownish yellow and tudungnya broke. When it's like this, the mushrooms will quickly wilt and not last long. The first harvest distance to the next harvest ranges from 2-3 weeks.

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