Friday, May 21, 2021

The EcoEcho Mushroom farm is in full operation

 I haven't got any shrooms fruiting yet but I've been soaking logs and inoculating. I'm slow yet somewhat steady. The birds are back in full - to join in with the three types of frogs - so the music at night is wonderful and the birds start at around 4 a.m.

There's several Flycatchers back along with the Veery - so I am very happy that I have not scared away the wildlife from their home. The Lynx appears to have eaten my local squirrels - and so has no reason to return.

A. After the log is spent and given its energy to the shiitake mycelium, you will need to order another log in order to grow more mushrooms. The old log can be used as firewood

It took me awhile to find this answer.

http://youngurbanfarmers.com/blog/shiitake-mushroom-log-detailed-growing-information/ 

We finally got rain up north after a long dry period - and so it was still too cold to fruit shrooms during the day when it was previously raining. So I didn't try shocking early in the season. Now it's too warm to shock the logs I think - although I "shocked" (soaked for 12 hours) at least two pallets - maybe it was three pallets?

Anyway I'm not real "scientific" because there's so many uncontrollable factors to growing shrooms in the wild so why try to control things? haha. OK I guess last year I soaked the logs TOO much and that's what spiked the trichoderma - along with the heat.

So I'll put the newly inoculated logs on a pallet once it starts getting hot regularly. 

So this is the Fourth driest May on record for Minnesota - and we got almost 2/3rd of an inch of rain yesterday up north - yet we are STILL almost one inch UNDER normal!!

So I will keep "shocking" logs but I don't think they'll fruit yet till June. Last year I didn't get shrooms till June and yet we were a half inch ABOVE  normal for rain at this time of year.


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