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mushroomsinabag

I am a plant hobbyist with a love for succulents, mushrooms, and hydroponic gardening. Zone 5b/6a Cleveland, Ohio.

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mushroomsinabag

Site/app suggestion: allow me to change the year of the image, and give the option to automatically rearrange images in timeline fashion. These were all 2017. @teamgardentags

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muhammadabbas

Hello.. How are you? I want to get some informations or idea about Mushrooms because I am preparing the project proposal about mushrooms cultivation. If you have some ideas/ informations so can you share/ help with me...??? @mushroomsinabag

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mushroomsinabag

@muhammadabbas happy to share any information I can...on my way into work in a minute, but tell me what you would like to know and I'll get back to you when I get home tonight. I'll be doing a grow log on here when I start some new mushrooms, but expect those will take years to complete lol.

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muhammadabbas

My project proposal will be on Pleurotus sajor caju and Pleurotus sapidus , I will do experiment on these two species of mushrooms that I will search that which species best for our country climate for commercial cultivation, and my supervisor at university will allow me one room for this experiment but I don't know what is the basic needs and how to set up the room for it, initial requirements for its cultivation.. @mushroomsinabag

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mushroomsinabag

@muhammadabbas basic controls will need to be humidity, air flow, temperature, light, and air filtration. Too low of humidity and your mushrooms will crack and dry up. Too much and they rot. Not enough air flow and the mycelium will not produce fruit bodies. Without light sources, your mushrooms don't know where to grow. Without air filtration, you contaminate the entire grow from just a few mold spores. Temperature will boost or delay growth.Specific needs will need researched for both species.

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muhammadabbas

Yeah thanks... These are all the factors which effect the growth of mushrooms and what about the design of the room?? The bags will be hanging with the rooftop or makes the iron stands for the bags??? Can I use the wood bark and saw dust as a substrates??? And I am asking more questions if you're bored so sorry for that..!!😕😕 @mushroomsinabag

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mushroomsinabag

The substrates depend on the species of mushroom. I haven't looked into those ones, so not certain. I have found that stands work wonderful for larger grows. You simply have more space with stands. I don't mind questions, but it's tough to answer specifics for that species because I haven't grown them myself. Some quick google searching should net you with the substrates you need. I THINK straw was common for oyster mushrooms, but idk if those specific species will like straw or not. @muhammadab

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muhammadabbas

Thanks @mushroomsinabag yeah mostly the wheat straw is used for oyster mushrooms but there is a lots of substrates that the people researched on them and found a best result. Recently I was studying a research paper about oyster mushrooms so in that research they used different substrates on oyster mushrooms so best fruiting bodies was the newspapers substrate..

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Aha! Found a close-up!

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Bloom...just one...

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The water hyacinths took off like wildfire! I'm gonna have to dig for bloom photos...

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These are the initial plants I purchased. We dug this pond between spring and summer and plopped a few water hyacinths in the water to see how they would do.

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