- Primary decomposer
A fungus that eats fresh plant material directly, like oyster or paddy straw mushroom.
- Secondary decomposer
A fungus that needs material already broken down by other microbes, like button mushroom on compost.
- Pasteurisation
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AI teaching illustration. Air must pass through the loaded material. Pasteurisation, conditioning and cooling have distinct purposes.
Open full image ↗Heating substrate enough to kill most competitors without cooking it sterile.
- Composting
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AI teaching illustration. Wet weight is not the same as dry matter. Two equally heavy ingredient loads can contain different amounts of dry material.
Open full image ↗Controlled rotting of straw with nitrogen and water over weeks to make button mushroom food.
- Crop cycle
Days from spawning to the last harvest of one batch.
Major Cultivated Mushrooms
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