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Mycelium, Spawn & Substrate
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Your first mushroom crop
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Understand the basics
Records that make sense
Learn before scaling
The process
In the field
- 12Choose a crop using four pieces of evidence
- 13Choose a crop using four pieces of evidence · continued
- 14A first-crop decision sheet
- 15Understand what is inside the bag or bed
- 16Understand what is inside the bag or bed · continued
- 17Write it in your farm notebook
- 18Prepare the workflow before opening spawn
- 19Prepare the workflow before opening spawn · practical sequence
- 20Judge the first crop by records, not by one photograph
- 21Practice record: harvest is not the same as a sale
- 22Where the field guidance comes from
What Mushrooms Are
- 23What Mushrooms Are
- 24A fungus, not a plant
- 25A fungus, not a plant · continued
- 26Mycelium: the hidden body
- 27The mushroom: a fruiting body
- 28The mushroom: a fruiting body · continued
- 29Why this changes how you farm
- 30Why this changes how you farm · continued
- 31Read the numbers in context
- 32Read the numbers in context
- 33Read the numbers in context
- 34Watch a fungus work this week
- 35Avoid these mistakes
- 36Check your understanding
- 37Check your understanding
- 38Check your understanding
- 39Words used in this lesson
- 40Sources and field reference
Major Cultivated Mushrooms
- 41Major Cultivated Mushrooms
- 42Five mushrooms, two kinds of food
- 43Five mushrooms, two kinds of food · continued
- 44Temperature is the first filter
- 45Temperature is the first filter · continued
- 46Season and region
- 47Season and region · continued
- 48Speed, cycle and skill
- 49Speed, cycle and skill · continued
- 50Read the numbers in context
- 51Read the numbers in context
- 52Read the numbers in context
- 53Build your own temperature calendar
- 54Avoid these mistakes
- 55Check your understanding
- 56Check your understanding
- 57Check your understanding
- 58Words used in this lesson
- 59Sources and field reference
Mycelium, Spawn & Substrate
- 60Mycelium, Spawn & Substrate
- 61What spawn is and where it comes from
- 62What spawn is and where it comes from · continued
- 63Judging spawn on arrival
- 64What a substrate must do
- 65What a substrate must do · continued
- 66Three ways to prepare it, and the spawn rate
- 67Three ways to prepare it, and the spawn rate · continued
- 68Read the numbers in context
- 69Read the numbers in context
- 70Read the numbers in context
- 71Spawn and straw checks before your first batch
- 72Avoid these mistakes
- 73Check your understanding
- 74Check your understanding
- 75Check your understanding
- 76Words used in this lesson
- 77Sources and field reference
Environment
- 78Environment
- 79Temperature: the bed, not only the air
- 80Temperature: the bed, not only the air · continued
- 81Humidity: keeping water inside the mushroom
- 82Humidity: keeping water inside the mushroom · continued
- 83Fresh air and carbon dioxide
- 84Fresh air and carbon dioxide · continued
- 85Light, and reading the crop
- 86Light, and reading the crop · continued
- 87Read the numbers in context
- 88Read the numbers in context
- 89Read the numbers in context
- 90The two-thermometer week
- 91Avoid these mistakes
- 92Check your understanding
- 93Check your understanding
- 94Check your understanding
- 95Words used in this lesson
- 96Sources and field reference
Hygiene & Contamination
- 97Hygiene & Contamination
- 98Who wants your straw
- 99Who wants your straw · continued
- 100Pests and disorders
- 101Pests and disorders · continued
- 102Prevention: the cheap rules
- 103Prevention: the cheap rules · continued
- 104Observe before you act
- 105Observe before you act · continued
- 106Read the numbers in context
- 107Read the numbers in context
- 108Read the numbers in context
- 109Draw your clean line this week
- 110Avoid these mistakes
- 111Check your understanding
- 112Check your understanding
- 113Check your understanding
- 114Words used in this lesson
- 115Sources and field reference
Cultivation Cycle
- 116Cultivation Cycle
- 117Stage 1: prepare the substrate
- 118Stage 1: prepare the substrate · continued
- 119Stages 2 and 3: spawn and colonise
- 120Stages 2 and 3: spawn and colonise · continued
- 121Stage 4: switch the room to fruiting
- 122Stage 4: switch the room to fruiting · continued
- 123Stages 5 and 6: harvest in flushes, then reset
- 124Stages 5 and 6: harvest in flushes, then reset · continued
- 125Read the numbers in context
- 126Read the numbers in context
- 127Read the numbers in context
- 128Draw one crop on a calendar
- 129Avoid these mistakes
- 130Check your understanding
- 131Check your understanding
- 132Check your understanding
- 133Words used in this lesson
- 134Sources and field reference
Harvest & Post-Harvest
- 135Harvest & Post-Harvest
- 136When to pick
- 137When to pick · continued
- 138Handling and grading
- 139Handling and grading · continued
- 140Cooling: the cold chain
- 141Cooling: the cold chain · continued
- 142Packing and choosing the channel
- 143Packing and choosing the channel · continued
- 144Read the numbers in context
- 145Read the numbers in context
- 146Read the numbers in context
- 147Time your first hour
- 148Avoid these mistakes
- 149Check your understanding
- 150Check your understanding
- 151Check your understanding
- 152Words used in this lesson
- 153Sources and field reference
Business Reality
- 154Business Reality
- 155Four numbers, not one
- 156What the institutes actually give you
- 157What the institutes actually give you · continued
- 158Cost per saleable kilogram
- 159Cost per saleable kilogram · continued
- 160Capital, schemes and the assumptions you must prove
- 161Read the numbers in context
- 162Read the numbers in context
- 163Read the numbers in context
- 164A one-crop cash calendar
- 165Avoid these mistakes
- 166Check your understanding
- 167Check your understanding
- 168Check your understanding
- 169Words used in this lesson
- 170Sources and field reference
Which Mushroom Fits Me?
- 171Which Mushroom Fits Me?
- 172Constraint 1: climate and season
- 173Constraint 1: climate and season · continued
- 174Constraints 2 and 3: materials, skill and control
- 175Constraints 2 and 3: materials, skill and control · continued
- 176Constraint 4: market and shelf life
- 177Constraint 4: market and shelf life · continued
- 178Three Indian cases and a first batch
- 179Three Indian cases and a first batch · continued
- 180Read the numbers in context
- 181Read the numbers in context
- 182Read the numbers in context
- 183Score your fit on one page
- 184Avoid these mistakes
- 185Check your understanding
- 186Check your understanding
- 187Check your understanding
- 188Words used in this lesson
- 189Sources and field reference
Practise and review
Sources and next steps
English learning edition · Independent technical review pending. Keyboard: focus the reading page and use ← / →. Page turning does not mark practical competence.