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Milky mushrooms

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Start here
  1. 01Milky mushrooms
  2. 02What you need before starting
Understand the basics
  1. 03Three mushrooms, three different crop arrangements
  2. 04Preparation is not finished when heating stops
  3. 05Humidity is not the same as watering the crop
When something goes wrong
  1. 06Describe the problem before naming a disease
The process
  1. 07Match the method to the room
  2. 08Check the substrate stage
  3. 09Treat casing as its own operation
  4. 10Compare development and harvest
In the field
  1. 11Check the crop, climate and buyer together
  2. 12Write it in your farm notebook
  3. 13Finish substrate colonisation before the next operation
  4. 14Treat casing as its own material and operation
  5. 15Three different places to investigate moisture
  6. 16Follow pin development through to a paid sale
  7. 17A useful comparison
  8. 18Where the field guidance comes from
Warm-Climate Context
  1. 19Warm-Climate Context
  2. 20A mushroom that likes the heat
  3. 21Where the calendar puts it
  4. 22Where the calendar puts it · continued
  5. 23Two Indian answers on spawn run
  6. 24Two Indian answers on spawn run · continued
  7. 25What the crop asks before you buy spawn
  8. 26What the crop asks before you buy spawn · continued
  9. 27Read the numbers in context
  10. 28Read the numbers in context
  11. 29Read the numbers in context
  12. 30Test your months before ordering spawn
  13. 31Avoid these mistakes
  14. 32Check your understanding
  15. 33Check your understanding
  16. 34Check your understanding
  17. 35Words used in this lesson
  18. 36Sources and field reference
Substrate & Spawn Run
  1. 37Substrate & Spawn Run
  2. 38Which straw, and in what condition
  3. 39Which straw, and in what condition · continued
  4. 40Soak, then pasteurise
  5. 41Soak, then pasteurise · continued
  6. 42The squeeze test
  7. 43The squeeze test · continued
  8. 44Spawning and the run
  9. 45Spawning and the run · continued
  10. 46Read the numbers in context
  11. 47Read the numbers in context
  12. 48Read the numbers in context
  13. 49Run one trial batch first
  14. 50Avoid these mistakes
  15. 51Check your understanding
  16. 52Check your understanding
  17. 53Check your understanding
  18. 54Words used in this lesson
  19. 55Sources and field reference
Casing & Case Development
  1. 56Casing & Case Development
  2. 57Why a casing layer at all
  3. 58Why a casing layer at all · continued
  4. 59The mixture and its pH
  5. 60The mixture and its pH · continued
  6. 61Disinfect the soil, whatever method you pick
  7. 62Disinfect the soil, whatever method you pick · continued
  8. 63Depth, then the case run
  9. 64Depth, then the case run · continued
  10. 65Read the numbers in context
  11. 66Read the numbers in context
  12. 67Read the numbers in context
  13. 68Prepare casing soil a week ahead
  14. 69Avoid these mistakes
  15. 70Check your understanding
  16. 71Check your understanding
  17. 72Check your understanding
  18. 73Words used in this lesson
  19. 74Sources and field reference
Light, Fruiting & Harvest
  1. 75Light, Fruiting & Harvest
  2. 76What the first pins tell you
  3. 77What the first pins tell you · continued
  4. 78Light is a requirement, not decoration
  5. 79Light is a requirement, not decoration · continued
  6. 80Air and water during cropping
  7. 81Air and water during cropping · continued
  8. 82Picking and packing
  9. 83Picking and packing · continued
  10. 84Read the numbers in context
  11. 85Read the numbers in context
  12. 86Read the numbers in context
  13. 87Watch one bag for a full flush
  14. 88Avoid these mistakes
  15. 89Check your understanding
  16. 90Check your understanding
  17. 91Check your understanding
  18. 92Words used in this lesson
  19. 93Sources and field reference
Practise and review
  1. 94Mistakes to avoid
  2. 95Make a two-material batch record
Sources and next steps
  1. 96Keep learning with the field guides

Substrate & Spawn Run

Field notes

Which straw, and in what condition

ICAR-DMR lists wheat straw, paddy straw, sorghum, pearl millet and maize stalks and sugarcane bagasse as milky substrates. Cereal straw is what most growers use.

Condition matters more than choice. DMR is blunt: the material must be new, dry and not soaked by rain. Straw stacked through a monsoon already carries moulds, and pasteurisation kills only what it reaches.

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