Casing has a different job from the food-bearing substrate. Its preparation, structure, application and watering history need separate attention. A room humidity reading cannot substitute for observing the casing.
The process
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The process
In the field
- 11Check the crop, climate and buyer together
- 12Write it in your farm notebook
- 13Finish substrate colonisation before the next operation
- 14Treat casing as its own material and operation
- 15Three different places to investigate moisture
- 16Follow pin development through to a paid sale
- 17A useful comparison
- 18Where the field guidance comes from
Warm-Climate Context
- 19Warm-Climate Context
- 20A mushroom that likes the heat
- 21Where the calendar puts it
- 22Where the calendar puts it · continued
- 23Two Indian answers on spawn run
- 24Two Indian answers on spawn run · continued
- 25What the crop asks before you buy spawn
- 26What the crop asks before you buy spawn · continued
- 27Read the numbers in context
- 28Read the numbers in context
- 29Read the numbers in context
- 30Test your months before ordering spawn
- 31Avoid these mistakes
- 32Check your understanding
- 33Check your understanding
- 34Check your understanding
- 35Words used in this lesson
- 36Sources and field reference
Substrate & Spawn Run
- 37Substrate & Spawn Run
- 38Which straw, and in what condition
- 39Which straw, and in what condition · continued
- 40Soak, then pasteurise
- 41Soak, then pasteurise · continued
- 42The squeeze test
- 43The squeeze test · continued
- 44Spawning and the run
- 45Spawning and the run · continued
- 46Read the numbers in context
- 47Read the numbers in context
- 48Read the numbers in context
- 49Run one trial batch first
- 50Avoid these mistakes
- 51Check your understanding
- 52Check your understanding
- 53Check your understanding
- 54Words used in this lesson
- 55Sources and field reference
Casing & Case Development
- 56Casing & Case Development
- 57Why a casing layer at all
- 58Why a casing layer at all · continued
- 59The mixture and its pH
- 60The mixture and its pH · continued
- 61Disinfect the soil, whatever method you pick
- 62Disinfect the soil, whatever method you pick · continued
- 63Depth, then the case run
- 64Depth, then the case run · continued
- 65Read the numbers in context
- 66Read the numbers in context
- 67Read the numbers in context
- 68Prepare casing soil a week ahead
- 69Avoid these mistakes
- 70Check your understanding
- 71Check your understanding
- 72Check your understanding
- 73Words used in this lesson
- 74Sources and field reference
Light, Fruiting & Harvest
- 75Light, Fruiting & Harvest
- 76What the first pins tell you
- 77What the first pins tell you · continued
- 78Light is a requirement, not decoration
- 79Light is a requirement, not decoration · continued
- 80Air and water during cropping
- 81Air and water during cropping · continued
- 82Picking and packing
- 83Picking and packing · continued
- 84Read the numbers in context
- 85Read the numbers in context
- 86Read the numbers in context
- 87Watch one bag for a full flush
- 88Avoid these mistakes
- 89Check your understanding
- 90Check your understanding
- 91Check your understanding
- 92Words used in this lesson
- 93Sources and field reference
Practise and review
Sources and next steps
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