Oyster mushroom cultivation is suitable for tropical area as Indonesia. The investment needed to start udaha oyster mushroom cultivation is quite cheap and can be done gradually. The hardest part is making baglog, planting medium that has diinokulaikan with mushroom seeds.
The Latin name is the oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus , included in the group Basidiomycota . Oyster mushrooms called because of the shape of the canopy resembling an oyster shell. White semicircular. In the wild, white oyster mushroom commonly found on the trunks of wood rotted. Maybe because of that, the oyster mushroom is often called wood mushrooms.
There are two main activities in the cultivation of oyster mushrooms. The first stage is to make the planting medium and inoculating mushroom seed into the planting medium. Media so overgrown with mycelium white as cotton. The second stage is the mycelium grow into fruit bodies.
For newcomers, usually start growing crop activities baglog become flesh. While procurement, baglog ready to grow obtained by purchasing from the other party. Then, after the business develops its cultivation and volume, just trying to make baglog own.
In this paper, I will review the steps that must be prepared to start the cultivation of oyster mushroom.
Preparing kumbung
Kumbung or mushroom house is a place to care baglog and grow fungus. Kumbung usually in the form of a building, which is filled shelves to put baglog. The building must have the ability to keep the temperature and humidity.
Kumbung usually made of bamboo or wood. Kumbung walls can be made of woven bamboo or board. The roofs of tile or shingle. Do not use asbestos or zinc roofs, because the roof will bring the heat. While the floor should not be plastered. So that the water used to flush the fungus can be absorbed.
In the mushroom house is equipped with a rack in the form of lattice graded. The shelf serves to organize baglog. Framework can rack made of bamboo or wood. Shelves lined laid. Between racks to each other are separated by a hallway for treatment.
The size of the height of the space between the shelves should not be less than 40 cm, the rack can be made 2-3 level. Rack width of 40 cm and a length of 1 meter each side shelf. Each vertebra shelves this size can contain 70-80 baglog. Purposes adjustable shelves with baglog amount to be cultivated.
How budiaya oyster mushroom
Before baglog added kumbung, should do advance preparation. Here are the steps:
Clean the mushroom house and shelves for storing baglog of dirt.
Make liming and spraying with a fungicide on the inside kumbung. Let stand for 2 days, before baglog put into kumbung.
After missing the smell of drugs, enter baglog that are ready to be grown. The entire surface is covered with white fibers.
Preparing baglog
Baglog a place to put the planting medium oyster mushroom seeds. Baglog main ingredient is sawdust, because the oyster mushrooms including wood mushrooms. Baglog wrapped in plastic cylindrical, wherein one end is a hole. In the hole oyster mushrooms will grow sticking out.
Oyster mushroom cultivation on a large scale, mushroom farmers usually make baglog own. But for the novice farmer, or a farmer with limited capital usually baglog purchased from other parties. So that farmers can focus on running the farming.
Currently, baglog oyster mushrooms weighing approximately 1 kg is sold at Rp. 2000-2500. As for when you want to create your own please read how to make baglog oyster mushrooms.
How to care for baglog
There are two ways baglog arrange a rack, which is placed vertically where baglog hole facing upwards. And horizontally, baglog hole facing sideways.
Both ways have their advantages. Baglog arranged horizontally safer from the water spray. If excessive watering, the water will not get into baglog. In addition, to make harvesting easier. However, the preparation of a more horizontal to make space.
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Here are ways to care oyster mushroom cultivation is as follows:
Before baglog structured, open the first ring and cover paper baglog. Then let stand approximately 5 days. When the floor is made of soil do the watering to add moisture.
After that, cut the tip of baglog to provide growth space wider. Let stand for 3 days do not always watered. Watering enough on the floor alone.
Do watering with a sprayer. Watering should form a mist and not water droplets. The more perfect the better fogging. Frequency of watering 2-3 times a day, depending on temperature and humidity kumbung. Keep the temperature in the range of 16-24 o C.
Harvest oyster mushroom cultivation
Baglog used when the surface was completely covered with mycelium, usually within 1-2 weeks of opening the lid baglog, mold will grow and can be harvested. Baglog mushrooms can be harvested 5-8 times, when good maintenance. Baglog weighs about 1 kg will produce mushrooms as much as 0.7-0.8 kg. After that baglog discarded or can be used as compost material.
Harvesting is done against fungi that have bloomed and enlarged. Precisely when the edges have been seen tapered. However, the hood has not broken the color is white. When the harvest through a half-day only, the color becomes slightly browned and the hood smashed. In such a case, the fungus will quickly wither and not durable. The distance to the next harvest the first crop of around 2-3 weeks.
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