GROWING GOURMET - Anto2ni.it

Viii GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS
Soybean Waste 55
Supplements 55
Structure of the Habitat 56
7. Biological Efficiency: An Expression of Yield 57
8. Home-madevs.CommercialSpawn 61
9. 'I'he 1\'Iiishroorn Life (ycle 65
10. The Six Vectors ofContaniination . . . . . 75
11. MindandMethodsforMushroomCulture 83
Overview of, Techniques for Cultivating Mushrooms 85
12. CulturingMushroomMyceliumonAgarMedia ......... 89
Preparing Nutrified Agar Media 89
Malt Extract, Yeast Agar 90
Potato, Dextrose, Yeast Agar 90
Oatmeal, Malt, Yeast Enriched Agar 90
DogFoodAgar 90
Corn Meal, Yeast, Glucose Agar 90
Nitrogen & Carbohydrate Supplements 91
End-Substrate Supplements 92
Pouring Agar Media 92
Starting a Mushroom Strain by Cloning 93
Cloning Wild Specimens vs. Cloning Cultivated Mushrooms 96
How to Collect Spores 96
Germinating Spores 100
Purifying a Culture 101
13. The Stock Culture Library: A Genetic Bank of Mushroom Strains..... 103
Preserving the Culture Library 104
The Stamets "P" Value System for Age Determination of a Strain 106
Iconic Types of Mushroom Mycelium 108
The Event of Volunteer Primordia on Nutrified Agar Media 115
14. EvaluatingaMushroomStrain . .................. 117
28 Features for Evaluating and Selecting a Mushroom Strain 118
15. Generating Grain Spa'svn . 127
Formulas for Creating Grain Spawn 129
Grain Formulas for Spawn Production 130
First Generation Grain-Spawn Masters 133
Steps for Generating Grain Spawn Masters 134
Second and Third Generation Grain Spawn 135
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