Cultivating Oyster Mushrooms at Home

Mushrooms are one of the healthy plants that are currently popular for cultivation. This plant is one of the plants that can grow with media other than soil

*Selection of seeds

How to plant oyster mushrooms that need to be considered first is the selection of seeds. You must pay attention to the quality of the seeds so that the yield produced is truly abundant and does not disappoint. Some farmers failed in the planting of oyster mushrooms because they were wrong in choosing seeds as a result of the wrong seed itself could be in the form of crop failure, mushrooms did not grow, until the quality of the mushrooms was not good

*Making planting media

To make 100 kg of planting media for mushrooms, you use 80 kg of wood powder or fine sawdust, then the bran is 15 kg and kg for lime. Next stir and mix the ingredients until all ingredients are evenly mixed. After that, add about 60% water to the amount of planting media. How to plant oyster mushrooms is to test the growing media if it has mixed well. Perform testing by holding the planting media if there is no water and if the planting media is dropped it does not break then the planting media is ready to be planted with mushrooms. Next, the planting medium is fermented for 5 to 10 days at room temperature 70%

*Sterilization of planting media and inoculation

After planting media in fermentation Oyster mushrooms include planting media in polypropylene plastic. After the media is compacted to form a bottle or often called baglog. At the end of the plastic ring is attached and then covered with cotton. Next is to wrap baglog for sterilization using a drum. Use fire with heat around 95 to 110 degrees Celsius within 10 hours. After steaming to be sterile you can cool baglog for this plant by leaving it alone

*Inoculation, incubation and growth of oyster mushrooms

After baglog fermentation must be transferred to the inoculation place. Let the baglog stand for 24 hours to make sure it's cool too. After that, enter the seeds in the baglog the way is to take the seed bottle. Next the bolot tip is sprayed with alcohol and burned with spirits until it is lit and then turn it off again. Stir the seeds with wire and put the seeds in the baglog neck until full and cover with cotton. Next the seeds are incubated to get the mycelium. Last is to move the baglog which grows mycelium to the kumbung. How to plant the last oyster mushroom is to give a hole in the baglog to grow mushrooms