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Summary: Mark Spear will give an overview of mushroom growing techniques. Mark & Rebecca will guide us through cultivation techniques for growing oyster mushrooms. They will provide kits to club members attending for growing these mushrooms.
John Plischke III will bring material to inoculate logs to grow shiitake and several other mushrooms.
Jim Tunney will bring us up to date with his latest efforts at cultivation.
John Stuart, president of the club, will also be doing the "mushroom of the month" which will be Flammulina velutipes.
The club will supply kits so members can grow oyster mushrooms at home. In addition, members can bring in logs which will be inoculated with one of several wild exotic mushroom cultures. Non-members are welcome to attend the meeting but only members will receive a mushroom growing kit or have logs innocultated with mushroom spawn.
So bring a log with you. If you have extra logs, please bring them to share. Logs will work if it is cut from a living tree within the last 4 months. Older cut logs will not work. Logs should be about 3 feet long and 3 to 8 inches wide.
Shiitake mushrooms will grow on oak, sweet gum, hard maple, alder or aspen logs. Oysters like maple, poplar, tulip poplar, aspen, cottonwood, beech, willow, sweet gum log. Reishi needs maple, oak, elm, sycamore, or beech. For other types of hardwood, the glow in the dark mushroom Panellus stipticus will be available. Panellus is not edible.
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