Oyster mushroom cultivation is perfect for areas that have a tropical climate like Indonesia. If you want to cultivate oyster mushroom investments are issued quite cheap and you can do gradually. The hardest part is making baglog, planting media that must be inoculated with the seeds of mushrooms.
There are two main activities that must be done in cultivating this oyster mushroom. The first stage is to make the planting media and inoculate the seeds of mushrooms into the planting medium. So the media will be peppered with white mycelium like cotton. The second stage is to grow the mycelium into a fruit body.
Usually beginners, start cultivation activities by growing baglog into fruit flesh. While procurement baglog ready to grow obtained by buying from others. Then after the cultivation activity began to grow and volume a lot, then try to make baglog own.
Setting up Kumbung
Kumbung or mushroom house is a place to take care of baglog and grow mushrooms. Kumbung is usually a building that contains shelves to put baglog. The granary should have the ability to maintain temperature and humidity.
Kumbung is made of bamboo or wood, the wall of kumbung is usually made of gedek or board and the roof is made of tile or shingle. Do not use asbestos or zinc roof, because the roof can make the air temperature to heat. While the floors leave the soil alone, because it helps the absorption of water when watering the mushrooms.
Inside the kumbung there should be a rack of grid made in storied. The shelf serves as a baglog builder. Frame shelves you can make from bamboo or wood. Shelves should be lined up between racks with each other separated by alleys to make it easier for you to have treatment.
The size of the height of the space between shelves should be not less than 40 cm, the rack can also be made 2-3 levels.
The width of the shelf should be 40 cm and the length of each rack of 1 meter rack. On each rack segment of this size can accommodate 70-80 baglog. You can adjust the shelf with the number of baglogs you want to cultivate.
How to Take Care of Baglog
Baglog is a planting medium where laying oyster needle seeds. The main ingredient of making this baglog is sawdust, because oyster mushrooms include wood mushrooms. Baglog usually dibugkus cylindrical plastic, where one of the tip is given a hole. In the hole oyster mushrooms will grow out.
When cultivating oyster needles on a large scale, farmers usually make their own baglogs. However, for beginners, or farmers with limited capital baglog should be purchased from other people and you can focus on running a cultivation business.
How To Take Care Of Oyster Mushrooms
Before baglognya prepared, first open the ring and cover paper baglog. Then let stand for about five days.
After that, cut the end of the baglog to have a wider growth space. Let stand for 3 days do not first watered. Just enough watering on the floor only.
For watering use spray, watering should form mist, not water droplets. The more perfect the fogging the better the mushroom. Do watering 2-3 times a day, depending on temperature and moisture kumbung.