Oyster mushroom cultivation is suitable for tropical climates such as Indonesia. The investment required to start the cultivation of oyster mushrooms is quite cheap and can be done gradually. The hardest part is making baglog, planting medium that has been inoculated with fungus seeds.
The Latin name of oyster mushroom is Pleurotus ostreatus, belonging to the Basidiomycota group. It is called oyster mushroom because the shape of the canopy resembles the oyster shell. Semi-shaped white. In the wild, white oyster mushrooms are commonly found on rotted logs. Perhaps because of that, oyster mushrooms are often called wood mushrooms.
There are two main activities in the cultivation of oyster mushrooms. The first stage is to make the planting media and inoculate the seeds of mushrooms into the planting medium. So the media overgrown with white mycelium like cotton. The second stage is to grow the mycelium into a fruit body.
For newcomers, usually start cultivation activities by growing baglog into fruit flesh. While procurement, baglog ready to grow obtained by buying from other parties. Then after the cultivation effort grows and the volume is much, just try to make baglog own.
In this paper will, I will review the steps that must be prepared to start the cultivation of white oyster mushrooms.
Setting up the kumbung
Kumbung or mushroom house is a place to take care of baglog and grow mushrooms. Kumbung is usually a building, filled with shelves to put baglog. The building must have the ability to maintain temperature and humidity.
Kumbung is usually made from bamboo or wood. The wall of kumbung can be made from gedek or board. The roof is from tile or shingle. Do not use asbestos or zinc roofs, because the roof will bring heat. While the floor should not be plastered. In order for water used to flush the fungus can seep.
Inside the kumbung is equipped with a rack of grilles made of storied. The shelf serves to compile a baglog. Rack frames can be made of bamboo or wood. Shelves lined up. Between the shelves one with the other separated by aisle for treatment.
The size of the height of the space between shelves should be not less than 40 cm, shelves can be made 2-3 levels. Width of shelf 40 cm and length of each segment 1 meter rack. Each rack segment of this size can contain 70-80 baglog. The shelf requirements are adjusted to the number of baglogs to be cultivated.
How to keep white oyster mushrooms
Before baglog put into kumbung, you should do the preparation first. Here are the steps:
Clean the kumbung and the shelves to keep the baglog from the dirt.
Calcify and spray with fungicides on the inside of the kumbung. Let stand for 2 days, before baglog put into kumbung.
After the odor is lost, enter the baglog that is ready to be grown. The entire surface was covered with white fibers.
Setting up a baglog. Baglog is a planting medium where laying oyster mushroom seeds. The main ingredient of baglog is sawdust, because oyster mushrooms include wood mushrooms. Baglog wrapped in cylindrical plastic, where one end is given a hole. In the hole oyster mushrooms will grow poking out.
In the cultivation of large-scale oyster mushrooms, mushroom farmers usually make their own baglog. But for beginner farmers, or farmers with limited capital usually baglog purchased from other parties. So farmers can focus on running a cultivation business.
Currently, baglog oyster mushrooms weighing about 1 kg sold at a price of Rp. 2,000-2,500. As for if you want to make your own please read how to make baglog oyster mushrooms.
How to take care of baglog
There are two ways of arranging baglogs in a rack, which is placed vertically where the baglog hole faces up. And horizontally, the baglog hole faces sideways.
Both ways have their respective advantages. Baglogs arranged horizontally are safer than water spray. If watering is excessive, water will not enter the baglog. In addition, to make harvesting easier. Only, the preparation of horizontal space more space.
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The following ways of treatment of oyster mushroom cultivation is as follows:
Before baglog is compiled, first open the baglogging ring and paper. Then let stand for about 5 days. When the floor is made of soil do watering to add moisture.
After that, cut the ends of the baglog to provide a wider growth space. Let for 3 days do not first watered. Just enough watering on the floor only.
Do watering with a sprayer. Watering should form a mist, not water droplets. The more perfect the better the better. The frequency of watering 2-3 times a day, depending on temperature and humidity kumbung.
OYSTER MUSHROOM CULTIVATION ON HOUSEHOLD
Want to try the oyster mushroom business at home and earn a profit? You can do it around your home. The most important thing in breeding this oyster mushrooms you should only be diligent watering and taking care of him.
How to breed oyster mushrooms is quite easy, you can do it in a room measuring 3x4 meters. Capital business is also not too expensive, to start you can try it by planting mushroom seeds as much as 1,000 baglog.
The cost of making baglog is also not too expensive, only around Rp 3,500 per fruit, then the funds to make 1000 baglog oyster mushrooms around Rp 3.5 million. Average one baglog bag in one harvest can produce about 0.7 - 1 ounce with the harvest time can reach 8 times.
Then how to cultivate good oyster mushrooms? Here we provide tips to cultivate oyster mushrooms so it can be a profitable and promising business.
How to Cultivate Oyster Mushroom
Make the media (baglog) first. Take approximately 80% of the wood powder or about 8 ounces, then mix it with betakul or bran about 10-15% as nutrients, agricultural lime (cold dolomite in the form of powders to reduce PH about 3%), and added enough water. All the ingredients are then mixed and stirred evenly. The stirred compost material is inserted into a plastic of one kg or 20-30 cm in size, then compacted to solid. Once full, the plastic is then tied up.
Sterilize baglog medium by steaming or boiling for 8-10 hours with hot 85 o-110 o. You can use a gas stove or firewood to boil its baglog. After boiling the baglog is complete, baglog is silenced to remove heat for 24 hours or overnight in the inoculation room (transmitted seed).
Open the top cover of the baglog to include oyster mushroom seeds. Oyster mushroom seeds you can get in mushroom cultivators. Put the oyster mushroom seeds into the baglog about 1 to 2 tablespoons. Do this nursery in a clean and sterile place to avoid bacteria and also germs into the baglog media.
Once the seeds are inserted, immediately tied again. Then arranged on a shelf and put into an incubation room measuring 3x4 m, with a temperature of 24 o-29 o, and a humidity level of 90-10 lux (light). The room is always closed and in the dark, only by the sunlight from the ventilation, and there is air circulation 1-2 hours.
After about 1-2 months in the incubation room, reopen the bond so the prospective mushroom pokes
For additional nutrients, prepare 10 liters of water, then add 3 NASA POC caps and 1 HORMONIK cap, stir evenly. Take it with a syringe / syringe of 10 ml of water of the solution. Inject at the back baglog 5 ml per plant. Regularly 1 week.
Flush or spray the fungus regularly 3 times a day. Mushroom quality is good or not determined from spraying / spraying kerutinan. If you want good oyster mushroom quality, it is advisable to water it with rice water wash.
Approximately 1-2 months of mushrooms will enlarge and oyster mushrooms are ready to be harvested. Oyster mushrooms can be harvested repeatedly up to 8 times the harvest.
Well with the steps of oyster mushroom cultivation above, you certainly can not wait to make and calculate how much profit can be from the business of oyster mushrooms from this house. If you can make other innovations in managing mushroom results, then you can also get other additional benefits from the cultivation of this oyster mushroom.
Harvest cultivation of oyster mushrooms
When the baglog used by its surface has been perfectly covered with mycelium, usually within 1-2 weeks of opening the lid of baglog, the fungus will grow and can be harvested. Baglog mushrooms can be harvested 5-8 times, if the treatment is good. Baglog that weighs about 1 kg will produce mushrooms as much as 0.7-0.8 kg. After that baglog removed or can be used as compost material.
Harvesting is done on mushrooms that have bloomed and enlarged. Precisely when the edges have been seen tapered. But the hood has not broken the color is still pure white. When the harvest period through half a day only then the color becomes a bit brownish yellow and tudungnya broke. When it's like this, the mushrooms will quickly wilt and not last long. The first harvest distance to the next harvest ranges from 2-3 weeks.
Harvesting: Oyster mushrooms should be harvested at once one stalk. Can not just take the already large part. Because it is so worn and not harvested the oyster mushrooms will rot.
In the oyster mushroom market is usually small because for the speed of the velocity of money, small mushrooms are in the harvest. When cultivating oyster mushrooms we can wait a few hours longer so that oyster mushrooms can widen up to the largest size of the basin / pan with a diameter of 20-30 cm.
That's all the full explanation from start to finish about the cultivation of oyster mushrooms, I hope you are happy with this post and hopefully can be useful for all steemian colleagues.
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