Making Use Of Peroxide To Grow Reishi Mushrooms
Once they have successfully grown organic mushrooms and other exotic edible plants, many people want to try their hand at growing the reishi mushroom. If you are interested in giving this a try, then you may want to consider using a cultivation method that involves applying peroxide during different stages of growth. It has been very successful in helping to prevent problems such as fox glove, laminar flow hood and some sterilization issues.
As opposed to utilizing pressure sterilization, it is possible to simply do a 10 minute steaming to produce the sawdust spawn medium from the wood pellet fuel, when you use peroxide for a cultivation method. For cultivating gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, this is among the quickest ways to create your own mushroom spawn, which could then be grown in your house as an alternative to having to use a laboratory that has been sanitized. In addition, this means that you are not limited to producing only the quantity of spawn which will fit in a small pressure cooker, seeing as you can use all kinds of large pots, so long as they have snug fitting lids.
There are several benefits to growing organic mushrooms utilizing the peroxide form of cultivation, including the fact that you no longer have to heat or sterilize the substrate or supplements for the sawdust cultures to be ready to use. However, in order for the reishi mushroom to be edible and non-toxic, you will need to use peroxide compatible starting materials, such as certain nitrogen supplements and wood pellets for fuel. You can also use plastic buckets that have lids or trash bags rather than using the more expensive bulk substrate, patch filter bags.
Lots of mushrooms prefer a denser substrate which is attained through sawdust based substrate which is tightly packed. Adding peroxide to the cultures helps to prevent them from becoming anaerobic (not needing oxygen) as the mushroom mycelium decomposes the peroxide, which then triggers the release of oxygen.
Peroxide does kill the reishi mushroom spores so that makes it possible to grow the agar cultures inside the same enclosure or building that is used to fruit the mushrooms, even when the mushrooms create a higher spore load. Another benefit to using peroxide is that mushrooms grown this way do not contain any contaminants and are grown without encouraging the creation of any new type of resistant strains. Most people prefer to use the 3% solution as it contains no odor, and it is non-allergenic, readily available and inexpensive.
Medicinal mushrooms are experiencing renewed popularity for their ability to help with numerous health conditions. If you don't know the difference between reishi mushrooms and maitake mushrooms, and what each of them can do for you, visit the Medicinal Mushrooms site to find out!
