This step-by-step guide introduces the beginning mushroom cultivator to everything he needs to know, from sterile culture procedures to indoor bottle gardens to indoor/outdoor compost gardens. Ten chapters cover equipment, growing media, compost, small indoor quantities, starting cultures, and incubation. Black-and-white line drawings and half-tones complement the 16 full color photos taken by the author, founder of the mail order business Mushroom People.
This step-by-step guide introduces the beginning mushroom cultivator to everything he needs to know, from sterile culture procedures to indoor bottle gardens to indoor/outdoor compost gardens. Ten chapters cover equipment, growing media, compost, small indoor quantities, starting cultures, and incubation. Black-and-white line drawings and half-tones complement the 16 full color photos taken by the author, founder of the mail order business Mushroom People.
This step-by-step guide introduces the beginning mushroom cultivator to everything he needs to know, from sterile culture procedures to indoor bottle gardens to indoor/outdoor compost gardens. Ten chapters cover equipment, growing media, compost, small indoor quantities, starting cultures, and incubation. Black-and-white line drawings and half-tones complement the 16 full color photos taken by the author, founder of the mail order business Mushroom People.
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Mushrooms
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO CULTIVATING
EDIBLE AND HALLUCINOGENIC
NON IOTON ES
REVISED EDITION
by Bob HarrisGROWING
WILD
MUSHROOMS
A Complete Guide
to Cultivating Edible and
Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
by Bob Harris
Illustrated by Susan Neri
Photographs by Bob Harris
Homestead Book Company
Seattle 1OROCopyright® 1976 by Bob Harris.
Revised Edition, 1978,
Copyright® 1978 by Bob Harris.
All Rights Reserved,
Printed in the United States of America.
Published By: Homestead Book Company
P.O. Box 31608
Seattle, Washington 98103.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-6613
san: 0930080:
ightb Printing: 1989
Contents
An Introduction to the Mushroom / 1
ANote on Cultivation / 19
Equipment for Sterile Culture Work / 20
Transfer Chamber or Glove Box | Sterilizer
Media / 24
Making and Pouring Agar Media / Grain Media
1 Compost | Indoor and Small Quantities
Starting Cultures / 46
Gathering Materials | Sterile Technique |
Spore Streaking on Agar | Sterile Removal of
Tissue from Freshly Gathered Mushrooms |
Transfer from the Agar Media | Transfer
from Grain to Grain | Transfer to Compost
(Non-sterile)
Incubation / 58
Agar | Grain | Compost
Sources of Materials / 68
North American Psilocybin Mushrooms / 73
piptiocearHy / 87