Cultivation of Champignons In Home Conditions

Mushrooms mushrooms are usually grown in cellars, dugouts, greenhouses and greenhouses. For this, air humidity conditions of about 70-80% must be ensured. The temperature in the room should not fall below 15 degrees. Growing champignons at home on compost made from a mixture of straw and manure, it is important that straw and manure are not rotted when it is made. Preparation of compost must begin a month before planting mushrooms. Manure can be used cow and horse, also chicken litter.

In winter, instead of straw, you can use corn stalks or fallen leaves of trees. To increase the fertility of the compost, mineral additives and urea are added to it. After receiving the compost and bringing it to the desired state, begin preparing the room and soil in order to plant mushrooms in the home.

In the premises mushrooms can be grown in beds directly on the earthen floor, it is possible in wooden boxes and on racks. Boxes can be installed with stacks two meters high and higher. The beds should be made 50-75 cm wide. Compost is laid in them with a layer of 45 cm thick and compacted to 30 cm. On the shelves, you can make a layer a little smaller. Boxes for growing champignons are considered the most convenient for measurements of 100 cm by 50 cm and a height of 25 cm. Compost is rammed into the box until a 2-3 cm gap remains to the top of the box.

If growing champignons at home in the open ground, you need to choose a dark place and to protect from direct sun rays and waterlogging put canopies. When the soil recovers in early spring and warms up well, it is possible to lay a compost bookmark directly on the ground or in a dug trench up to 30 cm deep.

Before planting the mycelium, it is necessary to measure the temperature of the compost at a depth of 4-5 cm, the ideal temperature is 27-28 degrees. Mushrooms for planting are grown in special laboratories and are sold in specialized stores. Two kinds of champignons are mainly used: two-piece white and two-timed brown. Laboratory mushroom pickers can be grown in manure or on grains of oats, wheat, rye. For sowing one square meter of the bed area, up to 500 grams of dung mycelium and up to 400 grams of corn mushroom are required.

When growing champignons at home, the manure mushroom before planting should be broken into pieces of 15-20 grams and spread carefully one layer so as not to damage it. Pieces of mycelium are planted in staggered order, from each other at a distance of 20 cm. When sowing the mycelium, the top layer of about 3 cm thick is removed from the entire bed, then the mycelium is scattered, it is poured with compost and gently pricked. Growing champignons at home can also be produced not from the laboratory, but from the natural mycelium. It is searched in places where mushrooms grow in abundance: cattle yards, greenhouses or dumps, compost or manure piles.

Growing champignons at home occurs at a temperature within 24-26 degrees, it is in these conditions that the mycelium germinates well and yields a rich harvest. The moisture content of the substrate on which the mushrooms are grown should not be less than 60%. With a lower humidity and a higher temperature, the mycelium grows much worse, so periodically the beds need to be moistened, but it should be done very carefully so that the water does not get inside the compost and does not wash out the mycelium.

After 10-12 days, when the mycelium grows well, it is necessary to lower the temperature to 18-20 degrees and fill the beds with a layer of earth 3-4 cm. This layer of earth should not be compacted so as not to cut air to the mycelium. With subsequent care, it is necessary to ventilate the room and maintain a temperature of 15 degrees and a soil moisture of 60%. The first mushrooms will appear in 30-40 days, fruiting occurs for 2-3 months.