Oyster Mushroom Cultivation

Excess oyster mushroom business 

Oyster mushroom cultivation is a form of business opportunities that have good prospects for development. Because the selling price is high enough. 

Although expensive, oyster mushrooms still sought after by many people. The reason is that it tastes delicious, does not vary much with beef or chicken. In addition to diligently consume oyster mushrooms are also good for maintaining fitness and health. 

Another reason is to do the production, a process that must be done is not so complicated and difficult. Moreover, the ingredients are also very easy to obtain. 


Similarly, the marketing. Originally've had acquaintances, then once the harvest comes, definitely will be visited by the traders or consumers who wanted to buy our results oyster mushroom cultivation. Furthermore, we can immediately perform a new production process again and so on.

Oyster mushroom cultivation process

The steps to make the process of oyster mushroom cultivation are as follows:

Preparing media

To make the media for oyster mushrooms would grow quickly is by mixing the powder of sawn timber and mixed with bran and lime then put together and then given water and stirred.

After the dough is heated using a temperature of about one hundred degrees. The goal is that this medium can be clean and free from bacteria or viruses harmful to the growth of fungi. Media that is so then inserted into a plastic or poly.

Prepare

Unlike other crops, cultivation of oyster mushrooms should be provided a special place or enclosed spaces. Why should it be closed?. Because in the process of growing oyster mushrooms later, to be able to walk normally need a stable temperature.

When in place on the outside of the setting temperatures will be hard to do. This space can be made of bamboo or wood that simple. The important thing is that the space created so that the air humidity and temperature can be stable and can not be exposed to sunlight and rainwater.

Preparing seeds

The next oyster mushroom cultivation process is to provide mushroom spawn. The way to get it is to take spores (seed fungi) of the parent or fungus grown up. Mushrooms that are old enough to be his body contained blades or bulkhead in which there is some sort of bag.

Well, in the bag that we can find the spores when grown will be a new fungal plant. The spores are then planted into the prepared media, continue to be closed with cotton and kept in a special room which also had been previously prepared.

Process of care

In order for oyster mushroom cultivation can run smoothly, then in its infancy requires some attention. In addition to air temperature must be kept moist and stable also avoided the appearance of other fungi on media that will disrupt the lives of oyster mushrooms.

Additionally keep the ants, cockroaches, rodents and other nuisance animals could not fit in this space.

Harvest time

It is a period of the most eagerly awaited in the process of oyster mushroom cultivation. When the growth process can be run normally and did not experience any significant disruption, farmers can harvest the oyster mushroom cultivation hasi within approximately two months of the first growing season.