About Growing Mushrooms the Easy Way, Volume II
Second Edition, revised and expanded!

What's new in Volume II?

The first volume of the peroxide manual introduced a whole new approach to home mushroom cultivation, one that has gained a reputation for its ease and simplicity. The manual showed how mushrooms could be grown readily without sterile facilities, air filtration, or autoclaves. Now, for growers interested in commercial cultivation, and hobby growers too...

Prepare any quantity of bulk substrate at room temperature.
The second volume of the peroxide manual adds two ground-breaking peroxide methods that can be used to prepare as much substrate as you need without the trouble of heating and cooling.

Just soak your substrate, drain, and inoculate.
The first method is a simple soak-and-drain procedure designed for use with materials such as straw, bagasse, dried grasses, corn stalks, cottonseed hulls, etc. You just load the substrate into a soak chamber, fill it with the appropriate solution at room temperature, soak until the proper moisture content is reached, then drain and inoculate. There's no caustic waste to worry about, no hassle with heating water or steam, and no concern about peroxide-decomposing enzymes in the substrate materials.

Add water and stir.
The other method is an add-and-stir procedure designed for use with peroxide-compatible porous substrates like wood pellet fuel, paper fiber pellets, or (for oyster mushrooms) kiln-dried sawdust . You simply mix all your ingredients together at room temperature, then come back in a couple of hours and inoculate. There's no hurry, though--peroxide keeps the substrate from spoiling. (Refer to Volume I for important information on choosing peroxide-compatible substrates and supplements).

Here's what else you'll find in Volume II:

Continue on down the page to read the Table of Contents for Volume II. This volume has 23 pages.

Volume II of Growing Mushrooms the Easy Way

by R. R Wayne, Ph.D.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acquiring, Storing, and Maintaining Mushroom Cultures

Using slants instead of agar plates

The drawbacks of Petri dish culture
Advantages and disadvantages of slants
Making peroxide slants
Making transfers to and from slants
Cleaning the mycelium with slants

Beer-Based Medium (BBM)

Starting with Spores

Advantages and disadvantages of spore culture
Peroxide and spores revisited
Collecting spores
Germinating spores by the disk method

Ideas toward mycelial culture without agar

Why find a substitute for agar?
How to prepare the plates
Making transfers
Cleaning the mycelium
Storage cultures without agar
Sending cultures in the mail

Resterilizing disposable Petri dishes with peroxide

Spawn Preparation

Spawn in plastic bags -- "Eight Minute Spawn"

Advantages and disadvantages of plastic bags
Making the spawn
Using the spawn

Ten Minute grain spawn

Inoculating straw without spawn

How to prepare the inoculum
Notes on the protocol
The issue of senesence