Mushroom Farming, Cultivation, Growing
May 17, 2006 by Leo 82,058 Views
The culture of mushroom is gaining popularity in the Philippines. Mushroom is a delicacy and is really accepted as vegetable. Its present cultivation in this country is limited, perhaps due to insufficiency of planting materials and the limited local knowledge about its culture.
Mushroom growing requires little space and time and farmers can make use of their rice straws following harvesting. Mushroom can be grown the whole year round provided a good storage of rice straw is prepared.
This article illustrates the fundamental techniques involved in the culture of banana or rice straw type of mushroom, Volvariolla volvacoa. The vegetable and Legume Crops Section of the Bureau of Plant Industry is now producing mushroom spawn in abundance.
Materials and Methods – I
Dry rice straws and banana leaves are the most common types of bleeding materials. However, other materials like cotton wastes, jute sacks, corn stalks, water hyacinth, sugar baggasse and abaca waste materials may also be used for bedding materials.
Sufficient water supply and soaking tank or any similar container are used. Plastic sheet of gauge No.6, empty cement bags and sacks are used to cover the beds.
Procedures
- Gather long, clean and well dried rice straws and banana leaves, preferably those that are still standing in the field. Avoid using old and contaminated bedding materials.
- Bundle the bedding materials 6-8 inches in diameter. If rice straws are used, arrange butt ends together.
- Cut the bundle materials 1.5 to 2 ft. long.
- Soak the bundled materials in water for at least 3 hours but not more than 10 hours until enough moisture is absorbed by the materials.
- Foundation as support for the bed.
- Set the soaked-bundled materials, closely knit the together, evenly and compactly.
- Water the bed well with the urea or ammonium sulfate at rate of 1-2 tbsp. per gallon of water. Add sugar at the rate of 33 grams per gallon of water to improve the yield of mushrooms.
- Press the layer to level of surface. Stop watering when the water starts to drip off the bed.
- Insert thumb-size spawns around the bed, four (4) inches from along the side and four (4) inches apart from each other. Never plant spawn at the middle of the bed.
- Set the second layer of straw on the top of the first layer. Put the butt ends together in two opposite direction. Water and press down. Follow the same procedure until a six-layer bed is attained.
- Cover the entire bed with plastic sheet gauges No. 6 or cement bags or sacks for seven days after which it is removed.
Harvesting
The growth of mushrooms on the bed come in flushes. With adequate maintenance and care, the first flush usually comes and flushes from 13 to 15 days following seeding. When a flush is on watering must be avoided. Watering is resumed when the flush is over. Harvesting is done in the following manner:
- Harvest the whole mushroom including the stump. Don?t leave any stump in the bed as this would rot and in rotting the adjacent mushroom may be affected.
- As much as possible care must be taken not to disturb the small buttons.
- Mushrooms in the button stage of growth are more succulent, hence they are better preferred than the fully opened ones.
- Harvested mushroom may be placed in trays or in kaings.
Care in the Mushroom Bed
- When the bed is made, it may be well to cover it with plastic sheet, gunny sack or any suitable materials to protect it from the drying effect of the wind and to keep it humid.
- After the removal of the plastic sheet don?t water the bed as the bed is still wet.
- Watering should be done only in amounts, which would keep the surface moist and its environs humid.
- Watering may be done using a sprinkler, passing same over the bed and along the sides. Avoid soaking the bed as this condition is equally harmful to the proper development of the mushrooms as insufficient watering.
- When the mushroom buttons start to form, water must be stopped until the flush is over.
- Resume watering when the flush is over to coax another flush to come.
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What is the type of mushroom commonly used here in the Philippines and how does it grow?
Thanks.
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Meron po tayo schedule of seminars tungkol sa Mushroom Production mangyaring makipag ugnayan po lamang kayo sa AANI HERBAL GARDEN and Livelihood Training Center Quezon Memorial Circle Quezon City contact Jocelyn (02)497-2755. At sa mga naghahanap ng mga binhi ng mga kabute makipagugnayan po lamang kay Teddy Laurie sa 09192033178 email: teddylaurie@ymail.com
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interested po ako sa mushroom farming.konti lang po ang knowledge ko d2.kaso ung kabuteng mamarang po ang usually kilala d2 sa lugar namin.tanong ko lng po kung pwede rin bang i-culture un.kung pleurotus at volvariella kc ang i-culture ko e diko po sure ang market e.thanks po.sana matulungan nyo po ko..
Wala pa pong nakakapagculture ng mamarang kahit saan. Hindi po kasi ito katulad ng banana at oyster mushroom. Mayroon kasi silang kailangan na nasa punso kaya hindi ito basta basta maitatanim. Base lang po ito sa mga nabasa ko. Pero subukan nyo rin po magtanong sa iba.
Interested po ako sa mushroom farming. possible po ba kapag sa rooftop lang?
taga Pasig City po ako at residential ang area ko pero marami dito sa amin water hyacinth para gawin mushroom bed.
Paano po ang gagawin ko sa waterhyacinth para maging mushroom bed at saan po ako makakuha ng semilya?
Salamat po.
Pwede po gamitin ang water hyacinth kaso ang problema po e kung sa pasig nyo mismo kukunin. Yun toxic substances na present sa pasig hyacinth ay pwede kasing makuha mismo ng kabute.
as long as maiiwasan mong mainitan yung bed mo, ok lang ang rooftop.
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i wana know about mushroom cultivation in areas where max temp of the year go up to 48 degree celcious and min temp up to10 degree celcious
oyster pleurotus florida lng po spawn namin.marami po available spawn now….
gud day everyone!sa mga mag start p lng at gusto sumubok na magtanim ng oyster mushroom,feel free to call or txt po,i can send tru LBC,para po sa mga nasa malalayong lugar,im frm bulacan po kc.+639276904485 my mobile # po.god blez to all.
gs2 k mgkroon ng business n button mushroom!ok dn b kta pg business k ng mushroom?ung oyster mushroom panu gwin?ala b kau spawn ng button mushroom?
Like the other questions I would like to know where to buy spawns for white button mushrooms?
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Where can I please buy the spawns? For shiitake and button mushrooms please. Thanks
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where can i buy here in manila mushroom spawns for farming?????
Hi,
Wala ba dito sa Marbel gusto ko sanang mag culture ng Mushrom.