How to cultivate the shaggy ink cap mushroom? Detailed explanation of the key growing techniques
1. Site selection and ingredient mixing. The cultivation site can be indoors or outdoors in open fields or greenhouses for intercropping. Planting can be done in all four seasons: in summer, grow indoors or under shade netting; in autumn, winter and spring, mainly grow outdoors in open fields. Ingredients: for a planting area of 20 sq m, use 400 kg of dry rice straw and 20 kg of lime powder; in addition, auxiliary materials (such as wheat bran and rice bran) may be added as appropriate. 2. Raw material processing. Sprinkle 3% lime water onto the ingredients, building up the compost heap while watering, with a heap height of 2 m, length and width as desired; pat it firm and cover with plastic film to ferment. Insert a thermometer into the material; when the material temperature rises to 60°C, keep it until the next morning, then turn the heap once, sprinkling 3% lime water while turning, cover with film to ferment again as before, and once it has stayed above 60°C for 1 day, it is ready for field cultivation. 3. Sowing and cultivation. (1) Making beds. Dig beds 1.2 m wide and 10 cm deep, length unlimited, totalling 20 sq m, and dig drainage ditches 20 cm deep and 20 cm wide around them. (2) Bed disinfection. A few days before cultivation, pour 3% lime water over the entire bed; on the day of cultivation, scatter a layer of dry plant ash. (3) Sowing method. Use the layer-sowing method with 3 layers of material and 3 layers of spawn; per sq m, use 20 kg of dry material, about 25 cm thick, with a spawn rate of 10%. After cultivation, press and level the material surface with a wooden board, scatter a thin layer of dry plant ash, then cover with 3 cm of soil, scatter another thin layer of plant ash on the soil surface, and cover with film to promote mycelial growth; after 3 days, shake the film to ventilate, twice a day. 4. Mycelial growth management and harvesting. Mimic the method for raising rice seedlings by setting up a small arched shed, and regulate the bed temperature to 10°C-28°C by reducing or increasing the thickness of the straw matting on the bamboo arches and by making double-layer bamboo arches with double-layer film; after 40 days, small mushrooms can be seen breaking through the soil. At this point, remove the film covering the soil layer on the material surface, and spray water lightly and frequently to maintain moisture; after another 10-25 days, at the young mushroom stage, they can be harvested. Pull the mushrooms out by twisting them left and right with your hand, and trim off the soil on the bases with a knife@#@136@#@.