T Wilson

William Horvath from permacultureapprentice.com should be on here.  Very approachable and down to earth nature. He has great guides and resources online.

Cj Verde wrote:

Tony and Tatyana Wilson wrote:do you have to sterilize/pasteurize wood chips for a king stropharia bed?

Not if you're purchasing spawn.

Yes that's what we will be doing. I know some of the wood I've been chipping has started to decay some and may have some sort of mycelium action going on. That won't be a problem either?

Thanks for responding CJ

I have a question on growing king stropharia. We're starting a mushroom bed for the first time and I've been chipping wood like crazy from around the property (we intend it to be a big bed for king stropharia mushrooms!). I've read a lot about pasteurizing and sterilizing wood chips in prep for growing mushrooms - but this doesn't seem to be overly practical for large scale production. I haven't seen anything specifically related to sterilizing chips for king stropharia mushrooms, and if people grow (and presumably eat) these mushrooms growing in manure then something isn't adding up! You never 'sterilize' poo before growing tomatoes in it after all.

So before we grow anything I want to be certain (so no one dies or gets sick from our mushroom experiment) do you have to sterilize/pasteurize wood chips for a king stropharia bed? If so, what method is recommended? Would soaking the chips in chlorinated water do and let the chlorine evaporate off before inoculation?

Thanks!