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You are leaving out: - Disposable autoclavable bags - Spawn (either grain or some form of sugar water) - Disposable lab equipment (scalpels, petri dishes, pa
by solomonb 5y ago
You are leaving out:
- Disposable autoclavable bags
- Spawn (either grain or some form of sugar water)
- Disposable lab equipment (scalpels, petri dishes, parafilm, syringes, etc). Some of this doesn't need to be disposable but then you spend more energy cleaning and sterilizing it.
- All the energy that goes into sterilization, humidification, etc.
- wy35 5y ago- Mushrooms can be grown in reusable plastic bottles. Enoki is already grown in them but they are gaining in popularity for oysters. - Yes, no way around spawn or lab equipment. - Humidification is relatively low energy. Even a regular consumer-grade humidifier will be enough for an amateur grow operation. And even for larger humidifiers, the water and energy requirement is minimal. - You can pasteurize substrate with zero-energy methods like cold pasteurization (via calcium hydroxide) or composting (industry standard right now, basically what all commercial button mushroom farms do). - Sterilization of spawn is indeed high energy, but using electric desktop autoclaves (AA has a few models) significantly reduces energy use. They are used quite rarely commercially, though.