Now that you bring up this point about yeast and fungi eating sugar the same stuff needed to ferment, it occurs to me that these fungi folks were unaware that I was trying to ferment the sawdust. Their original plan as I recall was to help my friend who owns a small sawmill to dispose of sawdust. Oh well at this point it is still in the thinking about it stage. I will gladly leave some of this learning the hard way stuff for next season, or as they say around here “Mañana”My hopes go up and down up and down. Brian Hello Brian. This is most intriguing. Let me describe another sawdust expt. which I did in my kitchen. I first placed the sawdust in a clean wide mouth plastic feeding bottle, anchored it in a pot of water, and boiled for 30 min. with lid on to sterilise the sawdust. On cooling a small piece of edible 'oyster mushroom' was dipped for short time in 'chlorox' solution (dilute sodium hypochlorite solution) and quickly inserted into sawdust with sterilised tongs. The mouth of the bottle was stuffed with sterile cotton. I was of course trying to make edible mushroom. sure enough the white mycellium grew for 2-3 wks. A black coloured spot suddenly appeared and quickly spread throughout the bottle killing the oyster, probably due to poor sterile technique. The oyster mushroom was fresh from the supermarket. It was growing for few weeks. I did not measure the glucose content for which sterile water inlet/outlet fittings would have been necessary. I also did not continue mushroom expts. in my kitchen, although I used it from time to time for tinkering with kitchen chemistry, courtesy of my dear wife, who is now looking over my shoulder at all this with a smile. Cheers. This is very helpful. Thank you so much. I have passed this along to my friends in the New Mexico Mycological Society. http://www.mycowest.org/nmms/ Let’s see if they can get on the ball. I received several responses about the wood digesting mushroom at the Biofuels group. I wish I knew more about how mycelia operated. I don’t know which is the most useful feedback, so I posted the letters here for all mycological society types out there. Please interpret and give me some feedback so I can pass it along to these other scientific types. At first I thought maybe we were barking up the wrong tree and then one fellow said, Yes Oyster mushrooms, find the right one and grow some. Very cool. You mean we aren’t totally off the wall?Brian Rodgers |
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