Growing white mushrooms in pots
To grow ceps at home, on the windowsill, seems to be something impossible. And if champignons and oyster mushrooms are actively cultivated, then porcini mushrooms are not. In fact, it is quite possible to grow mushrooms at home, if you know how to do it correctly. Read about it in the article.
Choice of premises
Mushrooms appear after rain - everyone knows that. Hence, high humidity is the main condition. White grow under the trees, that is, they love thinned light. Ideal for the appearance of the fruiting body is fog. It is difficult to recreate it on the windowsill.
You can only gently maintain humidity by spraying water droplets of fine dispersion. In order not to ventilate the room in which you risked an experiment, it should be carefully closed, avoiding drafts.
Pots will be needed large, since mulching the soil helps to recreate the environment of ceps. The layer of mulch should be high, straw is suitable for it. But the best containers are those in which indoor plants already grow. You can try to organize a symbiosis of mushrooms with different types of decorative flowers.
Did you know? Mushroom is called white due to the color of its pulp, which does not change not only on the cut, but also after drying.
However, all this does not guarantee success in order to grow ceps, since such conditions are necessary for them:
- The presence of a heating system, temperature control (up to + 18 ° C).
- Air conditioning. Ventilation can dramatically change temperature and relative humidity, and air conditioning can ensure that the air is constantly fresh.
- Special lighting. Light should be daylight and diffused.
Mycelium preparation
There is a ready-made mycelium on the market. If you purchase one, you must follow all the points indicated.
Here is the information on the example of boletus:
| Landing depth | up to 30 cm |
| Watering | moderate, without stagnation of water or drying out of the soil |
| Landing time | since March |
| Seedlings | after 5-6 months, at the latest - after 10 |
There is another way - mycelium can be obtained independently. To do this, the caps of adult mushrooms are twisted in a meat grinder or finely chopped with a knife.
Next, you need to prepare a solution of manganese - 1 g per 10 l with sugar (take 10 cubes). Shredded parts of the hat are placed in this liquid for 4 hours. Nutrient mixture with spores is ready.
Important! A mandatory measure in an experiment growing a mushroom house is to disinfect the room.
Substrate Preparation
This is another important and at the same time problematic point. External conditions are not so important for mushrooms as the quality and nature of their food source. Of course, ready-made components are already on the market, they are easy to purchase, and there are many offers on the network. But it is better to independently assemble the necessary parts of the substrate.
To do this, take:
- dry grass
- dried tree leaves;
- small branches, needles;
- some dried moss.
Now grind it all. Then collect sand and clay (take it 4 times less). Sift the sand and combine all available components. Wait time (about two weeks), and after that use the prepared mixture. Although the best option is to help realize symbiosis with some plant, because ceps are in such a relationship with trees in a natural environment.
Landing
If everything is ready, you can start sowing. Put drainage in your pots in advance. Distribute the substrate over them (or other containers you have chosen). Layer height - up to 35 cm. Leave some of the soil.
Now pour evenly prepared spore mixture. Sprinkle a couple of centimeters on top with the same soil for germination. Some information can be gleaned from the packaging of the finished mycelium.
Important! Borovik contains natural antibiotics and helps fight harmful intestinal bacteria.
Typically, soil requirements are:
- leaves, grass, bark - the first layer 3 cm thick;
- good ground or humus (the same thickness);
- the third layer is already mycelium;
- repetition of the first layer, but slightly thicker;
- soil from the beds - up to 5 cm.
Watering such soil is drip immediately after sowing. Humidification can only be done to prevent drying out.
Video: how to grow ceps in the basement
Growth Care
The appearance of fruiting bodies is an optional phenomenon for fungi. The mushroom picker lives and grows in the earth for many years and, if necessary, reproduces, gives fruit. Disputes are a way to move to a new habitat. Theoretically, you can propagate mycelium.
If after a few days you have sprouts, you are in luck. Now it is especially important to maintain the right conditions. The most important thing during seedlings is maintaining the constancy of the surrounding microclimate.
Did you know? Mushrooms growing in different forests, deciduous and coniferous, differ in color and appearance.
Such secrets, tricks and useful items will come in handy:
- atomizers, spray guns;
- arrangement of tanks with water near heating appliances;
- lowering the temperature to + 16 ° C;
- if the mycelium comes out - it must be sprinkled with the same substrate in which it is planted.
Harvesting
After 30 days, you can begin to carefully twist each mushroom . This is exactly what it is worth doing - because otherwise you can damage and expose the mycelium to dry. Within a month and a half, a period of fruiting of white occurs, but with intervals of 10 days. After the twisted mushroom, there will remain a place that needs to be protected - sprinkle with soil.
We recommend reading our electronic magazine about growing mushrooms at home.
It is difficult to deceive such cunning and ancient representatives of the natural world as mushrooms. But trying to do it will be very interesting. And even if you fail, do not despair: mushrooms can be grown not only at home, but also in the country and in the garden.
After 9 months, the mushrooms will rise, and the mycelium will sprout and remain in the ground. The next year, under favorable conditions, you will be pleased with a modest, but your own, home-grown crop of your own porcini mushrooms.
