Cultivating mushrooms

Cultivating mushrooms can be very troublesome. Every species of mushroom has a certain climate they like so some mushrooms are considered almost impossible to cultivate indoors, while some are simply impossible. Some easy mushrooms to start cultivating  are oysters (Pleurotus ostreatus) by using colonized plugs in logs. Before getting into ways of cultivation, here are some crucial tools required for the process.

- Pressure cooker/canner
- Sterile inoculation box
- Flame or oil lamp
- Sterile environment clean as possible
- Sanitizing wipes
- Spore syringes

Some of these tools can cost a lot of money but make the process much more effective in the end. It's important to have a clean environment through every step to avoid contamination.

This means all counters and floors in the room you sterilize jars in the pressure cooker, and also inoculating jars. After letting jars cool in the cooker, you should immediately move them to your inoculation box. Sterilize your syringe or syringes by wiping the outside completely and also heating the tip until it gets red hot to kill any bacteria. After the whole syringe is sterile out it in with the jars and use your sterile gloves to inoculate your jars. Later you must place your jars in a dark area at a temperature appropriate to your species. Days later, you should see colonization and after 100% you must dunk in cool water and transfer to substrate of choice. This is when people use a myriad of ideas to make either bulk amounts, or do a small grow for lesser amounts but takes less space.

Mushrooms poisonous to dogs

Often times dog owners worry about mushrooms that their dog has eaten. Some mushrooms may be very serious, but most are no worries. If your dog has eaten a possibly poisonous mushroom, the best thing may be is to find where he/she ate it and collect a specimen. This will give veterinarians an idea of what it ate. You also can refer to mushroom forums with various features of such mushroom in hopes to get it identified, Although there are poisonous mushrooms in this world, usually dogs will not eat any mushrooms at all. Some dogs have been known to be bred for hunting mushrooms so they may as well be able to tell the difference between poisonous and edible with their super smelling senses.