Milky Mushroom (Calocybe Indica) Cultivation.

[Packdee]

Hello members of this forum.

My name is Packdee, an Army retired Colonel.
I live in Saraburi. I have just discovered this wonderful website.

I run a Farm Stay to provide mushroom cutivation training to my guest.

Now I am introducing the milky mushroom for comercial cultivation in Thailand.
This specie loves hot weather in Thailand.
Most of farming waste can be used to grow this mushroom.
I posted my Milky mushroom growing experiment here.

http://anonbiotec.gratis-foros.com/t1348-topic

http://ediblemushroom.net/index.php/topic,569.15.html

Calocybe Indica, Milky Mushroom or Swetha (white) Mushroom

[IsaanAussie]

Welcome Packdee. Your mushrooms look great. They appear to be growing on compost. Can you tell us a little about the substrate? Can we get spores or spawn supplies from you?

[Packdee]

Welcome Packdee. Your mushrooms look great. They appear to be growing on compost. Can you tell us a little about the substrate? Can we get spores or spawn supplies from you?

That is pasturized paddy rice straw only no suplement.

I can supply you grain spawn in plastic bag (500 gram) or bottle (175-200 gram).

My e-mail : <e-mail address removed, please use the PM function to contact>

[Packdee]

^{The giant size milky mushroom grown by my Philipino fiend in the Philipines.}

[Packdee]

The Tricholoma Crassum, a native Thai mushroom, can be large to the size of banana trunk.
This mushroom tastes better the milky mushroom but it take much longer time to get the fruiting.

The grain spawn in plastic bag (500 gram) or bottle (175-200 gram) are also available.

Free mushroom cultivation training fee for guest who stay at my Farm Stay.

My location: 15° 2'4.67"N, 101°24'44.30"E

[IsaanAussie]

Colonel, these mushrooms are spectacular. Thanks for your assistance I am really looking forward to getting started.

To my follow members, get into this topic. If you ever wanted to try mushroom farming but language was an issue, then fear not, here is your chance. Come on guys, over 200 views and I am the only one to say hello?

[sjefrie]

Very welcome Col. Packdee i hope to read more of you
Very interesting topic

[RedBullHorn]

I just log on...

When i met my Thai wife 17 years ago, she asked me what was my favourite food and i said "Mushroom" !

She said great !!!!!

Welcome to the forum Col. Packdee, Sawatdee Krup~

[IsaanAussie]

Under way withthe Milkymushrooms here. First grow bags made up and now waiting to see what happens. Thanks Col. Packdee for the spawn seed. For others out there I can recommend the Colonel and his products, excellent source to deal with. My spawn seeds were delivered to the door here in perfect condition.

[MrOdyssey]

Hello Col. Pakdee,

What a coincidence! IsaanAussie suggested I look at a thread about "milky" so I just did. But I actually found you (anonbiotech) a few days ago when I was looking for the TMCC (Thailand Mushroom Culture Collection). My farm is on the Bolaven Plateau in southern Laos at an elevation of 1200 meters. It is cool (average 19.5C) throughout the year, so I'll be doing cool climate mushrooms that are not easily done in Thailand. But I have family in Vientiane, so I'm interested in these "milky." I'm just saying hello at the moment, and thank you for contributing.

[Packdee]

Photo credit : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolaven_Plateau

Hello MrOdyssey,

Your place should be very good for Shiitake Mushroom.
Some hard wood sawdus can be used to grow mushrooms.
It will be better if we compose the hard wood saw dust for a period of time.
IsaanAussie will tell you how to compose it with his EM.

[MrOdyssey]

Hello Packdee,

Yes, the climate (19.5C average temp) is very good for shiitake. With 3.5 meters of rain each year, it is also very wet. But I am just a beginner, so I'm going to start with king oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus eryngii). They also like the cooler temperature. I will begin doing trials with sawdust soon, but I hope to use coffee pulp after this year's harvest (I have a lease on a small coffee plantation). Can you provide more information about your farmstay in Saraburi?

[rice555]

Hello All, Packdee, sorry to stray OT, but are you a member of MST?

They had a booth at with small display of mushrooms at Horti ASIA 2013

that I posted on the ag shows/fairs thread.

rice555

[Packdee]

@rice555,

I am not a member of MST directly.
In 1973, while Dr. Anon Auetragul (http://anonbiotec.gratis-foros.com/t491-topic) was a fourth year under-graduate student in Kasetsart Universcity he and his friends founded the Mushroom Club, then in 1977 became MST. Dr.Anon was voted to be the president of MST for many times.

I got training from Dr. Anon in 1974 when I was Sergeant (E5) and once again in 2008 when I reired from Army as a Colonel.
Now Dr.Anon still arrange the training in Thai version every the other month and in English every four months.
http://www.anonbiotec.com/eng/straw_traning.html#

@MrOdyssey,

I have a 4-room guest house and a LAB with necessary equipment for doing mushroom cultivation from cloning mushroom to preparing the substrate bags, no tutor fee, only 700 B. a night for the Air-con room and 500 B. for fan room.
The guests can clone the mushroom, prepare grain spawn, make substrate bags, pasteurize, inoculate and bring back home the ready inoculated substrate bags as much as they need with reasonable price.

[rice555]

Hello All, thank you Packdee for your reply.

rice555

[IsaanAussie]

I am having fun with this mushroom growing. After years learning about composting, this is surprisingly similar. I have tried many different substrate materials and combinations and so far none look like being dudds. Now two weeks in and the first bags are well colonised and should be ready to case within the next week. And yes you guessed it, there is even a place for my EM. I have inoculated bags with my compost without pasteurising it and to date not contamination and the spawn run is good.

I am bulk pasteurising the straw and other substrates in a 50litre drum on a gas burner and that is very efficient. The bottle at about 1/2 full lasted close to the two weeks. I fiddled about with a rocket stove burner but it needed constant attention.

I have made up some casing materials using another two of my favourite resources, compost and rice hull biochar. and of course an added dash of EM.

My theory is simple. Pasteurising reduces the population of harmful microbes to give the mycelium a head start. LAB is a sterilising agent that does the same thing. So if the spawn is happy in a clean environment and can co-exist with the LAB, maybe I need to pasteurise less.

Of course it could still all go pear shaped so time will tell.

Thanks to Col Packdee for the spawn seed and for his input and support for what we are doing.

[Packdee]

Few days ago I was informed that three flushes of Hed Teen Rad (Rhino feet mushroom) were found in suburb of Korat.

Yesterday I rushed to get a specimen for cloning.
I took a small musroom (in second picture) between the larger two mushrooms (in first picture).

I will update the progress of growing this strain.

[David48]

Khun Packdee, also I want to thank you for join to us in Farming Forum.

Your Mushrooms look so tasty.

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[IsaanAussie]

Thought I would post a couple of progress photos since I managed to get the camera working after a fashion. For those who have seen my pigsty you will remember the background in these photos.

I am into the fourth week now and working on the fourth bed of 60 grow bags. 1st box full was cased today (top dressed after the mycelium spread through the substrate in the grow bags.

The first photo shows the first two boxes of bags. You may notice different colour substrates in the bags, this is a range of different materials I am trying out.

The second shot shows the first bag opened where the mycelium fully colonised the substrate.

The third shot is with the casing material added to the first two bags

Thanks Col Packdee for the great support.

[Packdee]

Few days ago I was informed that three flushes of Hed Teen Rad (Rhino feet mushroom) were found in suburb of Korat.

Yesterday I rushed to get a specimen for cloning.

I took a small musroom (in second picture) between the larger two mushrooms (in first picture).

I will update the progress of growing this strain.

Day 7 of this wild Tricholoma Crassum tisuue culture.

[DONKY]

Hallo Mr.PackDee, can I buy some spawn in plastic bag (500 gram) or bottle (175-200 gram) ?

[IsaanAussie]

Here is my Milky Mushroom status at five weeks in. Col. Packdee supplied spawn.

[IsaanAussie]

This mornings progress. Firstly a view of the full bed. There are many different combinations of materials and lessons being learnt.

A few days ago I showed one bag, here it is again today.

And a view looking under the cap, almost fully open. Be picking this one soon. Eating soon after.

[Packdee]

IsaanAussie, try Yam Hed (ยำเห็ด) and Tom Yam Kai (Chiken Hot and Sour soup)

Photo credit: http://www.bloggang.com/mainblog.php?id=pikake&month=26-02-2013&group=1&gblog=36

[IsaanAussie]

Well here we are. First four mushies picked this evening. Largest 300 grams, total 707 grams. A few photos and skype calls then into the frying pan

[IsaanAussie]

Here it is the first mushroom. Of course no shot is complete without the better half. We used the webcam and "she" organised the format. 555555

[zeichen]

I am new to the forums as a member but have been reading for years.

I love your pics and the mushrooms that you all grow. I am an avid gardner and have always loved science, so mushrooms are perfect for me.

Thanks for sharing packdee.

I will be asking a lot of questions in the future. My methods of mycology are nothing unique but have learned a few techniques to do things cheaply, but still never as cheap as a lot of local farmers seem to do. Funny how most commercial farmers in the west wouldn't get the yield ratios as a lot of these low tech guys seem to.

[IsaanAussie]

I have changed to mass casing and the new beds are coming on nicely. Heres the wife again with a bunch harvested yesterday

[Packdee]

The record of cultivated Milky mushroom is now 3 kgs, made by a Philippines friend who gave me the culture.

[IsaanAussie]

Yesterday we delivered some milky mushrooms in town and decided to try the local market for potential points of sale. There was a lot of comments about the mushroom being dangerous to eat. It was all in Thai so I didn't get the details but since the Milky is new to this country and this area I can only assume it was being mistaken for something else. Anyone have any idea what this other mushroom might be? Or what the issue is? Something about nursing mothers who eat this mystery mushroom.

We are at that point where everyone has "helped" us get sales started so now it is a matter of developing steady sales to people we do not know. This factor may mean we cannot sell the Milkys around here. So a proceed or change decision is needed quickly. I admit to being a bit at a loss.