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 * Mushroom Way** - Wiki Guide for Mushroom Cultivation [[image:LostFile_JPG_14585296.jpg width="116" height="161" align="right"]] Collect and connect information about Mushroom Cultivation. Learn and teach how to grow your own edible, gourmet, medicinal or simply nice mushrooms.

**II - Mushroom Life**

 * 1) ===**Natural life of mushrooms**===
 * 2) ===**Mushroom life cycle** :Spore Germination and Mating, Mycelium Expansion, Primordia Formation, Fruitbody Development, Spore Liberation===
 * 3) ===**The five essentials :**Temperature, Humidity, O2/CO2, Light, Substrate composition**===

**III - Cultivator life**

 * 1) ===Cultivation overview===
 * 2) ===Starting a new culture : Germinating from spores, Cloning from a cap [[image:http://champignonscomestibles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/%C3%A9tape-de-culture-de-champignons-traduction.png width="272" height="319" align="right"]]===
 * 3) ===Spawn production===
 * 4) ===[[image:http://www.mykoweb.com/graphics/mc_fig1.gif width="250" height="157" align="right"]]Fructification===
 * 5) ===Harvesting===
 * 6) ===**Collecting spores prints or syringe**===
 * 7) ===**Cultivation medias : Agar, Grain, Fructification substrates (Straw, etc),** Enrichment===
 * 8) ===Culture threats : Contaminants, Fungus Gnat===
 * 9) ===**Equipment : AirFilter, GloveBox / Still Air Box / Laminar Flow Hood, Growing containers (e.g. bags), Growing space**===
 * 10) ===Practices===
 * 11) ===Cultuvation Full Teks : PF/ BRF Tek, Outdoor log cultivation, Outdoor wood chips cultivation, Strawbale cultivation===

IV - Species Guide
>> ===**Species overview**=== >> ===**Pleurotus**=== >> ===**Wood lovers**=== >> ===**Compost lovers**===
 * 1) **Common Oyster - Pleurotus ostreatus**
 * 2) **King Oyster - Pleurotus eryngii**
 * 3) **Phoenix Oyster - Pleurotus pulmonarius**
 * 4) **Pink Oyster - Pleurotus djamor**
 * 1) **Elm Oyster - Hypsizygus ulmarius**
 * 2) **Shii-Take - Lentinula edodes**
 * 3) **King Stropharia - Stropharia rugosoannulata**
 * 4) **Pioppino - Agrocybe aegerita**
 * 1) **Parasol - Macrolepiota procera**
 * 2) **Shaggy Mane (or Horsetail) - Coprinus comatus**
 * 3) **Button or Portobello - Agaricus bisporus**
 * 4) **Himematsutake - Agaricus subrufescens (or Agaricus blazei Murrill)**

V - Annexes
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 * 1) **Wikis**
 * 2) @http://mycology.wikia.com/wiki/Mycology_Wiki
 * 3) **Cultivation Guides**
 * 4) Mushroom cultivation by people with disabilities - A guide: Complete and illustrated with many photos for each step of all operations.
 * 5) @http://www.shroomery.org/8409/PF-Tek
 * 6) @http://www.mykoweb.com/articles/cultivation.html
 * 7) MRCA GmbH : An austrian spore print & mushroom cultivation equipment shop that offer detailed tutorials on mushroom cultivation techniques
 * 8) blog "Culture de champignons comestibles"
 * 9) **Cultivation Tutorials**
 * 10) @http://www.fungifun.org/English/Pftek
 * 11) **Books**
 * 12) Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushroom- Paul Stamets : the Bible of mushroom cultivation, a must have.
 * 13) The Mushroom Cultivator : A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home, by Paul Stamets : can be found on Sribd.
 * 14) **Recipes**
 * 15) Shiitake : @http://www.champisud.com/fr/page/recettes-de-cuisine-pour-shiitake-237
 * 16) **Forums**
 * 17) **Shroomery**: Very active and rich forum, with many summary pages. Quite specialized in Psychedelic cultivation, although with gourmet section. Strange sponsorship policy.
 * 18) **Mycotopia**
 * 19) **Shroomtalk**
 * 20) **Shroomology**
 * 1) **Spores**
 * 2) MRCA (renamed Gluckspilze in 2013)(Austria)
 * 3) **Spawn**
 * 4) [|http://www.shii-take.de] (Germany)

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