Calocybe indica

[worowa]

Anyone have any recipes for substrates for this species?

Mine has exploded into growth with the warmer temps-still on agar.

[tripsis]

A friend I stayed with in India just uses straw with decent results. Apparently a guy in Kerala has started using plain coir with good results too.

[worowa]

Thanks-the video I watched used "magic dirt" or something similar, which looked like coir. I've had some good results with other species and coir, but I leach away most of the tannins first-seems to make a difference.

[tripsis]

Interesting, do you do severalsoaks to leach away the tannins or just one?

[mutant]

Hmmm interesting... Calocybe gambosa is one of the tastier mushrooms

Never heard of a cultivated Calocybe

[worowa]

Several soaks. I use a wheelbarrow, soak the coir for a day, drain off dark brown water, soak again etc.

I do a minimum of three soaks...but with all the rain lately, some batches have had extra rinsing.

I've tried to get clean coir (washed and steamed), but no luck yet. Apparently some coir has lots of salt from being treated with sea water-so a soak and rinse should remove some salts as well as tannins.

[tripsis]

Think I might give that a go next time. What do you do with thr waste water - put it down the drain? Wouldn't want salty water in the garden. So you think that leaching the coir leads to greater yields?

[worowa]

I just tip it on the garden. I could be wrong, but I think it leads to faster coloniztion and better yields.