I leave in a tropical country and the weather is ranging from 32°C - 26°C
we have only jack fruit(Artocarpus heterophyllus) woods and most of the are used for furnitures and other wood crafts only so I think it is not allowed for me to get large amount of it. I want to use those jack fruit sawdust which is usually discarded.
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1 Brigitte H // Nov 10, 2008
Oak, chinkapin, hornbean, sweetgum, poplar, alder, ironwood, beech, birch are the preferred types of wood for shiitake cultivation. I could not find a publication about use of jackfruit.
Here details referring to substrate selection and formulation:
http://www.unicornbag.com/cultivation/leed.shtml
Should be worth trying the method with your jackfruit material.
Another possibility is to cultivate the mushrooms on a wheat straw substrate that was previously pasteurized:
“Finely chopped wheat straw (Triticum aestivum L.) was pasteurized and then spawned with supplemented spawn capable of supplying nutrients and enriching the substrate, with the expectation of yield improvement.”
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16010086
This method seems to be preferred in tropical climates:
Some details about cultivation in Guatemala:
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/pdf/685/68515105.pdf
General hints:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/v3-464.html#Lentinula edodes