Module 3: Growing, environment and maintenance

Understand and set the environmental parameters for healthy, productive fruiting, from incubation to harvest.

  • 3 hours, including a 10-minute break
  • Video call
  • CHF 150 per participant
  • French, English, German
  • In preparation
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Oyster mushrooms fruiting on shelves (illustrative photo)Illustrative photo

Objectives

  • Know the environmental needs of cultivated mushrooms.
  • Design and maintain a grow chamber, tent or room.
  • Observe, harvest and adjust growing parameters.
  • Track your yields to improve from one flush to the next.

The 3 hours, step by step

  1. Growing parameters: temperature, humidity, CO₂, light30 min
  2. Control tools: humidifier, ventilation, heating20 min
  3. Designing a tent or small grow chamber20 min
  4. Growth cycles: incubation and fruiting30 min
  5. Break10 min
  6. Signs of stress and contamination30 min
  7. Harvesting, cleaning and restarting flushes20 min
  8. Optimisation, questions and answers10 min
  9. Wrap-up and course material10 min

Detailed programme

The 15 topics covered
  • The production cycle
  • Incubation and triggering fruiting
  • Temperature by species
  • Relative humidity and evaporation
  • CO₂ and fresh air exchange
  • Light and photoperiod
  • Ventilation and air circulation
  • Designing a fruiting chamber
  • Sensors and automation
  • Identifying growth anomalies
  • Preventing contamination and pests
  • Harvest and storage
  • Managing successive flushes
  • Maintenance and hygiene
  • Tracking and optimising yields

Values specific to each species

Temperature, humidity, CO₂ and light values depend on the species, the strain and the stage of development. We will work with ranges per species, to be adjusted to your setup. Examples covered: grey oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus), pink oyster (Pleurotus djamor), golden oyster (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) and Hericium erinaceus.

Who is it for?

Growers who already achieve colonisation and want more consistent harvests, or who are setting up a grow chamber. Modules 1 and 2 are recommended but not required.

Looking for a turnkey setup? Discover the Mushroom Box.

The rest of the course

This module completes the course. Modules 1, Mycelium and laboratory, and 2, Substrates and sterilisation, lay the foundations. All three together: CHF 420 instead of 450. After the course: hourly coaching or monthly follow-up.

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