<span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-US">Selection of different substrates for the cultivation of milky mushroom (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Calocybe indica</i> P & C)</span>

Abstract

<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Calocybe indica </i>is one of the best edible mushrooms which can be grown at high temperature or summer season. It replaces the non-vegetarian food. The present experiment was conducted to find out the efficacy of different substrates such as paddy straw, wheat straw, soybean straw, coconut coir pith, cotton waste and sugarcane baggase for the cultivation of milky mushroom. Among the six different substrates, wheat straw substrate was superior which recorded minimum days for spawn run 15.67 days, pinhead formation 28.67 days and for first harvest 33.67 days with highest no. of fruit bodies 24.33, highest diameter 7.66 cm, length of stalk 7.86 cm, maximum yield 1463 gm and highest biological efficiency 146.3 %. Paddy straw was the next best superior substrate for cultivation of milky mushroom.