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Introduction & Vocabulary

Welcome to MycoGest! This guide will support you step by step to manage your mushroom farm, from ordering mycelium to selling your harvest.

What is MycoGest?

MycoGest is a web application designed specifically for professional mushroom producers. It helps you manage all aspects of your operation:

Production : Batch management, tracking cultivation phases, recording harvests
Stock : Mycelium, consumables, fresh and dried mushrooms
Commercial : Clients, sales, deliveries and traceability
Finance : Expenses, income, profitability calculation per batch

🧫 Mycelium: This is the mushroom 'seed', the spawn you buy from a specialized supplier to inoculate your substrates.
🌾 Substrate: The nutrient mixture (straw, wheat bran, etc.) in which the mycelium will grow.
💼 Batch / Lot: A set of production bags that were prepared at the same time (example: 50 oyster mushroom bags made on the same day).
🔬 Inoculation: The action of putting the mycelium into the sterilized substrate to start colonization.
🌱 Incubation: Phase where the mycelium colonizes the substrate (spawn invades the bag). Lasts about 10-14 days.
🍄 Fruiting: Phase where the mushrooms appear and grow. This is where they can be harvested.
✂️ Flush: A harvest 'wave'. One batch can produce 2-3 flushes spaced a few days apart.
📦 Consumables: All the material you buy: plastic bags, straw, wheat bran, packaging, etc.

Here are the main steps of a production cycle:

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Sterilization

Step 1

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Inoculation

Step 2

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Incubation

Step 3

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Fruiting

Step 4

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Harvest

Step 5

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Tip: Print this guide to have it under your eyes during your first use!