Efficacy of Botanicals and Hot Water treatment on production of Pleurotus florida

Abstract

An experiment was conducted in Mushroom cropping room at department of plant protection SHIATS, Allahabad. Different botanical extracts that are Lantana camara, Azadirachta indica, Aloe vera , Saraca indica, Tagetes patula and hot water (60-80°C) were taken and substrate for mushroom remained soaked with those extracts for 24 hrs excluding control were taken to check the efficacy of botanicals and hot water on mushroom yield. Later the spawn bags were transferred to the mushroom cropping room where the temperature and relative humidity were maintained at 28-30oC and 80-95% respectively by the application of water in the cropping room and substrate twice a day. After continuous study result revealed that the substrate treated with hot water were having maximum mushroom yield in compare to treatment with botanicals and control.