	Flushes and number of fruiting bodies
Substrate	1	2	3	4	Mean
Sterilized Bread fruit substrate	16.33	23.30	16.00	1.30	14.25
Sterilized Cassava peel	14.00	14.70	12.30	3.30	8.91
Non-sterilized Sawdust	7.00	6.00	15.70	12.70	12.08
Sterilized Sawdust	14.60	20.70	14.00	3.00	11.16
LSD (p ≤ 0.05)		3.57	3.63	6.73	7.13

Table 1: Effect of substrates on the number of fruiting bodiesof Pleurotusostreatus after four flushes

	Flushes and Fresh weight (g)
Substrates	1	2	3	4	Mean
Sterilized Bread fruit substrate	41.33	32.39	14.23	0.00	19.49
Sterilized Cassava peel	9.33	17.33	8.15	4.75	9.89
Non-sterilized Sawdust	35.95	24.83	27.17	25.30	28.31
Sterilized Sawdust	7.67	11.37	8.90	4.03	7.99
LSD (p ≤ 0.05)	34.69	36.77	26.48	9.87	26.95

Table2: Effect of substrate on the fresh weight of Pleurotus ostreatus after four flushes

	Pileus diameter (cm)/Flush
Substrates	1	2	3	4	Mean
Sterilized Bread fruit substrate	6.07	3.86	1.27	0.00	3.73
Sterilized Cassava peel	5.33	4.47	3.89	1.55	3.81
Non-sterilized Sawdust	4.30	2.04	2.20	4.36	3.23
Sterilized Sawdust	2.47	2.95	4.66	2.29	3.09
LSD (p ≤ 0.05)	1.73	1.30	1.08	1.09	1.30

Table 3: Effect of substrates on the Pileus diameter of Pleurotus ostreatus at four flushes

	Flush and stipe length (cm)
Substrates	1	2	3	4	Mean
Sterilized Bread fruit substrate	2.72	2.30	2.61	0.00	2.37
Sterilized Cassava peel	2.55	3.67	2.24	0.98	2.40
Non-sterilized Sawdust	1.00	1.41	1.66	2.66	2.07
Sterilized Sawdust	0.67	2.04	2.30	0.67	1.50
LSD (p ≤ 0.05)		1.39	1.02	0.56	0.09

Table 4: Effect of substrates on the stipe length of Pleurotus ostreatus after four flushes

Table 1

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