Assessing the Effect of Composting Cassava Peel Based Substrates on the Yield, Nutritional Quality, and Physical Characteristics of Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq. ex Fr.) Kummer

Table 10

Effect of compost height, composting period, and substrate interactions on the physical characteristics of Pleurotus ostreatus.

Time	0.8 m compost height			1.5 m compost height
	Substrate	Cap diameter	Stipe length	Cap diameter	Stipe length
3 days	cm	5.5^b	5.5^c	5.0^a	4.1^a
	ncm	3.6^a	1.8^a	5.1^a	4.2^a
	cmcc	5.5^b	3.0^b	5.4^b	4.0^a
	ncmcc	4.3^a	3.4^b	5.7^c	5.2^c
5 days	cm	5.6^b	3.3^b	5.6^c	5.0^b
	ncm	3.7^a	1.8^a	6.1^c	5.1^c
	cmcc	4.4^a	3.0^b	7.0^d	5.0^b
	ncmcc	5.6^b	3.3^b	6.1^c	5.2^c
7 days	cm	6.1^c	4.0^b	5.9^c	4.9^b
	ncm	4.0^a	3.4^b	6.0^c	5.0^b
	cmcc	6.5^c	5.0^c	6.6^d	5.0^b
	ncmcc	6.4^c	5.2^c	6.3^c	5.1^c

Means with the same letters in a column are not significantly different ().
Results are mean scores of 8.