Gardening Rhythms: Growing Oyster Mushrooms at Home

[camcamey]

please reply!!!!

So both ways r ways to grow mushrooms? or am i sapose to put the wood chips in the straw bag?

[floridafishing123]

great video



[iowanne]

I hope you do a follow up video on the progress of your mushrooms. Please?

[garendingrhythms]

Yes, use H2O2 to sterilize the bedding. The H2O2 also digests the wood for the mushroom. This sort of mushroom produces H2O2 to digest wood. By adding H2O2 to the bedding, it will aid the mushroom and help it grow faster.

There is no need to add H2O2 to the refrigerator method. The lowered temperature slows down bacteria growth while letting the mycelium take over.

[madeofyucca]

Wow! Thank you so much. I'm so excited by the information you provided!

I'v been growing mushrooms in the kitchen for years from kits but never thought of starting my own "kit" from the mycelium on store bought mushrooms!

Would it be helpful to also H2O2 the pet bedding (or what ever initial substrate being used) or will the low temperatures of the refrigerator be enough to give the mycelium the advantage it needs over other organisms to colonize the substrate?

[garendingrhythms]

I don't put anymore additional water after closing the bag.

You can through the whole bag in the corner and forget about it. The other place to keep it is in the crisper in your fridge.

Expect it to flower in 3 months.

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[Darkweaver99]

At the second stage should you put any additional moisture in the bag?

And at stage three you said that you could have it in the kitchen (no need for it to be in the dark any longer?) any need for additional moisture then?

Also how long can I expect it to "flower"?

Other then that wonderful video, I'm definitely doing this.

[datgnat]

The best 'how tos' are those that you watch, and say to yourself, "I could do that!"--You win!

[IvoryArtery]

1:20 yo dawg, so we heard you liek paper bags...

[garendingrhythms]

These are fantastic questions. One bag gives you about 2 lbs of mushrooms. I don't know your portion size or the number of people you are feeding. Yes, you can use chunks of the old mycelium (this is the white stuff) to make more bags. You can also do this on a bale of straw. That is a lot of mushrooms! You can use shredded newspaper, saw dust, cardboard or anything woody. Stay away from particle board and treated lumber.

[Amatordeus]

Great video! If one wanted to be able to continually harvest enough oyster mushrooms to make one stir-fry per week for the year, how many staggered batches would they need to create? One per month? Also, can you use the "woody base" of the mushrooms you grow to perpetuate another cycle or do you need to get a new "starter" mushroom.

[Thesmalltowngardener]

Great video thanks for sharing!