Growing Oyster Mushrooms

"Maximizing your mycelial mileage", to quote Paul Stamets - prime mover at Fungi Perfecti, involves running your mushroom spawn into larger volume substrates. Here Jason shows how to inoculate used coffee grounds with oyster mushroom spawn to make even more spawn as well as (hopefully) mushrooms. This video was made in part to thank the guys at Inman Perk coffee shop, Atlanta, for saving all those coffee grounds for Jason to use. Note that only mushroom spawn purchased from a reputable supplier is guaranteed to contain only edible mushroom mycelia. Have fun. Jason

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Science & Technology

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• jason
• lye
• Atlanta
• bioremedia
• coffee
• espresso
• Fungi
• grounds
• Inman
• Mushrooms
• ostreatus
• Oyster
• Perfecti
• Perk
• pleurotus
• recycling
• used

[Koiboy70]

Sure. The spawn came from Fungi Perfecti on the west coast. Look under Espresso Oyster mushroom. Good luck - Jason

[guest2424]

Distilled water is sterile so it is best, spring water has green mold spores. IDK anything about mineral water.

[Koiboy70]

The green mold spores come from the air.

Spring water contains minerals that the mushroms need for development/

[apu5187]

why espresso grounds? how about Arabica? or another dark coffee ground.

[Koiboy70]

Hey - you can use other types of grounds. The key is that the grounds have to be somewhat dry - so be careful if you use filter coffee grounds, because they will be very wet, and you will get green mold growing. Good luck!

[Koiboy70]

You can buy spawn from Fungi Perfecti. They sell all kinds of mushroom growing supplies, including kits. They call the ones I used "espresso oyster". Good luck with them mushrooms - let us all know how you get on. Jason

[argenjointje]

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[caramb22]

@TheSpeediestsnail I just got one for Christmas. It does come with very basic instructions, but nothing as detailed as what is contained in this video. I would have liked a book to go along with the kit. But I also hear that this particular mushroom is hard to screw up.

[BunnyCaramel]

So do we need to sterilize the coffee ground before we plant spawn in it?

[TheSpeediestsnail]

if i buy this will it come with instructions?

[TheSpeediestsnail]

does this come with instructions when you buy it?

[SurvivalistCrutch]

Dude you are awesome, thanks for your video!

*whispers* My friend, you're wearing your wifes belt... Might wanna return it to her.

[mycoptah]

You can also get Mushroom Spawn from Mycopath.com

[fakir0000]

Thank you

[maximus1992a]

is it possible for you to tell me where did you buy the seeds?

I looked at fungi perfecti.com but i cant find pleurotus mycelium there. should i just buy the pearl oyster mushrooms instead, are they the same thing? Are pearl oyster mushrooms and oyster mushrooms the same thing?

please send a link where i can order some of the mushroom spawn you used.