Hey everybody!

What mushrooms are you growing currently? What mushrooms do you plan to grow? What techniques are you using? Why are you growing them?

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Love the experimentation! It’s crazy. I crumbled some oyster mushroom mycelium all over used coffee grounds to expand it. Open air kitchen, worked like 75% of the time but then I got too cocky and ended up spoiling the whole batch with cobweb mould 😭

    Have you had any success fruiting cremini?

    • ShdwdrgnEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I haven’t gotten that far with any of them yet. Cremini actually want manure, so the fact it started growing at all on the cardboard was just dumb luck I think, but since I have it in a grain jar now it’s growing at a much faster pace. I’m still trying to find some chicken manure to use so I have a bed for it when it’s ready to go to fruiting.

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Yeah I was wondering that too since they grow it on manure. Just shows that fungi will grow anywhere haha.

        • ShdwdrgnEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Well it looks like the cremini experiment is over. I just checked my jars, now both of the cremini jars are completely full of blue mold. The stuff sure does pop up quickly, the mycelium was looking really good in that last jar yesterday.

          • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caOPMEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Aw oh well. Growing mushrooms is half art half science. Super hard to get it growing without contamination.

            • ShdwdrgnEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Funny thing was I didn’t have any contam until I transferred it to the sterilized grain jars. Oh well, the next batch can be done directly in grain jars without multiple transfers, but for now I’ll focus on my oysters.