CntryBoy777
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It looks like Mr Bill stuck in a pizza crust by Mr Hand....
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Baymule
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what do you have them growing in?
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misfitmorgan
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It looks like Mr Bill stuck in a pizza crust by Mr Hand....
You're bad!!
The substrate is used coffee grounds and vermiculite. All the white stuff is the mycelium which is like the roots of the mushroom. Basically you make your substrate it can be about anything, then you innoculate it with either grain/dowel spawn, spores, or mycelium(liquid culture or agar wedges), then it will grow and take over the substrate.
Grain/Dowel Spawn to substrate = immediate mycelium growth
Liquid Culture/ Agar wedges to substrate = immediate mycelium growth
Spores to substrate = germination process then mycelium growth
Moisture is important as is temperature, container or substrate is really endless possibilities. You simply need substrate with nutrients in it for the mycelium to eat. Wood, coffee grounds, brown rice flour, cellulose, straw, manure, wild bird seed, rye berries/seed, popcorn kernels, really about anything.
Oysters are the easiest, fastest, most forgiving to grow. I messed up a lot on my experiment which is why it has taken 2.5months and im only just now getting mushrooms....but i'm still getting mushrooms!! I didnt keep the substrate wet enough, i didnt use a good container, i didnt air out the CO2, i put them in a place that was to cold, then in a place that was way to hot, etc.....yet here they are growing mushrooms.
Today's updated picture is from DH(i forgot to take one before i left the house)
24hrs after the last picture
DH took the picture from a different angle and his camera isnt as good as my phones but i'm pretty sure it is obvious how much that one mushroom has gown. That little straight up and down mushroom to just to the left of the monster mushroom.....was the smaller boy looking one from yesterday's picture.
mysunwolf
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Beautiful oysters!! I'm so jealous, mine have never grown. Just looking at those photos is making me hungry 
though I know the rest of you are a little concerned
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misfitmorgan
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Beautiful oysters!! I'm so jealous, mine have never grown. Just looking at those photos is making me hungry
You should try again! I messed up so much and they are still growing for me. The blue/grey dove oysters seem to be really forgiving. I did start with 3 bags, 2 got contaminated but that was part of the experiment. I also have two jars of agar i made that i stuck dowel spawn into and they grew like gangbusters, next i will be making liquid culture from the dowels and making grain spawn so i can try a monotub for oysters. When it warms up a bit i also want to try straw in a laundry basket for oysters.
I have been dying to eat those mushrooms....they just need to grow a decent amount so i'm not having one mushroom per meal
greybeard
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There is a fungus among us...
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misfitmorgan
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Oh for sure!!
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misfitmorgan
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Here are saturday's fungus pictures
If you look in the backround of this first picture you can see white little spikey things, that is the very start of more mushrooms.
This is Sunday's Fungus picture
I have not seen more evidence of growth in this monster mushroom since Saturday afternoon so i will be cutting it off i think and seeing what the rest of the cluster does.
We had planned on making grain spawn and liquid culture off some agar jars i had started. After looking at the agar jars one jar was pinning(tiny white spikes) so we opened the jar and put it into the fruiting chamber(the big plastic tub). Here are some pics of it saturday.
Does anyone else see tiny castles in the clouds?
Then this is Sunday
This agar jar should hopefully make it all the way to fruiting, at which time i will clone these mushrooms. The mushrooms growing in the closed agar jar means they are Co2 resistant which is a good thing.
We did in fact get the grain jars and liquid culture made off of the other agar jar and some dowel spawn.
This is Sunday's Fungus picture
I have not seen more evidence of growth in this monster mushroom since Saturday afternoon so i will be cutting it off i think and seeing what the rest of the cluster does.
We had planned on making grain spawn and liquid culture off some agar jars i had started. After looking at the agar jars one jar was pinning(tiny white spikes) so we opened the jar and put it into the fruiting chamber(the big plastic tub). Here are some pics of it saturday.
Does anyone else see tiny castles in the clouds?
Then this is Sunday
This agar jar should hopefully make it all the way to fruiting, at which time i will clone these mushrooms. The mushrooms growing in the closed agar jar means they are Co2 resistant which is a good thing.
We did in fact get the grain jars and liquid culture made off of the other agar jar and some dowel spawn.
Wehner Homestead
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Very interesting!
Bruce
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Castles in the clouds Yes I see them.
I guess there isn't a "mature" size for this particular fungus or maybe you are just new to them and need to figure out what it is? Never have grown mushrooms on purpose though we do have some in the lawn.
Yes I see them.I guess there isn't a "mature" size for this particular fungus or maybe you are just new to them and need to figure out what it is? Never have grown mushrooms on purpose though we do have some in the lawn.
