GrowingOysterMushrooms at home is easy and fun to do. This video shows how to use mushrooms from the grocery store for propagation and grow them yourself in your kitchen. The methods described in the video use the following materials.
Brown paper lunch bags
Hydrogen Peroxide (3% solution It needs to be diluted to 0.3%)
Straw, chipped wood, shredded paper or saw dust
Pet litter or sterilized saw dust
Plastic container with lid
Oyster Mushrooms from produce department (It needs to have the woody base still attached to the mushroom. Individual mushrooms may not work.)
Hi, just a quick question regarding the quantities used in the Growing Your Own Oyster Mushrooms at Home – Video. When you put the sterilized straw into the 1 gallon zip lock bag how much of the prepared mushroom to you also include? Would you use the entire contents from one Tupperware container from the crisper to 1 zip lock bag of straw?
Thanks in advance for your reply and thanks for the video also.
You dont have to add the whole thing but the less you add the longer it will take to have it take over the straw. And he longer it takes the more chance you have of getting infection and loseing the whole thing. I would do the hole thing in one bag then seperater thelat bags contence in to 4 new bags. This way you can keep some mycila going ans flower a bag whenevey you want. Good luck and sorry im typing on a kindle fire… freqkin hard thing to do
I am currently flowering a kit from Back to the Roots and have gotten bitten by the mushroom bug. I am wondering a few things. My kit was initially propagated on coffee grounds. I don’t understand the two step nature of the process. If I cut the stems off my current crop and throw them into a baggie of coffee grounds, wouldn’t they grow in that? Why would I need to transfer the mycelium to another bag. One of the things I really like about using coffee grounds is that they are sterilized when we produce them in the morning to make coffee, with the hot water! But the part I don’t really understand is why I would use a two step process of starting the mycelium and then transfering them to a larger amount of growing medium (presumably if the mycelium will grow on paper and wood chips, why wouldn’t they fruit on paper and wood chips?
Hi, just a quick question regarding the quantities used in the Growing Your Own Oyster Mushrooms at Home – Video. When you put the sterilized straw into the 1 gallon zip lock bag how much of the prepared mushroom to you also include? Would you use the entire contents from one Tupperware container from the crisper to 1 zip lock bag of straw?
Thanks in advance for your reply and thanks for the video also.
You dont have to add the whole thing but the less you add the longer it will take to have it take over the straw. And he longer it takes the more chance you have of getting infection and loseing the whole thing. I would do the hole thing in one bag then seperater thelat bags contence in to 4 new bags. This way you can keep some mycila going ans flower a bag whenevey you want. Good luck and sorry im typing on a kindle fire… freqkin hard thing to do
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Hi,
I am currently flowering a kit from Back to the Roots and have gotten bitten by the mushroom bug. I am wondering a few things. My kit was initially propagated on coffee grounds. I don’t understand the two step nature of the process. If I cut the stems off my current crop and throw them into a baggie of coffee grounds, wouldn’t they grow in that? Why would I need to transfer the mycelium to another bag. One of the things I really like about using coffee grounds is that they are sterilized when we produce them in the morning to make coffee, with the hot water! But the part I don’t really understand is why I would use a two step process of starting the mycelium and then transfering them to a larger amount of growing medium (presumably if the mycelium will grow on paper and wood chips, why wouldn’t they fruit on paper and wood chips?
Thanks,
Sue