BlindXX wrote:
All depends on the type of mushroom. Inside or out? Bit of both. I grow the spawn on birdseed inside, transfer to cardboard (cold sanitized with washing up liquid) in plastic buckets with lid. When colonized place contents in 35l RUB with some holes drilled in and damp vermiculite in bottom. Spray every day. Leave inside or out (left mine out), when conditions are right, they'll grow. Where abouts are you? I'm North London (Waltham Abbey) so rarely gets too cold for a prolonged period. main thing is to be careful sterilizing grains to grow initial spawn on and keep things clean as possible to reduce other bacterial contamination. I got really into it, took my own spore prints from them, got two jars of mycelium in nutrient solution in the fridge, along with 10 spore syringes... It's like the edible version of brewing! Getting ready to do my next lot in a couple of weeks (pink and grey oysters, shiitake when I have a bit more experience). look up Basic PF tek for some easy how to's. Finally, and this is for anyone who reads this and is interested, oysters are great beginners mushrooms. They grow on cardboard, old books, anything cellulose based, and more importantly I don't think there is any strain of poisonous mushroom that they can be mistaken for!