mushrooms

[anette]

i would like to grow my own mushrooms and dont have a clue how to start. anyone have some experience in this?

[PKBoo]

Here's a few web sites I've been eyeing up for a while - I've always wanted to try it too: I would imagine once you have the kit, you can continue with the same species as long as it's not contaminated with other spores.
http://www.fungi.com/kits/index.html
http://www.gmushrooms.com/POTS.HTM
http://www.mushbox.com/

[Kim_NC]

You need spores and the right environment. Here's a post we had going a couple months ago. Several people left links to sources for mushroom growing info and purchasing the spores:

Spawning your own mushrooms

I really want to try this as well, but must wait at least one more year. Too much going on right now - new homestead, new garden areas to establish, starting fruit trees. LOL...oh no, only 6:30am and I'm making a to-do list! Think I'll pour another cup of coffee.

[chicky momma]

Try the www.mushroompeople.com friends got there supplies etc...there. Said they were really helpful, inexpensive. Lisa

[ONG]

We have 2 kinds of s h i ttake, oyster and winecap mushrooms. If you can beat the slugs to them they are all great.

When the s h i ttake bloom you can get a bunch of rooms in a hurry. The winecap are real nutty flavored.

[Ernie]

I drug an old log up to the forest edge on the northern slope of my place, bought some ----take spore on the internet and drilled holes up and down the log and inserted the inoculation plugs. Should take a year or two before it starts producing. It won't be enough to sell, but that's mostly because we love them so much.

[ChristyACB]

Oh how I wish...

Portobella mushrooms we love. And they are going up, up, up in price. Thanks of the links.

[anette]

i have checked all the links. portabello is what i was looking for, and they are hard to find. pretty expensive as well.

none of the sites i saw give an estimated yield as far as i could see.

outside mushroom kits are less expensive than inside ones, but i did not see either button or portabello available in those plug kits.

unfortunately, those are the only mushrooms i have tried. who can tell me about the taste of shiitake or oyster or others?


anette

[pickapeppa]

Portabellos and buttons are grown in a sterile mix instead of logs. The plug spawn is made for log culture. To do the others you would need to grow out your spawn from innoculated needle syringe cultures to petri dishes to jars to sterile medium. It would be a bit more involved than something like log culture where all of that is already done for you and you just pop them in the logs and seal it over with wax.

I'd like those varieties too, but too complicated for our lives this year. Maybe next . . .

[anette]

yeah, me too for now. its a thought to keep in the back of my mind for future planning.