There's a number of ways to grow a wide variety of mushrooms. Oysters being the easiest...if you wanna not spend a lot of money you can make your grow bags or you can use common household products to grow in. And it's cheaper to prepare your grain for spawn. With that said spawn is grain fully colonized with mycelium. Mycelium is the roots the network of roots that produce a mushroom fruit body. If you have mycelium that is mold and trichoderma free you can even grow outside. A clean sample of mycelium is the key to a good healthy grow. The first thing a mycologist will tell you is to learn agar. Agar is used in petri plates as a medium to grow bacteria, mold and fungus in labs. The ideal is to get a clean plate of mycelium. You can then make a liquid culture(optional), but it's my recommendation you do. With a liquid culture you can put on bulk grain to colonize and it takes 10 days.
So how's this possible to grow mycelium on agar and with what? You will need to find spores of the variety you wanna grow. Whether gourmet or medicinal it's important to find a quality source. Myco.ca , spore works (I might add that while magic mushrooms are illegal to posses and grow the MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF ALL SPORES IS LEAGAL in all but Georgia California and Idaho this is why you may see a lot of ads for them but beware of scams I listed two sources that do no scam or send dirty spores. are a couple that are reputable and provide clean spore prints and syringes. Spores come in syringes with spores put into distilled water. They do this to inoculate grow bags or jars without opening the bag or jar. Contamination is the mycologist enemy. Even tho it's unavoidable the ideal is to give the mycelium a headstart on bacteria and molds. A real mycologist will tell you spore to agar is the way to go. It will triple your harvest and shorten grow time everytime.
It's really not hard it just looks hard. It took me 3 times before I got a good healthy flush. And how tasty they were. Also having a pressure canner or pressure cooker will help immensely this way no chemical is added to the mix. You wanna sterilize the grains before you inoculate with clean mycelium or liquid culture. So the road to success is this. STUDY/SPORES/AGAR(LIQUID CULTURE)/GRAIN/COCO COIR.
There's a number of ways to grow a wide variety of mushrooms. Oysters being the easiest...if you wanna not spend a lot of money you can make your grow bags or you can use common household products to grow in. And it's cheaper to prepare your grain for spawn. With that said spawn is grain fully colonized with mycelium. Mycelium is the roots the network of roots that produce a mushroom fruit body. If you have mycelium that is mold and trichoderma free you can even grow outside. A clean sample of mycelium is the key to a good healthy grow. The first thing a mycologist will tell you is to learn agar. Agar is used in petri plates as a medium to grow bacteria, mold and fungus in labs. The ideal is to get a clean plate of mycelium. You can then make a liquid culture(optional), but it's my recommendation you do. With a liquid culture you can put on bulk grain to colonize and it takes 10 days.
So how's this possible to grow mycelium on agar and with what? You will need to find spores of the variety you wanna grow. Whether gourmet or medicinal it's important to find a quality source. Myco.ca , spore works (I might add that while magic mushrooms are illegal to posses and grow the MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF ALL SPORES IS LEAGAL in all but Georgia California and Idaho this is why you may see a lot of ads for them but beware of scams I listed two sources that do no scam or send dirty spores. are a couple that are reputable and provide clean spore prints and syringes. Spores come in syringes with spores put into distilled water. They do this to inoculate grow bags or jars without opening the bag or jar. Contamination is the mycologist enemy. Even tho it's unavoidable the ideal is to give the mycelium a headstart on bacteria and molds. A real mycologist will tell you spore to agar is the way to go. It will triple your harvest and shorten grow time everytime.
It's really not hard it just looks hard. It took me 3 times before I got a good healthy flush. And how tasty they were. Also having a pressure canner or pressure cooker will help immensely this way no chemical is added to the mix. You wanna sterilize the grains before you inoculate with clean mycelium or liquid culture. So the road to success is this. STUDY/SPORES/AGAR(LIQUID CULTURE)/GRAIN/COCO COIR.