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Malak

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Oyster mushroom attempt
« on: January 13, 2020, 06:33:41 PM »
The small jar is just cardboard and coffee grounds with a small piece of a oyster I found a few days ago here in Missouri.  The other container is straight coffee grounds that was a bit to wet when I started so has been very slow to colonize but is finally getting there. Both of my samples have just been local mushrooms I have found and just cleaned up a little took a clean chunk out of the cap and put straight to the coffee grounds without any special 180 degrees for 4 hours. So far it's looking good I have had one jar contaminate but to be expected. I'm figuring out how I'm going to pasteurize some straw to use as substrate to fruit them on. 
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Malak

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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2020, 03:12:37 AM »
Oyster mycelium running!
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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2020, 08:03:52 PM »
Added some chamomile tea leftovers to this jar 2 days ago not sure why just seemed like a good idea lol.
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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2020, 09:34:08 PM »
looking good! id like to try this at some point.. keep us posted  :)
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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2020, 04:03:21 PM »
Just a little update on this jar. Alot of mycopee but looking decent to me...
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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2020, 07:33:16 PM »
So I decided to just let it fruit in the jar since I have pins now!
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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2020, 01:32:13 PM »
Day 2 fruiting.
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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2020, 03:20:16 PM »
Day 3
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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2020, 01:33:53 PM »
Day 4  ;D
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Re: Oyster mushroom attempt
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2020, 03:07:28 PM »
I found it nearly impossible to give my oysters enough fresh air indoors. If you leave them outside you get much bigger caps.

Nevertheless awesome job on getting more mushroom without even sterilization or pasteurization, that's really handy!!!
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