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Pink oysters usually take 3-4 days to fully develop. They are faster when the temperature is higher and take longer in cooler temperatures. If you need guidance, feel free to email us a photo and we'll tell you if it's ready to pick. Happy growing!

Fist time huh? Don't that hurt?🤣🤣🤣

I'm a fan of constant ventilation, but I know opinions vary. The key is to ventilate at a low enough rate that it doesn't take an excessive amount of work to keep the humidity up. If you don't want to use a smaller fan, you can always get a "dimmer" cord, that is used to lower voltage to a plug-in light, and plug your fan into that. If it's not made to be a variable-speed fan, it may not have really good control that way, but I've used this method really successfully before.

The material that's left after you grow mushrooms is referred to as spent mushroom substrate (often abbreviated as "SMS"), and there are lots of studies that show how it can be used as a soil amendment to really boost productivity. There are even studies showing that using it as mulch around tomatoes reduces bacterial wilt! Many mushroom farmers sell their SMS to gardeners or plant farmers. So yes, it's very valuable!

Many thanks!

Well everything gets exposed to lots of different molds eventually, so whether it's a regular cleaning or a cleanup after a known contamination, you can use the same thing -- regular dish soap and hydrogen peroxide. If you're having problems with contaminated fruiting blocks though, it's probably not coming from your grow chamber. Nine time out of ten it's a problem with your spawn. It could also be from not adequately pasteurizing your substrate, but that's less common

@thefungalnetworkvideo ok thank you !!!!

Some times the trich will get infused into the plastic..just throw away the tub..

Bleach water or hydrogen peroxide. Don't think alcohol will do it, I made that mistake and lost over 20 tubs.

@@SporeWhore661 ok thank you

Thanks Jim, glad it's useful!

That's a good question. It's really up to you, but what I do is exclude it from figuring into the flush averages by not recording any numbers. I highlight the row of cells for that block red and make a note in the comments of what happened, specifically (i.e. green or black or lipstick mold, or bacteria, etc.). As long as you don't enter anything into the weight cells, they won't be included into the averages, which is what I want because I don't want to think that a culture is performing poorly when the real problem is my sterile technique. You definitely want to track what your contamination percentage is, though, and if you can figure out where it came from each time. If it's all throughout your fruiting block evenly, it's either a problem with your substrate preparation or your spawn. If it's a single spot on the fruiting block, it's likely either a faulty bag some "dirty" thing that happened during inoculation. Hope this helps, friend!

That's fantastic! We just had some in a cream sauce last night! We get them starting in June (this was June), and usually lasting through September

Still faster than a garden, though!

I love that name! It certainly fits, visually.

Nice find! What state is this?

North Carolina 🙂

Picking a mushroom is not killing it. It's no different than picking an apple off an apple tree. The mushroom you see is just a fruit of the mycelium in the ground

Friend, your warnings are right on. Although some Amanitas are edible, I'm an advocate for folks to make a personal rule to just exclude Amanitas from their diet. This particular one appears to be a destroying angel. I myself am not an adventurous eater, in that I have my list of mushrooms that I will eat, and I don't play at the edges. I recommend that others also not play at the edges. But definitely get out there, find, and appreciate the awesome diversity of things in the woods. There are plenty of things in life that you should enjoy and appreciate without sticking it in your mouth, and this is one of them!

@@thefungalnetworkvideo I would very much agree that this "egg" is a destroying angel mushroom. Very common here and easily mistaken for the common and choice field agaric mushroom that is very edible. The field agaric is white but has pink to brown gills where as the destroying angel is completely white. Another similar choice mushroom is the horse agaric which tends to be white with pink to brown gills, however, they get massive. I picked one several years ago that weighed 1.5 pounds. Regardless, I didn't eat it despite being able to identify. The agarics are a species that have no sympathy or mercy if you make a mistake. However, I find mycology and learning HOW to differentiate the species fascinating!

Good question, and good comment! So I don't worry about filtering incoming air because it's not going to be a "clean" environment in there regardless. But I like to filter the outgoing air to keep it from sending spores out into the home. It also keeps things like flies from getting in (hopefully the fan would kill them on the intake side). And I like your idea about running the saw backwards to score the circle before going all the way through. I'll try that next time. I had thought about melting a hole as well, but test holes had worked pretty well with the hole saw, so I just went with that. Of course it waits until the camera's running to catch wrong. Still worked fine though:)

If you got into production, send me a pair and I'll try them out:) I really wanted them to work!

No, I was the original. I still have mine, because they didn't work either 😢

We never found morels in fields until we happened to see them. Now we look there. Never found them in a stand of white pines until we happened to see them, so now we look there. Basically, we now look everywhere we go in late March and early April, because they seem to defy expectations.

​@@thefungalnetworkvideowe tramped all around the deep woods in Tennessee and found only a few. Then we found two awesome patches in this scrub brush and briars off of a pipeline. They do grow where you would not expect them to!

That's a good question. I expect it depends on the paper waste. I haven't seen studies on it, but mushrooms will take up heavy metals, so certainly it's possible that they have toxins in them if the paper was exposed to any. I would love to see a food chemistry lab actually test some samples. In the meantime, we don't eat anything we're not sure of!

@@thefungalnetworkvideo So what do you do with those if you don't eat them?

@@PrincessCaterpie We just compost them. The important thing for us is that the paper is getting composted and turned into a great compost/mulch for our trees and flower gardens instead of going to the landfill. I got excited a couple of weeks ago when I saw a new scientific article out of Eritrea about using paper waste to grow oyster mushrooms, thinking that they may have done an analysis of the presence of unhealthy compounds in the mushrooms, but unfortunately they did not, just detailed finding, like us, that it can be done effectively. So until we can find a food chemistry lab to work with us and analyze the mushrooms, they're getting composted.