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Oyster mushroom spawn are coming along nicely. Having worked with other fungi, I am surprised how quickly these take. Must be a major reason why these are such popular mushrooms to grow.

Hopefully these will be a nice winter crop, maybe even something I can use to supplement the composting.

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Petri dish with white mycelia spreading across the agar
Two jars full of grain with cloth lids held in place by rubber bands. White mycelia is spreading throughout, eating the grain. These can be used as an inoculum for larger batch cultures.
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Chris Ruppel
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very nice! Are you following a specific guide? I’d love to know more.
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Frank Aylward
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@rupl just experimenting at this point and going based off some online videos I saw.
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Gleb Ebert
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How cool! Where did you get the spores from to incoulate the plate with? Do store-bought mushrooms contain enough?
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Frank Aylward
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@gleb i bought some starter mycelium from a guy at a farmer's market. I haven't tried going from spores. Oyster mushrooms apparently have a very high spore load, so perhaps that is straightforward depending on your source.
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Gleb Ebert
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Ah, I see. A local supermarket chain also sells blocks of mycelium which you can use to grow 1–2 harvests. I guess I could try providing feed to get more harvests out of it.
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Frank Aylward
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@gleb you could buy one and use a small amount to inoculate your own grain spawn, and otherwise used as directed. That way , you at least get the usual harvest, even if the propagation doesn't work out
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Leea
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@gleb There's apparently also sporeless hybrids to make homegrowing less sporey, online shops that sell grow-kits usually state which one their oysters are. Not sure would regular grocery stores mention that, though.
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