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Oat containers work pretty well for mushroom growing. Small enough to be manageable and good at keeping the moisture in.

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A cluster of white oyster mushrooms growing out of the side of a cylindrical ooat container
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Tyrone Slothrop
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Nice!

Can I ask a beginner question: where do you get the seeded substrate? What do you put *in* the oatmeal containers?

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Frank Aylward
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@slothrop i add hardwood chips and soybean hulls ("master's mix"), boiled first to sterilize and add moisture, and inoculate with grain spawn. You can buy the grain spawn or make your own with a culture. I do the latter because I like working with fungi, but most people seem to prefer the former.
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Tyrone Slothrop
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ok thanks!

I’m at the skill level of “fucked up a perfectly good growing kit because I didn’t read the instructions”

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Frank Aylward
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@slothrop it can be very tricky. I have a long list of grow kits that I have also destroyed. In my experience the moisture level seems to be the most important thing for fruiting.
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