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I grew these mushrooms in a cloth grow bag using only wood chips as the substrate. I thought that they would fruit in the top, but instead they actually fruited through the fabric in the bottom.

They struggled a bit due to the low humidity indoors, but I spray them with water several times a day, so I will be able to harvest something.

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A black grow bag on a wooden table with two batches of white oyster mushrooms sprouting out of the bottom.
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MCDuncanLab
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Awesome!!

When I grow mushrooms indoors in the winter I put the container in a larger plastic bag to help wit the humidity.

What variety of oysters are those, they are much paler and larger than the ones I normally grow (blue or italian).

This was my first try with pink, I don't recommend them.

Pink oysters growing out of a plastic bucket wrapped in a plastic bag with slits in it for air to get in.
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Frank Aylward
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@MCDuncanLab cool! Plastic bag is the way to go. I was trying to grow these without plastic but it's hard.
These are a white oyster variety I got from a local grower. I already had one batch from a pot, and they were quite tasty!
Blue oyster is next...
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naturepoker
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oh I really want to try growing mushrooms too. Just worried that spores will eventually end up in my lab sometime somehow!
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Frank Aylward
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@naturepoker the trick is to pick them a little early before they drop their spores.
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Frank Aylward
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Harvested today - 1.6 lbs!
Closeup of a flush of white oyster mushrooms held from below. They radiate out of the center.
Three flushes of mushrooms on a table
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Seiðr
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Excellent harvest! The growth direction may seem weird, but fungi mycelia are pretty much of tridimensional growth (if you have ever seen a mold snow-ball in a liquid you can get the idea), so they will probably have grown towards the zone they detected was closer to circulating air (AFAIK, fungi do not have a lot of gravi- or phototropism).
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Frank Aylward
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@Illuminatus indeed. I was just surprised they could pin through the dense cloth!
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Greg Johnston
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Nice, I inoculated several alder logs with blue oyster spore from a local company. Keeping them outside in a shady spot, hope to harvest some in fall.

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