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Mushroom grow kits are fun easy ways to learn about mushrooms and watch them grow in front of you eyes. This kit is a 10lb bag where which is much larger and therefore much more productive than the smaller kits you can buy in stores.
Expect $100 worth of mushrooms with this kit!
No special lights or equipment is needed.
All you do is cut the bag open, place in a tote and mist the walls of tote with spray bottle to keep the humidity up.
Mushrooms will start to sprout very soon and grow to maturity over the next week.
You can expect 3-5 harvests over the next month or two.
When the bag looks full of white mycelium, cut a big X (3"x3") into the side of bag and put it into a humidity bin such as plastic tote. Mist the walls of your humidity dome just enough so there is a light coating of water on it.
You don't want a pool of water collecting on the bottom or to spray and soak the the substrate
Within 1 week baby mushrooms (pins) should form from the cut,
OR
often they don't grow from the cut you made, but instead near the cut or often on top of the bag.
So just cut the bag open wherever they decide to grow so they don't get squished.
Once they start growing they should be ready to harvest within 1 week.
Best time to harvest
is before mushroom caps start inverting from downward to upwards. They tend to store longer but not a big deal if you harvest them when they are more mature. You can store in a paper bag in the fridge for atleast 1 week.
After the harvest
make another cut into the bag where the mushrooms were not growing before. Within a week you should see more mushrooms starting to grow, so again just open the bag up more if needed to allow them room.
After the 3rd harvest
you can rehydrate your bag to get higher yield for next final mushroom flushes.
Some people say to soak the block in a bucket of water but, I recommend using a flavor injector syringe (can be purchased separately with kit for $5) but can also be found at the dollar store. Just inject water everywhere into the substrate until the block feels heavier or stops absorbing the water.
Finishing The Grow Kit
After 3-5 harvests your block might start looking a little old and it's time to recycle.
Put your spent block in your compost, or mix into garden soil where it can give beneficial organics to your soil.
You can read more on this on the " Spent Substrate Compost Product" Page
Problems
Oyster mushrooms like lots of fresh air, so make sure they have access to fresh air, if they start looking funny, too skinny and long you need more fresh air so open the lid of bin more.
If it's too wet or humid in the bin the mushrooms can abort their growth or look funny. Little dry out periods in the bin are good and should eliminate this, so again you might need to leave the lid off totally for a bit to allow a bit of a dry out period, but you don't want to dry for days long which might dry out the mushrooms as they try and grow.
If 2 weeks have passed since you cut into the bag and no mushrooms have come up, you can try cutting into the bag again and cut 1/2" into the substrate. This gets further into the block to stimulate more growth.
https://youtu.be/YXsR_vgD_7oMushroom Tent you can use anything for a humidity dome, even a plastic or paper baghttps://youtu.be/iJgmyqjrIHk