Mushroom grower reporting in. Anyone want tips/advice, or want to get into the hobby?
Also, Mycologist, AMA. (relating to mycorrhizae in vegetable gardening, growing mushrooms, etc; mycology has a huge relevance to all forms of horticulture and agriculture.)
Pic is of a contaminant fungus on homemade agar that ended up being beautiful.
>>984903Is the spawn grain?
Being oysters, you are going to get a very low yield off of the vermiculite method. Your best bet is to use the spawn to inoculate newspapers, and grow them out in a plastic bag. That small amount of grain would also not be worthwhile unless you used it to create more mycelium. Your expected mushroom off of just that would be like 4cm long and wide.
>Boil newspaper (or bake it while moist)>Wait to cool, drain well, and add your spawn as a layer in a newspaper sandwich inside a clean grocery bag>Tie bag closed, wait for about three weeks>Put a slash in the side and start misting daily>Profit 