>>855367Very nice. Looks like pearl oyster. If you have access to used coffee grounds you can make more mushroom kits. Just put the spent coffee grounds into the freezer in a bag until you have enough to make another kit. Then put the coffee grounds into canning jars with just enough water to get them entirely wet all the way through. Water bath can them, let them cool off, drain them well, poke a 1/4 inch air hole in the lid, cover it with some medical tape so it can still "breath". Mix in some of your old mushroom kit's spawn (that white stuff in the growing medium in the old kit.)
Or, use any kind of container, cardboard box, laundry basket, or plastic bag and inoculate the coffee grounds with the spent mushroom spawn of your old kit without pasteurizing like above. If you can get the mycelium to colonize the coffee grounds fast enough, you'll not have to worry about mold issues. This works, is less work, requires 0 equipment, but there's always a risk of mold. I'd at least bring the coffee grounds just barely to a boil, if that then cool and inoculate.
With either method, you need to maintain the temperate and moisture content just so-so. Too much moisture and it molds over. Not enough and it dries out and dies. You can do the something with straw, paper (shredded is best), or any cellulose-based growing medium. Oyster fungi love it all.
Regardless, you can literally make infinite mushroom kits for the rest of your life by dividing up your 1st kit. If you need sources of coffee grounds, start calling friends, family, and local restaurants/gas stations.
