Oyster mushrooms, especially Pleurotus ostreatus, are the easiest culinary species to grow and they replace pork really well in dishes. You'd start with a Liquid Culture syringe for which I get my culinary ones from this website: https://www.theculturedmushroom.com/store/p59/Blue_Oyster_Liquid_Culture.html . Blue oysters will be your best bet as the temperatures become more mild with autumn, while yellow and phoenix oysters are good if temperatures will stay above 70f/21c. That is injected into a grain colony, for which reddit.com/r/unclebens is the easiest technique not requiring using a pressure cooker to sterilise grain. When that colony is mature you transfer it to a straw log: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/12702122/fpart/all/vc/1 . Other species will prefer other fruiting substrates but oysters thrive on the cheapest one and you'll have a lot to experiment with. You can put those straw logs outside or in a plastic Monotub container indoors to maintain their humidity levels: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22337800
Highly recommended hobby. They're more like ant colonies than houseplants so fungiculture is super fun.
I really wanna try growing mushrooms but I want to start by the non psychoactive kind. Can anyone give me some pointers?
Oyster mushrooms, especially Pleurotus ostreatus, are the easiest culinary species to grow and they replace pork really well in dishes. You'd start with a Liquid Culture syringe for which I get my culinary ones from this website: https://www.theculturedmushroom.com/store/p59/Blue_Oyster_Liquid_Culture.html . Blue oysters will be your best bet as the temperatures become more mild with autumn, while yellow and phoenix oysters are good if temperatures will stay above 70f/21c. That is injected into a grain colony, for which reddit.com/r/unclebens is the easiest technique not requiring using a pressure cooker to sterilise grain. When that colony is mature you transfer it to a straw log: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/12702122/fpart/all/vc/1 . Other species will prefer other fruiting substrates but oysters thrive on the cheapest one and you'll have a lot to experiment with. You can put those straw logs outside or in a plastic Monotub container indoors to maintain their humidity levels: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22337800
Highly recommended hobby. They're more like ant colonies than houseplants so fungiculture is super fun.