that's just another social network getting access to it :chad:

  • happybadger [he/him]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    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.