While my wood stove leaves some nice cool spaces in my house where I can put plants that don’t like heat, it also dries out the air, as all heating systems do. If it’s dark, it’s a lot easier for me to forget. Mushroom kits need to be in a place prominent enough that I will notice and water them every day – but if that place is too light, I run into problems. Keeping the mushrooms moist enough has been hard I’m starting to understand why there are special mushroom growing rooms. In a day or two, the forming clusters looked like this, close up:Īs they got bigger, my blue oyster mushrooms weren’t particularly blue maybe this is because I let them dry out too much (apparently that can turn mushrooms brown), or get too much light (mushroom colors are darker in dim light, paler in sun).
Oyster mushroom primordia professional#
It was only a couple of days before I started to see the primordia poking through the microscopic holes in the growing bag (some professional mushroom growers use floor-to-ceiling-long versions of these bags, making little forests of them in their growing rooms). You just activate it by keeping it moist in dim light. A kit’s the easiest possible way to grow mushrooms, as the grower has done all the work in getting the mycelium in their right growing medium and ready to go. I reported earlier that I’d done some studying of Paul Stamets’s Fungi Perfecti catalogue, and ordered some mushroom plugs and a kit. The final appealing aspect of this type of mushroom is that they looked like some of the easiest, quickest mushrooms to grow. The mushrooms fruit at 65 degrees, which sounded about right for a cool place in my house this time of year. In my uncentrally-heated house, with a trip coming up, this sounded good to me. (Glucosamine works very well for some, but not others ) Several studies are now showing that oyster mushrooms lower cholesterol.īesides these benefits, blue oyster mushrooms were my choice because they can grow at temperatures cooler than other oyster mushrooms: from 45F (a little over 7 degrees C) to 65 degrees F (about 18 degrees C), and aren’t hurt by freezing. They’re a good source of glucosamine, which often helps people and animals with joint problems.
Medical studies show benefits of oyster mushrooms. And oyster mushrooms are high in chitin he recommends them as a cleaner source for chitin than shellfish. Minerals such as iron and potassium are also present. Kurtzman, PhD., they are rich sources of high-quality proteins and amino acids, B vitamins, and pro-vitamin D (the vitamin a lot of people are missing these days, as indoor jobs means little sun exposture). Oyster mushrooms (there are several varieties and subspecies) are some of the most nutritious around. I’m harvesting mushrooms twelve days after I started growing them. If you’re in the market for immediate gratification, consider an oyster mushroom kit.
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