General Mushroom Cultivation Topics.
‘Grainspawn’ is just that Grain and Spawn. The grain refers to a variety of different cereal grains/seeds and the spawn refers to the mycelium that you inoculate them with. I’m going to go through the most common grain spawns that…
There are 2 routes you can go down with making AirPort Jars. Both achieve the same objective, however the professional one looks better and has a slightly lower risk of contamination as the polyfill air filter can induce ‘Wicking’ where…
Although not the best introduction into growing mushrooms per-se this book still ranks highly for me, the first book that I bought is called ‘Introduction To Modern Mycology’ by J.W. Deacon.
As you may or may not know, the UK has experienced the hottest summer on record with temperatures well exceeding 30c for weeks at a time. Ideally, Oysters incubate at 27c and fruit around 23c – 25c depending on the…
Without sounding too cynical, trusting people is tricky game. The same goes for mushrooms, when you buy culture, spores or spawn, you assume for the most part that the culture has been prepared under sterile and healthy conditions and any…
On this rather strange UK bank holiday where we had thunderstorms and 26c weather, I decided that my ‘new’ fruiting chamber setup was completely inadequate. This is for several reasons, however, the main one was that it was setup in…
This week has been a slow week for my mushroom growing operation. I’ve been expanding my fruiting chamber and I’ll post about that in due course, however, this week’s blog is dedicated to someone called Matt Smalls. Matt is an…
My old mushroom setup has fallen apart, I’m looking at scaling soon, but I am really limited on space. The only real space I’ve got is about the size of a cupboard in my shed. I can also grow outside,…
Recently, I was thinking about what I could get a friend of mine who, like myself, is a mushroom grower for their birthday. After doing some googling it was hard to find something that was specific enough to mushrooms that…
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