I never cease to be amazed at how beautiful these are.
I also think it’s crazy how I got different colors off different buckets. They are the same strain. The only difference is the lighter pink ones were grown in straw that was cold pasteurized with lime water, and the others are grown in straw that was boiling water pasteurized.
These pinks are growing amazingly in buckets!
Getting crazy good flushes from buckets in my Mycosphere! So delicious and so easy with the automation of the Mycosphere.
I’m planning experiments for growing different species than oysters in BucketTek. As a first step test, I have made blocks of what I’m planning to use as substrate. 50:50 hardwood sawdust and straw. For the buckets I’m planning to cold pasteurize the straw in lime water, and then boiling water pasteurize the hardwood pellets before mixing them together and then mix in grain spawn before packing in buckets to colonize.
These blocks are the same planned substrate but I bagged it and pressure sterilized it as a test of concept. It will give me information on speed of colonization for the different species.
I’m planning to try this method with lion’s mane, pioppino, chestnut and golden enoki.
Two of these blocks were inoculated with grain spawn a week ahead the other two (which is why they are at diff stages.)
I am going to put them in my mycosphere to fruit when they are ready, so they will have similar fruiting environment as the buckets will have.
I’ll keep posting updates, in look forward to hearing from you all if you have tried anything like this.
These ShroomTek bags are amazing! Growing amazing oyster mushrooms! I can’t recommend them enough! The price is amazing and if you buy in sets they are even cheaper!
So the towers looked really cool, but I noticed they were starting to have issues. The mycelium stroma ended up, blocking the drainage holes on the bottom of each section and they ended up accumulating water from the mister system that is in the mycosphere. I became worried that this water accumulation was going to cause issues so I aborted the towers and I am trying an experiment. I decided to pull all the colonized straw out and stuffed it all into a bucket and will try and fruit it via buckettek I will keep everyone posted how this goes.
Harvested my snow oysters last night! 4.5# and got about 4# a few days ago…. That’s 9# from 2 buckets! This is insane how much you get!
Things are going crazy in the mycosphere! SOOO many mushrooms!!!!
Got 3# of mushrooms! Still lots of little ones left that hopefully will grow bigger and can be harvested!
These look almost ready to harvest! Crazy bumper crop!
These things are growing crazy fast!
My pioppino boomrbin is going crazy! I went to work and came home and they went from tiny pins to this…. I had to rush to set up humidity and fae last night….
Boomrbin pinning with king trumpets. Popcorn tek grain spawn mixed with homemade masters mix 75:25 hardwood pellets with soy hulls.
Things are going well in the mycosphere.
My stackable tower is starting to pin pink oysters in unusual ways. No visible pinning from the golden yet.
My blue oyster mushbucket is getting its first pins also!
Just wanting to update again on the progress of the Italian oysters. I’m loving the mycosphere so much!
These are looking better day by day! Only one of the four buckets that is pinning. The other three buckets are 2x snow oyster and one blue oyster.
First pins are visible from my Italian oyster bucket!