• Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Funny, I thought I was doing it the easy way. 😄 The initial spawn from ebay was only 10g each, a much smaller amount that I thought I was getting, but it was strong so I pressure-cooked some grain jars, built a still-air box, and let them start growing out. Only one of those jars had a problem but the mycelium seems to be winning.

      Same with the lime bath for the straw… that just seemed like the easiest method to get started, I don’t really have a way to boil that amount of straw, but I can do the bath in an old plastic barrel I have. I think I’m going to try starting with two bags of blue oysters and one bag of pink oysters, and see how that goes. I still need to read up on drying the harvest but I do have a food dehumidifier… unless I end up eating everything as fast as I grow it! I do love mushrooms.

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        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t you only need to do the cold water lime pasteurization, forgoing the need for boiling the straw?

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          1 year ago

          Right, only one method is needed. I see people setting up burners outside to sterilize the straw, but the lime method also is supposed to work well and doesn’t require all that energy to boil the water.