Fruiting Your Mushroom Grow Kit
This Is a General Fruiting Guide, please click this link for more specific growing conditions for all mushroom varieties
Button Mushroom, Portobello, Swiss Brown
Cut the highest off the bag, leaving about 5cm of bag above the mushroom substrate. Take the second bundle in your develop package, that is the casing layer. You might want to tip this casing layer rigorously over your mushroom substrate in order that it’s unfold approx 2cm thick. You will then have to spray this layer with water and preserve the casing layer moist for the subsequent few days.- Once mushrooms begin showing you possibly can harvest them by choosing them straight out of the bag.
(Please Note – Button, Portobello, Swiss Brown and Cremini are all precisely the identical mushroom pressure, the distinction between every mushroom kind being when they’re harvested. First they are going to be Cremini, a day or so later will develop into Button, then Swiss Brown and lastly Portobello. Depending on which mushroom you want to develop you possibly can harvest on the applicable time to realize your required mushroom species.)
Shiitake Mushroom
- Place your mushroom grown package within the fridge for two days previous to fruiting. This will “chilly shock” the bag into producing mushrooms.
- Remove the entire mushroom block from the plastic bag and place in an applicable space and spray the entire block. You can then spray with water for the primary 3 days. Once you see “pins” (little mushrooms) arising be sure to cease spraying.
- After the primary harvest (round 7 days) take the block and let it relaxation in a cabinet for 1-2 weeks. Then you possibly can soak this block in a bucket of water for 24hrs.
- Then repeat Step 1
Oyster Mushroom
Simply lower an X within the aspect of the mushroom block bag, then spray this with water gently till you see “pins” (little mushrooms) begin rising.- You can get just a few harvests from oyster mushroom by taping up the X you’ve initially lower on the bag, and easily lower a brand new X in a unique spot on the bag. Then repeat step 1
Reishi
- Do not open your Reishi bag till the mushroom “conks” have fashioned inside your mushroom bag. Reishi take a really very long time to fruit – be affected person.
- Once the “conks” have fashioned and the tops begin to spherical out, lower the highest of the bag off and allow them to develop out.
Turkey Tail
- Simply slice the bag left to right, the turkey tail will develop out forming a ribbon.
Lions Mane
- Simply lower an X within the aspect of the mushroom block bag, then spray this with water gently till you see “pins” (little mushrooms) begin to develop.
- You can get just a few harvests from Lions Mane mushroom blocks by taping up the X you’ve initially lower on the bag, and easily lower a brand new X in a unique spot on the bag. Then repeat step 1
Please click on the hyperlink under for Mushroom Fruiting Conditions for every species: