How To Make Oyster Mushroom Spawn

Cover with extra cardboard.
How to make oyster mushroom spawn. Incubation comes next and should ideally occur for three weeks at 75 f depending on the inoculation rate. Shredded straw is a good substrate for growing oyster mushrooms. There are a few different ways to make cardboard spawn.
Once it s cut to size you need to clean it and pasteurize it to kill off any microorganisms and to ensure it s less likely to become contaminated. First you ll need to get some cardboard. Another method to inoculate your grain is by first propagating the mushroom tissue on agar or cloning.
You want to pour boiling water over it let it cool and then drain off the excess. The bags are then placed in a warm 20 24c 68f 75f dark room to incubate and begin the first phase of growth. You can do this by adding the oyster mushroom spawn to the straw.
Measure out 5 75 grams of nutrient agar powder to 1 cup of clean water ample for 5 or more petri dishes. Only 10 14 days are needed for the spawn to grow a full web of root like threads of mycelium and colonise the growing substrate. Begin to heat and stir until the agar is completely dissolved.
Soak the cardboard pieces into this warm water for several hours. The process of making grain spawn is almost identical for growing all kinds of different mushrooms from pearl king pink blue golden or white oyster mushrooms to shiitake enoki reishi pioppino or lion s mane. The fruiting stage is next and there are four important parameters to be aware of when fruiting.
Pink oyster mushrooms will colonise both grain spawn and substrates very quickly. Position bags at least palm distance from each other to avoid overheating. Mushrooms need a moist and humid environment to grow even just to form mushroom spawn.