Anyone grow their own mushrooms?

[jdixon]

As per the question above, does anybody do this? I was doing web searches for buying mushrooms to possibly make my own shroom ketchup and kept finding guides and books about being a mushroom grower. mushrooms

Now I heard before that mushrooms are easy to grow depending on which species and conditions, but is it? How do you get started?

 

[qrkid]

I used to grow my own. I grew various oyster mushrooms, shitake, lions mane and piopino. It is not really difficult but you need to have a few things.
you can grow shitake on logs but that is a lengthy process and you need to have the right environmental conditions. Growing indoors you can control things like humidity. Need humidity up around 95% at times.
There are sites you can buy spawn from like https://www.ashevillefungi.com/

 

[indaswamp]

Yes, I have grown mushrooms. Ease depends on type and substrate needed. Wine caps ( King Stropharia) are probably the easiest as you can grow them in the garden wood chip pathway.

Oyster mushrooms are probably the next easiest, but substrate sterilization is key prior to spore inoculation. After that, monitor moisture and temp. until mycellium fills substrate, then bring environment to fruiting temp. of mushroom and watch for fruiting.

Shitake I would rate third in difficulty.

 

[jdixon]

I used to grow my own. I grew various oyster mushrooms, shitake, lions mane, and piping. It is not really difficult but you need to have a few things.
you can grow shitake on logs but that is a lengthy process and you need to have the right environmental conditions. Growing indoors you can control things like humidity. Need humidity up around 95% at times.
There are sites you can buy spawn from like https://www.ashevillefungi.com/

THAT'S AMAZING.

 

[forktender]

I just pick mine out of the local cattle pastures.

 

[Zen]

As per the question above, does anybody do this? I was doing web searches for buying mushrooms to possibly make my own shroom ketchup and kept finding guides and books about being a mushroom grower. mushrooms

Now I heard before that mushrooms are easy to grow depending on which species and conditions, but is it? How do you get started?

Ooof thank you for the reminder that I need to do this.

Have I thought about and bought all the stuff to grow mushrooms? Absolutely.

Have I put all of those very well researched items together to grow the variety of mushrooms from the syringes I bought? Of course not.

This is one of my many hobbies that I have tried to pick up. I hear that this is the time of season to start foraging for them tho. Which is also something I want to do.

Did you ever decide to try to grow your own?

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

I have thought about it. Our Farmers market sells kits. I going to look for Morels today.

 

[Zen]

I have thought about it. Our Farmers market sells kits. I going to look for Morels today.

Nice! Hope you find plenty.

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Nice! Hope you find plenty.

I gave up. Hard to walk through all the vines.

 

[pineywoods]

I have grown Shitake's as has been said easy in the right environment not so much if not. The wrong environment can lead to total failure.

 

[Smoke-Chem BBQ]

My son gave me one of these: https://northspore.com/products/grow-your-own-golden-oysters. It was a fun novelty, though not sustainable for mushroom growth. They give you about two crops and they are done, but there isn't much effort involved. However, that same NorthSpore website seems to be a good source of spore for the serious grower. Lots of varieties, too.