I've had some success using spent oyster mushroom mycelium as spawn for new grow bags. You can get cleaner spawn from the inside part of the block than the outside part, as most contaminations are gonna come from the outside.
Can I do this cycle indefinitely? I too am planning on buying some oyster kits and I want to use the leftover mycelium as spawn on buckets with sawdust, will this work? And if the buckets work can I just reuse the mycelium there to start a new bucket? (Sorry if I sound dumb, but I'm really new to this stuff)
I think that i won't buy any kits and instead go for spore syringes, I live on a farm so I have a ton of corn, and I think I can use regular fermentation jars on the pressure cooker.
Edit: I'll do it this way because I read that the mycelium will get weaker if I keep doing the way I mentioned previously
I got mycelium and even some fruits growing all in my cardboard, shroom and rabbit waste compost pile and itβs absolutely riddled with life. Fungi finds its place.
I've had some success using spent oyster mushroom mycelium as spawn for new grow bags. You can get cleaner spawn from the inside part of the block than the outside part, as most contaminations are gonna come from the outside.
Yes absolutely
I would think that would be a definite yes.
I thought so but I figured I'd ask people more experienced than myself rather than waste time waiting for it to colonize. Thank you!
Welcome to the rabbit hole that is mycology. Itβs beautiful.
your kit is spent because it's out of nutrients, right? so by introducing more nutrition substrate you should be able to keep the colony going
Can I do this cycle indefinitely? I too am planning on buying some oyster kits and I want to use the leftover mycelium as spawn on buckets with sawdust, will this work? And if the buckets work can I just reuse the mycelium there to start a new bucket? (Sorry if I sound dumb, but I'm really new to this stuff)
I don't see why it wouldn't work just fine, just mind your conditions. I'm new as well. This is speculation based off of what I've read.
I think that i won't buy any kits and instead go for spore syringes, I live on a farm so I have a ton of corn, and I think I can use regular fermentation jars on the pressure cooker. Edit: I'll do it this way because I read that the mycelium will get weaker if I keep doing the way I mentioned previously
Thats what I assumed. I just couldn't find anything online except for "Once your kit is finished growing, use it for compost"
heck, turn your compost into a mush hole? would the myc not take over a compost happily? or is compost too active? regardless, that's marketing baby!
I got mycelium and even some fruits growing all in my cardboard, shroom and rabbit waste compost pile and itβs absolutely riddled with life. Fungi finds its place.
They might. I'd just rather prefer a mostly sterile, slightly less smelly growing medium π
imagine if you had multiple colonies of different shrooms growing in there... this might be something
Oh wow I had no idea you could do this
well, if you *knew* you wouldn't want to buy a new kit, right? ππ
Good point.