Oysters On Hardwood Sawdust

Oysters are by far one of the easiest mushrooms to grow.

Oysters on hardwood sawdust. Most gourmet mushrooms grow on supplemented sawdust fruiting blocks that have been fully sterilized. To see what equipment i pu. It is simply a 50 50 mix of soy bean hulls and hardwood sawdust hydrated to perfection. 50 50 mix of 1 lbs hardwood sawdust and 1 lbs soy bean hulls with 1 4 liters water.

A standardized fruiting block recipe will work well for all the species listed here but it is definitely worth playing around with moisture content and supplementation level to see if slight variations make a difference. For oyster mushrooms that like hardwoods like the aspen oyster mushroom you may want to consider a hardwood sawdust. Mushroom gardening 5 add 3 of fresh hardwood chips. Sterilize in a pressure cooker for 2 5 hours at 15 psi.

Aspen oysters grow on aspen cottonwood and sometimes maple but will grow on most any populus. Hardwood sawdust hardwood sawdust as a substrate for growing oyster mushrooms. The fruiting block recipe i. 4 sprinkle spawn lightly onto cardboard.

Sawdust will break apart much easier. Hardwood sawdust or agricultural waste indoors fruiting temps. To break it down even more for every 5 lb fruiting block you need. Oysters will also grow well on hardwood sawdust.

The aspen oyster pleurotus populinus populinus is a beautiful white smooth capped oyster mushroom that is very similar to p. 1 lb sawdust. Let soy bean hulls soak overnight with boiled water so it will be easier to break apart. Many types of mushrooms specifically oysters will do great and fruit heavily on straw logs as was explained in this post however most gourmet mushrooms will actually do way better if grown on hardwood sawdust supplemented with some sort of nitrogen rich supplement.

Level and pack surface down. Many hobby growers like to use hardwood fuel pellets and pelletized soy hulls instead of bulk. This is my current process for making supplemented sawdust blocks for growing oyster mushrooms. About 3 lbs 1 4 liters water.

This is the masters mix recipe. 2 make rectangular frame of hardwood logs 3 cover ground with cardboard from flattened boxes. Learn how to grow mushrooms. 1 lb soy bean hulls.

These are quite popular when growing mushrooms for sale especially when mixed with some wheat bran to add extra nutritional. 700 ml water for every 2 5 cups of pelletized soy hulls. They can be grown on a bewildering variety of substrates including hardwood sawdust soy hulls wheat straw sugarcane coffee grounds banana leaves cardboard coco coir the list goes on. Being primary decomposers oyster mushrooms have the ability to breakdown any linginous tissue and use it for food.