Pink oyster mushrooms fruiting from the buckets
Honestly I forgot about these mushrooms a bunch of times, living in my second grow tent with no lights on and toasty temps in the 80s F these buckets have had the spawn run throughout and are now producing mushroom fruit. I was working in my basement today and noticed a pink thing sticking out the side of the bin. So my amazement it was a fruiting body from the mycelium I started months back.
I was not expecting anything to happen with these bins, I thought it would do nothing. So when they ended up doing "something" I am quite happy.
Looking from the top we can see the hay I used, maybe it has not reached the top yet. Or maybe a competing fungi got there first like trich.
I guess they did not run throughout yet, but hopefully they will.. The medium still has some moisture in it so they should be good.
I have no idea how long the fruit has been poking out, I am guessing maybe one or two weeks. As I moved the buckets outside the grow tent when I started my sour diesel seedings.
The pink oyster mushrooms like the heat, so they should be well suited for grow tents.
Its great to see these fruits forming, last I checked I only saw white mycelium growing throughout the hay.
The plastic trash bag is the only thing separating the mycelium from the outside world. By piercing it, hopefully it will trigger them to grow... or dry out.. I guess we will find out.
I poked holes in the trash bag holding the mycelium, hoping now the mushrooms will come through.
Now we wait to see if the co2 levels rise, if they indeed do I will need to build a filter system to stop the spores from coming through but let the co2 gas pass through the filter.
My meter is charging now, hopefully I can take some readings later once the gasses build up.
Whats next?:
Check the co2 levels with my meter, if levels are raised, I will build a filter system and area to isolate the mushroom spawn but move air through the chamber. This will allow me to harvest the carbon dioxide and bring it into the growing chamber for the cannabis plants. By doing this, the added co2 will increase plant cell division and make for more hardy and larger plants. Upwards of 25% bigger some claim, so I am quite excited to see if these mushrooms off gas enough to make all this worth while.
Previous posts about this project:
https://peakd.com/hive-163521/@solominer/the-jars-are-colonized-cultivating-mushrooms
https://peakd.com/hive-166168/@solominer/pasteurizing-hay-substrate-for-mushroom-growing
https://peakd.com/hive-163521/@solominer/more-growth-in-the-jars-cultivating-mushrooms
https://peakd.com/hive-166168/@solominer/starting-over-pink-oyster-mushroom-kit
https://peakd.com/hive-166168/@solominer/more-fruiting-bodies-have-emerged-pink-oyster-mushroom-kit
https://peakd.com/hive-163521/@solominer/the-spawn-run-has-begun-cultivating-mushrooms
https://peakd.com/hive-166168/@solominer/a-week-later-and-its-growing-a-lot-pink-oyster-mushroom-kit
https://peakd.com/hive-194913/@solominer/pins-forming-on-pink-oyster-mushroom-kit-macro-photography
https://peakd.com/hive-166168/@solominer/trying-out-a-mushroom-growing-kit
Nice oyster! High high is the humidity in there? Must be pretty high to get some nice mushroom growth.
That's a great idea to pump CO2 to your cannabis plants, I hope it works!
Thanks man, I keep the humidity around 70% which is the bare minimum for these mushrooms. But any higher the grow tent can grow mold in it so its a balance. Maybe when I build out a filtered chamber just for the mushrooms I can kick up the humidity to 80% or more.
Me too, it would be so cool if this all works out.
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Thanks bud, they are coming along quite nicely.
I remember you talking about these some months ago when they were still in jars. I thought I had missed all the updates since then, but here they are - forgotten oysters 😁
I need to try growing them too some time. I bet that’s super satisfying to pick up your own mushrooms 😍💙
I was just thinking much the same! I saw Solo's efforts a little while back. Thought I'd missed out on the journey but here we are! :)
Haha, lucky us! 😁
You're right there have been no updates for months on these mushrooms, since they were not doing anything. So I figured it was best to leave them alone and come back to them later.. Which indeed worked. Hehe I did pretty much forget about them.
Best of luck with your mushroom grow, indeed it is.
Well, happy to see that they did something while being left to their own. Sometimes that’s exactly what’s needed. I find the same with my orchids and house plants ☺️
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This is huge, man! Like the Teemo mushrooms in the game I shared yesterday, I love it :D
Hah oh cool, yeah they are pretty big. thanks man
Wow! That was a nice surprise, I guess. So, you put them in complete darkness? And what are they used for, medicinal purposes?
Yep, until they can just be left in the dark. But they indeed like a little light to trigger them when ready, though they do not feed on it like plants do.
I plan on harvesting their co2 and feed it to my cannabis plants.
The mushrooms can be eaten or used for medicine, as a by product.
Oh wow, never thought CO2 harvest was done this way. The kind of things you learn here. ❤️
The pink oysters are some of the most resilient mushrooms to grow. Just from a simple bag I got them to repeat growing a good 5 times without any special setup. I just wish the fruiting body would store a bit longer before going bad.
Do they not dry out alright? It's not the same as fresh mushrooms of course but still good powdered in soups and the like
These ones have to be eaten fresh they get an ammonia smell. I haven't tried cooking then freezing them yet though maybe that's the best way to store them.
hehe they have a fishy smell.. like oysters.
I accidentally let some go into sporing and left some in the fridge and it smelled like a cat took a pee in the fridge lol.
Interesting! I had no idea
Nice, yeah from what I was reading they are easy to work with. Hopefully they will like the hay substrate and grow throughout it.
I have noticed that as well, they dry up quickly.
What a nice mushroom. I've never seen that kind of mushroom here in our country.
Ah okay, I have only seen them cultivated so maybe they are more rare growing in the wild.
Yes that is true. Wild plants and fungi and mushrooms are very fascinating even if it wildplants. ☺️
So cool. Going for an interesting agricultural symbiosis here. What size filter will you use to keep the spores out?
And another question... Do you plan on eating them after the plants are done or do you have to keep eating (or at least picking them) during the whole project to promote new fruiting? In other words, do you need fresh fruiting continually for optimal CO² production or is one flush fine?
I guess that's all part of what you're trying to find out with this project...
Thank you, it would be quite interesting if this all worked. The spores are quite large, so a standard hepa filter would suffice. I could go with something as simple as a car intake cone filter if I wanted.
Really no idea how I will harvest them, or if I should as they grow. If it makes more co2 by harvesting them and having fresh fruiting bodies form then yeah I would love to. Pink Oyster mushrooms can be cooked into many meals.
This is all my first time doing this, so we will just have to play it by ear as it comes along.
Excuse my ignorance
But to grow mushrooms?