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    Maureen Wall
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    I started growing pearl oyster mushrooms with a few suggestions from books I’d read.  I started with fresh spawn and coffee grounds in glass jars.  I was trying to do this in my apartment but I found once the jar had colonized I could get the mushrooms to grow because the air is too dry in my flat.

    I decided it was a failure and took the whole thing to the worm bins in my basement.  I read that worms really like mycelium and thought it would be a nice treat for them.

    a week later I walked by the worm bins and there was a huge hand sized oyster mushroom growing out the side of the worm bin. Since then I’ve just fed the mycelium from the top and pulled the spent coffee ground out from the bottom.

    I will attempt to post a photo of this here.

     

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    You can see these at my Facebook page…..

    This is Odd an Urban Aquaponic Farm..

    #1225
    Adam
    Keymaster

    Maureen posted:

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    I started growing pearl oyster mushrooms with a few suggestions from books I’d read.  I started with fresh spawn and coffee grounds in glass jars.  I was trying to do this in my apartment but I found once the jar had colonized I could get the mushrooms to grow because the air is too dry in my flat.

    I decided it was a failure and took the whole thing to the worm bins in my basement.  I read that worms really like mycelium and thought it would be a nice treat for them.

    a week later I walked by the worm bins and there was a huge hand sized oyster mushroom growing out the side of the worm bin. Since then I’ve just fed the mycelium from the top and pulled the spent coffee ground out from the bottom.

    I will attempt to post a photo of this here.

    Maureen's Mushrooms

    You can see these at my Facebook page…..

    This is Odd an Urban Aquaponic Farm..

    #1226
    Adam
    Keymaster

    Hi Maureen,

    thanks for your story and the photo (which I saw on your Facebook page and then copied in here).

    What a beautiful crop! They certainly look happy there in the basement living alongside your worms 🙂

    I’m constantly amazed at how resilient mycelium can be…you think it’s dead and then leave it for a while…to be pleasantly suprised a week later with a crop like this.

    Hope you got to eat them and looks like you’ll have another crop or two come later from those trays. Do keep us updated of any future grows as well.

    Best wishes,

    Adam

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