Step by Step Guide to Mushroom Growing

Who says that mushroom growing can be a complicated job? When you understand what you are doing, any job can be simple breezy. Mushroom growing is like that. To grow mushrooms is not hard and the step by step procedure of doing so is simple at all.

This article is not about where to grow the mushrooms or what to use as storage for already-growing ones. That is covered in some other post. This post is about how to plant the spores or generates, the "seeds" of the mushroom. Also consisted of in this post are some practices on how to take care of the mushrooms.

If you are a novice, the best path to follow if you want to grow your own batch of mushrooms is to buy a mushroom package. Each package is specialized, depending upon what kind of mushroom you wish to grow. This also enables you to get more information about a particular mushroom, how it acts and the likes.

When you buy a mushroom package, the spawn might be of 2 types. It can be in flake kind or in bricks. The technique of planting also varies according to the kind of generate. If you are a newbie, it is best to buy both and see which one would suit your preference best. To offer you a concept how these two work, here is some partial information about the two techniques of planting mushrooms. Flakes are blended with the substrate or medium initially. You spread a quarter of the mix over a location of 15 ft2. You need to cover the entire location of the mix if your location is broad.

On the other hand, when you use bricks, you need to break the bricks into smaller pieces and plant these pieces into the medium, about 6 inches apart.

The steps after this are pretty much uniform for all species of mushroom. You need to maintain the wetness of the substrate so not to dry them out. Aside from this, you also need to place your planted mushrooms in a dry but dark place. The preliminary growth would be called the mycelia, the root-like kind of the mushroom. These mycelia would cover the entire plot. The next phase would be the pinning or the growth of pin-like structures that would ultimately become the mushrooms that you eat.

In order that the mushroom be at its optimum growth, it is best to increase the temperature to about 650F. Constantly remember to water the substrate two times in a date. But something to bear in mind, though, once the mushrooms have appeared, you need to not water anymore until harvest. Whether the mushroom is still young or already fully grown, it really does not matter when you want to gather them. It is actually in the preference of the grower when to gather the mushrooms.

When harvesting, you must not simply select the mushrooms. You need to use a knife to cut each mushroom from its stalk.

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