Step by Step Guide to Mushroom Growing

Who states that mushroom growing can be a complicated job? When you know what you are doing, any task can be easy breezy. Mushroom growing resembles that. To grow mushrooms is not hard and the step by step procedure of doing so is not difficult at all.

This short 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 article. This post is about how to plant the spores or generates, the "seeds" of the mushroom. Also included in this article are some practices on how to look after the mushrooms.

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

When you buy a mushroom kit, the spawn might be of 2 types. It can be in flake kind or in bricks. The technique of planting also differs according to the type of spawn. If you are a novice, it is best to buy both and see which one would fit your choice best. To offer you a concept how these two work, here is some partial details about the two methods of planting mushrooms. Flakes are mixed with the substrate or medium first. You spread a quarter of the mix over a location of 15 ft2. You need to cover the whole area of the mix if your location is large.

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

The steps after this are pretty much uniform for all types of mushroom. You need to maintain the moisture 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 development 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 eventually become the mushrooms that you eat.

In order that the mushroom be at its optimum development, it is best to increase the temperature level 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 should not water anymore until harvest time. Whether the mushroom is still young or currently fully grown, it really does not matter when you want to collect them. It is in fact in the preference of the grower when to harvest the mushrooms.

When gathering, you should not simply pick the mushrooms. You need to use a knife to cut each mushroom from its stalk.

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