How do you plant mushrooms?

Question

procedure for growing edible mushrooms

Answer 1

They start by culturing the mycellium (the thready mass that is the fungus) in a petrie dish from spores.

Then they grow that into spawn, usually on wheat or barley grain.  

Then when that is growing good they can them put in on the compost in the mushroom flats and start growing it to mushroom stage.

The mushroom is actually just the fruiting body of the fungus.

Answer 2

you can grow them here's how? you grow them you go to a nursery or garden place and buy a mushroom box from there then you do what the info on the box says then in a 1 month or more you will have mushrooms then?

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Answer 3

you cant its a fugus & a bacteria

Answer 4

You need something to grow the mushroom on/in, most plants grow in the dirt or as they call it, topsoil or potting soil. We call it "substrate" if it grows mushroom. For substrate I use straw. Other agriculture wastes can also be used, even used coffee grounds, whether by themselves or mixed together. I use just plain old wheat straw.

The straw as it comes from the bale is not suitable as substrate. The size of the strands needs to be between 1½ to 3 inches; also the strands need to be broken or crushed so water can be absorbed. To accomplish this modification, I use a chipper/shredder to chop and crush the straw.

The next step in preparing the substrate is to add moisture to the straw; then the straw needs to be pasteurized. Some people wet the straw first and then use steam to pasteurize it. I take the easy way and just "cook" it. The straw is placed into a large wire basket, then placed into a 55 gallon drum full of water that has been heated with a propane burner placed underneath. After spending 1 hour "cooking" in the water at a temperature of 160 F. the straw has absorbed water and pasteurization has occurred. The basket is then raised to let the free water run off.

  After the straw has cooled, I hoist it, basket and all, into the rafters using a block and tackle.

I have to backtrack at this point because the next step involves using a large amount of spawn. Spawn is equivalent to a potted tomato plant that is ready to be transplanted outside. Spawn is some kind of grain that the mushroom plant called mycelium has been growing on/in for awhile. You can make your own spawn [a subject for later] or you can order it from several different companies that only make spawn. This should have been done several weeks ahead of time. The next photo shows enough spawn to inoculate (plant) ten artificial "logs."

The cooled, pasteurized straw is spread out to pre-measured distances and depths on a board. The spawn is sprinkled evenly over the straw, then mixed together, thus "planting" it.

straw is packed tightly with what I call my "wacker-packer" All this forms an artificial "log" or a column that is 8 inches in diameters x 8 feet tall.

The "log" is then tied off at the top, transported into the grow room and lifted up by two people.

The log next gets tied to a bar, and adjusted so it will hang straight but still be touching the floor.

planted with 10 straw logs. Remember all that spawn? It's now in those logs.

Next, holes have to be punched in the plastic. To do this I use a board with several sharp arrowheads attached. The arrowheads cut a "+" shaped mark in the plastic, this lets the mycelium breath and provides a place for the mushrooms to form.

I turn off the ventilating system, set the thermostat to 70° F, turn off the lights and kick back for a while. The mycelium is now hard at work growing throughout the straw. After a few days I should see the mycelium growing off the "seeds" of spawn and onto the straw.

After about two weeks (depending on which species), the log should be fully impregnated with the mycelium. Time to get back to work. The room now needs to have the temperature down to 50° F for 24 hours, the ventilation system needs to be adjusted to provide 3 or 4 air changes per hour, humidity needs to be increased to 85 to 90% and it has to "rain" on the logs (water them).

Now set the temperature to 60° F, "rain" on your logs two times per day, turn on the lights for 12 hours per day, maintain the ventilation and humidity, and you should see primordia or "pinheads" forming at the holes in the plastic after several days. When this happens we will call it Day 1 for the photos.

Keep up the rain and watch them grow.

As you can see the mushrooms formed and grew quite rapidly, only 5 days from pinhead till they were ready to pick, that is why they seam to "pop-up overnight" in the wild. At this time it is easy to get your friends over to help you pick the mushrooms as long as they can keep what they pick....

Answer 5

You take the spore and surround it with love. Then, watch it grow!

Answer 6

that depends on what kind of mushroom you speak off.  wink wink.

Answer 7

You have to place mason jars in a pressure cooker with a small amount of rice and water in each upside down to sanitize the jars, VERY DANGEROUS!!!! Area you're growing in must be SPOTLESS. When the indicator on pressure cooker reaches 15 let it sit for 45 min. then turn off stove. WAIT FOR INDICATOR TO FALL BACK TO ZERO BEFORE OPENING OR YOU'LL BE SERIOUSLY INJURED!! Then you take the fungus and inject it into the rice. Place the jars in a dark, warm, and damp place and let the fungus work its magic. Get a humibity reader, humidity should stay around 80%.

Answer 8

The best and safest way is to buy spawn from a reputable grower. I use Field and Forest Products Spawn and supply Catalog. You can find them on the net through www.fieldforest.net. They have been very helpful with information as well as supplies.

Answer 9

Methods are quite different for various substrates.

We have mushrooms growing on logs or on sawdust,  on horse manure, on grains, on a rotting bale of hay in the ground.

Some of our most prized mushrooms like the morel are also hardest to grow, and at the same time easiest to grow. HUH? Well most morel grow where they grow without any human help that we know of. They appear to grow where an old tree stump once was. Likewise what we call the puff-ball seems to just appear without invitation, like manna from heaven.

All of them come from spores that happen upon some substrate that they can use.

Many of them find dark places useful, but some will grow in full light on the bottom of a piece of tree bark.

We have a large stretch of land under our trees that grow edible mushrooms that we do not  do anything to grow. They are just there.

Answer 10

Put spore into bag of mushroom compost, place in dark damp place, wait then enjoy.