Experiments
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| Portabellas and Buttons growing in a clear case |
Oyster pins growing through filter of jar lid |
Two fruiting coke bottles |
Small tray test room at Penn State |
Our mushroom kits can be used in different ways to perform experiments. The Portabella, White Button, Oyster and a few other mushroom kits maybe subdivided into smaller sizes or placed into clear containers to fruit. (Note: Shiitake kits should be left as they are and not altered in any way - if available.)
The contents of the mushroom kit can be transferred to a different container for fruiting purposes. These containers can be aquariums, clear plastic animal cages, and even soda bottles with the tops cut away. Growing the mushrooms in this fashion can give a person a better understanding of how mushroom grow. It is generally better to keep the container size ½ gallon or larger to maintain enough growing medium to fruit mushrooms. If you are not going to do an experiment we recommend you leave the mushroom kit in its’ original container to grow.
If the mushroom kit is divided into smaller containers, such as soda bottles, then any casing that comes with the kit must also be divided.
Enjoy growing and experimenting with your mushroom kit.
Possible experiments to try:
1. Split kit into soda bottles
2. Transfer kit into an aquarium
3. Use oyster dowel spawn in a coke bottle filled with sawdust
4. Use oyster spawn in a newspaper
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| 4' x 4' cherry bin ready to be cased |
Cased and ready to pin |
Just beginning to pin |
Casing full of small mushroom pins |
Hundreds of pins in peat moss casing |
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| Bin full of fruiting brown mushrooms |
A crop of portabellas & criminis |
First flush of portabellas |
Full grown portabellas |
Watering Portabellas |
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| Fruiting tub of small portabellas |
Various mushrooms |
Super large white button mushroom |
Blue Italian oyster mushroom |
Dark colored oyster mushroom |
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| Massive fruiting of Blue Oyster |
White Buttons growing as big as a beer bottle |
White Button mushrooms fruiting in a cherry bin |
Fruiting White Buttons in various bins |
Stephanie holding two super large Potabellas |
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| Tatiana showing large Portabella next to cup |
Oyster mushroom growing experiment |
Clusters of Oysters fruiting from bin |
Oyster mushroom close up |
A. blazei |
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| Blazei Buttons | Blazei fruiting in compost with vermiculite casing |
Assorted sizes of Blazei fruiting |
A. bisporus fruiting in bags |
A. bisporus fruiting in bags |
Interesting Photos
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| Pink Oyster mushroom |
Close up of Pink Oyster mushrooms |
Yellow Oyster mushrooms |
Elm Oyster growing from Don's Kit |
Shaggy Mane buttons |
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| Shaggy Mane buttons |
Shaggy Manes ready to pick |
Shaggy Manes ready to harvest |
Shaggy Mane in full fruit |
Shaggy Mane close up |
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| Don Simoni showing shaggy mane kit |
Extra large shaggy manes from our kits |
Shaggy Mane mushrooms from our kit |
Shaggy Manes deliquescing |
Cherry bin full of fruiting brown mushrooms |
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| Portabellas with burned out center caused by overheating |
Unusual Things We've Grown
None of these mushrooms are for sale. These are fun and unusual things that we have grown over the years. Enjoy! Click on an image to get a better view...
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| Sparassis or Cauliflower mushroom in jar |
Blewit Mushroom in kit | Jumbo Lilaceps in kit | A. Blazei |
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| 2" Augustus "The Prince" | 3" Augustus "The Prince" |