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

Other Unusual Experiments...
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

Bin full of fruiting brown mushrooms	A crop of portabellas & criminis	First flush of portabellas	Full grown portabellas	Watering Portabellas

Fruiting tub of small portabellas	Various mushrooms	Super large white button mushroom	Blue Italian oyster mushroom	Dark colored oyster mushroom

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

Tatiana showing large Portabella next to cup	Oyster mushroom growing experiment	Clusters of Oysters fruiting from bin	Oyster mushroom close up	A. blazei

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

Pink Oyster mushroom	Close up of Pink Oyster mushrooms	Yellow Oyster mushrooms	Elm Oyster growing from Don's Kit	Shaggy Mane buttons

Shaggy Mane buttons	Shaggy Manes ready to pick	Shaggy Manes ready to harvest	Shaggy Mane in full fruit	Shaggy Mane close up

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

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...

Sparassis or Cauliflower mushroom in jar	Blewit Mushroom in kit	Jumbo Lilaceps in kit	A. Blazei
2" Augustus "The Prince"	3" Augustus "The Prince"