Step by Step Guide to Mushroom Growing

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

This post 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 has to do with how to plant the spores or generates, the "seeds" of the mushroom. Also included in this post are some practices on how to look after the mushrooms.

If you are a novice, the very best route to follow if you want to grow your own batch of mushrooms is to buy a mushroom set. Each set is specialized, depending upon what sort of mushroom you wish to grow. This also allows you for more information about a certain mushroom, how it behaves and the likes.

When you buy a mushroom kit, the spawn may be of 2 types. It can be in flake kind or in bricks. The method of planting also varies according to the type of generate. If you are a novice, it is best to buy both and see which one would fit your choice best. To provide you an idea how these two work, here is some partial information about the two techniques of planting mushrooms. Flakes are blended with the substrate or medium first. You spread a quarter of the mix over a location of 15 ft2. You need to cover the entire area of the mix if your area is large.

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

The steps after this are basically uniform for all species of mushroom. You need to preserve 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 whole plot. The next phase would be the pinning or the growth of pin-like structures that would ultimately end up being the mushrooms that you eat.

In order that the mushroom be at its maximum growth, it is best to increase the temperature level to about 650F. Always remember to water the substrate twice in a date. But one thing to remember, though, once the mushrooms have appeared, you should not water anymore till harvest. Whether the mushroom is still young or currently fully grown, it really does not matter when you want to collect them. It is really in the choice of the grower when to harvest the mushrooms.

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

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