Mushroom

How to Grow Mushroom:

 

 Mushrooms:

Process of Growing Mushrooms

Growing mushrooms at home is an enjoyable and possibly even profitable hobby. It is not difficult to create an environment that provides mushroom spawn with the conditions and nutrients necessary to produce an ample harvest of mushrooms. You can grow both common and shiitake mushrooms at home, but each type of mushroom has different growth requirements.

Light

Mushrooms cannot extract nutrients from the sun as green plants do, so they do not need light. However, mushrooms do not necessarily need a dark environment to grow. The advantage of growing mushrooms in the dark is that darkness preserves the moisture that mushroom spores need to reproduce. A basement provides ideal conditions for growing common and other button mushrooms, and logs used to grow shiitake mushrooms should be kept out of direct sunlight.

Moisture

Mushrooms, like all fungi, thrive in moist environments. Button mushrooms need moist growing media such as compost or manure. Shiitake mushroom logs should be kept at a moisture level from 35 to 45 percent, which requires soaking for 48 hours in the event the logs become dry. Ideally, a shiitake growing log should have dry bark and moist inner surfaces.

 

 

Temperature

Button mushrooms need temperatures between 55 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit to grow properly, and strong drafts or dry air can kill them or prevent them from growing. The ideal temperature for growing shiitake mushrooms is between 72 and 78 F, but they can grow in temperatures from 40 to 90 F. Keep shiitake logs in a shaded outdoor area or under trees to preserve their moisture and maintain an ideal temperature. Heaters or fans may be necessary to create the controlled environment button mushrooms require to grow indoors.

Nutrients

Mushrooms synthesize the nutrients they need from organic material. The particular nutrients they need to grow are sugar, starch, lignin, fats, protein and nitrogen. Compost made from manure and straw contains ideal amounts of these nutrients for growing button mushrooms, whereas shiitake are able to extract the nutrients they need from the wood of the logs or sawdust where they're growing. A mixture of corn, peat moss and sand is an alternative to manure and straw.

For your very first attempt, I’d choose either oyster or shiitake mushrooms. We grow both. To grow shiitake mushrooms you’ll need hardwood logs, and for oysters, the requirements vary by variety.

Feeding Your Mushrooms

Mushrooms grow on a substrate, consuming it as they grow their bodies.  Each type of mushroom has different substrate requirements.  Some mushrooms require hardwood logs or stumps, while others are happy growing on compost, wood chips, grains or straw.
If you’re going to make a profit, the best way to do it is by working with a free and readily accessible substrate.  Think about what you have on hand.  If you have a woodlot readily accessible, then species of mushrooms that grow on logs are a perfect choice.  In suburban environments, compost or wood chip mushrooms are a good choice because you can make your own compost or get free wood chips from a local tree service.

Indoor or Outdoor Mushroom Varieties

Some mushrooms species just aren’t happy indoors.  Others do better indoors in controlled environments.  Think about whether or not you have indoor growing space available.  Can you convert a garage or shed?  Do you have a large yard with access to water and good shade for outdoor growing?
In general, indoor mushroom cultivation is considered “safer” because there’s less opportunity for cross contamination.  If you do choose to grow mushrooms outdoors, it should be an easy to identify variety with no toxic look-a-likes.
Start simple. If you’ve never grown mushrooms before, start with easy to grow and identify varieties like oyster mushrooms or shiitake mushrooms.

 

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