An excited customer shared some photos of her easy home-style grow tent setup that she has had great results with - so we asked if we could share with everyone. This setup was under $40 and is a good example of how to grow mushrooms on a budget.
A simple mini green house from Bunnings Warehouse is turned into a small indoor mushroom farm with some water trays to help increase humidity. Some >>perlite could be added to the water trays to help increase evaporation in drier areas of the country.
Oyster mushrooms like a lot of fresh air to grow well, so leaving one zip open is a great idea. Oyster mushrooms that are lacking enough fresh air will grow small caps and long stems. Having adequate fresh air will ensure good large caps and short stems, which are the best for eating and overall yield.
Oysters will grow rapidly in this humid warm environment, potentially doubling in size every 24 hours at this point until harvest.
From here is it best to just let the mushroom grow kit do its thing, try not to touch or spray water directly onto the mushrooms from this point onwards.
Expect these mushrooms to be ready to harvest in 3-8 days from this point, depending on the temperature, the warmer it is the faster they will grow. Oyster will generally grow well from 10-30deg depending on the species.
These mushrooms on the right are now ready to harvest.
The easiest way to check if oyster mushrooms are ready to harvest is by looking at the edges of the cap. The outer edge of the cap on a young mushroom will be rounded over, as they age the outer edge will flatten out and get thinner.
Oyster mushrooms are ready to pick when the edges of the mushroom are basically flat to still slightly curved downwards, just before it gets very thin and starts to turn up. The mushrooms in this photo here are at an ideal harvest time point.
Pick the mushrooms by firmly holding the base of the cluster/ individual mushroom and twist until they pop off the grow kit. Larger clusters will take a reasonable amount of force to twist off.
If you are not sure if they are ready it is generally better to harvest mushrooms earlier than later, oyster mushrooms can drop a lot of spores which make a mess, harvesting before spore release is ideal as flavour and texture is at its best before spores are dropped.
Sporeshift offers >> Pink, and Grey Oyster mushroom grow kits in ready to go form -- as well as >> DIY kits, they will all work well in this tent style of growing along with our entire beginner friendly Splash and Grow range which includes >> Shiitake, NZ Native Lions Mane and Turkey Tail options too.
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