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7 reviewsPleurotus pulmonarius: A thicker and meatier oyster mushroom with caps that can grow quite large.
Grain Spawn - This is used for outdoor straw or wood chip beds or commercial indoor production using sawdust or straw. You do not use grain spawn for log inoculation. Grain spawn comes in bags approximately 6 lbs each.
Inoculation:
Outdoor Beds - With Oyster mushrooms you may also choose to use grain spawn to inoculate outdoor straw beds. We've had success growing Oyster mushrooms in our raised garden beds by sprinkling grain spawn on the beds in the spring. We had Oysters growing right out of our soil!
Indoor Commercial Production - Oyster mushroom grain spawn can be mixed into sterilized or lime pasteurized substrates including but not limited to hardwood sawdust, straw, and coffee grounds. These processes range from requiring a fair amount of infrastructure for larger projects to simple and low-tech. We recommend purchasing a book on mushroom cultivation if you are interested in pursuing this style of mushroom production as a hobby or profession. We recommend 'Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working with Fungi' by Peter McCoy, 'Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation' by Tradd Cotter, or 'Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms' by Paul Stamets.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italian Oyster mushrooms are a great mushroom for beginners. They colonize quickly and are reliable producers. Decent for commercial cultivation, especially grown on straw with cooler temperatures.
Cooking: Italian Oysters can easily replace button mushrooms in most recipes and pair well with many cuisines and flavors. Like all Oyster mushrooms, they retain water and may develop a viscous texture when undercooked. If you prefer a firm or dryer texture, continue to cook Italian Oysters until their liquid has reduced and cooked off and they begin to brown.
Properties: The Italian Oyster mushroom has a high protein content, several B vitamins, and all the essential amino acids (Marley, 2009). Its medicinal benefits include promoting anti-tumor activity and lowering high cholesterol. Oyster mushroom fruiting bodies and distillations have been shown to reduce tumor size in several studies on mice, rats, and hamsters (Hobbs, 1995). Additionally, Oyster mushrooms have been used in the Czech Republic as the main ingredient in a dietary supplement used to treat high cholesterol (Hobbs, 1995). Studies in animals have shown that a diet of Oyster mushrooms reduced the development of plaque in major arteries (Bobek et al., 1995).
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Put 3 bags in a 4.5’ x 3’ sawdust / woodchip bed in my backyard in central florida. The whole thing was inoculated solid in less than 2 weeks. Cant wait for the bounty. North spore products have been solid every time i have ordered.
This is my first time growing mushrooms without a kit and this grain spawn made it a really fun, easy and seamless process! I have some currently going in a bucket and it could not have been easier. This was my second purchasing experience with North Spore and once again, it was a fantastic experience.
The mushrooms have performed wonderfully on lime pasturized straw with 10% coffee grounds mixed into the substrate. The started to pin after 2 weeks of colonization and have beautiful fruit in under 3 weeks from the time I started them. Yeld was very good. I am growing in my basement in CO so the temp was cool 65 and the humidity low 20%. For fruiting I have created a mini fruiting chamber with 90% humidity using a humidifier. I am planning to use the spent substrate as mulch in my garden this summer and will see if I get spring and fall flushes outside. Great product
I also watched the garden video prior to purchasing the Italian oysters and have purchased a few different varieties of grain spawns from North Spore in the past. They have always arrived super quick and with packaging completely intact. These yielded a huge crop within the first month of inoculation and the mushrooms are so delicious! Look forward to experimenting with more varieties from North Spore. Many thanks!
I’ve purchased a lot of grain spawn from north spore. This is the first time I’ve used these oysters. They arrived perfectly and smelled very fresh as always. I used them under natural mulch because my region in California naturally produces oysters. The video on mushrooms in the garden was inspiring. Love the product. Thanks again!
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