Organic Italian Oyster Mushroom Grain Spawn

First, let me say it is now August and all my oysters from March's spray and grow boxes have been happily fruiting in my yard for months (those boxes are basically a gateway drug lol). I added fruiting blocks to expand the species and those fruited quickly and before long I was realizing I needed mycelium sitters to take care of things for me when I traveled so...out in the woods with those as well! We have a wooded acre.
Half my body weight is now oyster mushrooms, I think.
Because the little soil bugs and slugs really like them also (coffee grounds help) I thought I would try container growing in straw so that's why I purchased this spawn and I'm already harvesting and so far the slugs have not caught on to my game. Delish!

These mushrooms are a real gourmet experience; they are mild and delicious.

Grew them in my garden. Two weeks to harvest.

These may be my favorite mushroom. They are easy to grow on straw and so rewarding and tasty.

This stuff is great. I love it.

The spawn is great grows very well

Great! All of NS's oysters are reliable producers, and the Italian's might be my favorite for flavor and texture.

Still in the fridge but if it performs like the Pink oyster I'll definitely be happy.

This is our second time buying from North Spore. Last year we seeded two beds of Wine Caps which flushed 4-5 times and were fantastic. This year we added three laundry baskets of Italian Oyster spawn. As you can see, this is a resounding success. Great company, great spawn, so easy to be successful and forage at home when you cannot get out to the woods!

I got this a couple months ago. Planted it a few weeks ago and wow!!! My first batch was a decent size. Then there was rain for a week and the second batch was much larger.

Literally the easiest to grow! Newest addiction!

I gave them for a Christmas gift. They are excited.

I received an Italian oyster mycelium in grain in the first week of September and prepared the buckets (4) and straw with lime (ph 12.7 soaked and drained to 70% hydrated) following the video instructions. Wow! In 2 weeks I had the first flash of Italian oyster in all four buckets! One week rest and I had another flash (not as much). The photo attached is from the first flash. This was so much easier (faster and cleaner) than doing it outdoors on straw bed. Going forward, I will continue the bucket method.

Allentown Pennsylvania area is where we live. I established two beds of this product at the end of April. This week we have our third harvest of Oysters! We had to protect it from slug damage using small containers of cheap beer. That took care of the slugs that ate our second harvest before we could gather much. This third harvest filled two large mixing bowls, and the taste is wonderful. Highly recommended. Using straw and wood chips in an existing shaded landscaping bed that has a mix of river birch and low light plants.

This was easy and fun to grow. I placed in a bed by itself with minimal sun. 2 weeks in I started to get one or two here and there. Now after some rainfall they have taken off! Couldn't be more happier with the product!

Today was the 2 week mark and time to open the two 5 gal. Buckets and take a look. I was worried because one night the temperature got down into the 40’s and my buckets were in the garage. I brought them in the house and have been spraying the buckets 3 x a day as suggested. We are still having very cool nights, so think I will keep them here until the weather moderates. I have enjoyed messing with them!! Thank you for getting me started. I am 82 and can’t garden like I used to, but hopefully I can grow mushrooms. I love this variety !! Will write again when they “pin”. Marlette Cullen in Northwest NC, Blue Ridge Mts.

I’ve been growing oyster mushrooms outside in a bed made up of straw. It has really turned into kind of a delightful way to add mushrooms to a lot of our meals without too much stress. I started in the winter with blue, Italian and popham elm oysters. I never saw any of the last ones.

This was a pretty low-effort project so I had low expectations. We already have straw because we keep livestock. We also have lots of large branches that could be used to create some airflow under the straw.

It wasn’t an immediate success. First I tried using straw that had already been “used” by the Goats. This isn’t a good way to grow oysters.

I do expect that bedding with manure will work well with other varieties, such as the almond agricarus. We also naturally grow meadow mushrooms this way. Meadow mushrooms, like almonds, prefer an environment that already has a fair amount of microbial activity.

If you’ve never heard of meadow mushrooms they look a lot like common store bought brown ones. They like manure. Back when everyone rode horses they were everywhere! We often find them in our garden beds, which are made of composted bedding from the goats. I wish we could find a source for the mycelium to grow them on purpose.

Anyhow, at first, the Popham Elm Oysters did not show up. This was totally my fault as I didn’t want to use fresh straw. The mycelium also seemed to struggle with our crazy weather

So I switched to fresh straw. I created a covered bed with an old chicken tractor draped with shade cloth. Then put this in a shady spot. The pink oysters immediately made an entrance in late spring when it warmed up.

I started seeing these other mushrooms that were white, very different from the pink oysters. I had to look them up to identify them as the Pophams I had tried unsuccessfully to grow before. Both varieties are now about to produce their first flush!

The blue & Italian oysters fruited repeatedly just until the temps got too warm.

These were easy to grow with beautiful wavey edges. They are hearty and seem to hold up better in the refrigerator than many other mushrooms.

My Italian Oyster's turned out so well. These were only my second time trying to grow and they were very successful. Thank you so much for a great product!

Amazing results. The quality of the product and friendly customer service is amazing. Definitely will keep purchasing.

Good I like that

Awesome spawn

Love my Hardee growing Italians!

Top quality!

Healthy spawn for my first bucket grow, Went like clockwork.Going strong at nearly 4 weeks. Not quite as much biomass as the blue oysters I got at the same time but tastier!

This is an easy to grow, very prolific strain. It's fast fruiting and the mushrooms are big, beautiful and meaty. It's a favorite at the market.

I like the millet for spawn. It has a lot of inoculation points and colonization is quick. We are a commercial farm that occasionally needs to supplement our operations with spawn from other farms. Notthspore never disappoints.

I bought these along with yellow/golden and pink oyster grain spawn. This variety is my favorite of the three.

Big caps and nice stems that easily "shred" into almost noodles. They have a great flavor!