Two months ago I began growing oyster mushrooms on coffee grounds.
Here is that initial post. I simply mixed some oyster mushroom spawn with spent coffee grounds I got from the school cafeteria. Well, things went pretty well but not perfectly. The mushroom mycelium grew quite well on the coffee grounds and I was able to grow quite a few mushrooms. I had one major problem though. Being that I was growing them in the desert the mushrooms almost always dehydrated before they were a few inches tall. So I ended up with tons of tiny shriveled-up mushrooms. I tried several methods to increase the humidity, none of which worked adequately. When I enclosed the entire bucket in plastic to preserve moisture the fungi didn't have enough oxygen so deformed mushrooms formed.
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An abundance of small, dehydrated oyster mushrooms growing on coffee grounds. The white surface is mushroom mycelium. Mycelium are sort of like mushroom roots. |
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Same bucket two months ago. The black coffee grounds quickly turned white as mycelium grew. |
I do have this to say though. The few mushrooms that I did get from the bucket were by far the best I have ever tasted. I plan on trying to grow mushrooms in the near future again. This time however I will have to create some sort of terrarium that holds in the moisture but also allows for air exchange.
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