Growing a Mushroom Kit is a simple indoor gardening project that you can enjoy at any time of the year.
Edible mushroom kits are growing more and more popular and can be obtained through various Internet or mail order sources.
Using Gourmet Mushroom Kits
Gourmet mushroom growing kits usually consist of a 12 by 12 inch square block of compressed sawdust that’s been enriched and inoculated with spawn (mushroom seeds) of the particular mushroom variety being cultivated.
Indoor mushroom kits include everything that you need to grow loads of delicious mushrooms just by following the simple directions. You normally soak the kit in cold, unchlorinated water for a few hours and then place it in a dark area with temperatures ranging between 60 – 75 F.
This cold water treatment will stimulate the mushroom spawn to become active and start producing edible mushrooms within a matter of days. Before the mushrooms have finished growing the entire growing medium will be completely covered with mushrooms.
Harvesting Your Shrooms
Once you’ve harvested the first crop of gourmet mushrooms that isn’t the end of your indoor mushroom garden. Allow the spawn to rest for a couple of weeks and then you can repeat the entire process to produce additional harvests of delicious mushrooms.
The subsequent crops of mushrooms will grow smaller and produce fewer mushrooms until the nutrients contained in the growing medium have been depleted. Then the remnants of the kit can be used to inoculate an outdoor garden compost pile or hardwood logs.
Mushroom Varieties for Indoor Cultivation
Popular indoor mushroom kit varieties include: Shiitake, Oyster, Lion’s Mane, Nameko, Maitake, Enokitake, and Cinnamon Cap mushrooms. The mushroom kits can also serve as an interesting project to introduce children to the fascinating world of edible fungi.
If you’re intrigued by the idea of growing your own edible gourmet mushrooms, an alternative to growing them indoors using the mushroom kits is to grow mushrooms outdoors with hardwood logs. Tomorrow I’ll look at the benefits of growing mushrooms outdoors directly on hardwood logs.
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I am a retired Man aged of 54 living in Kingdom of Bahrain . I want to invest in small-scale business for indoor growing and selling of white button mushrooms I have room size of 28 feet x 20 feet fitted with air conditioner which can be used for it.
Can I get some information and advice on how to go about it and what will be the cost of indoor mushroom kit with know how.
Thanking you
Fareed
Hi Fareed, I would recommend that you visit http://www.funji.com for more information on growing mushrooms indoors or commercially. They can provide you with plenty of information on growing mushrooms and are also a source of spawn, mushroom books, and various mushroom growing supplies. The mushroom growing kits generally cost about twenty-five dollars, but if you are looking at a commercial mushroom growing venture there are better and more economical alternatives to start your crop. Good luck.
Hi,
I’m an agriculturist basically, from South India. I’m interested in cultiviting button mushroom (indoor) in a shed. Could you please suggest to me any references (Detailed) regarding the above said cultivation?
Thank You
Siddharth
I am a young man of 26 years old, I’m interested in growing mushrooms of most edible types, I’m living in botswana and it is extreemely hot. I want to grow them commercially but on a small scale. How can I go about doing that?
James, I’m not sure how well mushrooms would do in your hot climate. Even here in Pennsylvania my mushroom logs don’t produce much during the summer. The cooler months of spirng and fall are the periods when I get the best production out of my mushroom logs. Your best option may be to try growing them indoors. Check out the second comment above for a link to a good source of mushroom growing information that may b useful to you.
Do you have an email address of where I can find out about mushroom growing in south africa. Preferably a place in south africa where I can buy a kit?
Hi,
I am interested in cultivating mushrooms in maharashtra, India. Where can I get the information, raw materials etc. Please suggest websites or addresses in India.
hi!!
I am interested to cultivete musroom in danmark. weather is very cold but i am interested to grow indoor. Please give me more information about it. I want to invest in small-scale business for indoor growing and selling. Pleae let me know about necesary kits and raw materials.
Do you have an email address of where I can find out about mushroom growing in south africa. Preferably a place in south africa where I can buy a kit?
South African based gourmet and medicinal mushroom farms and consultants.
Over what temperature following say a power outage of 48 hours (degrees Celsius) do mushrooms become unviable or dangerous (from an eating perspective) to carry on cultivating?
I have been told that over 28 degrees is the danger area?
I am staying in Namibia Katima Mulilo and would like to know where I can buy mushroom seed or a kit and where can I get it.
I am from Botswana and have developed interest in mushroom cultivation.So i would like you to help with where I can find the kit in south africa and at what cost.
I would be very happy if you can help me.
I am a Nigerian and I am interested in indoor mushroom farming. How do i get spawn or a mushroom kit to get started tku & and at what cost? I also want to know about outdoor mushroom farming using wood logs.
i want to learn to grow my own mushrooms for my house please help me thanks Antoinette
Sir, I am interested to grow edible mushroom especially common button mushroom which is sold by Mother Dairy in Delhi. Kindly guide me in this regard.
Please provide me with the relevant information on where to order the mushroom spawns from together with a price list.
I am in the Gauteng area.
Hi Jenny, I am a reader of this site just like you. I saw your question and thought I might be able to help.
I too have been thinking about growing some shrooms and I found this really cool site: http://www.fungi.com/plugs/plugs.html
You can do your own search if you wish but one of the ‘keywords’ needs to be: “plugs”. I think they’re called “plugs” because they are wooden dowels that are ‘plugged’ into holes drilled into the logs.
Good luck w/ your ’shrooms’!
BTW on this site there is a photo of the mushroom bearing logs leaning against what appears to be someone’s home. Kenny advised me againt that. (I think it was because if insects and such entering the home-not sure).
Hi we have a farm in ifafa, we have an old type barn like building and it is quite cold inside, thought it might suite growing mushrooms, we have horses and have old sawdust and manure mixture not sure if this would be suitable we have mushrooms that come up in certain damp places but not sure what kind they are. would you be able to advise if it would be possible to grow mushrooms, we would like to start some kind of a family business… your assistance would be appreciated..
Hi Dianne, mushroom farmers grow mushrooms in buildings so your barn may be suitable but you’d be better off contacting a commercial grower or your state extension office to get advice on a commercial mushroom production setup for your farm. Good luck.
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