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 My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. 
#9575250 - 01/09/09 12:49 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Her is my first oyster grow and it made it of course with oysters being stupid proof as long as you have FAE. I have a 5X5 foot greenhouse for my growing.
I pasteurized 4 quarts of coffee grounds with a teaspoon of lime for every cup and tore up one large card board box and threw it in. Then I laid it in plastic trash bags and cut holes in one after full colonization.
With the other, I just laid it vertically in my greenhouse. Now all four of those tubs are not all blue oyster that you see in the pics, but the mushrooms pictured here are all blues..
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: chobumms]
#9575621 - 01/09/09 04:24 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Excellent work! Looks like your oysters could use more oyxgen, though. Also, I find fruiting them at lower temperatures encourages them to form tighter clusters of heavier fruits. Leggy oysters will be just as good on the plate, though!
The next time you don't feel like cooking dinner and you have oysters, give this a shot:
1. Order a plain cheese pizza.
2. Prep your mushrooms by slicing them, then sautee them in a little olive oil. Don't use too much oil!
3. Tear the top of the pizza box off and lay mushroom slices over the pizza.
4. Place in the oven and reheat at the temperature printed on the box.
5. Profit.
You now have a fancy schmancy "wild mushroom" pizza. Amaze your friends, and charge them $5 a slice. 
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Paresthesia]
#9575668 - 01/09/09 05:00 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Paresthesia said:
Excellent work! Looks like your oysters could use more oyxgen, though. Also, I find fruiting them at lower temperatures encourages them to form tighter clusters of heavier fruits. Leggy oysters will be just as good on the plate, though!
The next time you don't feel like cooking dinner and you have oysters, give this a shot:
1. Order a plain cheese pizza.
2. Prep your mushrooms by slicing them, then sautee them in a little olive oil. Don't use too much oil!
3. Tear the top of the pizza box off and lay mushroom slices over the pizza.
4. Place in the oven and reheat at the temperature printed on the box.
5. Profit.
You now have a fancy schmancy "wild mushroom" pizza. Amaze your friends, and charge them $5 a slice.
Yum! Dude, why would I have CO2 buildup in a 5X5 foot green house 5 feet tall? That makes no sense to me! Maybe I need to cut slits in the greenhouse walls? I'm guessing this is the solution.
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: chobumms]
#9576853 - 01/09/09 11:54 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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chobumms said:
Yum! Dude, why would I have CO2 buildup in a 5X5 foot green house 5 feet tall? That makes no sense to me! Maybe I need to cut slits in the greenhouse walls? I'm guessing this is the solution.
Well, it's the morphology of your fruits that suggest there's a CO2 buildup. I don't know your whole setup, maybe a little circulated air and like he said lower temperatures could help. I've grown blue oysters before that fruited for me like yours. I let them rest in the basement for a couple weeks and they grew the most beautiful thickest and widest oysters I've ever seen through the filter patch because they were in the open basement.
Still, though, they look great and I hope you enjoy em 
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Andrew47]
#9577179 - 01/09/09 01:05 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yea, those look pretty stemmy to me.
I let some oysters fruit halfway in a monotub once with barely any fae and they came out looking like that. If you've got a huge greenhouse with too little air exchange, you'll end up with a huge greenhouse full of long stemmed, runty caps that aren't worth eating.
You want to make sure the entire volume of the greenhouse is exchanged at least 5 times an hour (more is better.) For a 5'x5'x5' greenhouse, that means you're looking at an air volume of 125 cubic feet. In order to properly exhaust that, as a bare minimum, you're going to need to provide a constant flow of about 11-12 cfm of cool, humid air.
You didn't mention what fae accomodations you had in place, but from the looks of those stems, it was not enough.
Either way congratulations. The first harvest is always the most exciting, and a great learning experience to boot.
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Servator]
#9578315 - 01/09/09 04:23 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Your problem is not CO2 related although oysters will stretch because of it as well, you have plenty of airspace to disperse CO2. Your oysters need more light. Oysters don't do well unless under natural shaded sunlight or bright as possible fluorescent lights (office and 'natural' types of bulbs are best). You will also get far far more pinsets with better light. I bet you get at least 2lbs per each of those trash cans.
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Buckeye Oysters]
#9578710 - 01/09/09 05:29 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Buckeye Oysters said:
Your problem is not CO2 related although oysters will stretch because of it as well, you have plenty of airspace to disperse CO2. Your oysters need more light. Oysters don't do well unless under natural shaded sunlight or bright as possible fluorescent lights (office and 'natural' types of bulbs are best). You will also get far far more pinsets with better light. I bet you get at least 2lbs per each of those trash cans.
Didnt you have that nun avatar a while back? If that was you, I trust that light is the issue.
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: chobumms]
#9579043 - 01/09/09 06:20 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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yup, thats me
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: chobumms]
#9579115 - 01/09/09 06:30 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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i agree with buckeye oysters, and RR on "let's grow mushrooms" said the same when he was laying out the oyster spawn on his straw substrate in the laundry basket. more light and cooler temps gave heavier tighter fruitset than the oysters grown in the house or in poor light.
i have also used cardboard, paper, and straw together with good results.
enjoy,
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: houdinihar]
#9579647 - 01/09/09 07:45 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Also you mushrooms are not very thick which means that your temps are a bit high. Pleurotus Ostreatus and Columbinus like it cold, even down next to freezing. They will grow slower but be a much nicer fruit.
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Buckeye Oysters]
#9581478 - 01/10/09 03:56 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Damn I figured since my djamor stopped in the spawn run that blues were more suited for my house temp. ok, so djamor would probably do better in 70 degree weather. Got it, I appreciate the advice. I was a bit puzzled. I'll post my next grows and follow up on advice. I see so little threads on oysters here. seems to be cubie dominated around here.
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: chobumms]
#9581722 - 01/10/09 06:42 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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The light is probably the issue, then. I spawned a couple of blue oyster jars to a stack of pasteurized newspapers a few weeks back to generate "sheet spawn" for an outdoor bunker bag grow. It's been sitting in my unheated garage for a while now and it's started fruiting. The fruits are pale and leggy, despite the temperatures and availability of oxygen. I really need to get off my lazy ass and finish getting this project together...
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Paresthesia]
#9581988 - 01/10/09 08:54 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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djamor requires temps to not drop below 70f(really 75f best). They like it warm. if temps drop below you will have little pale overly wet mushrooms. You may want to think about pleurotus eryngii (king oysters) which do well in temps 65-75f.
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Paresthesia]
#9585609 - 01/10/09 07:14 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Paresthesia said:
The light is probably the issue, then. I spawned a couple of blue oyster jars to a stack of pasteurized newspapers a few weeks back to generate "sheet spawn" for an outdoor bunker bag grow. It's been sitting in my unheated garage for a while now and it's started fruiting. The fruits are pale and leggy, despite the temperatures and availability of oxygen. I really need to get off my lazy ass and finish getting this project together...
lol, my mushies keep me on my feet. Thanks, then I know its light which is one of two factors in cap development. My pleurotus pulmonarius was not as leggy, weird.
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Buckeye Oysters]
#9585616 - 01/10/09 07:15 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Buckeye Oysters said:
djamor requires temps to not drop below 70f(really 75f best). They like it warm. if temps drop below you will have little pale overly wet mushrooms. You may want to think about pleurotus eryngii (king oysters) which do well in temps 65-75f.
I did want to try my hand at them king oysters. I hear they taste like ("happiness is a warm gun...)
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: chobumms]
#9591708 - 01/11/09 07:53 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nice Oysters
Oysters, FTW
Edited by weiliiiiiii (01/11/09 07:56 PM)
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: weiliiiiiii]
#9613315 - 01/15/09 07:12 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Fuck yeah!!! Those are wild, huh?
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: chobumms]
#9618223 - 01/15/09 10:04 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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They grow like *Crazy* in the Oak forest near my house, though if I find them near the ground like weiliiiiiii's they are usually well grazed. I guess it's deer eating them based on the size of the bites, but they never eat the whole thing (smart guys  I wish some human foragers would remember not to take more than a third of what they find)
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: Andrew47]
#9619393 - 01/16/09 04:49 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh, I don't think I'd eat some of the wild mushrooms that grow, only cleaner ones. So there's a one third rule there? There oughta be a law then...
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Re: My blue oyster grow on coffee and cardboard. [Re: chobumms]
#9619440 - 01/16/09 05:14 AM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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How did you pasteurize your grounds? Did you put them in a bag? or just set them in the pot/PC with some water and drain?
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