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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: kelfio]
    #13725493 - 01/03/11 03:50 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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kelfio said:
I've been growing blue and pearl oysters for about a month and a half now, and for some reason, mine are NOT dropping spores.
I've got a thread on the particularities of my grow (I think it's something like "my oyster grow" or something equally original!) so if you'd like the details, check it out.

Suffice to say, I have left the oysters on my straw logs until the rot, just to experiment and see if they will sporulate, and they continuously have not.
If there's something special about my method, I'd love to figure it out, because growing oysters without the hassle of spores could change everything for a lot of people. :smile:



Well that sound like you have have a special strain? Where did you obtain the strain? Thanks for posting. :thumbup:


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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: pepper]
    #13725685 - 01/03/11 04:35 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

As far as I know, it's not a special strain. They're just the blue oysters and pearl oysters from Sporeworks.

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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: kelfio]
    #13725708 - 01/03/11 04:39 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Put a piece of black material under them to catch spores.  Often oyster spores are hard to see, being clear or white.  There are sporeless oyster strains, but I've never cared for the taste of any I've isolated.
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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #13725800 - 01/03/11 04:58 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks - I'll give that a shot and see what happens! :smile:

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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #13734352 - 01/05/11 09:47 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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Besides, they're not nearly as good tasting as shiitake,xxxx but other than that, they're one of my least favorite species, as far as eating goes.
RR




Beauty (and taste) are in the eye of the beholder:) I like shitakes, but my wife and family hate them...

So- truly, King Oysters don't have a bad spore load compared to say Pearl Oysters?

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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: lazy bones]
    #13734507 - 01/05/11 10:36 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Kings have tiny spore loads compared to white oysters.


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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: Niwita]
    #13734789 - 01/05/11 11:39 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Most King oyster farms use very low light and high CO2 levels to encourage fat stems and tiny caps.  This keeps the spore load much lower than with other varieties.

As for shiitake, it's taken me a decade to learn to cook it properly.  I'm planning sometime this winter while we're snowed in to get out my lights, tripods, and cameras and make some mushroom cooking videos.  Most people don't realize that while oyster and button mushrooms cook in a minute or two, shiitake really needs to be sauteed in butter for more like ten minutes.  Just about everyone who doesn't like shiitake has not cooked it long enough to get the flavor and texture right.  Shiitake also needs more salt than other mushrooms to taste at its best.
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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #13734796 - 01/05/11 11:40 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks RR!

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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #13735870 - 01/05/11 03:50 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

That sound like a great project. So you have all the lighting equipment from when you made the  mushroom videos? You produced the whole thing? :awesome:


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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: pepper]
    #13735884 - 01/05/11 03:52 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

i wonder where this thread is going?..From me being poorly to a plug for RRs new cooking dvd lol.:-)

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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: snakemonkey]
    #13735907 - 01/05/11 03:58 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Sorry I kinda got lost side tracked. Would be nice to find a strain that you could grow that did not have a spore load that affected you.:awethumb:


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Re: oyster mushroom warning [Re: pepper]
    #13735922 - 01/05/11 04:00 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

no probs only joking i have started a new thread looking forward to peoples input..:-)

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