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Blue Oysters losing blue color
    #18757662 - 08/25/13 11:04 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Hi All,
My husband, son and I are interested in this wonderful art of growing edible mushrooms, namely oysters.  We have a couple of Paul Stamets books and have learned a lot from hanging around this forum.  We've had a couple of successful fruitings and a couple of unsuccessful ones (when grown in our yucky basement).

I have a beautiful straw log fruiting right now in a portable greenhouse that I made by covering a wire shelf rack with fairly heavy gauge plastic.  I'm using the Reptifogger to keep the humidity between 80% - 90%.  I have four 4 x 4 holes cut out for FAE and I open the front flap around 4 times a day to fully air out.  I have a heavy duty portable air purifier that I keep near the greenhouse, which is helping to draw air out of the cut outs (I can see the fog wafting out so I know it's working).  The temperature has been around 78 degrees during the day and around 65 degrees at night.  It's in front of a south/southeast window for light (I don't let the sun directly hit the log).

I think they look really good, our best crop so far.  But I noticed just now that the beautiful blue caps are losing their blue.  Is this what happens as they grow or am I doing something wrong?





Thanks for all the info on this forum :smile:  and thanks for any responses.


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Re: Blue Oysters losing blue color [Re: judydel]
    #18757906 - 08/25/13 11:54 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Hi judydel, welcome to the shroomery!

The blue oyster pins will almost always lose their distinct blue color when they mature, some more so than others.
The caps, however, will stay darker with more light and slightly lower temperatures.
At lower temps they will grow a bit slower, but be darker and more meaty.

If you can keep the humidity above 80% or so while keeping the temps down (AC unit maybe?),
I would say stick it in the sun and let it get an hour or two a day.

And as always with indoor oysters, the more fresh air the better, if you can keep the humidity up.

Hope that helped answer your question!

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Re: Blue Oysters losing blue color [Re: FoxFire]
    #18758015 - 08/26/13 12:24 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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FoxFire said:
I would say stick it in the sun and let it get an hour or two a day.
-FF




Thanks for the tip about putting them in the sun.  I never would have thought to do that . . . I thought direct sunlight would be disastrous! 

How do they look so far?  I hope I know when to pick them.  I want to pick before the spores are anywhere near dropping.

I do remember reading something about them needing cool temps.  But then I read this by Stamets:

Growth Parameters
Spawn Run:
Incubation Temperature: 75-85° F. (24-29° C.)
Relative Humidity: 90-100%
Duration: 10-14 days.
C02: 5000 - 20,000 ppm.
Fresh Air Exchanges: 1-2 per hour
Light Requirements: n/a
Primordia Formation:
Initiation Temperature: 70-80° (90°) F. (2 1-27° (32°)C.)
Relative Humidity: 98-100%
Duration: 3-5 days
C02: < 1000 ppm
Fresh Air Exchanges: 4-8
Light Requirements: 500-1000 lux.
Fruitbody Development:
Temperature: 70-85° F. (2 1-29° C.)

Relative Humidity: 90-95%
Duration: 3-5 days
C02: < 1000 ppm
FreshAir Exchanges: 4-8
Light Requirements: 500-1000 lux.
Cropping Cycle:
Two crops, 10-14 days apart.

Are there two kinds of blues?


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Re: Blue Oysters losing blue color [Re: judydel]
    #18758125 - 08/26/13 01:01 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

If you can keep the temp inside the greenhouse down, they will be fine in the sun.
Problem is, it's a greenhouse.  It's designed to heat up in the sun, so be careful.

Stamets' book is a great guide, but mushrooms, especially oysters,
are so adaptive and CO2 sensitive that different fruiting conditions will get you very different looking mushrooms.

I have had blue oysters fruit from 40 f. up to 90+ f., they are beasts.

Those still look young, I would give them another day or two judging by the light cap color and slightly stretched out stems/smaller caps,
which indicates higher temps and carbon dioxide levels.

Open a window, or better yet, pipe in some fresh air from outside,
maybe at night so its more humid and a little colder.

Lots of light, fresh air, and lower temps will get you something like this:


Good luck!  :smile:

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Re: Blue Oysters losing blue color [Re: FoxFire]
    #18762148 - 08/27/13 12:17 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

FF I took your advice and gave them more fresh air today.  It rained so I wasn't able to give them sun :/  The temps were a bit lower and with the rain it was easy to keep them hydrated.  Anyway, here they are at the moment.




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Re: Blue Oysters losing blue color [Re: judydel]
    #18763540 - 08/27/13 11:47 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Those look great!  Nice work!
:awesome:

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Re: Blue Oysters losing blue color [Re: FoxFire]
    #18764916 - 08/27/13 04:59 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah, very nice. Those are ready to pick, too.


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