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HairSnake
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First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology.
#22052631 - 08/06/15 10:07 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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My son holding our first blue oyster harvest. This cluster was over a pound!
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HairSnake
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Re: First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology. [Re: HairSnake]
#22052663 - 08/06/15 10:14 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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What the heck? Is this only one line without pics for everyone? What happened to the rest of my post?
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HairSnake
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Re: First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology. [Re: HairSnake]
#22052673 - 08/06/15 10:16 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Edited by HairSnake (08/09/15 07:41 PM)
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HairSnake
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Re: First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology. [Re: HairSnake]
#22052685 - 08/06/15 10:19 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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This is another batch from a different culture of blue oyster. I grew these enclosed in a humidity tent with an aquarium pump in a bucket for air exchange/humidity. They colonized really fast and produced a ton of pins but they are all much smaller but many more individual shrooms. Also, they have faded all the way back to white, not that's a problem per se, but they were grey at first.
This is encouraging, my boys have enjoyed checking the mushrooms with me everyday. I think I have found a new hobby. Any input on the possible reason for the different appearance?
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Magos
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Re: First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology. [Re: HairSnake]
#22061568 - 08/08/15 05:25 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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wow those first ones look huge I dont think I've seen blue oysters pictured that big! where did you get your strains?
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casualgrower


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Re: First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology. [Re: Magos]
#22061667 - 08/08/15 06:58 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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nice stuff, bro, how did you pasteurize your substrate? how much air were you pumping through the humidity bucket? did you use an air stone, did the water get contaminated quick?
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HairSnake
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Re: First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology. [Re: casualgrower]
#22064676 - 08/08/15 09:40 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Magos said: wow those first ones look huge I dont think I've seen blue oysters pictured that big! where did you get your strains?
The large cluster was over a pound! It was spawned from a mini mushroom farm from back to roots. https://www.backtotheroots.com/faq/mushroomminifarm
My wife got it for me for Father's Day. That was my introduction into mushroom growing. Soak in water then mushrooms shoot out. Very cool but it left me with way more questions. That's how I landed here.
This site is pretty amazing. 
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casualgrower said: nice stuff, bro, how did you pasteurize your substrate? how much air were you pumping through the humidity bucket? did you use an air stone, did the water get contaminated quick?
I expanded the spent commercial block to 8qts of pressure cooked wild bird seed and fruited one of those quarts to see what would happen. It's did fine. The other seven, I expanded to a straw log, pastuerized as described by RR.
It colonized fast enough but took four weeks to fruit. I can only surmise that since I used a commercial "block" as spawn, it had likely been expanded a lot before I got it.
The other log was prepared the same way. But started from a supplier in the southwest, blue oyster #9. Started on agar, to wbs, then to straw. This pinned in eight days after inoculating the straw!
Awesome, but they elongated sort of trumpety and stayed pretty small but in quantity. From what I've read, it looks like the elongation is from CO2. I guess the low O2 make the fruits think they are still in the bag and they continue to stretch out hoping to reach fresh air?
I have no idea how much air the aquarium pump emits. I just had it lying around. It does go through an air stone. The water has not looked bad but I gave added fresh water to it over the last week.
Edited by HairSnake (08/09/15 04:41 PM)
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OysterKing
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Re: First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology. [Re: HairSnake]
#22102698 - 08/17/15 12:52 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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That is a huge cluster, congrats!
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Re: First harvest! Blue oyster. Two different strains, different morphology. [Re: HairSnake]
#22102915 - 08/17/15 01:56 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Those are awesome! I am sure you already know this, but make sure your kids and yourself have masks if you plan to continue with oysters.
The spore load is tremendous and harmful to humans.
Otherwise, great grow!
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