You can go and purchase a mushroom growing kit or make your own.
We use a cardboard box lined with plastic.
Now gather some shroom spores. If you know your wild mushrooms then go for it. However, if you are not sure, it is best to purchase your mushrooms. Grocery stores are fine to purchase them, as pesticides are not used in mushroom production. Once you have them you need to do some spore printing. Remove the stems and with gills down, press you mushroom caps down on a piece of clean white paper. Set aside and wait 12 hours for the spores to be released.
Mist the soil of your new kit with water enough to make the soil glisten. Scatter the spores over the top, then sprinkle your reserved soil over the top. Place plastic wrap over the top, poking several holes in the plastic for air flow.
Place this into your closet or anywhere that is is relatively dark and cooler, no more than 75F no less than 55F. Keep the soil lightly damp by misting every few days.
Mold will appear on the soil. when this happens (usually in about a week), remove the plastic wrap and cover with a light towel. Mushrooms could appear in as little as 10 days. Harvest your mushrooms at will.
You should be able to get mushrooms for 6-8 weeks using this homemade kit.
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Annie
July 18, 2011 at 4:32 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I've been wondering if there's an easy way to do this yourself. Those kits are outrageously expensive. Thanks for the info!
kenny
March 13, 2012 at 6:40 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
i will try this in a couple of weeks and then report
AKwoman
March 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Thank you for this tip!! Awesome! We love mushrooms and the kids will think it is fun to grow their own!
Antsy
April 9, 2012 at 11:00 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
let me please point out that sterility and cleaniless of
the starting media is *VERY* necessary !
if you allow *ANY* other spores from any other source
to cross-contanimate / cross-pollinate
the spores you’re using & the material -
– well , the least bad outcome is that you have
very bad tasting shrooms.
and unfortunatly most bad shrooms are
mildly to severly poisonous.
shrooms are great crops in caves and mines -
there’s several shroom farms buried deep down -
but those commercial operations are, justifiably,
*PARANOID* about foriegn spores.
lemme dig around for some additional research on this . . . .
antsy