The Mycelium Network
by Taylor
Posted on 06-03-2021 06:28 AM
The Steps to Growing Mushrooms from Mycelium
Now that you have decided on the mushroom you want to use and have sourced your spores or mycelium, you will need to decide on the substrate (growing medium) you want to use. This stage is important because every mushroom likes to grow on different things.
When growing gourmet mushrooms in your house, you might have to carefully follow their normal life-cycle for them to fruit well for eventual harvest. If you don’t do this, the growing mushrooms might not yield the expected result at the end of the day. Follow these steps to start small before growing a mushroom farm. So here are the steps many follow to grow mushrooms right the first time.
Growing mushrooms starts by obtaining spores or spawn. We already know what spores are, but what is spawn? it’s any substance that already has mycelium growing on it which you can use to speed up your mushroom growing process. Using spawn or spores, you’ll want to prepare a mushroom substrate. A substrate is any substance that mycelium can grow on.
Growing magic mushrooms is one of the easiest things in the world because you just have to make the right settings and wait. This culture bread consists of a substrate formed of perlite and vermiculite, to which has been added mycelium, which is the medium on which the mushrooms germinate.
Instead of growing through that hard work of growing mycelium and setting the substrate, you can just alternatively purchase your own mushroom grow kit. Growing gourmet mushrooms from a kit might be easier. Some already have the mycelium readily growing on the surface of the substrate. All you might just be left to do is regularly tend the mushrooms until they’re fully ready for harvest.
Mushroom Mycelium - The Network Beneath Our Feet
Have you ever been digging in the mulch, and been curious to the white growth which seems to cover any surface beneath the mulch which the sun does not actually touch? this is what’s responsible for the mushrooms that may or may not have appeared in the same mulch bed, a network of mycelium.