The Espresso Oyster Mushroom Garden Patch- Indoor Mushroom Growing Kit - Grow Edible Mushrooms & Fungi. Easy & Fun Mush Room Grow Kits

by Fungi Perfecti

Product Features

• Easy Growing Kit
• Grow Edible Gourmet Mushrooms
• Fun - Grow Year Round
• Indoor
• Everything You Need

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000E7L2M4
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,431 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

Practice bioremediation at home! Recycle old newspapers, coffee and espresso grounds by inoculating them with Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus). One of our favorite methods is the simplest: just mix the sawdust spawn directly into coffee grounds, espresso or perked. Our Pearl Oyster spawn fruits in a wide temperature range, making it suitable for inoculation across the country. A fascinating project for people of all ages. Kit comes complete with 1 gallon of Pearl Oyster Sawdust Spawn and detailed instructions.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mushroom patch underway, February 9, 2011

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A. Huerta "ah" (College Station, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Espresso Oyster Mushroom Garden Patch- Indoor Mushroom Growing Kit - Grow Edible Mushrooms & Fungi. Easy & Fun Mush Room Grow Kits (Kitchen)

I bought the mushroom kit as my husband and I enjoy mushrooms, wanted to save some money, and we like the idea of growing our own food. I therefore split the spawn between the both of us (he lives in another state temporarily) and we are now comparing its growth. Since we were splitting it, we weren't going to need a 5 gallon bucket. Also, to maximize mushroom production I figured more surface area, the better. So we bought 4 clear storage containers. We made 1 coffee ground box and 1 newspaper/cardboard box each. We sprinkle/mist water that has been boiled to get rid of the chlorine in our tap water. However, when constructing the boxes and watering, we found the instructions to be vague. We had a lot of questions such as: how much water to mist, how deep should the layers be, etc. My husband and I are engineers so I think we expected some more numerical guidelines. So we had trouble trying to determine how to scale down the original instructions to our own boxes.
But we made it work.

Also, I don't like the idea that this kit isn't sustaining, meaning I can't grow mushrooms forever off of it. Furthermore, know beforehand that if you intend to do the coffee ground method, you need a lot of grounds. We worked on this over a weekend and had to call/visit 3 coffeeshops to acquire grounds pretty fast.

1.5 weeks: Mine are growing faster than his and I have mycellium development over the entire coffee ground box, and vertical shoot growth in the newspaper one. He wasn't boiling his water beforehand and now does. Mine are also in a more opaque humidity tent, but that's another experiment in itself. So, I will continue to update this and try to upload pictures. So far so good after some confusion in the beginning.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a good product and I've been growing it for a while., July 14, 2011

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Marine5958 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Espresso Oyster Mushroom Garden Patch- Indoor Mushroom Growing Kit - Grow Edible Mushrooms & Fungi. Easy & Fun Mush Room Grow Kits (Kitchen)

I've eaten the oyster mushrooms that I've grown out of the 2 buckets and one bag. I'm guessing it's about 2 or 3 months now and I've eaten probably about 1 or 2 pounds of mushrooms. The oyster mushrooms taste just like the mushrooms you get from market. I live in a really dry and hot area and right now it's summer so the mushrooms always need a lid or saran wrap or a cover to keep the humidity in. Even with daily misting, if the humidity isn't maintained the mushrooms will "stall" and not grow more than 5-6 millimeter caps in dense bunches (looks sort of like a golf ball sized white truffle).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars only growing mold, October 31, 2011

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Bruce Silverstein (KANSAS CITY, MO, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Espresso Oyster Mushroom Garden Patch- Indoor Mushroom Growing Kit - Grow Edible Mushrooms & Fungi. Easy & Fun Mush Room Grow Kits (Kitchen)

I mixed the product with unsterilized coffee grounds and followed the directions. Growing much mold. Perhaps if the grounds were sterilized the result would have been different.