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

by Fungi Perfecti

Product Features

• Most Popular Mushroom Kit
• Great gift for cooks
• Indoor

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000E7MTYY
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,845 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

Grow your own edible Organic Shiitake Mushrooms. Great mushrooms for all your Chinese and Japanese dishes. Shiitake mushrooms are touted for both their delicious taste and health benefits. These mushrooms can be dried or pickled. Your Shiitake mushrooms can be harvested at 2 week intervals for up to 16 weeks. A 50 to 80 F environment is best for cultivation. Certified Organic! The Shiitake Mushroom Kit will produce 2 or 3 pounds of mushrooms over a 12 to16 week period, in crops that will spring forth in approximately two week intervals.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Garden all winter, December 17, 2009

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Hoss (Boston) - See all my reviews

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

I've purchased a similar mushroom log in the past. This one is much larger, producing a bounty of mushrooms very quickly. One recommendation: After the first step of submerging the log in water for about 10 hours, you may want to put it in the basement for a few days. There is a ripe, musty odor in the first few days. The mushrooms grew much faster than the instructions predicted. No odors after the first few days. For me, it was a good way to "garden" during a cold New England winter.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, really easy, April 7, 2011

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Surruh - See all my reviews

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

I've had a ton of fun with this mushroom log. I was intimidated by the negative reviews on Amazon, but these mushrooms honestly have been growing really for me. I've never gardened before, and I've had potted bamboo plants die on me, so I'm amazed that this patch is doing really well. Two weeks after receiving the package, I have eight 4-5 inch sprouts all over the log, and some more smaller ones.

This really surprises me, because due to my work schedule I'm not able to water the mushrooms "several times a day," as the detailed instruction booklet advises. I usually end up watering them only at night. And yet, here I am with fantastic results!

My one complaint is that I wish the instruction booklet had more pictures of different stages in the growing process. The booklet has a picture of the "beginning stage" of growing, and a picture of the fully matured shrooms, but I think it should have some better pictures of how the log should look before you dunk it in cold water, before you remove it from cold temperatures, etc.

Either way, this has been really fun! I'm looking into growing more shrooms later, and I'll probably upload a picture when I'm ready to pick them.

EDIT: Also, a comment about fridges. If you have a dorm size fridge, you might not be able to grow this item. You have to refrigerate the log for a couple of days. I could do this EASILY in my regular, kitchen-size fridge, but I don't think I would have had room to do this in a dorm-size fridge that was also holding sandwiches, drinks, etc.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars a single fantastic mushroom, January 14, 2011

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secret squirrel (hoy miami; manana buenos aires) - See all my reviews

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

Followed the directions but only got 1 mushroom to sprout. to the company's credit, it was indeed a really fantastic mushroom, certainly the best i have ever eaten, with texture and nuance of flavour that really beat any other. how i wish i could have more of them! Alas, i only got one. On the second flush i was plagued with mold. It seems to be very difficult to get the humidity just right -- too dry and no mushrooms, too wet and you get mold, and there isn't much room between those two states -- if there is any room at all.