Growing Mushrooms: PF Tek

Step 12 Wait for your first flush

It takes about 2 weeks for the first flush to complete growing depending on the species.

The cakes should last for about 3 or 4 flushes, in which you may "dunk" the cakes for 24 hours between flushes to rehydrate it.

If you plan on picking the mushrooms, just grab them from the base with your forefinger and thumb and break it off at the base. They can either be cooked fresh, freeze dried or air dried for cooking later!

Good luck!

Comments

[nava787]

Great instrutable cant wait to try it out, any suggestions on where to get spores in the USA or Texas or Houston,
Thanks

[iquitsmoking1]

Questions actually, how long until you picked mushrooms and per jar or number of jars how many mushrooms or pounds of mushrooms did you harvest?

[chriskarr]

I have heard that it is common to harvest a half ounce of mushrooms per cake, so if you're growing 10 cakes at once, you get 5 ounces.

[MrCodeE]

 That's about right...  without dunking I had 12 jars, and after 1 flush I ended up with 5.5 oz of dried mushrooms.  Had I dunked, it would probably be a lot more.

[MrCodeE]

 Proper drying is important too....  Air, light, and heat degrade the ...  special.. quality of certain mushrooms.  When harvesting, be sure to remove aborts too, (the mushrooms that never fully fruited).

[2dMaxf]

Geeze, this sounds a little complicated. I'd rather just wait for it to rain on that old cow pasture to collect my shrooms. No sterilization necessary.

[Irishspaniard]

Do you have to brag that you're growing cubes? Oysters would have worked just fine.