Pearl Oyster Mushroom Plug Spawn Dowels (100)

Grow your own delicious and nutritious gourmet and medicinal mushrooms at home. Save on costs compared to grocery store or farmer’s market. Engage your children and other family members in a project that will fascinate and entertain. Teach your children important life skills and respect for the nature. Makes a unique gift for friends or family with enjoyable results. Instructions are included in this listing and provided with the product. The easiest way to grow mushrooms, no special lab equipment needed. Just freshly cut hardwood, a drill, and a hammer. Easily grow your own Pearl Oyster Mushroom mushrooms for years to come. Pearl Oyster Mushroom Plug Spawn is wood dowels inoculated with the Pearl Oyster Mushroom mushroom species mycelium, and used to grow Pearl Oyster Mushroom mushrooms on freshly cut logs or stumps. You will specifically need hardwood logs such as Alder, Ash, Birch, Bitternut, Cherry, Chestnut, Hophornbeam, Ironwood, Maple, Oak, Pecan, Sweet gum, Sycamore, Tulip poplar, Walnut, Willow and others. Pearl Oyster Mushroom mushrooms do not grow on conifers. Simply drill 5/16″ holes 1″ deep to hammer the Pearl Oyster Mushroom plugs into. The holes should be drilled right before plugging them, and spaced about 4″ apart. Logs should be roughly 6 inches in diameter and four feet long. They need to be freshly cut, or at least cut within the past 20 days. Avoid using logs with missing or split bark, try to find unpenetrated logs, except on the sides they were cut. Pearl Oyster Mushroom Plug spawn can also be used to grow mushrooms on live trees, but should only be done strategically down branch where pruning is planned later. Our Pearl Oyster Mushroom plug spawn is made from hardwood fluted or spiral dowels. The pearl oyster mushroom or tree oyster mushroom, is a common edible mushroom. It was first cultivated in Germany as a subsistence measure during World War I[2] and is now grown commercially around the world for food. It is related to the similarly cultivated king oyster mushroom. Oyster mushrooms can also be used industrially for mycoremediation purposes. The oyster mushroom is one of the more commonly sought wild mushrooms, though it can also be cultivated on straw and other media. It has the bittersweet aroma of benzaldehyde (which is also characteristic of bitter almonds).

• Grow your own delicious and nutritious gourmet and medicinal mushrooms at home.
• Save on costs compared to grocery store or farmer’s market.
• Makes a unique gift for friends or family with enjoyable results. Instructions are included in this listing and provided with the product.
• The easiest way to grow mushrooms, no special lab equipment needed. Just freshly cut hardwood, a drill, and a hammer.