Mushroom Spawn Bag 1.7kg – Indian Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus sajor caju) – Made to order

Description

🍄 Indian Oyster Mushroom Spawn Guide (Pleurotus sajor caju)

Ready to build your own mushroom blocks from scratch? If you are looking for quick, reliable results, the Indian Oyster (Pleurotus sajor caju) is the undisputed champion of speed! Famous for being one of the absolute fastest colonizing and fastest fruiting oyster mushrooms available, this incredibly vigorous strain will push out beautiful, classic oyster clusters in record time.

Because of their aggressive mycelial growth, this spawn will happily devour a huge variety of bulk substrates!

🌾 Recommended Substrates Indian Oysters are vigorous and not picky eaters! You can successfully inoculate:

• Straw or Sugarcane Mulch

• Hardwood sawdust or wood pellets

• Paper pellets or cardboard

• Agricultural wastes (corn cobs, cotton wastes, coffee grounds, leaves, and sunflower husks/stalks)

🛠️ How to Prepare Your Substrate (Video Guides) To use this spawn, you will need to pasteurise your chosen substrate first to give the mushroom mycelium a head start over any competing molds. Because Indian Oysters are so robust, you can use any of these easy methods! Check out our step-by-step video tutorials for the best ways to prep your bulk substrate:

• 📄 Growing on Paper Pellets with Lime (Super Easy & Clean!): 👉 https://youtu.be/2NXHYkso7hA?si=JsQnqtvM5RdfgGXF

• 🔥 Heat Pasteurising Sugarcane Mulch or Straw: 👉 https://youtu.be/gY7DQLXNMXk?si=_wNwCQcARGzUQgTa

• 🧊 Cold Pasteurising Straw/Sugarcane using Hydrated Lime: 👉 https://youtu.be/iPVv0nkps2k?si=2KKGPrK1zKBSjbQd

🧫 Incubation (Colonizing Your Block) Once you have mixed your spawn into your prepared substrate and sealed your bags, it is time to let the mycelium take over!

• Temperature: Store your inoculated bags in a clean, dark space with stable temperatures between 16-20°C.

• Fresh Air: The growing mycelium needs to breathe! Ensure your incubation room has good ventilation, aiming for ideally one room air change per hour.

• The Goal: Leave the bags to incubate until the substrate turns completely white with mycelium. With this specific strain, colonization happens incredibly fast! Once fully white, it is ready to fruit.

🌤️ Best Fruiting Environment

• Temperature: Indian Oysters prefer a nice, medium-to-warm climate. Once fully colonized and ready to fruit, they thrive in a temperature range of 18-28°C.

• Light: Place your fully white block somewhere with enough natural, indirect light to read a book by.

• Humidity: When you cut your fruiting holes, keep the humidity high (70-80%+) by misting the area around the cuts 1 to 3 times a day.

• Fresh Air: Mushrooms “exhale” CO2 as they grow! To ensure you get beautiful, large caps instead of long, stringy stems, you need excellent fresh air exchange. Aim for 6-8+ room air changes per hour in your fruiting space.

🍄 Tips & Harvesting

• Inoculation Rate: We generally recommend mixing your spawn into your prepared bulk substrate at a rate of 10% to 20% by weight. The more spawn you use, the faster it colonizes!

• Speed Demons: Don’t blink! Once Indian Oysters start pinning, they grow explosively fast. Keep a very close eye on them so you don’t miss the perfect harvest window.

• When to pick: Harvest the entire cluster at once when the edges of the largest caps are still slightly curled downwards. As soon as they start pointing up and flattening out completely, they are about to drop heavy spores!

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