That's impressive! I have grown mushroom twice from small kits.
The first time, I received a box of well rotted manure in the mail and only had a few mushroom but many fruit flies.
The second time, I tried oyster mushrooms in winter when it was very dry indoors. I received a container, the size of a large sherbet container, and the mushroom were supposed to know to grow out the top, but the substrate separated from the container sides and the mushrooms were pinning down the sides, so I flipped the whole thing upside down into a large glass bowl, put some water in the bottom and covered it with plastic wrap. The next day I had mushrooms. Every day, the mushrooms pushed the plastic wrap off of the bowl and I harvested enough to have with dinner and put it back down. Next time, I'm going bigger!
I had a question about your compressed bricks. Did you uncompress them before using?
Sounds like you are hooked.
Do you mean the compressed sawdust bricks? Yes, when you add water they start to fall apart.
Excellent! I was hoping the water crumbled them. The problem with the kits was keeping them going, and it looked easy enough to move what I had to a new container if I could get more substrate. Thank You!
Oh you mean the blocks from the kits? I thought you meant the sawdust blocks I buy. Im not sure, I've never tried it. But I was reading about someone recycling those blocks from a mushroom farm and putting them in a community garden and they grew more from there .
I meant the sawdust blocks. lol
I meant to tell you that the professional growers, here, grow the oyster mushrooms in large tubular plastic bags that hang from the ceiling.
Oh yes, I imagine so! In these home grows at least I can re use the buckets.