Grow your own oyster mushrooms

Myco-Mate® Fast Fungi edible mushroom growkit - £25

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The Myco-Mate® Fast Fungi is a brand new innovative mushroom growing kit from The Netherlands.

The Myco-Mate® Fast Fungi comes complete with full colour illustrated instructions and everything you need to grow edible mushrooms. There are two options for inoculating (injecting) the mushroom kit.

Spores: You may inject spores directly into growth substrate; this is a little less work but takes longer and occasionally not enough of the spores germinate, or Liquid Culture: For much quicker colonisation and larger yields you must first inoculate and colonise a Myco-Mate® Liquid Culture vial and then inject the liquid culture into the bag of growth substrate. The Myco-Mate® Fast Fungi will yield several hundred grams of mushrooms in a few weeks, so it is faster and greater yielding than other mushroom grow kits. Each kit comes with complete instructions and is not be used to grow mushrooms of the magic kind in countries where it is illegal to do so.

The Myco-Mate® edible sclerotia (truffle) kit - £25

The Myco-Mate® edible sclerotia (truffle) kit is a brand new truffle growing kit from The Netherlands.

The Myco-Mate® come complete with full colour illustrated instructions and everything you need to grow truffles. You may inject spores directly into the growth substrate. For much quicker colonisation and larger yields you must first inoculate and colonise a Myco-Mate® liquid culture vial (supplied) and then inject the liquid culture into the bag of growth substrate.

The Myco-Mate® may be used with spores to grow edible sclerotia truffles (non-psilocybin) in the UK.

Myco-box Oyster mushroom grow kit - £17.50 - OUT OF STOCK

Myco-box Oyster mushroom grow kit - £17.50

The Myco-Box is a very small but very quick way of growing mushrooms.

The kit includes a small tub (250ml) of sterilised substrate, a tray of vermiculite, 1 alcohol wipe, and a humidity tent. Syringe NOT included. (Available below, not all are Legal for cultivation in the UK)

Method; Use the alcotip wipe to clean the lid and needle of the syringe. Inject 4 x 0.5ml through the lid of the tub. Seal the holes with tape immediately after. Leave in a warm place (28 C is ideal) for around 3 weeks, or until the whole thing has turned white.
Fill the vermiculite tray with boiling water and allow to cool for a few hours, when cooled, drain off any excess water. Remove the lid's from both tubs and sit the white block open end down onto the vermiculite.
Now move the tray into the humidity tent, fold over the top and seal with paper clips. Your first mushrooms (approx 35 grams) should appear in a few weeks. Pick off any mushrooms just before they open their caps, add a little extra water to the vermiculite, and put it back in the bag to fruit.
Yields of up to 100grams are possible but 70-80 is more likely.

	Remove tinfoil from myco-box. You are going to start the kit by injecting spores at 4 equally spaced sites around the top of the box (near to the edge as shown in the diagram to the left)
	Swab each site with the supplied alcohol wipe before injecting each of the four sites with approx 0.5ml of spore solution. Quickly tape over the holes afterwards (with selotape or similar). That's it! Relax.
	Incubate the box somewhere warm and dark (26-28 °C is ideal for most tropical species). You will see small white spots of mushroom mycelium start to grow after a few days.
	Wait 2-3 weeks until the contents turn completely white (except for a small top layer, which will not turn white as it is dry). Then place it in the fridge for two days.
	Now you are ready to fruit. Add some boiling water to the vermiculite in the tray, put the lid on and leave to cool for a couple of hours. When it's fully cooled, drain off the excess water from the vermiculite by opening the lid slightly. Remove the lids from the tray and Myco-Box and "birth" the cake by loosening the lid, inverting the Myco-Box and letting it drop on to the vermiculite in the tray.
	Now place the whole tray and its contents carefully inside the plastic bag and close the top with paperclips or tape. Place somewhere warm (22-24 °C) which receives some light (but not direct sun). You should see mushrooms appear within 1-3 weeks. Pick your mushrooms when they begin to open their caps. Add a bit more water to the vermiculite, close the bag again and you should get a couple more crops. With little or no modification, this method could probably be applied to many species of saphrophytic fungi, yielding similar results. Enjoy

Myco-box Oyster mushroom grow kit - £17.50