Large Organic Golden Oyster Mushroom Growing Kit, Beginner-Friendly Yellow Mushroom Grow Kit, MD USA Non-GMO Mushroom Kit, Harvest Mushrooms in 10 Days at Home

I’m growing double the mushrooms. They took off fast, it’s fun to watch and delicious to eat. Purchased lions main which is hard to find in stores and yellow oyster. Will buy again.

Solid starter kit and Oyster MR's are super forgiving and tenacious. For beginners - once you fruit these a few times (yes, you can get a 2nd flush if you re-soak) - check the corrugated portion of the cardboard. You'll notice the mycelium have started to colonize the box....from there, you can extend your grow if you transition to substrate and restart the process. For me, the colonized box wa a BONUS after 2 flushes. Great starter kit either way.

Solid grow kit, fully prepped for dipping one's tows into the world of mushroom cultivation, with a palatable, generally well-liked strain. Note that good mushroom cultivation does require specific environmental conditions (e.g., moisture/humidity and temperature levels) and careful attention, but this is a functional, family-friendly, easily germinated and good-value choice, which will help drive or deter further interest in the hobby.

If you want to try growing mushrooms whether you're a novice or experienced, you can't go wrong with a kit like this. Follow the directions carefully to get started, and you will have mushrooms to harvest in no time! I got this kit on a Monday, it sat in a warm humid room until I finally opened it, cut the plastic, very lightly forked the surface and soaked it overnight on Friday evening. The "log" looked quite colonized and ready to go when I opened it. Every day once or twice a day I used a small watering can instead of spray bottle to drench the medium with, pouring water into one open side and then the other. I ended up removing the "log" from the box because the box got soaked and was falling apart. At the top of the "log" looked like some foam that maybe went down into the medium, but I poured some water in that, too and it seemed to gradually soak in. The room they were in was 70s to 80s and at least 50% humidity or more. By the following Friday, I had mushrooms to harvest! Once they started pinning by Monday/Tuesday, the mushrooms grew fast! It was a good sized harvest, too. The flush was larger on one side than the other. I soaked the kit overnight again a day or two after the first harvest, and by the next Friday I had a second flush of mushrooms! Not as large, but there were half a dozen flushes, three on each side. While I sauteed and ate some of the mushrooms, I dehydrated the bulk of them so that I could rehydrate and use later in cooking and soups. They were delicious and buttery tasting, tender but slight mushroom "crunch". I don't know if I will get a third flush. I may break up and spread the remains of this kit into some fresh moist hardwood chips or aspen shavings in a shady spot outside somewhere and see if it will get inoculated and grow more of these. You want to harvest these before the caps flatten out. You want to harvest them when the edges are curved downward when you look at them from the side. I show what I mean in one of the pics; you can see how a couple of the caps at the very top flattened out, but the rest have the edges curved down. While you can still harvest them after they've started cracking or spored, they are still tasty, but better to harvest a little early than too late for best quality. The amount of mushrooms this kit produced, and having the bulk of them dehydrated, they should last many months. I think the price of this kit is fair considering what it is capable of producing for you. I look forward to trying more of these kits of different mushroom varieties. I highly recommend!

This kit was a good introduction into the world of growing your own mushrooms. I had never tried to start growing mushrooms indoors and this kit was an easy way to start. The instructions were good, I had to wait until the house warmed up enough to get them going. After soaking the log it only took a few days to see activity. I wasn't sure what to expect but the mushrooms grew quickly. I wasn't sure how big they would get and at what point I should harvest them. I ended up letting them go too long and found out that they would drop a lot spores on the counter top. It was an interesting experiment not having any pervious experience. I did use the second side to grow a second crop. The box got quite soggy and fell apart. I had a hard time keeping the log moist enough with the small sprayers included and ended using a larger spray bottle and placing the whole thing in a pan to contain the water.