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Kit DIY Oyster Mushrooms
Ballots pleurotes pulmonaires
Kit DIY Oyster Mushrooms

KIT Mushrooms DIY

  • 🍄 DIY ORGANIC Oyster Mushroom KIT: All the necessary materials in one box to make your own oyster mushroom growing bundles.
  • 🌱 EASY CULTURE: Super simple to do at home, at school, with your children, your friends, thanks to detailed instructions and an enriched substrate.
  • 💪 HIGH YIELD: Harvest up to 3 kg of fresh oyster mushrooms over several harvests.
  • 🍽️ NUTRITIVE QUALITY: Oyster mushrooms are rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals, perfect for a balanced diet.
  • 🌍 ORGANIC PRODUCTION: Certified “BE-BIO-01”, without pesticides or GMOs, environmentally friendly.
  • STORAGE: You can store the mycelium for 2 months in the refrigerator until ready to use.
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Welcome to the mushroom growing adventure! This kit will allow you to easily grow your own mushrooms, whether at home, at school or with friends. Discover the pleasure of watching your oyster mushrooms grow and harvest.

Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Time Before Harvest: 4 to 6 weeks

Conservation of Mycelium
If you do not use it within 2-3 days of receipt, store the mycelium in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.


      Stages of Culture

      Pellets pailles sacs

      1. Preparation of Bags
        Distribute the lime among the 5 bags (one teaspoon per bag). Add 2 liters of water per bag and allow the pellets to absorb the water.

      2. Adding Mycelium
        Add ±300 g of mycelium per bag.

      3. Closure of Bags
        Seal the bag with tape or a sealer.

      4. Blend
        Mix the bag to evenly distribute the mycelium throughout the substrate.

      5. Colonization
        Leave the bag for 2 weeks at around 20°C in the dark to allow the mycelium to properly colonize the substrate.

      6. Aeration
        Squeeze the air out of the bag and make a 5-10 cm cut in the side of the bag at the substrate level to allow the oyster mushrooms to develop.

      7. Humidity
        Maintain humidity by spraying daily or placing the bag on a large plate with a damp towel underneath.

      8. Growth
        Oyster mushrooms will begin to grow from opening in 1 to 2 weeks.

      9. Harvest
        Harvest before the caps rise and release their spores. Be careful, they grow quickly! If you harvest them a little later, it's no big deal, but they may be a little less tender and flavorful.

        kit diy oyster mushrooms

        Each Bag Can Produce 2 to 3 Harvests: In total, 600 g of oyster mushrooms per bag, or 3 kg for the 5 bags. After each harvest, let the bag rest for 3-5 days before re-moistening it by immersing the bundle overnight in a basin of water.

        To spread out the harvests, place some bales in the refrigerator or in a cooler room after colonization.

        Mycelium-based objects?

        You can also test the “ mycomaterials ” mode to make mycelium objects by choosing the “reishi” variety. More information on our tutorial on mycomaterials .

        Choose the Mini or the Maxi-Kit DIY?

        Mini-Kit DIY

         Maxi-Kit DIY

        1 bag with breathable micro-filter 5 bags with breathable micro-filter
        1 kg of straw pellets (certified organic) and lime 5 kg of straw pellets (certified organic) and slaked lime
        300 g of oyster mushroom mycelium 1.5 kg of oyster mushroom mycelium
        Manual Manual

        Pair of gloves

        1 mini-spray
        Harvest potential: 600 gr of oyster mushrooms Harvest potential: 3 kg of oyster mushrooms

        Precautions 

        • Work as cleanly as possible: wash work surfaces and your hands before starting.
        • Lime, although slaked, can be irritating to the hands. Avoid direct contact or wash your hands immediately.
        • Times may vary depending on temperatures. Cold slows down the metabolism of the fungus, which can influence the distribution of harvests.
        • It is recommended to use the mycelium all at once. If you still plan to use it several times, be sure to work cleanly and close the bag tightly after use. Store it in the refrigerator and use it within 2-3 weeks.

        Important Note: Most mycelia are produced to order. Depending on available stocks, delivery time may take 1 to 3 weeks.

        Educational Pack 

        You want to organize an activity with your students or children about mushrooms, this is the perfect kit.

        Pack Pédagogique Champignon

        Educational Objectives

        • Understand what a mushroom is and its role in nature.
        • Explore the life cycle and metabolism of mushrooms.
        • Discover the different kingdoms of life and the classification of mushrooms.
        • Raise participants’ awareness of the importance of fungi in ecosystems.
        • Identify the main families of mushrooms.

        Topics Discussed

        1. Definition of a Mushroom
          Understand that the mushroom is the fruit of a mycelium, and not a plant.

        2. Fungal Metabolism
          Study how mushrooms feed and grow.

        3. Mushroom Reproduction Cycle
          Observe and explain the stages of mushroom growth.

        4. Kingdoms of the Living
          Locate mushrooms in biological classification.

        5. Ecological Role
          Discuss the importance of fungi in ecosystems, as decomposers and symbionts.

        6. Mushroom Families
          Discover the characteristics of the main families: Basidiomycetes (like oyster mushrooms), Ascomycetes, and Zygomycetes. Understand the differences in functioning between saprophytic, symbiotic and parasitic fungi.


          Mushroom Science Project Ideas for Kids

          • Compare Environments

          Obtain two mushroom grow kits of the same type and slightly modify their growing environments. The main factors for mushroom growth are humidity, light and air flow. You can try changing the amount of humidification a kit has, changing the amount of sunlight a kit receives, or changing the amount of airflow a kit has. The kit that receives different conditions is the experimental kit. Keep the other kit in ideal conditions as a control and watch what happens! Remember, only change one factor at a time to get the best possible data! Does this change the number of mushrooms that grow? Does this change the distribution of mushrooms on the block? Do the mushrooms in the experimental kit look different? Record your observations!

          • Describing and Identifying Mushrooms

          Although you already know what type of mushrooms your kit will grow, you can work on the mushroom identification process using your kit. Photograph or draw your mushrooms through the different stages of growth, and demonstrate how to use the following techniques to identify mushrooms:

          Look at the mushroom: What color is the cap? How is the foot formed? Is the hat convex, flat, conical?

          Look under the cap for spore-producing structures. Does the fungus have lamellae, pores, or teeth? Does the fungus have warts, a veil, a ring?

          Touch the mushroom: Is the top of the mushroom cap smooth? Velvety? Dry ? Scaly? Is the foot (or stipe) downy or fibrous?

          Smell the mushroom: Many mushrooms are identified by their smell. These smells may be the normal mushroom smell that we are all accustomed to with button mushrooms, or they may smell rotten or like almonds, or even like cinnamon.

          • A spore print

          Remove the stem from the hat and place the hat slat side down on a sheet of paper. Some mushrooms (like shiitake) produce white spore prints, so you may want to make one on white paper and one on colored paper. Cover the mushroom caps with a bowl or other lid to prevent drafts from moving the spores and leave them for a few hours. After waiting, you should be able to carefully lift the mushroom caps and see the spores left behind on the paper! Mushrooms leave spore prints of many different colors, so it's a useful technique!

          You can also find a wild mushroom (during fall or spring) and compare your observations between your home grown mushrooms and wild mushrooms! Please note: Wild mushrooms should never be consumed without 100% positive identification!

          • Reproduce the mycelium

          Take a nice piece of mycelium and mix it with different substrates such as coffee grounds, pasteurized straw, cardboard, wood shavings, etc. See how to react and how the mycelium manages to colonize or not these different environments.

          • Observer under the microscope

          If you have a microscope, you can observe the "hyphae" (filaments of the mycelium), or the spores of the mushroom. Compare with other varieties of mushrooms collected in the wild for example.

          These are just a few ideas for mushroom science projects; use your imagination! Be curious! Ask questions, and see if your mushroom growing kits can help answer them! Mushrooms have much to teach us about their life cycle, their ecosystem, and the global environment. But above all, have fun!

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            Pour le moment, tout se déroule selon les indications fournies. Les placards mis à disposition pour les paquets de mycélium semble bien convenir au produit.

            Customer Reviews

            Based on 7 reviews
            57%
            (4)
            14%
            (1)
            29%
            (2)
            0%
            (0)
            0%
            (0)
            a
            adrien leleu
            wonderful

            beautiful results thank you la mycosphère

            M
            Marie L’Hoest

            En cours

            b
            brice meneghetti

            ras

            F
            François Mossay
            Kit Sciences Participatives

            Reçu dans le délai souhaité, bien conçu, bien expliqué, facile à mettre en oeuvre. La récolte devrait bien se passer ; )

            F
            Famille Spicher
            C'est amusant de transformer un placard en petite forêt

            Pour le moment, tout se déroule selon les indications fournies. Les placards mis à disposition pour les paquets de mycélium semble bien convenir au produit.

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