Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The Back To The Roots mushroom kit produces very nice brown oyster mushrooms within a few days of rehydrating the substrate. Since hydration is the primary limiting factor for producing good flushes from kits, it is recommended by this grower that you remove the substrate completely from the mycobag, then submerge the substrate block overnight in clean, cold water. The next morning, drain the substrate block, pat it dry with paper towels, then return it to the bag and fruit as normal. My kit produced 160g of fresh mushrooms on the first flush, and about half that on the second flush. Once your kit has exhausted itself, (e.g. after the second or third flush), the substrate can be crumbled up and used to inoculate another substrate of your choosing, e.g. straw, coffee grounds, cardboard, cotton cloth, hardwood sawdust from stove pellets, or a combination of these and/or other materials. This variety is both an agressive colonizer and prolific fruiter. Expect approximately 30 days between innnoculation and harvest. Here are some cluster maturing on 20lbs of pasturized wheat straw. Growing on bulk substrate tends to produce larger flushes and larger individual mushrooms than growing from a kit, (examples of both below).