Edible Mushroom

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Find out how to prepare agar for petri dishes. Share your favourite recipes and techniques

learn the art of cloning mushrooms.

Is this how it should look? Is it 100%? How long until i should fruit it? This is the place for those kind of questions, between inoculation and 'fruits of your labour'.

If you're having pest problems or have some advice on how to control pest problems, here's the place

Post your mushroom fruiting success stories with pictures please.

The place to post beginning to end grow records. A kind of blog but others are free to comment or answer questions

If you need to know how a particular mushroom species behaves.

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What mushrooms are worth growing at the markets and which ones are better off remaining a backyard cultivators delight?

share your ideas on how you could grow a truffle a porcini or chanterelle perhaps

Got a favourite way to cook the end product?

grain, sawdust, cardboard...how do you do it?

how to work with spores.

What medium do you grow your mushrooms on?

Where do you get the supplies that you require to grow mushrooms?

Trade spore prints, syringes, grain spawn, petri dishes, equipment, organs etc.Australians should go to the "Mushroom Cultivation - Australia" as quarantine rules are quite restrictive and all trades must be made aussie to aussie.

A place to post tried and trued techniques, whether they're your own or good online resources, with thorough explanations. Pictures encouraged.

What do you grow in? a tub, a tent, mini greenhouse, a basement, a shipping container, outdoors, a coke bottle, a cupboard...etc

Aussies dont have walmart and other department stores that are referenced in shroomery forums. This is where you mention where you get your supplies.

This is the place where to acquire your mushroom seed

Trade spore prints, syringes, grain spawn, petri dishes, equipment, organs etc (Australian only section, due to quarantine laws)

Post some pics or tales mushrooms you found, maybe where you found them too.

Identifying mushrooms can be complicated, lets break it down a little.

If you find a mushroom and you know what it is, take a picture and write some field notes and post it here. Try to post the common name and latin name also. Please check this thread before posting in the "What Is This Mushroom" thread.

need an ID on a mushroom you found in the wild? Please check the "Positive ID" thread before posting here.