Growing Oyster Mushrooms in a bucket with Lime pasteurization

[@Mushlove1213]

Ive heard wood shavings cause contamination often, have you used wheat straw for the bucket?

[@scotlandforagingandfishing]

I used ash shavings, it works, you also can use shredded wheat straw.With oyster mushrooms, contamination is not much of an issue as it is a very fast colonizer.

[@Mushlove1213]

@@scotlandforagingandfishing Thank you, Im trying to get portobellos to spawn for about a year now, no-one gives straight up instructions that work, So I've finally arrived at pasturized wheat straw, horse dung mixed with a ratio to spawn it, I've got it spawning now, but its sooo slow I think the straw may have been too wet but its moving, its a big cake. I started a second bag but instead o pasteurizing with hot water I tried the hydrated lime bath and hung it in onion bags to drip dry for a few hours mixed the grain spawn in I developed and its only been 2 days not seeing any spawning. Would you know are portobellos adverse to the lime bath am I better off sticking with the hot water method? I used the hyradted lime for a couple of buckets I just made using wheat straw and Blue Oyster spawn. Tks.🍄🍄🍄🍄 🍄

[@scotlandforagingandfishing]

@@Mushlove1213 Lime works really only with Oyster mushrooms, I done an experiment wih the Lions mane and it failed. For Portobellos I would use sterilised hardwood pellets.