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Mossy Creek Mushrooms Original Culture Plate for growing yourself for food or profit. Mushroom Mycelium Liquid culture, Culture plates available on our website.
Aug 12 2019
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How to Grow Mushrooms: Using Liquid Culture to Make Grain Spawn

By Melanie Andromidas

While liquid culture is great for bonus materials, it’s best to not rely on it for your primary means of generating grain spawn. For consistency, buying from a reputable seller or creating your own are the better options. Liquid culture often grows well, but contamination takes hold easily, and there’s a large risk of losing an entire batch of grow bags if it’s your main source of spawn. However, for a one time grow or trial run, the inexpensiveness of liquid culture helps equalize the risk.

Mossy Creek Mushrooms Original Culture Plate for growing yourself for food or profit. Mushroom Mycelium Liquid culture, Culture plates available on our website.
Apr 12 2019
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How to Grow Mushrooms: Cleaning

By Melanie Andromidas

For many people, the word “cleaning” holds negative connotations of chores and grunge work. However, when growing mushrooms for a living, cleaning needs to be incorporated into your day-to-day life. Contaminants are always lingering around waiting for their chance to take hold, and if the work to keep them at bay isn’t put in, your harvest isn’t going to be up to par.

Mossy Creek Mushrooms Original Culture Plate for growing yourself for food or profit. Mushroom Mycelium Liquid culture, Culture plates available on our website.
Mar 22 2019
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How to Grow Mushrooms: Lighting

By Melanie Andromidas

Contrary to popular belief, mushrooms generally require a fair amount of light to grow well. In fact, the mushrooms that grow on the back of our blocks and don’t get much light tend to grow looking slightly wilted. While they’re still good for personal consumption, they’re not the quality we want to sell to a restaurant.

Jan 18 2019
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Setting up a Grow Room

By Melanie Andromidas

When designing a grow room, it’s important to know that keeping your room hospitable for growing mushrooms is a constant balancing act between five main factors. Perfection isn’t necessary, or even attainable, but it’s essential to realize that often when one element changes, another will have to as well. It’s a push and pull to get the correct combination, but your mushrooms will tell you what they’re needing, if you pay attention.