Harvest your mushrooms! Ideally, just before spores are released.This will mean controlling temperature, light, humidity, and air flow that your chosen species likes. When the little mushrooms (called “primoidia”) first appear (called pinning), put the substrate with primoidia in an environment with the recommended conditions to promote fruiting.

Allow the substrate to become fully colonized by the mushroom mycelium.

Put your inoculated substrate in an environment with the recommended conditions for colonization (e.g., 75° F for Pleurotus ostreatus).

Inoculate your substrate with the spawn.

Treatments include pasteurization, sterilization, lime bath, peroxide bath and 'cold fermentation.' See page on Preparation of Substrates.

Decide what material (called the substrate) that you want to grow you mushrooms on.

Purchase spawn from a mushroom cultivation supplier.

Obtain spawn for your species of choice.

Beginners should proceed to step 3 and purchase ready-made spawn from a supplier.

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a clean spore print) or by cloning a fresh mushroom. Obtain a culture started from spores (e.g.Beginners should start with Oyster mushrooms.Oyster Mushrooms are the easiest species to grow.Decide which species of mushroom you want to cultivate.With permission: Fungi Perfecti, When you are ready to try your hand at cultivation, here is what you should do

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