Gourmet and Medicinal Mushroom Cultures (Pleurotus geesteranus)

Its growing its growing, took almost a month and a half on pot pot sterilized 50/50 oak/soy in filtered mushroom bags at 45 degrees. It's doing it, its a mycelial colony. No special equipment, mush bags 50/50 pellet, a hot pot.. showered, washed my hands, wiped work down area with alcohol, spritzed alcohol every so often above me in a spray bottle on mist. Injected into sterilized self sealing injection ports on mush bags that had cooled overnight. used alcohol wipe to sterilize the syringe attachment port on the needle attached needle with a twist, wiped injection port, removed needle cover, injected the port, and refrigerated that easy.

It grew really well, no issues at all. People saying it doesn't grow: make sure the transportation doesn't take too long, make sure it doesn't get too hot (ordering through summer might not be the best idea), make sure you follow sterility protocols with aseptic techniques, make sure you know what you're doing...

Not a snug fit, so this was a bit messy to use allowing air to seep through as much as the liquid.

Injected into soil block to start a plug for planting outside. No growth at all or any signs of life. Super disappointed. I even broke up the brick inside the spawn bag to look for mycelium.

No contamination and growth was successful. Wicked fast growth. The jars are fully colonized in under a week.

i purchased this along with a substrate bag and nothing ever grew. I may not have done the procedure correctly I cant be sure but it seems pretty straight forward but still no results

Got the results I was looking for. I have the results now in a container outside for winter freezing. In spring I'll put into a shroom bed. So far so good. To place them out for wintering; I did feed them with some potash, blood meal and calcium. I mixed a bed with pearlite, vermiculite and a soil mix that is favorable for mushrooms. I used a small amount of molasses and water to set the medium. I have well water, so no issues. Just be aware that city water may have chemicals that are not so favorable for your mushrooms. Get the rye bags for the culture, works perfect.

I have no idea what, if anything, I did wrong but I got absolutely nothing. Because I want to be fair, I reordered and have tried yet again. Hopefully this time it will work. If not, it will be a $100 lesson learned. I don't like giving bad/unsatisfactory reviews so will try to remember to update this with a good one when/if this new batch actually grows and produces.