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(More customer reviews)I bought the mushroom kit as my husband and I enjoy mushrooms, wanted to save some money, and we like the idea of growing our own food. I therefore split the spawn between the both of us (he lives in another state temporarily) and we are now comparing its growth. Since we were splitting it, we weren't going to need a 5 gallon bucket. Also, to maximize mushroom production I figured more surface area, the better. So we bought 4 clear storage containers. We made 1 coffee ground box and 1 newspaper/cardboard box each. We sprinkle/mist water that has been boiled to get rid of the chlorine in our tap water. However, when constructing the boxes and watering, we found the instructions to be vague. We had a lot of questions such as: how much water to mist, how deep should the layers be, etc. My husband and I are engineers so I think we expected some more numerical guidelines. So we had trouble trying to determine how to scale down the original instructions to our own boxes.
But we made it work.
Also, I don't like the idea that this kit isn't sustaining, meaning I can't grow mushrooms forever off of it. Furthermore, know beforehand that if you intend to do the coffee ground method, you need a lot of grounds. We worked on this over a weekend and had to call/visit 3 coffeeshops to acquire grounds pretty fast.
1.5 weeks: Mine are growing faster than his and I have mycellium development over the entire coffee ground box, and vertical shoot growth in the newspaper one. He wasn't boiling his water beforehand and now does. Mine are also in a more opaque humidity tent, but that's another experiment in itself. So, I will continue to update this and try to upload pictures. So far so good after some confusion in the beginning.
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