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Snow Oyster Grain Spawn

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SNOW OYSTER MUSHROOM CULTIVATION
Buy Snow Oyster Grain Spawn Online. Pleurotus ostreatus: Very popular, fleshy, firm, edible snow-white oyster-shaped caps often found growing on old dying maple trees. Snow Oysters are a cold weather loving strain and tend to produce mushrooms in the cooler months.

Grain Spawn – This is used for outdoor straw or wood chip beds or commercial indoor production using sawdust or straw. You do not use Grain Spawn for log inoculation. Grain spawn comes in bags approximately 6lbs each. Buy Snow Oyster Grain Spawn Online.

Inoculation:

Outdoor Beds – With Oyster mushrooms you may also choose to use grain spawn to inoculate outdoor straw beds. We’ve had success growing Oyster mushrooms in our raised garden beds by sprinkling grain spawn in the beds in the spring. We had Oysters growing right out of our soil!

Indoor Commercial Production – Oyster mushroom grain spawn can be mixed into sterilized or lime pasteurized substrates including but not limited to hardwood sawdust, straw, and coffee grounds. These processes range from requiring a fair amount of infrastructure for larger projects to simple and low-tech. Buy Snow Oyster Grain Spawn Online. We recommend purchasing a book on mushroom cultivation if you are interested in pursuing this style of mushroom production as a hobby or profession. We recommend ‘Radical Mycology: A Treatise on Seeing and Working with Fungi’ by Peter McCoy, ‘Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation’ by Tradd Cotter, or ‘Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms’ by Paul Stamets.

Difficulty: Beginner

Snow Oyster mushrooms are a great mushroom for beginners. They colonize quickly and are reliable producers. 

Cooking: Snow Oysters can easily replace button mushrooms in most recipes and pair well with many cuisines and flavors. Like all Oyster mushrooms, they retain water and may develop a viscous texture when undercooked. If you prefer a firm or dryer texture, continue to cook Snow Oysters until their liquid has reduced and cooked off and they begin to brown. Buy Snow Oyster Grain Spawn Online.

Properties: Oyster mushrooms have a high protein content, several B vitamins, and all the essential amino acids (Marley, 2009). Its medicinal benefits include promoting anti-tumor activity and lowering high cholesterol. Oyster mushroom fruiting bodies and distillations have been shown to reduce tumor size in several studies on mice, rats, and hamsters (Hobbs, 1995). Buy Snow Oyster Grain Spawn Online. Additionally, Oyster mushrooms have been used in the Czech Republic as the main ingredient in a dietary supplement used to treat high cholesterol (Hobbs, 1995). Studies in animals have shown that a diet of Oyster mushrooms reduced the development of plaque in major arteries (Bobek et al., 1995).  Buy Snow Oyster Grain Spawn Online.

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