24/08/2024
Can You Really Grow Mushrooms?
This is one of the most frequently asked questions I have received since I started mycology (growing mushrooms). The answer remains, YES. When God created things, He didn’t want to create them every day; He gave them the ability to reproduce.
Let me make this simple and clear. The grain of maize is both the seed and the food—you can eat it, and if you plant it, it will grow. This applies to beans, sugarcane, and even mushrooms. The mushroom is both the food and the seed combined. Mushroom seeds are called spores, and they are produced under its cap, or the gills.
To make mushroom seeds, you just need to cut a piece of the mushroom and place it in a sterilized medium. We use steam or the v***r from hot water to produce mushroom seeds and also to grow them. The steam is used to clean the medium where we will grow our mushrooms—it's like weeding your farm before planting to remove weeds and make the soil well-drained and ready for the seed.
Can you grow indigenous mushrooms, the ones that grow during the rainy season? Yes, you can, but that is another topic. Today, I want to show you what mushroom seeds look like. For those of us who grow mushrooms, we don’t call them seeds but spawn. The bottle below contains the mushroom seeds; the white stuff inside that one bottle can grow billions of tons of mushrooms.
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