Pleurotus ostreatus Culture

Common name: Pearl OysterFruiting Temperature: 50–60 °F A longtime favorite of mushroom hunters, fruiting nearly year-round in lowland hardwood forests. This mushroom is easy to grow and produces prolifically on a variety of substrates, including hardwood logs or sawdust, straw, spent coffee grounds and many agricultural waste products. Fungi Perfecti is constantly working with these strains, screening and maintaining cell lines. Fungi Perfecti is releasing the following strains for use on a conditional basis. Each order of in vitro mushroom cultures is custom-made: lead time for cultures is 6–8 weeks from date of order. Please note: Unlike our ready-to-grow Mushroom Patches and Mushroom Plug Spawn, our cultures do not come with instructions. It is assumed that the purchaser is sufficiently familiar with mushroom culture technique to utilize these cultures. The books Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator are essential tools in this endeavor. By purchasin