Your Questions About Gardening

Does anyone know where online or in-store I can find button mushroom spores (not the illegal mushrooms)?

I’ve searched all over the internet and all I can find for Button mushroom spores is results from Google and Bing that say “Button mushroom spores” and then when I click on the link, all the website has is spores for the hallucinogenic magic mushrooms. I don’t want to grow that stuff.

Last year and the year before I grew Pink Oyster mushrooms, Blue Oyster mushrooms, and Shiitake mushrooms from mushroom kits. But I don’t want to use a kit because then I can’t grow as much as I want. I’m not trying to start my own business. I don’t want to grow as many Button mushrooms as possible so I can sell them off. I don’t even want to give them away as freebies. I just love the taste and I’ve had success in the past with the kits and I’d like to try Button mushrooms.

A friend suggested to me why I don’t just buy Button mushrooms at the produce section at the grocery store and try to collect spores from the gills underneath the caps that way. I’ve already read about that. It apparently doesn’t work because many of the spores are collected through the air ducts in the warehouses where companies grow mushrooms and also the fact that who knows how old the mushrooms themselves are, plus the fact that they’ve been refrigerated can kill off the spores.

I’ve heard the best way to inoculate your medium (in my case, my friend’s mother in southern Illinois has a sheep farm and collects the dung and sells it as fertilizer for plants, and I bought some of that in bags) is to use a plastic syringe that has a mixture of some kind of liquid (probably distilled water) and the spores themselves and to put the needle into the middle of your medium and inoculate that way. I’ve seen the syringes they sell online for the magic mushrooms, but I don’t know if they do it the same way for gourmet mushrooms.

I’ve already checked Ebay. No one sells spores of any mushroom kind there. Probably because they don’t want people growing their own mushrooms and competing with their business of selling dried mushrooms on Ebay.

Thanks for any info. I really appreciate it =)

What is Permiculite? (vermiculite?)?

I need to know what Permiculite is!
I think it has something to do with cultivations so ill put it in the gardening section.
I saw it on this video>> http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-grow-your–own-hallucinogenic-mushrooms-1642/
he says it at 6:03 and 8:52
please get back to me (osciaran@hotmail.com)
I need to know what Permiculite is!
I think it has something to do with cultivations so ill put it in the gardening section.
I saw it on this video>> http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/…
he says it at 6:03 and 8:52
please get back to me (osciaran@hotmail.com)

ps id rather if you didnt use Wiki to get answers i want expirence not people looking for points

Your Question Where can you buy White Button (Agaricus Bisporus) Mushroom Spawn in the U.S.?

I am trying to grow my own mushrooms, without a kit, from scratch. It is my impression that I need spawn not spore, but am having a very hard time finding them to purchase. I appreciate any help anyone can give.