How to Grow Mushrooms at Home

Growing mushrooms at home is practical. Start with a colonized Ready-to-Fruit block, or inoculate your own substrate with spawn. Fungi Farm ships farm-direct from Alabama.

Three easy paths

1. Ready-to-Fruit blocks: skip lab work; fruit at home with fresh air and light. Instructions come with the block. Shop 5 lb or 10 lb blocks.
2. Spawn + substrate: inoculate with grain spawn, sawdust spawn, or liquid inoculum. Use sterile grain or the coco all-in-one for dung-loving species, or the hardwood all-in-one.
3. Plug spawn on logs: drill, plug, and wax with plug spawn.

Basic fruiting conditions

• Give the block or bag fresh air. Instructions come with it.
• Give fresh air exchange (stale air causes long stems and small caps)
• Indirect light is enough
• Comfortable room temperatures work for most oyster and lion's mane strains

Harvest when mushrooms are mature. Most Ready-to-Fruit blocks fruit in 1-3 weeks and can produce more than one flush. No misters required on our retail blocks when you follow the directions.

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Use the substrate calculator when you start mixing your own recipes.