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Our Golden Oyster is a first-generation Pleurotus citrinopileatus isolate, known as tamogitake in Japan. It forms tight bouquets of brilliant yellow, fan-shaped caps and is the quickest colonizer in the Myco Labs library, going from injection to harvest in about a month.
About eleven days to colonize, the quickest turnaround we have. Good for classes, market tests or proving your technique.
It fruits best at 71–78°F, alongside Pink Oyster, and slows down badly in a cool room.
Bright yellow bouquets that photograph well and cook up nutty, almost cashew-like.
Let the syringe reach room temperature, then shake it gently to break up and spread the mycelium through the broth.
Flame the needle until it glows, let it cool a few seconds, and wipe the injection port with the included alcohol pad.
Use 2–3cc per quart jar or 3–5cc per 3–5 lb grain bag. One 10cc syringe inoculates about 2–4 containers.
Keep it at 78–81°F in the dark. Shake once at about 30% colonization to speed things up.
Cook it through and use it fast: Golden Oysters bruise and wilt quicker than any other oyster, so eat them within a day or two. Always cook them thoroughly; undercooked oysters upset some people's stomachs.
From our lab to your grainRun it into jars with wide-mouth cultivation lids or your own lids with self-healing injection ports. Spare 16G needles and sterile Luer Lock syringes are sold separately.
Use 2–3cc per quart grain jar and 3–5cc per 3–5 lb spawn bag. One 10cc Golden Oyster syringe inoculates roughly two to four containers. Using more doesn't speed colonization much; it just uses up the syringe.
About 11 days at 78–81°F, with fruiting about 14 days later. The full cycle from injection to harvest is around a month.
Pasteurized straw or hardwood sawdust, and it also takes to spent coffee grounds and other cellulose-rich materials.
It's almost always too cold. Golden Oyster is subtropical; keep incubation at 78–81°F and fruiting at 71–78°F. In a cool room, run Blue or Pearl Oyster instead.
Refrigerate it at 35–45°F in the bag it shipped in and never freeze it; freezing ruptures the cells and kills the culture. Bring it to room temperature and shake gently before you inject.
Liquid culture is living mycelium from an isolated culture, so it skips germination, colonizes days faster and gives genetically consistent fruits. Spores have to germinate and pair up first, which is slower and more variable from grow to grow.
Liquid culture is living mycelium, so every syringe leaves our lab in a foil-lined insulated mailer. The insulation buffers it against summer heat in a delivery truck and against sub-freezing winter temperatures, so it arrives viable either way.
When it arrives: refrigerate the syringe at 35–45°F until you're ready to inoculate. Never freeze it. Bring it to room temperature and shake gently before use.
Well packaged and shipped fast! I am new to mushroom growing, this variety was fun and easy to grow!! I'm excited to try some of the other varieties that Myco Labs offers.
Price: $12.50