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Our King Blue Oyster is a first-generation hybrid of Blue Oyster and King Oyster. It keeps the blue-gray caps and fast clustering of one parent and the thick, meaty flesh of the other, and it keeps after harvest far longer than any other oyster in the Myco Labs library.
Most oysters wilt in a day or two. King Blue holds up to ten days refrigerated, which matters for market growers and batch cooks.
Dense enough to sear and stand in for meat, and firm enough to survive a stir-fry without collapsing.
It behaves like a standard cool-weather oyster, fruiting at 60–70°F with no special technique.
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 70–75°F in the dark. Shake once at about 30% colonization to speed things up.
Store it dry: keep harvested King Blues in a paper bag in the fridge, not sealed plastic. Trapped moisture is what shortens their shelf life.
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 King Blue Oyster syringe inoculates roughly two to four containers. Using more doesn't speed colonization much; it just uses up the syringe.
12–16 days at 70–75°F, a little slower than Blue Oyster. Shaking once at about 30% colonization helps.
Hardwood sawdust or Master's Mix gives the thickest, densest fruits, which is where this hybrid shines. Straw and wood chips work for a cheaper run, with thinner flesh.
A hybrid of Blue Oyster and King Oyster. It keeps Blue Oyster's color and fast clusters and gains thicker, meatier flesh from the King side. It grows like a standard oyster.
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.
Super aggressive, quick growing. Super susceptible to blotch though.
Amazing strain, grows fast, larger than regular Blue oyster and tastes better! Winner in my book!
Price: $12.50
Price: $11.50