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Our Pink Oyster is a first-generation Pleurotus djamor isolate and the fastest culture in the Myco Labs library. It's a subtropical oyster that throws dense, fan-shaped clusters in saturated salmon pink and can go from spawned substrate to harvest in under two weeks when it's warm.
It fruits from 72 to 85°F, right where most gourmet species stall. Run it in summer, in a garage or anywhere without air conditioning.
Ten to twelve days on grain and about two weeks to harvest. Pins show up so quickly that first-time growers think something's wrong.
Spent coffee grounds and cardboard both work, so it's a low-cost strain for experimenting.
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 75–81°F in the dark. Shake once at about 30% colonization to speed things up.
Plan the harvest: Pink Oysters keep only a day or two in the fridge, and the pink fades to tan when cooked. Pick and cook them fresh.
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 Pink Oyster syringe inoculates roughly two to four containers. Using more doesn't speed colonization much; it just uses up the syringe.
About 10–12 days at 75–81°F, the fastest of any culture we sell. Fruiting follows in another 12–14 days, and fruits can double in size overnight.
Pasteurized straw or supplemented hardwood sawdust. Pink Oyster also colonizes spent coffee grounds and cardboard readily, which makes it popular for low-cost grows.
No. Unlike the cool-weather oysters, it fruits warm. Spawn to bulk, keep it at 72–85°F, add fresh air and humidity, and it will pin on its own.
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.
Very prolific and aggressive variety. This might be my all time best yield using this culture
Colonized and fruited quickly! Overall, I'm extremely happy with the LC syringes from Myco Labs. I highly recommend this company to anyone exploring mycology!
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