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Jenniferch Los Angeles, CA(Zone 10a) Mar 03, 2003

Does anyone have experience with mushroom "gardens"? Was it successful? A lot of work? I just bought one from a company that sells nothing but. My reaction is that it's repulsive. I moved it into the basement after the kitchen started smelling bad. The company advertizes that there's no smell, but they must not be able to smell very well! Then there's all that misting...is it worth it? YUCK!!

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plantsdirect Old Town (Gainesvill, FL(Zone 8a) Mar 04, 2003

I have thought about doing this myself and would be interested in information about the company you bought this from. Here in florida could we grow it outside??? Just wondering :)

Katrina

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Horseshoe Efland, NC(Zone 7a) Mar 04, 2003

I had one a few yrs back. It was the kind that came in a block. It never smelled. It produced some shrooms but not a large quantity of them.

I also got some spawn plugs once that you put in dead trees...those did good.

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farmgirl21 Hempstead, TX(Zone 8b) Mar 04, 2003

i do know shrooms like humidity. and in fl they grow well once the temps go up and there is morning moisture. i grew some quite a few yrs back i tried indoors in a cooler and they did not get big but the ones outside did great.

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crestedchik Cedar Key, FL(Zone 9a) Mar 05, 2003

Shoe,I was thinking about those plugs...
Did they work well?
Was it worth it?

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Horseshoe Efland, NC(Zone 7a) Mar 06, 2003

CC, I had great luck with the kind I bought. These were NOT the Shiitake that you put into hardwood logs, in case that is what you are thinking of. (Those seemed to entail a lot of prep work and maintenance.)

I ordered some plugs of "Chicken of the Woods" shrooms, a really nice meaty fungus. With these you put them in existing trees that are not rotted but nearly dead. (I used the stump of a gum tree I had previously chain-sawed down.) Drilled holed around the outside (and even on the top), put in the plugs and walked away from it. Some folks recommend you put paraffin over the plugs/plugholes but I didn't. I saw evidence of shrooms later that year, but the following year there was loads!

I wish I could tell you how many yrs they could continue to produce but I can't. The second year we had to remove the stump at ground level in order to place a big propane tank and gas truck access there. If you decide to try them, put them in a tree out of the way, like in an area you KNOW you won't need to alter any time soon.

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