We have all kind of molds growing here mainly inside my house, dormant everywhere. I've seen black white green orange blue yellow grey and
everything in between growing inside my spawns. I've learned a lot about shiitake and oyster growing on this forum shroomery.org one summer at the
same time I pick up beekeeping. Now I'm just perfecting my techniques on maximizing my production output.
https://tinyurl.com/yald2ju2 Polar oyster mushroom mycelium growing now. I started with plugs obtained online. Then planted these plugs into rye
berry inside the 1/2 pint jars. These are the small jars so that the mycelium will colonize a lot faster and within 2 weeks they have completely over taken
the rye jars. It is now ready to inoculate more jars or to be use on the cut down woods. For the woods, I have mulberry, jujubee, plum, etc. almost anything
I can find locally that other people cut down. During the early Spring is when they cut down the most trees here. I get free woods for my mushrooms if they don't want to dispose off themselves.
For this batch of rye jars without any contamination, I will use them to expand my culture more into bigger half gallon size rye jars. Just like the bee hives it is
better to raise them off the ground for the colonization process to be completed. That way other foreign myceliums cannot get into the same woods you are trying to colonize otherwise it will contaminate your entire culture. On youtube vids they use the high speed drill to make the holes for the plugs to colonize the woods. It is another interesting subject to explore further. Find out what works in your local area and never give up until you've find a way to do it. In glass jar culture, I have seen 2 small shiitake mushroom hugging each other while still growing inside a quart size jar on agar medium. When I took pics of them the color was a bluish tint almost like a snowy winter wonderland inside the jar. Now is the time to inoculate the woods in my backyard with the polar oyster that I've collected over last summer. It is still raining season right now. I would suggest that you first learn about the growing process by making and refining your growing technique inside your house before setting them outside to grow. During the entire process you will learn a lot too.