Kevin, you mentioned that you spray your oyster mushrooms in buckets directly. I have been trying to grow oyster in buckets on sugar cane mulch and haven't had much luck with the size of my flushes, despite using a fairly high grain spawn to substrate ratio. I also pasteurise the substrate by soaking in hot water with lime for a few hours. I have them in a plastic greenhouse as a fruiting chamber under the stairs outside, so they get natural light but very little direct sunlight. I have been spraying the chamber several times a day when they fruit, but not the mushrooms directly. I am wondering if spraying them directly works better with oysters than just spraying the area around them? If you have experimented with that at all.
My buckets pin well, but then they get to a certain size and seem to start smelling funky, or dry out. I've had a few bigger flushes when the weather is really humid. I'm guessing it must be a humidity issue as I keep the door of the chamber open for airflow.
Love the idea of using your buckets of inoculated substrate to re-inculate fresh substrate! Will have to try that one.
