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How to Grow Hydroponic Mushrooms
How to Grow Hydroponic Mushrooms. Mushrooms are highly unique and edible fungi that grow throughout the world in warm, moist and protected locations. Unlike green plants, they can grow in the dark, without any light whatsoever, as long as their warmth, moisture and nutritional needs are met. Mushrooms thrive in indoor situations, and especially in...
Mushrooms are highly unique and edible fungi that grow throughout the world in warm, moist and protected locations. Unlike green plants, they can grow in the dark, without any light whatsoever, as long as their warmth, moisture and nutritional needs are met. Mushrooms thrive in indoor situations, and especially in hydroponic gardens, which are both protected and consistently humid.
Things You'll Need
Hydroponic garden
Peat moss
Mushroom culture
Nutrient solution
Water
Familiarize yourself with the hydroponic garden before you start. Learn where the growing pods are, how to fill the water tray, how to close the system and how to turn it on and off. Fill your growing pods with peat moss to act as a support for your mushrooms.
Inject the mushroom culture (available at hydroponic and garden shops) into the peat moss. Use one mushroom culture for the entire crop by only injecting a small amount into each pot. Mushrooms will grow from the spores inside the culture.
Mix mushroom-specific nutrient solution with pure water, per the instructions on the label. This solution will provide the minerals and vitamins that mushrooms would normally derive from soil, in nature. Pour the nutritious water into the water tray and turn the hydroponic garden on, to start circulating water through the peat moss for the mushrooms.
Put the hydroponic garden in a protected place, where it will receive only filtered, indirect sunlight. Refill the water tray if it runs dry and keep the system closed if you can. Look for mushroom sprouting in six to eight weeks.
Tips & Warnings
A mushroom culture will last for years. After you harvest your mushrooms, refill the water tray and put the hydroponic garden back in its protected area, for further mushroom sprouting.
