Mushroom, The Saga Continues

More photo updates of my mushroom grow-kit, from the mushroom nerd (that's me). For the first few days, the stalks grew noticably longer and thicker, up to 12" in length. But two weeks later, the caps still haven't deployed yet. We heard that stressing the mushrooms increases yield, so my partner sliced off the larger shrooms and smashed the kit with a cardboard tube. I don't know about the mushrooms, but it made me stressed.

Here's a few neat-o facts about oyster mushrooms:

• one of the few carnivorous mushrooms: it eats nematodes
  
• considered medicinal for its cholesterol-lowering properties
• no poisonous look-alikes in North America
• it comes in white, yellow and pink colours

To be continued (again) ....