Turkey Tail Mushroom Care

Turkey tail mushrooms are quite easy to grow at home. The easiest way to try growing them is to buy them as a kit. This way all you have to do is cut open the bag and keep them moist and turkey tail mushrooms will start to grow. Alternatively you can buy sawdust or plug spawn and inoculate logs with them.

Turkey tail mushrooms are quite easy to grow at home. The easiest way to try growing them is to buy them as a kit. This way all you have to do is cut open the bag and keep them moist and turkey tail mushrooms will start to grow. Alternatively you can buy sawdust or plug spawn and inoculate logs with them.

Since mushrooms do not contain chlorophyll they do not require light or photosynthesis to grow. ... Mushrooms do need a dim light to form fruit bodies, but only requires a few hours a day for successful fruiting. When growing indoors, indirect sunlight or a florescent lamp can suffice.

The average pH of mushroom compost is 6.6 (6.0 to 7.0 is an ideal range for most plants). The amount of carbon relative to nitrogen is an important indicator of nitrogen availability for plant growth, and an ideal compost should have a ratio of 30:1 or lower.

To be abundantly fruitful, mushrooms prefer humid conditions and temperatures that start out at 70 degrees F. and thereafter stay above 55, but do not rise much above 60 degrees, although they can tolerate slightly higher temperatures.

You can grow mushrooms in shipping containers.

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