Mushrooms!

Pearl Oyster Mushrooms.

On January 13^th Mr. Gooden gave us a science project to grow mushrooms. Taty and I had a pearl oyster mushroom project which came in a bag with a mixture of sawdust and pearl oyster mycelium. It also came with a humidity bag, which increases the humidity so the mushrooms can grow better. All that Taty and I had to do is get a wire coat hangar and twist from the top of the bag to the stem of the mushroom bag and then cover with the humidity tent. Then we had to mist it 2-3 times a day until it grew tiny buds. After 2 weeks or so the pearl oyster mushrooms grew bigger until Mr. Gooden cut them off.  On Tuesday the 20^th,, in the morning Mr. Gooden made pearl oyster egg scramble, which I didn’t get to have because I wasn’t there to have some since I was in the elementary room. The other groups have other mushrooms that are called shittakes, blue oysters, and King of Stropharia.  We are growing these because we want to learn about how mushrooms grow.  We ordered the mushroom kits from Fungi Perfect.

Breakfast: Pearl Oyster Egg Scramble,