Lab 10

                                            Grow mushrooms in our class
Objecitves: Learn how to grow mushrooms, and faimliar with the conditions and the processes of mushrooms growing.
Material and Method
Mushrooms kit: Skitake and Oyster mushrooms kit
                        Tray,  plastic bag, plastic sticks, water sprayer
Procedures:

1: Soak the kit with spring water for half an hour until the kit was thoroughly wet.

2: Place the kit to the tray, and constructure a space by plastic stick and bag to keep hight humidity condition for mushrooms growing( Picture from Sheila)

3: Mist mushrooms kit 1-3 time every days. Thanks for Peicheng and Dr. Shaw's help cause we are not working at Peterson building.

                                 




4: 1 weeks later, both oyster and skitake are become to genminate, we can see the baby mushrooms are growing. Hope we can get enough mushrooms at the end of the class. We are looking forward to eat them at the last class. Ha, interesting!

5: 2 weeks later, the mushrooms are mature and ready to collect. Sheila harvest them and plan to cook them. Looking forward that!

6: Mushrooms we growed were cooked by Sheila! How nice they looks! Actually, it tasted even better than they look! Thanks Sheila.

Discussion: This is the first time I grow mushrooms, and I like it very much. Now I know, the humidity is very important for mushrooms growing. The kit we used is commercial, it should consist with the same compost as we saw last time from Monterey factory. This is very critical for mushrooms growing as well.