My first attempt at growing Mushrooms

So here I was, back home, I mean Gururam, armed with this pool of knowledge about growing mushrooms, all eager and enthusiastic to implement everything I learnt. But alas! these restricted spaces of condos is my first roadblock. But who stopped me ever? I step out to nearest village (In Gurugram, the millennium city of India, every urban sector is adjacent to a village)…Badshahpur. Hunting or 5 days and chatting with enough & more house occupants as well as so called dealers, I come across Rameshawar Uncle. He is a retired officer from Haryana Police, lives with one cow, one buffalo and a calf, and most important, has a spare room to rent out, which is exactly what I needed. So, I find my perfect place to grow mushrooms! Of course to find out later, that it’s not so perfect.

So I start, by cleaning the place, all nice and hygienic, as instructed in class room. Arrange my stuff…drum, plastic bags, spawn, fumigation stuff, etc etc.

To begin as a trial, I prepared 10 bags of pleurotus florida (white osyer), all by the book. Every step of the way, everything as taught in the class. And finally, my bags show up.

So I did some mistakes:

And of course the mushrooms didn’t see the light of the day.

That’s exactly what went through my mind for almost a week after that 10-bag debacle. That…I am a big failure 🙁

But was that supposed to stop me from trying again? Hell no. I pulled myself up, gathered all my learning from first trial and started off to my next trial.

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