New Grower. Experimenting With Oysters (Pleurotus Ostreatus). Got my first couple batches incubating and Substrate is almost entirely Colonised.
Have been incubating these guys under my bed and don't have a proper set up of any kind right now, but have been studying on a serious scale reading non stop, and learning lots.
I need to move them to fruit in the next couple of days.
The issue is im living at my parents and we only have an outhouse where I can experiment. Right now it's getting pretty cold out - the outhouse is basically a "fancy shed" and it's not insulated.
FAE is good in there, but I'm worried about temp.
Initially the "cold shock" and added FAE versus being under my bed im thinking is going to be perfect for pinning, and I also think I will be able to manage humidity fairly well (I grow Tropical nepenthes and other plants that have high humidity requirements so I'm kinda used to generating humidity).
I have another hygrometer/temp sensor coming for the out house and will spend a few days mapping the conditions before I move the oysters for fruiting.
Was curious before the day arrives - how "Low" can Ostreatus Pleurotus comfortably exist and fruit?
Im seeing lots of contradictions imln literature, and wild variations in fruiting Temp recommendations. I understand 100% that temp tolerance is strain dependent, and I have deliberately chosen m2191 spawn which is supposed to be robust and a low temp tolerant as current have no heating or electricity in the outhouse (starting out really small, first Grow).
Im thinking temps are regularly going to be around 5 degrees c in there, sometimes close to freezing but won't know 100% until i so some monitoring (probe will here Tomorrow).
Is this low temp going to be OK or am I going to need to heat the environment somehow?
10 degrees C seems like minimum recommended temp - does any body else grow Pleurotus Ostreatus at temps around 5 degrees C successfully?
I understand that the temp of the mycelium is going to be at least 5 degrees hotter in some cases than air temp (i.e. Bag Probe temp is higher than air probe temp).
When it is recommended that "Fruiting Temperature is 10 to 17 degrees C" in terms of instruction etc. is this talking about air Temp, or bag temp (generally speaking)bas can't find a clear answer to that anywhere either despite reading huge amounts.
At this stage im just experimenting, and I it get that I have to learn my own way, but I really want to give these guys the best chance from the get go.
Really want to quit my Job and farm shrooms one day (it's the dream, im commited) so want to start as I mean to go on and do things as properly as I possibly can with the little resources and space i have available to me, before expanding my experiments.
Really appreciate the help in advance!