Types Of Oyster Mushrooms - A Complete Guide To All The Different Types You Can Grow Or Eat 

Thank you for mentioning about yellow oyster mushrooms potentially being an invasive species in North America. I always try to be conscious about that with plants, but haven’t heard or read anything else about the issue with mushrooms before.

I grew my first oyster mushroom from a kit. I think I'm hooked. I love it. Now I want to know everything.

I have to hand it to you Tony. You took something that seemed pretty complicated and difficult, and made it very easy to understand and then do yourself. I love your videos and recommend them all the time. I don't know what it is about mushrooms but they seem very special. Keep up the great work my man!

I really appreciate how you bring such informational content in a professional and calm way (contrary to the tendency on youtube for sensation and shouting). Have read your entire blog and you really inspired me to try it myself. Cloned store bought mushrooms via needle biopsy in honey water jars. Transferd on grain and and the first bag of king oysters is colonizing. Thanks for all your videos and blogs. Greetings from Flanders.

4:47 ah that’s why my block went rancid! I killed it by putting it in the fridge.

These videos are great! I'm learning so much. I can go as deep as I want and it's east to understand. I'm taking notes like crazy. Thank you so much!

Hey I'm just starting out as a hobby-mushroom-grower! Ordered some liquid King Oyster and Yellow Oyster mushrooms - nice to know that I made a good choice! btw thanks so much your help is invaluable! This whole thing is an adventure! I bought a 30 year old steriliser which looks like its from the DDR and the whole thing is just a lot of fun!

I was given a blue oyster grow kit for Christmas and after doing some research came to your video! I'm on about day 7 or 8. I have an activated carbon air filter and a vent over the mushrooms and the only problem is that I dried them out in a couple instances! After i added a humidifier they have been blooming beautifully!

I just ate a very small amount of sauted golden oyster mushrooms . Delicious! My husband wouldn't try them, for fear they might be poisonous. I spent a couple hours researching online, Google lens determined my photo I took in the woods, on a dead log, to be golden oyster mushrooms. Thank you for the informative video❤

Awesome video, this gives me a few insights into some of the challenges I've had fruiting Oysters.

I just started growing a few months ago, and went all out, making liquid cultures, grain jars, and bags, buckets. I just tried out using coffee grounds mixed with some hard wood pellets, and Tarragon Oyster is spreading even faster than Pink Oyster, and both are doing better, actually than a regular hardwood bags. Lions mane is a big winner for aspen wood chips in buckets, where as others don't do so well, some contaminated, but all Lion's mane is healthy and constantly producing. peanut butter jars with some holes drilled in, covered in micropore tape, are so easy for anyone who has already made grain spawn, blue oyster and pink oyster, it will be ready to fruit in a week. Just pour boiling water on your aspen wood chips, let cool and created layers in the jar and seal. I am actually amazed at how fast and successful it is for something not properly sterilized, and a higher success rate than using buckets. I'm also in Canada. I have king blues and black pearl kings just starting to fruit.

I grow black pearl a lot. First flush 1.5 to 2 lbs. small second flush 4 to 6 ozs. I’ll grow a number of blocks at a time and my son freeze drys them for me and vacuum seals them. So I have them almost year round. Also grow white, blue and grey oysters. But my favorite is chestnut, I use them to make garlic sauce to go on top of my pasta. Outdoors I grow Wine caps.

Been watching your channel for months now and somehow never knew you were in Canada! Haha good stuff. Thank you for all the great information, keep the videos coming!!!

Thank you for this explanation. Easy to understand and well researched

Thanks Tony! I always appreciate the knowledge that you and Tegan share! Good vibes my dude! :)

Great video Tony! Just what I needed. I've started a project of growing pink oysters in a bucket...

I'd love to try Oyster mushrooms. I haven't had the pleasure yet. But after watching this video, I think I will be getting some pink oyster mushrooms and cooking those up.

Awesome video my guy. Thanks.

This is a wonderful summary of oysters thank you !!

Your video is great. I'm brand new to this and it was very helpful the way you explained oyster mushrooms. Thank you

Thanks, i love it. im a survivor of stroke, so its hard to communicate. i live in a tiny apart very tiny, its on the third foor in helena mt, corthouse, i could touch it in less than 5 min

Very informative and well presented. Please keep up the good work!

Thank you for all your content you've helped me start my own small farm starting with White/Pink/Blue Oysters! I'm so hooked!

Pink Oyster bacon is SOOOO good!

Great informative video ❤ Love the blanket, I had to laugh out loud

Great info. Thank you 😊

Very informative. Thanks.

Awesome info Tony! Thank you for sharing!🙏🏻. I love growing all kinds and haven’t had too much luck with Oysters. I live in a hot and humid area. South Texas😬. But I do love eating them😃

Thank You.....I hope you are both well. Stay safe

Perfect 👌🏼 this is exactly what I needed to spice up the weekend meals 🤟🏼☃️

Thanks Tony !

Thank you, Tony!

Heyan. Great video, I appreciate your humility. I will be ordering liquid spores and starting my first few straw logs outdoors.

Hey there you have a great Chanel. Thanks for spreading this info so clearly.

Love the bracket on the wall behind you!!!!!

Your channel is a great find. I’ve been vegan for more than 3yrs and been using mushrooms to boost my cooking’s flavour. I’m still learning the health benefits and different kind of mushroom and your channel is very helpful. Thank you.

Awesome video. I really want to grow some oyster mushrooms at home. They look delicious. 🍄

WOW Thank you so much.

The wild variant of Blue Oyster grows near me. It has a lovely anise smell. Definitely my favourite. I am just about to try grow it for the first time.

Your passion about mushroom is more infectious then spores itself xD

I'm glad the person naming them specified it looked like a side ear, I would have been confused as to what kind of ear it looked like if they hadn't.

Thanks a lot for your easy informative videos content. Could you make a video about the mushroom kit you just mentioned in this video.

Great video very informative thanks bro

Amazing video ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Love your work, bro. I'm just getting into cultivating mushrooms this week so diving down the rabbit hole... I noticed you didn't mention the species I've chosen to start with down here in New Zealand, pleurotus pulmonarius.

its super interesting how youcan make really long skinny ones when they dont have much oxygen, and just the different ways you can get the same species to grow. super cool!

Hey Tony, love your vids, knowledge and enthusiasm for mushrooms! What material did you use for the substrate or casing layer on top of the king oyster blocks? I'm growing some kings oysters right now and find they do get dry pretty quickly even with misting two to three times a day.

Good teatching

didn’t know that there’s a pink variation of mushrooms! nice

'Super' is a great word to use once, maybe twice.

Pink oyster mushrooms are gorgeous :)

En casa cultivamos Djamor y Ostreatus. Me gustó mas el aroma y sabor de P. Ostreatus Gracias por la informacion. me quedo con entusiasmo por probar las citrino

That blanket is cool af

J'ai une grande admiration pour ce savant qui est engagé dans la culture des pleurotes comme dans un sacerdoce. Je préfère l'huile d'olive pour mes cuissons en place du beurre c'est la seule nuance d'un méridional d'avec ce grand spécialiste. Chacun ses goûts!

I live in the Philippines and i grow Black Pearl oyster mushrooms alot... Those and King Blues. It is sub-tropics here and I have the best luck in the winter when night-time temps get in the mid 70's F... (days are in upper 80's F to 90 F +) Both take at least 3-4 weeks before they are fully colonized (on cvg) and both benefit from 24-48 hrs in the fridge to cold shock them into fruiting. I have also noted that an extra 3-4 hours of full band lighting improves results. They both need robust FAE and humidity of at least 85%-95% depending on air flow. Unlike the White Florida strains (and other warm weather species) both of these have fat meaty stems that are tender right down to the substrate, with wide thick caps. The King blues have fatter stems but I have found the Black Pearl's to be more prolific, with wider caps. Merry Christmas...

I have plastic bags of well colonized yellow and king oyster mycelium I grew from LC syringes. I did some brown rice microwave bags with chestnut also growing well. I am yet to get them to fruit. I have placed the king and yellow bags in a tub and cut the top corners off for fresh air exchange/ I have put a LED strip on them and a reptile heat mat. I am misting them. I hope to get some fruiting fungi soon. Your videos are great for a learner like me.

Thank you for the information I love mushrooms, not brave enough to grow them though

Favorite oyster? Pleurotus pulmonarius. Managed to find one in the wild and clone it. Only's got one month of season per year in my country and is really rare, I'm so stoked. Six jars currently inoculating, furthest one is at about 25%. I'll make 25+ jars eventually. Two plates for storage.

you always teach us mushroom growing for in home (like a hobby) show us for marketing method.

I'm a big fan of my pinks. When you posted up your pink cooking video I was getting ready to fruit mine. Unfortunately they pinned, lost their color and stalled. I got my equipment debugged and am about to try again. Keep the great information coming 👍

Hello! I started following you recently and I really love your videos. I would like to ask a question. I want to start growing mushroom at home from log. I have to use freshly cut log or older log that been rehydrated ? Thank you for your help and this awesome videos.

Have you tried growing the white elf as well (Pleurotus nebrodensis)? They seem to be endangered in the wild. And what about Phoenix oyster (Pleurotus pulmonarius)? They're meant to be one of the few species that can grow on conifers (softwood)? Another cool one I've recently learned about is the Tarragon oyster, which is apparently endemic only to the area around York, UK. People that sell them claim that they are one of most delicious oyster species you can grow. I know that it's not easy to cover all of these in one video, but I gave you an idea for another video on the less conventional oyster varieties.

Boletus is one I tried in Spain and really enjoyed. I have not found it here.

Here before 1k

just started with grow kits myself. currently kicking off a 2nd flush of pink oysters & shiitake .. I'm hooked & trying really hard not to go get more already... (don't want the house full of them... or do i?)

LOVE P.O.populinus... !!!

I’m currently growing mycelium on paper from store bought Black Velvet Oyster mushrooms. The mycelium has really been enjoying the Kraft paper I’ve saved from deliveries - shredded and boiled for 30 min. It’s almost ready to fruit. Fingers crossed

Very cool... congratulations mom

Many thanks for all the info! I have never tried an oyster mushroom so going to start off with one of the Back to the Roots kits. Here goes nothing! Or something!

My local store has "black oyster" mushrooms (pretty sure they're blues) and "white oyster" mushrooms (pretty sure they're pearls). Oyster mushrooms are some of my favorites to gently simmer into a soup, or toss into a stir fry at the last minute and cook on the residual heat. I'm not a big fan of king oysters, I find they're TOO meaty for me, but I don't have a problem with oyster stems, so I guess it's a matter of preference.

Great Vid, What about cold shocking to trigger fruiting and initiate pinning?

I love the fact that you have a giant Lingzhi mushroom hanging on your wall behind you and you don't talk about it.

Great video, I am currently growing pink and pearl oysters, I never liked Blue Oysters, always thought they were part of a cult, yet people always tell me, "Don't fear the reaper"....hahahahahahaha😂🤣😅😄 *My deepest apologies to people under 30, who probably have no clue about what I just wrote...hehehehe. Also, put anything into Google and they have a button that you can hit and they will pronounce any word.

Isn’t that cool thanks mom hahah great vids man

Liking this video for the mushroom blanket

I've noticed two different types of blues that we get- 'cool' blue and 'warm' blue. The cool blues keep the blue color better while the warm ones tend towards grey.

Excellent video. I noticed a porcelain frenchie in the background Do you have frenchies?

Black Kings are the hybrid made by mossy creek, I believe, the King Trumpet/Black pearl

Great vid as always, but what abt pulmonarius?

Can someone help me? On warmer climates, would You rather recomend cultivating white or brown oyster mushrooms

I've got golden, blue, snow, Italian, and pinks going, the blue and Italian ones already fruiting at 1 week and a day.

Any suggestions about mushroom farts? I know it's gross, but some mushrooms make me have gas like nothing else and I wondered if that' permanent? Really seems to be just oyster mushrooms, boiling prior to sautéing them seems to help a bit, but sometimes it doesn't matter what I do. I can eat a pound of beans and no problems, but a couple oyster mushrooms and fog horn city.

tony can you make a vid of timeline, base on temperature of when grow the different spicies. or if you have done can you give me the link or if you know a site whit a nice list for program the time when start to grow one tipe or other.. thank you for your help and for all your nuce vid. see u

I wonder if the wild one you cultivated would have done better if you tried growing it in an outdoor straw bed?

Hi , just one question if you could answer it will be helpful When to out casing layer on king Oyster after the block is fully covered in mycelium or just out it on top and wait. Thanks

Growing kings right now.

Okay so, I have one of the back to the roots grow kits. When they were pinning they were definitely blue like you showed for blue oyster mushrooms, but I can't find anything to indicate back to the roots sells blue oyster grow kits, so can pearl oysters be that same blue when they're freshly pinned??

I live down in Belize and found what I think are pearl oyster mushrooms growing on a coconut tree. Do they grow on coconut trees? Also if they are misidentified what would the most likely candidate?

how can you tell when the mushrooms have gone bad? i bought king and blue oyster mushrooms but theirs this fuzzy white film over them in not sure if that's just a fungi thing or if they've gone bad. when i wash them it disappears

I would assume growing pearl oyster mushroom the same way as blue oyster mushroom is it right?? Thanks

Could I grow pink oysters the same 5gallon bucket style? Would it have to be summer? What would ideal fruiting temps have to be? (Fahrenheit)

How about Pheonix Oyster or Pleurotus Pulmonarius? What are the main differences between Pearl Oyster and Pheonix Oyster?

I just grew some blues and they had my favorite of flavors of mushrooms thus far. Only thing: They didn't get very big. I grew in 52 degrees in a basement that has good air and 72 percent humidity. Any thoughts on that? I like your videos, keep the new ones coming!

We do on occasion

Well I'm in Florida and I'm thinking to grow some pearl mushrooms outside, though the talk of bugs getting into them is a bit disconcerting lol.

You can grow oyster mushrooms using cardboard I tried it and it work

Hello good morning . It's nice watching your video . I want to confirm something from you and this is very important to my life and business . Does oyster mushroom spawn smell at all even when it is white and no sign of contamination .

Thrilled to find yellow oysters have 'invaded' our hard woods as our morels seemed to have moved out due to over harvest by poachers. One question I have is will the yellow oysters colonize Walnut logs? We did a wood harvest earlier this spring and have a lot of brush down. I would love to know that in a year or two the yellows will help break them down.

Good video. Missing (at least) pleurotus pulmonarius off the top of my head

How long do the cooked pink oyster mushrooms last?