How to Grow Mushrooms With a Back to the Roots Kit

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Back to the Roots Mushroom kits produces up to 1.5 lbs of delicious oyster mushrooms. This guide will show how to grow mushrooms with the kit, demonstrating the progress everyday.

by Sara Paul Raffel

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Start with a mushroom kit from Back to the Roots. Inside is the bag of coffee grinds and spores + a mister.

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Remove the front cover.

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Now you can see the spores which are in the coffee grinds!

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Cut a 3x5 inch plus in the soil bag.

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Remove the soil bag and put it slit side down into a bowl of water. We use a heavy object to keep the bag from floating to the top. Let it soak for 24 hours.

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Fill up the mister with water.

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Remove the soil bag from the water and let the water start to drip out

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When the water is finished dripping out of the soil bag put it back into the box

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Every morning and evening, spritz 2-4 times with the mister.

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This is what it looks like on Day 1.

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Day 2

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Day 3

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Day 4

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Day 5

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Day 6

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On day 6 in the evening, we are starting to see something sprouting.

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Day 7. Finally starting to see a lot of growth!

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Day 8. Lots of growth!

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Day 9. Wow!

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Day 10. Just about ready to harvest.

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To harvest, you can pluck off each mushroom, or cut them all off together with a knife.

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Cook your mushrooms however you like! Or, if you are not going to use them immediately, you can store them in a plastic bag in the fridge.

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This guide was made by:

Sara Paul Raffel

San Francisco, California

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Librarian, Beekeeper, Gardener, Healthy home cook

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I started cultivation 5 days ago but still nothing is happening...... I am thinking maybe I soaked 12hours only or it was a cold weather few days ago...... Is it possible to soak again to "reboot" the kit? By the way, Sara, nice table & chairs and awesome pendant lamp. :P

Kenneth Lee 5 months ago

I started soaking mine tonight. I can't wait to see how they do.

Mary Jones 7 months ago

I bought the kit about 6 weeks ago and put it a side. Today when I went to start it I was amazed at the 2 large mushrooms coming out of the top of the bag. I have the bag soaking now. Stir fried the mushrooms with a little ghee, delicious. Hope they will grow out of the sides now. Thanks , Sharon

Sharon Gogan 8 months ago