Level 2 · Grower · Curriculum outline · external review pending
Oyster Mushroom Grower
Species selection, substrate, bag process, fruiting environment, harvest, problems and business context.
5lessons
5full lessons
15self-check questions
ENlanguages
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Learning outcomes
After this course, you should be able to:
- Follow the Oyster production logic
- Interpret long stems as a differential
- Connect product quality to market reality
Course map
Every lesson opens with objectives and a diagram, carries sourced numbers, ends with a farm task and three questions.
- 01Species SelectionOyster mushroom, dhingri, is not one mushroom but a family. Pick the wrong member for your month and the bags stay white or fruit brown and thin.
- 02Substrate & PreparationStraw is cheap, but untreated straw is a race between your mushroom and every mould in the field. The treatment you choose decides who wins.
- 03Bag Preparation & Spawn RunFor two to three weeks the bag looks like nothing is happening. Reading a bag in that silence separates a full room from a pit of green straw.
- 04Fruiting EnvironmentAn oyster mushroom with a long stalk and a tiny cap is not a variety. It is a message about the air in your room.
- 05Harvest, Problems & BusinessThe mushroom you pick at six in the morning is worth the most it will ever be. Every hour after that you are selling a fading product.