North Spore Blue Oyster Mushroom Grow Kit, Organic, Spray & Grow, 4 lbs

I bought this Blue Oyster Mushroom Grow Kit as a gift for my brother, who had never grown mushrooms before. He told me the instructions were easy to follow, the kit was simple to set up, and he was excited when his first batch of Blue Oyster mushrooms came in. He said the fresh mushrooms had a mild, pleasant flavor and a nice texture that was much better than he expected. They were delicious cooked with a little butter and garlic. Based on his experience, this made a great gift for a beginner and was a fun project with a delicious reward. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone interested in trying home-grown gourmet mushrooms.

Great mushrooms. They sprout with in a few weeks. Very tasty growing your own mushrooms

I ordered one block from Amazon (Blue Oyster) and another (Italian Oyster) with their grow kit directly from their site. The Italian Oyster grew with in a week and made 1.5lbs of mushrooms. A 2nd flush never happened. Its been about 4 weeks now. However, The blue Oysters ordered from Amazon never grew. I am very disappointment and felt this was a waste of money. While they are fun to grow, it is not cost effective when blocks fail. In the long run it might be cheaper to just buy gourmet mushrooms from a local farmers market. At our local market they sell for between 12-25 bucks a lb.

No issues with shipping, bex exactly as described. Already finished my first flush and waiting for my second.

Review Update below original review: So I received my kit on October 24 and read the instructions and started it the same day. So far I’ve done everything that it said to do and absolutely nothing has happened and today is November 5th. I’m so disappoint because I was so excited to grow my own mushrooms. I haven’t given up yet and will continue to do what I’ve been doing but so far I’m very disappointed 😞 Ok so after weeks of spraying the thing for weeks and nothing happening I took it upon myself to put water in the bottom of a container and sat the block in box on top of a bowl so it wouldn’t get wet. I made a humidity tent over the whole thing and misted the inside of the plastic at least twice a day and lo and behold after a week or 2 it started to grow!!!! I’ve never been so excited about a fungus in all my life!! lol I feel like this idea should maybe be written in their instructions as a trouble shooting kinda thing if you’re not getting any growth!! But anyway I’m thrilled to see them growing finally!!!

So much fun to see them day to day double in size.

First product arrived barely colonized and smelled sour, and had clearly been opened previously, so I returned it and got a replacement. The replacement was similarly barely colonized, but didn't smell sour, so I put it to test. It's taken 3-4 weeks for the bag to fully colonize and reach a point where it's starting pins. So .. it'll be around 6 weeks from when it arrived to harvest time. Still not there yet. Other companies I've dealt with have generally sent kits that are nearly fully colonized. I'm new to all this, but it's unlikely I'll order from North Spore again if this is how their products normally are.

Ordered this as a gift for someone who wanted to try growing their own food. The mushrooms grew quickly and worked well. The only thing I wished they added was more education material on why you do what you do as we learned for some you have to break it down or they just run with their own ideas of how it works.