Premium Pink Oyster mushroom grain spawn – 100% colonised on locally sourced New Zealand grown wheat and ready to be mixed into your substrate for fruiting mushrooms. Spawn is ready to use as soon as it arrives.
 
Pink Oysters are a popular commercial strain of Pleurotus Djamor (commonly known as Salmon Oyster, Flamingo Oyster or Rose Oyster). It produces attractive vibrant pink caps (often fading to pale pink or soft tan with age), with pink gills and stems. It’s a reliable, vigorous, wood-loving side-fruiter, not as commonly cultivated due to its shorter shelf life once picked, its best to cook and eat within 3-4 days of harvest.
 
Unique Pink Oyster Culture Information
 
Scientific name: Pleurotus Djamor
Flavour & texture: Pink oyster mushrooms have a robust savoury, and slightly smoky flavour with a firm, chewy, and meaty texture. One of the closest mushrooms to a bacon flavour. 
Spawn Storage: Pink oysters are a tropical species and the spawn cannot be refrigerated, store in a cool dark cupboard and use within a month.
Difficulty: Very Easy - Beginner friendly.
Growth speed: Very fast - oyster mushrooms are aggressive growers, perfect for beginners.
Incubation time & temperature: 7-14 days @ 23-25°C
Fruiting temperature: 16-30°C
Inoculation to Harvest: 14-20 days
Yield: High - with quality fruit bodies and lots of clusters.
CO2 Tolerance: Good - fruits best below 1000ppm
Ideal Fruiting Humidity: 80-90%
Native status: Non Native - Imported
Recommended Fruiting Substrates: Cereal Straw (Wheat or Barley), Masters Mix (50% wood pellets / 50% soy hulls) or 20% Bran + 80% Pine Fire Pellets.
Substrate Preparation Method: Oyster grow well on both Heat or Hydrated lime pasteurised substrate as well as 15PSI pressure sterilised substrate in filter patch bags.
Growing Style: Works best as a side fruiting mushroom in poly tube bags, filter patch bags and buckets.
 
Receiving Spawn:
Upon receiving your spawn it is ideal to take it out of the box within a day or two, stand the top of the bag up so the filter patch is exposed and the spawn can breath. Keep in a room temperature (10-25°C) place out of direct sunlight until used.
 
Beginners / first-time growers:
If you’ve never used grain spawn before (or you’re not sure how to mix it into substrate), start with our >>Easy 5 Step Oyster Grow Kits instead.
These kits include grain spawn and bulk substrate with detailed step-by-step instructions that teach you exactly how to use spawn to grow mushrooms. It’s the easiest way to learn the whole process hands-on.
 
All spawn and culture work is done in-house in our own laboratory.
 
All spawn cultures we offer have been sourced within NZ or imported under MPI import permit with permission to on-sell.
 
Customers who buy Mushroom Grain Spawn often also purchase:
 
 
>> Pink Oyster Splash n Grow Kit (2kg)
 
>> Pink Oyster Fruiting Block Kit (4kg)
 
>> Pink Oyster DIY Grow Kit (7kg)
 
>> Sterilised Grain for growing mushrooms
 
>> Dowel (Plug) Spawn - for mushrooms logs (Pink Oyster Option)
 
>> Mushroom Liquid Cultures - (Pink Oyster Option)
 
>> Mushroom Cultures on Agar (Pink Oyster Option)
 
Always identify any mushroom before consuming!