Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume

submitted by alzymologist to mycology 59 points | 15 comments

I’ve tried to scale down a single fruiting medium to 100-200g, and it keeps failing time after time: at best, I get small needle-sized fruiting bodies (hypsizygus tessulatus , post picture) or primordia and then small malformed underdeveloped fruiting bodies (pleurotus eryngii , inline picture). Then development just stops. Medium is enriched (sugar) alder chips, contamination starts developing long after growth is stalled. Is it really scale problem? What’s the reasonably smallest batch size?