It takes a lot of hard work to go from spore or culture to harvesting freshly fruited mushrooms. Growing mushrooms from scratch requires a sterile environment and proper sterile technique during virtually every process for recurrent success.
Please make no mistake: adding one of our flow hoods to your home or commercial lab will completely transform your grows and workflow. However, your sterile procedures while operating the flow hood are still critical to your success.
A single mold spore can wreck all your hard work. So, how can you keep troublesome contaminants from ruining your work after months of hard work and materials invested? Clean, clean, and clean some more!
Create A Sterile Environment To Work
Most of us are cultivating mushrooms in our homes. In this case, the cleaner you keep your house, the better your chance of success.
Most contaminants like mold spores and fungus spores are spread through the air. Not to mention contaminants can be found in your carpet, trash cans, sinks, pets, furniture, garbage disposals, refrigerator, cultivation tools, your hands, your breath, clothes, and mushroom cultures or substrates themselves.

You’ll want to eliminate sources of contamination in your house or lab. In addition, you need to provide the most sterile working environment you can to give your mycelium the greatest chance of succeeding and fruiting mushrooms.
Virtually every procedure, from substrate preparation to the final fruiting process, needs to be performed in conditions as sterile as possible. Consequently, some understanding of sterilization techniques and laboratory work is required to work with mushroom culture medium and during all processes involved in mushroom cultivation.
Contaminants In The Air
