Funny, I thought I was doing it the easy way. 😄 The initial spawn from ebay was only 10g each, a much smaller amount that I thought I was getting, but it was strong so I pressure-cooked some grain jars, built a still-air box, and let them start growing out. Only one of those jars had a problem but the mycelium seems to be winning.
Same with the lime bath for the straw… that just seemed like the easiest method to get started, I don’t really have a way to boil that amount of straw, but I can do the bath in an old plastic barrel I have. I think I’m going to try starting with two bags of blue oysters and one bag of pink oysters, and see how that goes. I still need to read up on drying the harvest but I do have a food dehumidifier… unless I end up eating everything as fast as I grow it! I do love mushrooms.