Now please note this is OPTIONAL and will not make a lot of difference to your growing or harvest. We included it here because some people swear by a humidity tent and others don’t see the need.

There are good points from both sides, so we will just show you a couple of ways and let you decide.

#1 is just put your entire grow kit on a dinner plate and sprits it twice a day. Just a couple or three squirts from the water bottle (set to mist) will be plenty. We are not watering the mushrooms or the substrate, we are creating humidity to encourage the mycelium to grow. We cannot stress this enough, too much water will ruin the grow box, mycelium and your mushrooms.

#2 is to put the box on a dinner plate and put a plastic bag over the top and down to bench level. Now there are some important things to consider here if you choose this method. Firstly and most IMPORTANTLY if you have small children or they are likely to visit you DO NOT do this. The bag can be a suffocation hazard and no one wants that. While you can use a hole punch to put some holes in the bag, it isn’t worth the risk with kids in the house.

If no kids are going to be present, then just draw the bag down to benchtop level, tack it with a bit of tape at the back so it won’t blow away if doors are opened etc. and make it easy to open and close each time you sprits it.

Please remember, if the humidity is too high you will have problems. If you have a small barometer around the house, you might want to place it inside your humidity tent. You want about 85% – 90% to encourage fruiting and then down to about 75% when pinning begins. Again, a humidity tent is not required and can make things more complicated and messy.