We Answer Your Mushroom Growing Questions | GroCycle
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- In this video, we answer many of your questions on mushroom farming.
From choosing the best substrate to tips on selling your mushrooms, this video is full of top tips!
You may have seen our previous video in this series, or you may be joining us for the very first time, but a couple of weeks ago, we asked YOU, our RUclips community, to get involved!
We asked you to take part by asking us YOUR mushroom related questions, and this could have been anything from what’s the best substrate to use through to tips on selling your mushrooms once you‘ve had your harvest.
We’ve been blown away by the response, and firstly, we’d like to say a big THANK YOU for all the amazing questions you asked - we’ve had more than 60! We’ve really enjoyed answering these questions too, and helping people to grow mushrooms is what we, at GroCycle, are all about.
Of course, we’ve only had time to answer some of these questions (we’d be here all week otherwise!), but for those of you who haven’t had a direct response through this video, we’ll be returning to your comments on our last video over the next week or two and we'll get back to you all individually.
And we’ve also got our Free Workshop: A Starter Guide to Mushroom Farming, which takes you through ALL stages of growing mushrooms the Low-Tech way. It’s split into 4 parts: Getting to Your First Crop, Setting Up a Controlled Environment, Running Your Own Farm and Can You Make a Living? To access this free workshop, where we share our wealth of mushroom growing knowledge, follow this link:
FREE Workshop: Starter Guide To Mushroom Farming
- grocycle.com/workshop/
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction - What’s this video all about?
00:19 We’re going to be answering your questions about mushroom farming!
00:41 1) How can a complete novice grow 1kg of mushrooms all year round for personal consumption?
02:10 2) Is there a low-tech way of growing shiitake or species other than oyster?
03:13 3) Have you looked at how much supplementation you can get away with on hardwood pellets while still just pasteurising?
05:01 4) I like to grow shiitake and use pasteurised wood pellets. I sometimes have mould problems and not sure why. Also, what amount of hydrolyzed lime to water for pasteurisation?
06:14 5) Wood ash pasteurisation - have you had any experience with this?
08:02 6) What is the best method for inoculating mushroom substrate?
08:51 7) What kind of substrates can we use for mushroom growing? Are things like coffee grounds, which are high in nitrogen, used as substrate amendments?
10:47 8) To what depth using brewery spent grain as a substrate has been covered?
12:29 9) Can you hang premade bales under a tree? Is a fruiting room really required?
14:01 10) Why shouldn't you fruit in the same room as incubation?
15:30 11) How do you dispose of your spent substrate and is it easy to sell it as compost?
17:01 12) How much can you sell mushrooms for? How do you go about selling your mushrooms?
20:02 Thank you from us for taking part! We will reply to all of the other comments in the last video!
20:18 13) Can you make a living out of growing mushrooms?
The videos that were mentioned:
Easiest Way To Grow Oyster Mushrooms At Home
• How To Grow Mushrooms ...
Growing Mushrooms Outdoors
• Growing Mushrooms Outd...
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Thanks everyone for your kind feedback - we're glad the video is useful to you, and we loved making it! If you want to find out much, much more about mushroom growing, check out our FREE Workshop: A Starter Guide To Mushroom Farming here: ruclips.net/video/icKeO-kyiGk/видео.html 🍄
I love that you put me on the cover of of your video 💕 👍
Plenty of great info in this video. You dudes are wonderful.
Too kind, but thanks...!!! Glad you enjoyed it.
Great video, thank you
Just Hit Australia thank you so much all great questions
Thanks guys. Appreciate the time and the tips. looking forward to grow my first lot of mushrooms
I think a really good question that could of been asked is the following: What do you actually do with the waste water of lime pasteurization? For commercial farm scale I assume there are obligations for waste disposal of this byproduct of the process. Do you amend it with acids to turn it into a base? Do you dispose of the lime water through the sewerage system? I'd love to know how it's handled.
Wow! Thank you guys so much. You put my Shiitake question on there, sweet! You told me what I have been thinking; Shiitake need sterilization not pasteurization. Darnnnnn. Guess I'll need to go out and get a autoclave.
Hi Kandice - yes, Shiitake can be tricky to grow the low-tech way, but still possible especially if you can use a strain adapted for pasteurised substrate. I'd recommend also having a look at one of our previous videos where we talk about growing Shiitake on logs: ruclips.net/video/oOPjCM_Z-Eo/видео.html
@@GroCycleTV Thank you for your reply. I learned something very important from your answer on the video. I didn't know there are different strains of shiitake. I was previously ordering from one company with no problems growing shiitake with pasteurized substrate. Then they stopped producing spawn, so I had to order from another company. That's when the mold problems started. They use another strain! Wow! So now I need to find a company that produces the one I had success with. Thanks so much for that information. I have already watched your video about growing on logs. I originally wanted to grow that way, but we live in Hawaii and we don't have a lot of the right kind of trees available. So that makes it difficult.
One of the most interesting and valuable mushroom video of youtube !
In just 21 minutes, you have answered most of the questions that aspiring mycoproducers have !
Thanks !
Great to hear Pauwels!
Thank you guys so much! This was great and I appreciate the time you took to do this for us newbies ❤
Hi Walt Walters - our pleasure, we're always keen to get new people into the world of mushroom growing! I'd definitely recommend checking out out free workshop, which is a great guide for anyone looking to start their journey into mushroom growing: ruclips.net/video/icKeO-kyiGk/видео.html Let us know what you think!
Cool . Thanks guys for all you do !
Thanks a lot for answering my question. I think it was on my other account I posted.
I've heard so many wonderful things about magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??
I'm so interested in the experience but am terrified of having a bad trip
I did two grams last time, it was a thrilling experience and I enjoyed it
Mushrooms aren't like acid. You don't hallucinate, you just see some colors, and things move. I've never heard of anyone having a bad trip on shrooms.
This whole thing is pretty new to me, can I try 3grams?
@lioness Mindset where to search? Is it IG ??
That was EXACTLY the detailed information I was looking for, thank you! I want to learn the "why's" of how certain substrates and amendments are good and why some are bad, not just memorize, so this is super helpful. 😊 *Thanks again!*
No problem Celtic Lass, glad we were able to help!! 🙂
Thanks for sharing this information with us I’ll have to rewatch this video to get all this committed to memory.
I’m going to change are old dairy farm into a mushroom/ fish farm and hopefully provide some food resources.
Hi Michigan Native! Great to hear you're wanting to get into mushroom growing! Have you watched our free workshop yet? ruclips.net/video/icKeO-kyiGk/видео.html
Thank you for all the knowledge you pass on to us. I missed the opportunity to ask but maybe you will replay. Is it possible to pasteurize grainspawn for oyster cultivation?
Super interesting! Thanks! Have you ever tried growing mushrooms on nut shells? I have a large amount of walnut shells and was planning to try them as substrate!
Thanks for this video it was really helpful. But I'll like to know how long you use a substrate before finally disposing it
Very cool video!
I am a brewer who has been wanting to set up growing oyster mushrooms from my spent grain, and "sell" them to our kitchen to make food out of.
I have been learning a ton from your channel. Thanks.
Question: Do you think if I took the grains immediately from my mash tun, and did a hot hydrated lime bath, then drained the grain throughly, before inoculating it with perhaps a high percentage grain spawn (say 20%), that it would increase the percentage of success?
Thank you for another awesome video. At 10:25 you mention "Mushworld Oyster Mushroom Growers Guide". I looked on line for this, and was unable to locate it. Would you have a link to the guide?
once you get a liquid culture onto grain, and it has had time to expand; how do you go about inoculating the rest of your grow bags from the grain bag,.without introducing contaminants to your pasteurized or especially your sterilized substrate?
noice!
in the states here in minnesota our fields are mostly soybeans and sugar beets both are heavily sprayed with toxic chemicals, nasty. i see in this video you mention using both of the plants in pellet form to grow shrooms. that is all i have to say about that.
Can you add your spawn into your substrate mixer after you have drained off the hydrated lime and water? Would that make it easier to then load into the bales with less work and chance of contamination?
Adam and Eric, how are you? Have you ever tested the use of the subproduct of beer brewing grains (malt husk)?
hey , so what wood will be a good wood substrate for glowing tropical fungi??
After pasturization your substrate, do you rinse it? When you add supplementary to increase Nitrogen to 1% should this supplement be pasturized too?
Very informative video. Wonder if we can add rice as supplement in sawdust for growing oyster mushroom.
Yes, I think would be possible if it sterilised or used directly after cooking
Hi, thanks for taking the time to answer all the questions. would you mind posting a link to the mushworld oyster mushroom growers handbook. thanks.
Hi Marco - have a look here (hopefully the link works where you are): archive.org/details/MushroomGrowersHandbook1OysterCultivation/mode/2up
temperature and humidity during incubating period of mushroom?
I two questions:
1) You always talk of hydrated lime. Burnt lime (don't know if the Englisch word is correct but I think you know what I mean) is far more alcaline I think so why aren't you using this as you would need less I think?
2) I used beech sawdust until now and sterilized it which is very hard to do at home because of the small pressure canner.
I would like to pasturize it in my much larger waterbath Canner pot but how hot and for how long would you recommend?
How are the chances it will work when not using straw?
is there any kind of air filter in your fruiting rooms? I understand the need for cleanliness in the incubation room and lab area, but once the fruit is in the fruiting room is it established enough to fight off pathogens from the natural world? say I wanted to grow mushrooms in a shed like area, is it a problem is unfiltered air is getting in? I see people talk about exhaust fans in their setup and doing fresh air flushes. How often should that exhaust fan be running and how does this fresh air flush work?
once you have pasteurized your substrate and got it in a bag, how do you inoculate it with the grain spawn without introducing contamination? do you put the straw in the bag and immediately put the grain spawn in too before sealing?
if I grow mushrooms and use all my grain spawn, in order to continue the process, do I need to cut the center of a good mushroom, to clone and grow some mycelium on an agar dish and then do the grain spawn to substrate process again? Could I just pinch off a piece of one of the bricks if it isn't infected and throw that in a bag of grain?
what temperature is your fruiting room and incubation room for oysters on straw, and how crucial is temperature, at this point if temperature is not too important I will just buy a shed to dedicate to fruiting; instead of getting an a/c exhaust fan etc.
if I pasturize or super pasturize my substrate, and get it into a bag, could I possibly leave it to incubate in a shady spot outside, and when I go to place it in the fruiting room just wipe it down with alcohol first?
why don't you guys use five gallon buckets with holes in them and wash them? would normal dish soap not sterilize the bucket enough? I want to produce enough mushrooms in my dad's backyard to generate 500 usd per month and you guys are helping so much! does 70 pounds or so per week seem like enough to do so? I want to get an autoclave and air filter for a lab etc eventually. But for now may just do straw based simpler methods I have seen from you guys, and hope to start with pink oysters and lions mane mushrooms. Is lions mane a good candidate to grow on straw?
hope to hear from you guys and get started on building my future ASAP! thank you for making these awesome videos.
Hi grocycle, love your channel! I just a small question, if I wanted to grow 200 kg of mushroom per week, would this mean that it would require around 200-300 hours worth of labor to achieve this? I would love to hear back from you! :)
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Do we use only the stem or use the leaves too of rice plant for oyster mushroom cultivation? How long should we boil straw in water to pasteurise it, and how long with steam pasteurization?
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Helo I am Indonesian. I interested to look for any information abaou what is lime here. Because in Bahasa lime is (jeruk).the kind of fruit, of so. I'll buy lime powder in my country to do my pasteurization procees of mau strow media
Have you tried growing mushrooms on sugar cane mulch? It's what we have available near me.
Yes - it can work well, it's known as Bagasse here and have seen it used successfully before!! Where are you based?
@@GroCycleTV I'm in Queensland Australia. I now have the buckets and sugar cane mulch. Just need to order the grain sperm and I can begin. Thanks for all of your videos and helpful advice.
You know when you're growing a mushroom and the oxygen gets a bit low, you end up with a variant, you often end up with an unorthodox variant, right? Isn't that what Lion's Mane would have initially looked like being that it grew in a nitrogen rich environment?
I'm not saying try it, eat it. I was just curious.
If you planted Chrysanthemums around that outdoor grow you likely wouldn't have run into the same problems. Chrysanthemum works as a natural pest deterrent. You'll likely find the problem was the soil though. With a lot of crops, especially mushrooms, the soil needs to be rotated. The more efficient the crop, the faster you can use the soil again. Thanks for the vid though! Very helpful!
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