Growing Mushrooms on Log Totems - Growing Mushrooms at Home
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2019
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Making Mushrooms totems is easy and fun, and setup correctly will provide mushrooms for years to come. Shiitake, Oyster, and Lions Mane are three popular types of mushroom grown on totems. Once made you must keep the log moist, ensuring it doesn't dry out. Throughout the year you will get multiple flushes of fresh mushrooms growing off the logs.
Shiitake works well, along with Oyster and Lions mane. I have used Turkey Tail in one of mine as I know they eat almost any wood!
Types of wood you want to use are:
- Oak
- Beech
- Birch
- Maple
- Alder
- Poplar
Basically is the tree loses its leaves in winter, it's good to go! Avoid Fur, Pines, or Conifers for Shiitake and Oyster.
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Can we please have a follow up?! Enjoyed your video and feeling inspired to give it a try :)
I've seen some vids where folks put notches vertically in the bark right at the point where the horizontal cuts will be made. This helps the logs be put back together the same rotation, and then they aren't as tippy. They have a taller log at the bottom, and then cut shorter lengths as they go up, also helping you to restack in the same order adding stability. Thanks for the vid showing all the different types you can do. Cheers!
Hi there
are you able to post a quick video on the results you have (hopefully) seen so far? Even if only a series of pics? Thx
Thanks for making this video! I just inoculated a few logs myself and wanted to make sure I'm maintaining them correctly
Great stuff mate, love the channel. Quite helpful for me especially, as I am a fellow antipodean.
Good to hear dude!
A fun project. Don't waste those grains, man. You can always mix them up with saw dusts and pack a log up.
An update would be really appreciated.
Thanks.
The face on that log 🪵 had me weak 😂
came from reddit so nice...
Good stuff
You don't need to drill holes. It will not make any difference. Mycelium travels 20 times faster down the xylem/phloem tubes. It does not cross them very easily. It is important to cover all the cross section is all. It will travel 24" in 5 months or less vertically but will only travel 1" horizontally across the tubules in the same time frame. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the advice. I drilled the holes to let some grain fall down them and penetrate the wood faster. The turkey tail penetrated the top cap in only a couple weeks. It really is an agressive mushroom!
great video
Thanks Kim!
Loved this video and this looks like a better approach than other methods I've seen. About to start my first set of shrooms that I just ordered. I have plugs instead of the sawdust stuff. Can I use this same method of stacking, hammering the plugs into the drilled holes? Do I still need to seal them with wax if I'm using this stacking method? Thanks so much for your help! Great job.
I've been using the chainsaw to just plunge cut a few times into the top instead of drilling holes. Idk if it's better or worse. Just makes it a bit easier to use the tool I'm already holding.
Hi, how did they turn out? Did you ever do a follow up video.? I have just done some totems with Reishi and Shitaki. :) First time shroomi! :)
Bro, you look like Alexander volvanski...the UFC champ, he's Australian tho. Great video, mate, thank you thank you thank you.
So, were those tears on the log for you running your chain through the dirt? LOL! Thanks for the video...I've been lucky enough to have a bunch of firewood and woodchip dropped here that are just infested with oyster mushrooms...now if we could just get a bit of rain here in Cali, I'd have a mammoth flush.
Where you at mate?
christchurch nz
Do you have. Afollow up? Also is there a reason you choose grain spawn vs plug spawn on the sides of the logs?
How long will the logs produce?
Would it help to add a rod down the middle for stability?
I have a question...I have heard that the mycelium tend to take the path of least resistance when colonizing logs, following the vascular system of the log. I like what you did by drilling holes in the logs...increases surface area/more points for mycelium to take hold. QUESTION: Could your method be improved, by drilling the holes at an angle, so that the holes cut across the vascular system of the tree, making it easier for the mycelium to more quickly spread up more of the totem interior quicker? Totally subscribed, and love your videos!
Sure makes a lot of sense to me!!
Oi mate, love this idea. Im gonna do this but toss a rod down on em
A year-and-a-bit on, where's the Mushroom Totem update?
Hi great video..Did you make s follow up as you said?
Yeah, I think my garden mushrooms video has a followup at the end of it!
Do you have a video ,of the first havest? 1yr halve later?
Hi Tom, how are your logs going, have you managed to do a follow up video
Logs are going great! I think the shiitake failed, as it possibly didn't like the poplar wood. The oyster fruits, and the turkey tail is so aggressive it near welded the logs back together!
Oak and Spore Mushroom Farm Thank you for your reply Tom. Appreciated
questions:
1) can mushroom plugs be used on living trees?
2) what would happen if one drilled holes in logs and crammed fresh mushrooms from a supermarket? if nothing, why not?
I don't think it will work on living 🌲
Trees have antibacterial properties while alive I think
Good advice,what is the next step?
Keep them wet and wait for mushrooms!
Can you please update. Show us how it all worked out. Are they still producing mushrooms? How long will they last?
We have moved properties unfortunately, but they were producing up until we left l.
Do they fruit all year or only In winter ? Please
Different species, and even different strains within a species fruit at different temperatures/times of the year..
Will 20yr old ngaio tree logs work ? Cheers mate,
I honestly do not know. You would be pioneering it!
@@OakandSpore Thanks, we are in Christchurch too so will be in contact when you reopen
Bad idea where the air bricks are for the house you'll end up with mushys growing out of the floorboards in the house buddy
Ok buddy.
Is growing gray dove Oyster mushrooms the same as growing lion's mane mushrooms?
I honestly do not know...
Ok thank you
Why totems instead of plug spawn?
Please post pictures once you have fruits
I will!
How did they turn out?
The shiitake not so good, it fell over. But the Turkey tail and oyster is growing mushrooms!
@@OakandSpore That's good news fella. I look forward to watching more of your content and even having a go with this myself.
@@OakandSpore
Could you have screwed the sections together with screws for stability?
Hi Tom is it possible to contact you to chat about mushroom growing?
Unfortunately I would spend all day on the phone if everyone who was interested in growing contacted me! I do consulting about small scale mushroom farming if you are interested.
never use grain bro grains pick up contamination so mush faster , use inoculated substrate bro
Noted!
Can you please post an update?
yeh id like to know also, i made an oyster totem a month back, i think hes on patreon
I need a classroom
Where's the followup?
It's in my videos-to-do list. The turkey tail looks like it's on steroids, I've had some oysters, but no shiitake yet.
It failed, didn't it?
No it worked fine!
Did you buy a brand new chainsaw for this vidoe
No, thats a sbitty stihl, my good saw is a husky.
@@OakandSpore looked shiny and new... my chainsaws look like that for the first 30 seconds
Its my old man's, he prolly had never used it!