I don't understand why certain channels don't come up when I search for information. I've been learning as much as I can about the growing process, and this channel didn't pop up until I specifically searched "heating mats for mushrooms" it sucks because this was actually an educational video that others might find helpful.
i had to search "head pad for inoculation" lol it was the second result - but the cooler with temp-controlled heat pad is genius for someone with limited space. this will be a productive winter...
Been using a sterilite with a heat mat on bottom and cooling racks on the mat holding my aio bags about 4 inches from the bottom. Keep a thermometer in there and make sure it stays between 73 and 77 Fahrenheit. Working like a charm so far🤙
You bring true meaning to the phrase *"Home Mycology"* This is exactly how we do it. Everyone else's videos put people off because it seems too clinical. The only thing that you really have to keep on top of as long as everything like substrates and cultures r ok - is sterility at the moments that matter. People don't realise u can do all this. They think everything has to be Shiney white surface without thinking that towels are good insulation. They likely end up buying more unnecessary equipment to make a certain are of a room/tent the correct temperature same as rest. Leading to extra costs (equipment), & higher energy usage. Live Love Laugh 🍄💚☮️😎
Lmao, tell me about it i rarely deal with contams cause my cultures are clean and I use a SAB, BUT also have mixed non sterilized bulk coco coir with grain spawn and had successful flushes with no visible contams. They can happen obviously especially that way but cubensis mycelium is pretty hardy and can take a little compitetion
I was just about to buy a $200 incubator until seeing this... my issue is being in Phoenix AZ with temps hitting 118, I'm having issues keeping my grow bags under 80 degrees... so here me out.. I'm thinking I can use my ice chest and on one end I'll put 2 or 3 ice packs... and on the other end,my grow bags in a cardboard box making sure they don't come into contact with each other... I'm a 1st time grower, so any ideas or feedback is MUSH appreciated
J dog is literally such a boi, it’s his charisma that drove me to actually follow through with making one of these! J dog if your reading this, you da man!! 😏
What about ventilation? I keep seeing conflicting information, some say you dont need any air exchange and some say 'a little' to vent out CO2 and decrease the incubation time. I understand airflow can increase the chance of contamination but is a little air exchange worth it?
Because mushrooms like any othe living being has a wide range of genetics meaning that every mushroom is someway different but in a strain they are in some way similar but STILL different betweeen each other, some strains need more O2, somes doesnt do well in high CO2 enviroments, the same with humdity. Additionaly a vastly range of people grow around the world and everyone live in differents humidity and O2 levels even in the same city a person living in the 16th floor has a better FAE than the same person on the 1° floor but maybe the person on the 1°floor has better himidity because the live near the sea, for example where i live is stupid to use a heat mat as it cause more troubles than help but in othe place like Canada is a must an incubator.} In the end follow one tek/video/person and then with time adjust details around your workspace and necessities. Theres is not magic guide....
Thanks for this. I was using a seedling mat with a plastic tub lid on top and the bags on top of that and it ended up drying a lot of my grains. Found this video and literally had everything for it already.
I'm starting my first mushroom grow & I'm just using a cardboard box. I put the seedling mat on one side spawn bags on the other side. So far the temps are staying good.
Hey there! My first inoculation is happening tomorrow and I'm super stoked. Question for ya: can I use an insulated cooler bag, like the ones used for grocery storage, to incubate the spawn after inoculation? Would I keep the top totally open? It's a zipper top so I could zip it partially, fully, or any variation in between. Your help is very much appreciated! I want to make sure I get this right.
So the ambient temp is reading 85.2 or 29.6 centigrade. Am I killing off the mycelium chances to grow? Seems sort of hot on the bottom. I have insulated my cooler with a sweat shirt to keep the heat off the bottom of the jars. Am I doing this correctly? I don't want to kill off my MAZA spores
i just mixed by bulk and spawn into the bottom, i figured when its time to fruit ill just take off the lid and use some elastic band and some clear plastic for a lid
Great video man, I just had one question if thats OK, do you need to make sure to let oxygen into that sealed incubator or is no extra oxygen needed at the incubation stage 🙂 Cheers!
Oxygen is needed during incubation. Place one hole (1-2 inch) high in the box and another similar hole across the box in a low position so the CO2 can naturally flow out. Cover the holes with filter discs or fill with polyfill to help keep contaminants out. You'll still want to open the box once in awhile and give the LCs a swirl. IMO.
My issue is I live in Arizona and the temps are 118 degrees Fahrenheit right now... any space I have available hits 81 degrees or a little higher.... any tips on how I can use something like this to lower the temps to 75ish.?... I'm thinking about throwing ice packs on one side,while keeping my grow bags in a box on the other side making sure it doesn't come into contact..
*I use the top triangle roof shelf in Martha tent for incubation.* But I do fruiting in monotub in tent. Without use of humidifier that way. I have zero'd in the temperature perfectly the dial on 'Oil filled 7fin Heater' with a wooden board as the shelf directly above (evens the heat distribution EXTREMELY WELL). That makes the tent 24.7°C all around. But when I'm not fruiting I place a 7w heating mat on the wire shelf, sandwiched under the board. This brings fluctuations between 27.8°C to 30.6°C which I have no problem with, coz I sterilise grains rather than pasteurise. Where there is a will. There is a way. 🍄💚☮️😎
My issue is AC in an old complex. Temps run high. Wondering about a cooling pad. I see one listed for matresses...or could the heating pad technically work as a cooling pad? Wanting to figure this out to fight good old fashioned moderate to extreme depression and anxiety
Thanks for the video. Seems like this would also work if the box is outside in a shed? And fruiting would be ok without light? I thought growth was affected when no light...they grow all over the place with no light to guide them.
I'm really curious as to why you need an incubator... I find personally that cubensis colonizes the best at ROOM TEMP! Or at about 73-75°f. If I let my bedroom get too warm, passed 80°f the growth on my agar cultures slows down. But at 75°f, they colonize lightning quick. Full petri dish colonization in under a week.
My apt in summer is a lot warmer than winter. Even with heat or air conditioning. Dark tends to be closets with shut doors. Those closets fluctuate a lot.
While this will work and it's definitely a great method illustrated in the video very simply and understandably, placing towels over the mat is a big fire hazard if you've got the mat on 24/7 or unattended. I instead use a tall-ish cooling rack (the kind you put hot baked cakes and cookies on) to be able to elevate any grain jars or bags etc above the mat about 4 or 5 inches.
Just a question, wouldn't the incubator need holes for air flow? I've seen other tutorials on how to make incubators and they all mention you need to make holes for air flow.
just curious for the icebox incubator, do we need a fan to make the air dry as you said at the beginning the dry clean air is also important for mushroom incubation.
Well, for agar cultures it doesn't really matter that much especially if your petri dishes are sealed a bit. If I put fully colonized cultures in the fridge as well they last a long time, and will bounce right back to health once put in warmer temps.
Size of that heat pad is overkill, I think, and even with the towels, I don't think I want to put jars on top of the heater. You can get a considerably smaller pad and put it on the side of one end of the cooler. Even a small pad that puts out much less heat than that one still won't need to come on very often inside a cooler, and the temperature difference from one side to the other won't be that great, with that amount of insulation.
HAhaha, yes. Fantastic video dude. good vibes many giggles and things learned along the way! little shout out to the animation selector/creator, they really lush out the videos production. Big love FungiAcademy fam.
You're cool as hell man, I'm just getting into this world, and I'm so impressed by everything I've been seeing. Love it. Can't wait to see what I end up with 🤍edit: also I love the animations you guys use to overlay on top of the video, super cool. Also, is it necessary to keep a consistent temp like this for the phase I inoculated grain substrate? I have a 3lbs bag coming my way, and I'm wondering if I'll need to keep a thermometer on it, or could I just store it in a dark place in a drawer or something? Does keeping a consistent temp and darkness help the mycelium spread faster? Just wondering, sorry if you already answered this in the vid, thanks in advance.
All completely unnecessary. Unless you’re growing somewhere not heated like a garage. Your house is already the perfect temperature as we and the fungus like roughly the same temps.
Bru my home has 16 degrees C or 60F because heating is way to fucking expensive and i do like my home fairly cold anyways. My shroomies on the other hand dont appreciate it too much and take for ever to colonize my bags
@@johnnypaughtsmoker985 There is no woman in the video. If you mean the man, he has dreadlocks. White people have been wearing dreadlocks for thousands of years, if you look at the history, it does not originate in Rastafarian culture.
I don't understand why certain channels don't come up when I search for information. I've been learning as much as I can about the growing process, and this channel didn't pop up until I specifically searched "heating mats for mushrooms" it sucks because this was actually an educational video that others might find helpful.
I searched homemade mushroom incubator and it was the top result, hopefully he’s getting the exposure now cause this was a great video
willy mico channel my guy
i had to search "head pad for inoculation" lol it was the second result - but the cooler with temp-controlled heat pad is genius for someone with limited space. this will be a productive winter...
Been using a sterilite with a heat mat on bottom and cooling racks on the mat holding my aio bags about 4 inches from the bottom. Keep a thermometer in there and make sure it stays between 73 and 77 Fahrenheit. Working like a charm so far🤙
You bring true meaning to the phrase *"Home Mycology"*
This is exactly how we do it. Everyone else's videos put people off because it seems too clinical. The only thing that you really have to keep on top of as long as everything like substrates and cultures r ok - is sterility at the moments that matter. People don't realise u can do all this. They think everything has to be Shiney white surface without thinking that towels are good insulation. They likely end up buying more unnecessary equipment to make a certain are of a room/tent the correct temperature same as rest. Leading to extra costs (equipment), & higher energy usage.
Live Love Laugh 🍄💚☮️😎
Lmao, tell me about it i rarely deal with contams cause my cultures are clean and I use a SAB, BUT also have mixed non sterilized bulk coco coir with grain spawn and had successful flushes with no visible contams. They can happen obviously especially that way but cubensis mycelium is pretty hardy and can take a little compitetion
Instead of a micro brewery myco
I was just about to buy a $200 incubator until seeing this... my issue is being in Phoenix AZ with temps hitting 118, I'm having issues keeping my grow bags under 80 degrees... so here me out.. I'm thinking I can use my ice chest and on one end I'll put 2 or 3 ice packs... and on the other end,my grow bags in a cardboard box making sure they don't come into contact with each other... I'm a 1st time grower, so any ideas or feedback is MUSH appreciated
J dog is literally such a boi, it’s his charisma that drove me to actually follow through with making one of these! J dog if your reading this, you da man!! 😏
He’s a good boi!
What about ventilation? I keep seeing conflicting information, some say you dont need any air exchange and some say 'a little' to vent out CO2 and decrease the incubation time. I understand airflow can increase the chance of contamination
but is a little air exchange worth it?
I'm new to all of this and that's my question as well. Everything that I have read says that you have to have proper ventilation during incubation.
Because mushrooms like any othe living being has a wide range of genetics meaning that every mushroom is someway different but in a strain they are in some way similar but STILL different betweeen each other, some strains need more O2, somes doesnt do well in high CO2 enviroments, the same with humdity.
Additionaly a vastly range of people grow around the world and everyone live in differents humidity and O2 levels even in the same city a person living in the 16th floor has a better FAE than the same person on the 1° floor but maybe the person on the 1°floor has better himidity because the live near the sea, for example where i live is stupid to use a heat mat as it cause more troubles than help but in othe place like Canada is a must an incubator.}
In the end follow one tek/video/person and then with time adjust details around your workspace and necessities.
Theres is not magic guide....
Thanks for this. I was using a seedling mat with a plastic tub lid on top and the bags on top of that and it ended up drying a lot of my grains. Found this video and literally had everything for it already.
I'm starting my first mushroom grow & I'm just using a cardboard box. I put the seedling mat on one side spawn bags on the other side. So far the temps are staying good.
im just using my water heater closet bro and it works like a dream
So, its okay to shut the lid tight? Or should it be slightly loose for CO2 to escape? Thank you for your time ,!!😊
During this face you dont need that much air exchange so shutting the lid is fine for us
Hey there! My first inoculation is happening tomorrow and I'm super stoked. Question for ya: can I use an insulated cooler bag, like the ones used for grocery storage, to incubate the spawn after inoculation? Would I keep the top totally open? It's a zipper top so I could zip it partially, fully, or any variation in between. Your help is very much appreciated! I want to make sure I get this right.
Since the jars have some sort of filter for air exchange, do you need to open the incubator from time to time to drive CO2 levels down?
I'm wondering this too (gas exchange)
Verry cool. Your adorable J Dog. Woof! Can’t wait to try this.
Thanks so much 😊
I never thought bout getting an incubator… thx!!
yoo this is my first time coming across this channel and I totally dig the fucking vibes boys. love to see it
Looks like a great tek I will be building one the weekend
Awesome man, Thanks Jasper.
You bet!
Awesome work!!! I so glad I found this channel.. I want to become a mycologists so much!
Welcome aboard! Lots more epic content on the way !! :)
My el cheapo solution: Shoeboxes with Infrared heating (added insulation tinfoil)
It works
Tinfoil to the rescue!
So the ambient temp is reading 85.2 or 29.6 centigrade. Am I killing off the mycelium chances to grow? Seems sort of hot on the bottom. I have insulated my cooler with a sweat shirt to keep the heat off the bottom of the jars. Am I doing this correctly? I don't want to kill off my MAZA spores
The exact information I was looking for.
My grandma does 😊 She's a cool grandma.
i just mixed by bulk and spawn into the bottom, i figured when its time to fruit ill just take off the lid and use some elastic band and some clear plastic for a lid
Great video man, I just had one question if thats OK, do you need to make sure to let oxygen into that sealed incubator or is no extra oxygen needed at the incubation stage 🙂 Cheers!
Oxygen is needed during incubation. Place one hole (1-2 inch) high in the box and another similar hole across the box in a low position so the CO2 can naturally flow out. Cover the holes with filter discs or fill with polyfill to help keep contaminants out. You'll still want to open the box once in awhile and give the LCs a swirl. IMO.
Will this not matter as all the jars lids are on anyway?
@@Samakahzithe lids have hole drilled and micropore tape for co2 exchange
Can you put grow bags in the insulated box?
They will need some more FAE but for the first week they should be fine
Got the link for where you got the tent at pretty badass
2;45 Pachita? great vids
had all of these its laying around. down to the exact mat and cooler lol.
My issue is I live in Arizona and the temps are 118 degrees Fahrenheit right now... any space I have available hits 81 degrees or a little higher.... any tips on how I can use something like this to lower the temps to 75ish.?... I'm thinking about throwing ice packs on one side,while keeping my grow bags in a box on the other side making sure it doesn't come into contact..
Great showmanship brother I’m hooked!❤️🥳
Thanks hermano!
What about air holes do you need them ?
Is airflow not necessary for incubation?
Thank you for this, this is something I could do.
What if the cooler is airtight? Will it still work?
Yea! Fungi don't need much FAE until the fruiting stage so you should be good
Gecko egg incubator has temp settings all across the board and allows fresh airflow
Great vid thanks. How many litres is the cooler box. So difficult to gauge sizes on Amazon etc
Do you need to worry about air flow at all?
An old microwave oven with elements removed, cleaned up real good?
yes for sure!
*I use the top triangle roof shelf in Martha tent for incubation.*
But I do fruiting in monotub in tent. Without use of humidifier that way. I have zero'd in the temperature perfectly the dial on 'Oil filled 7fin Heater' with a wooden board as the shelf directly above (evens the heat distribution EXTREMELY WELL). That makes the tent 24.7°C all around. But when I'm not fruiting I place a 7w heating mat on the wire shelf, sandwiched under the board. This brings fluctuations between 27.8°C to 30.6°C which I have no problem with, coz I sterilise grains rather than pasteurise.
Where there is a will. There is a way. 🍄💚☮️😎
If I’m going to use a smaller box shall I wrap the heat mat around the sides? Or have it on bottom and coming up one side
So much info, thank you!
This guy reminds me of many of my friends whilst tripping lol
My issue is AC in an old complex. Temps run high. Wondering about a cooling pad. I see one listed for matresses...or could the heating pad technically work as a cooling pad? Wanting to figure this out to fight good old fashioned moderate to extreme depression and anxiety
Won’t it gather too much c02 in a closed location for an incubator?
I’m just getting into this so please bare with me.
Well this is fine for us budding mushronauts.. Thanks. 🍄🚀👍
Thanks for enjoying the vid🔥
How are you controlling the temperature in the tent?
Thank you.
Thank you so much!!! Great Tek
I'm gonna watch more of your channel, if for no other reason than I wish I'm as high as you appear to be!
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Right lol
Thanks for the video. Seems like this would also work if the box is outside in a shed? And fruiting would be ok without light? I thought growth was affected when no light...they grow all over the place with no light to guide them.
Great info thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
I'm really curious as to why you need an incubator... I find personally that cubensis colonizes the best at ROOM TEMP! Or at about 73-75°f. If I let my bedroom get too warm, passed 80°f the growth on my agar cultures slows down. But at 75°f, they colonize lightning quick. Full petri dish colonization in under a week.
That's what I was wondering I keep hearing you have to keep it at 22 degrees so the spores will grow faster
I was gonna just buy a meat fridge or something but if I don't have to I won't
Because some people live in climates that are difficult to maintain at 75 degree environment…
My apt in summer is a lot warmer than winter. Even with heat or air conditioning. Dark tends to be closets with shut doors. Those closets fluctuate a lot.
Depends if you live in a hot country and whether 75F is a normal day to you or a hot day.
While this will work and it's definitely a great method illustrated in the video very simply and understandably, placing towels over the mat is a big fire hazard if you've got the mat on 24/7 or unattended.
I instead use a tall-ish cooling rack (the kind you put hot baked cakes and cookies on) to be able to elevate any grain jars or bags etc above the mat about 4 or 5 inches.
So you don’t need holes for the incubator?
Yew! Love u guyss 🧡🍄❤️
Just a question, wouldn't the incubator need holes for air flow? I've seen other tutorials on how to make incubators and they all mention you need to make holes for air flow.
Note that you're looking for "gas exchange" at this stage, not "fresh air exchange".
Do you sterilize everything going into the ice chest?
What is a good brand of scientific incubator that has a good life span and accuracy please!
just curious for the icebox incubator, do we need a fan to make the air dry as you said at the beginning the dry clean air is also important for mushroom incubation.
Well, for agar cultures it doesn't really matter that much especially if your petri dishes are sealed a bit. If I put fully colonized cultures in the fridge as well they last a long time, and will bounce right back to health once put in warmer temps.
Dope vid.
What about gas exchange doesn’t the lid not allow gas exchange
Open /close it every other day
Size of that heat pad is overkill, I think, and even with the towels, I don't think I want to put jars on top of the heater.
You can get a considerably smaller pad and put it on the side of one end of the cooler. Even a small pad that puts out much less heat than that one still won't need to come on very often inside a cooler, and the temperature difference from one side to the other won't be that great, with that amount of insulation.
I was thinking maybe taping it to the lid of the cooler...
HAhaha, yes. Fantastic video dude. good vibes many giggles and things learned along the way!
little shout out to the animation selector/creator, they really lush out the videos production.
Big love FungiAcademy fam.
Wow this is awesomee!! I want to ask does the humidity need to controlled too? Then do we need to put humidifier inside the box? Thank youu!!
Nah, humidity is only a factor during the fruiting process!
He said several times with his hand slapping the box, on few separate occasions. U want it clean dry and warm. ☮️😎
Light does not affect pinning
No gas exchange?
nice :)
What about air?
When in colonization period,they only need GE (gas exchange) but if you are really worried about,leave the lid slightly cracked
@@dressedanddepressed2301 I'm a beginner. Not worried. Just confused.
If you place the heating mat along the walls of the cooler, you don't need the towels. Just my unsolicited .02
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You're cool as hell man, I'm just getting into this world, and I'm so impressed by everything I've been seeing. Love it. Can't wait to see what I end up with 🤍edit: also I love the animations you guys use to overlay on top of the video, super cool.
Also, is it necessary to keep a consistent temp like this for the phase I inoculated grain substrate? I have a 3lbs bag coming my way, and I'm wondering if I'll need to keep a thermometer on it, or could I just store it in a dark place in a drawer or something?
Does keeping a consistent temp and darkness help the mycelium spread faster? Just wondering, sorry if you already answered this in the vid, thanks in advance.
Also, you can colonize agar cultures just fine in normal light. No need for total darkness
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Por favor se poder colocar legendados em português o pessoal aqui agrace
Low-key thought you were Thor
All completely unnecessary. Unless you’re growing somewhere not heated like a garage. Your house is already the perfect temperature as we and the fungus like roughly the same temps.
Bru my home has 16 degrees C or 60F because heating is way to fucking expensive and i do like my home fairly cold anyways. My shroomies on the other hand dont appreciate it too much and take for ever to colonize my bags
Yeah nah I’ll just throw a chicken and some eggs in there with the jars and the chicken can hatch the spawns 🤣
That is one odd woman!!!
What do you mean? The person in this video is a man
@@michellebelle5327 yeah the chick talking
@@johnnypaughtsmoker985 There is no woman in the video. If you mean the man, he has dreadlocks. White people have been wearing dreadlocks for thousands of years, if you look at the history, it does not originate in Rastafarian culture.
jesus christ thats a lot of shrooms
Shame he is so not funny he doesn't realize it...
You must be the king of comedy.
0:19 I'm more interested in this tent!!
Just a frame with black plastic around it, nothing fancy haha