Harvesting Shiitake Mushrooms | Southwest Mushrooms
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2021
- After 3 months incubating, these mushrooms have grown and are now ready for harvest.
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Snip snip snip. That sound of scissors snipping is satisfying.
Imagine an herb farm for a corporate grow.. about 30 to 50 people all with headphones in a square room, and all you hear is snippers going at the fastest speed as humanly possible. :)
@@dertythegrower my hown wild one's ruclips.net/video/e6ipOmHwgIA/видео.html , hopely you like
Damm son, that some on point taki right there!!
Just wanted to say thanks mike for useful info and sharing the secrets of mycology so others can learn and grow.
Im Allergic to mushrooms, but I Can't Stop Watching These Videos.
Yes, baby. The box is back!
I love shiitake!!!
😋👌🏻❤️
Didn’t know this would be a mushroom harvesting ASMR episode. 😆
Hey, cool seeing your employees! Love the videos
You should be proud of your mushroom company. I actually envy your shitake harvest. 👁 ❤ 🍄
Always thought he cut those abnormally fast. Nice to hear it confirmed finally
Always fun to watch you guys, great to see you that often now;)
Awesome!
Loved the work dynamic
Y’all are awesome love from Oklahoma !
Awesome, just print these videos, keep up the awesome work!
Gorgeous fruits as always! Kudos to you and your team! Badass!!!
its great watching you harvest while I harvest :D
Very good Sir, thank you.
Many medicinal compounds come from that “mushroom juice”. I know Mike knows, but for those that dont; the mushroom juice i assume they are referring to is the metabolites of the organism. It is also referred to as “mycelium piss” within some communities. (Edit: probably why his employee talked about feeling violated, the organism peed on him)
Penicillin is/was actually made from Penicillium mold. It is grown, and then stressed, which induces the mycelium to produce metabolites including Penicillin.
Paul Stamets has actually done some renowned research regarding bees using mycelium metabolites as a way for bees to medicate against illness
Thank you for the knowledge
im here for this Im new coming in the mushroom growing my first harvest was this morning I look foward to growing more
Beautiful
You are soooo more informative than other people, Better techniques. You make Mossy Creek mushrooms look like amatures! Keep putting out videos. You should get on maine cap and stems podcast mycowizards.
I can only guess you have never grown fungi !
#MossyCreekMushrooms
This is a rude thing to say about anyone. Mike does an amazing job, but still.
Just fact, sometimes the truth hurts.
@@themyceliumnetwork I grow everyday. Even cordyceps which andrew cant figure out.
I'm watching u learn mushroom cultivation and star mushroom farm last 3mounts oyster mushroom cultivating, now I'm thinking about shiitake cultivation .
very nice
Thanks! I would love to see how tents are cleaned and other components, it not glamorous work but so important, I haven't seen much videos on that. Much-love Thanks for bringing us in ! Much appreciated!
There’s an older video on the channel that goes over cleaning the tents
@@SouthwestMushrooms lol. I was just going to say that. I am really hoping to piece together a makeshift fruiting chamber and a place for the mycelium to run. I just got a pressure canner so i can sterilize blocks. It will be nothing like you have though.
Yo Mike, consider this idea.
Imagine if the blocks were formed in a standardized shape (a squircle I imagine).
When time comes to harvest the shiitakes, you could have a customized cutting tool about the same same shape as the squircle form (+0.5cm wider edges than the standardized shape of the blocks) - a metal box with razorsharp edges of sorts.
Now, to cut the mushrooms off the block, you would only have to place it over the squircle cutting tool and apply pressure from the top down. The mushrooms will then be cut off the sides of the block and fall down in a tray. With the remaining on top you would only have to make one, seamless cut with a sharp blade across the top edge of the squircle cutting tool (which the top of the block, when pressured down into the cutting tool, is level with the edge of the square cutting tool.
Now the mushrooms would fall down into a tray around the cutter. In order to remove the block, you would only have to press a lever, pushing up the remaining block from the metal-box-cutting-tool for you put back into the growroom or to the compost.
I think that kind of setup would save you guys a lot of time in the harvest. A mechanical engineer could draw such a tool and craft it in no time!!
Looks like your space is used super efficiently. How long until you’re upsizing?
Killing it as usual. I love your videos. I don’t see much miatake info out there, any chance you could do an informative on them? Block prep to harvest.
I just grew my first maitake block this past year. It takes a really long time to fruit, like 9 months. The mycelium likes Temps between 70 and 75 degrees and darkness. When fruiting it likes to make a humid CO2 rich environment. I have some nice Maitake brains frozen in the freezer for a nice meal later on and am making a tincture with the rest. I can't wait to grow more.
Do those have a second flush?
No, just the first
From what you just harvested how much do you think your going to make?
Which strain of Shiitake is that ?
my S75 never grows tight clusters like that but will always produce less but larger fruits.
looking for something smaller like those.
Thanks.
I am also a huge #MossyCreekMushrooms Fan due to the details that Adrian & Friends share, most growers that I have meet in person or viewed online love to openly share. Including myself
What you guys do with the blocks that are not fruiting anymore?
What music are you listening when you harvest ?
Amazing video buddy, if you mind, what is the temperature and UR for shitake production in growtents?
Do you guys supplement your shiitake blocks?
Thats some good money.
iv got a funny feeling mike has trimmed a lot of Bud in his time.
Do you guys also use a hose to spray down the browned shiitake blocks as Earth angel mushrooms does?
Love the video's. I assume that you guys can't listen to music when you're making video?
Yeah normally music is on when we aren’t shooting videos
Great video! question since it's more work i imagine they are much more expensive right? how much compared to oysters, 2 or 3 times more? I'm curious because currently i'm mainly only selling oysters but want to sell different varieties, so what is your reasoning for the higher price, like incubation time and time per harvest?
Not sure in USA, but in Europe shiitakes not that expensive, blue oysters around 15-20eur/kg and shiitakes 20-25eur/kg, lion's mane 35-40eur/kg or even more somewhere, maitakes 50-60eur/kg.
Have you tried to grow Chanterelle or Matsutake mushrooms, or are they too hard to grow? If you could, you would make bank on that!
What’s your substrate for shiitake? Thx
what is the secret of such a yield of your shii take!?.it's impressive!!!!.
Hi. I'm gonna try cultivate shiitake mushroom. I was wondering, what kind of sawdust should I use? Should I use powder like sawdust or little little tiny pieces of sawdust?
what size fresh produce boxes are you putting these shiitakes into?
Is that first flush or second? You just stacked those blocks away, so they going for waste? 😁👌
What do you guys do with the blocks after harvesting? Recycled? Reused?
It looks as of they try to a get another flush after their first flush. Then after that i think he said that they compost it
Mushroom Barber Mike
How much water do you use per tent on a day or monthly if you know?
Hopefully you consider my advice/tips.
For the love of god get your workers some trimming sheers*shorter scissors*, something with better ergonomics.
Instead of each person going and getting their own block have someone designated to be the only one bringing blocks to the table...unless that is how you're doing it.
How long do they take to fruit?
Thats got to be your brother :)
bro i am so jealus... i just need to touch some fresh sroommies
You harvest Shiitake use your hands, keep the root, This way your block is clean, you might get a second flush. You should get second flush. I am a commercial grower in States.
Hello my dear friend!
Could I find out what kind of supstrat you are using? At least rudimentary white !!
Warm greetings from a very jealous hobby breeder !!
All the best to you, continued good business, Your H.J.S.
brother do you have ganodoma's culture
aren't those mushrooms past their prime?
No, they aren't. Shitake stay good for a long time.
Whats the secret behind having a successful psilocybin PE harvest?
Sterile growing conditions and patience.
4:50 ok guys, we get it, you all get paid reaalllyy well to cut mushrooms all day long 🙄 hire me from the Uk, I’ve been researching about mushrooms for 6 years. I love mushrooms! Unless you want me to find you clients in the UK.
Cordyceps, shitake, miatake, lion’s mane, reishi, tremella. They all good.
Looks at harvested block..
I like ya cut G
*smack
Is that guy still working there, cause he wasn't cutting from the base...
first
So 4 times out of the year is shiitaki time
Depends how you stagger your incubation/fruiting room. He's just stating that the mushroom takes 3 months to colonize fully. You could put fresh shiitake blocks in every week if you have the stock!!
If you inoculate only 4 days a year yes. If you constantly inoculate bags you could harvest 365 days a year :)
love your videos. But, I work on a shitake farm in Japan and these shitakes won't be sold for much here... (barely B-grade)
fewer+heavier+closed cap > many+lighter+open cap
We would also consider these overgrown. We harvest just as the caps break and lover humidity towards harvest time. 20 kg per hour harvested per picker.