GROW TONS OF MUSHROOMS ON "TOTEM" LOGS, EZ Bucket Totem Tek Explained
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- PLEASE READ! In this video, I demonstrate my easy "Bucket Totem Tek" for growing mushrooms outdoors. This simple and effective method works great for growing a wide variety of wood loving mushroom species including Oyster, Shiitake, Enoki, Maitake, Lions Mane, and Reishi. It is important to match the wood type you have available, to a conducive mushroom species, so make sure you do your research before starting. Totem logs are incubated for 1 to 2 months in the bucket which provides the perfect environment for fast colonization. After colonization, your log is removed and placed in a conducive location for mushroom fruiting. This ideally should be a shady, somewhat wind sheltered area where you can water them as needed. Logs should never be in standing water, but they need to be kept moist and watered regularly during the dry hot months. Most people who fail with outdoor log grows fail because they neglect their logs and allow them to dry out.
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I'm gonna try this one out! Thanks for your channel. So much good, Realistic, and Pragmatic instruction for a beginner. Because of this channel I have a pound of oysters in the fridge right now, and several more pounds potentially pinning.
That's awesome to hear. Keep up the good work 👍
Your videos are the best, Ed! They are filled with old grain knowledge and new school fun. Keep it up, Homie!
Thank you, comments like this mean a lot to me.
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Great video, got to the point, you make it look doable for a beginner. Will have to try this 👍🏻
Perfect timing. Thank you.
Thanks for that great video!!!
thanks, this is a really good idea.
I am going to try this with chicken of the woods
This is a great method thanks! Have you used this successfully with Lion's Mane? And is there a preference how green or fresh the logs are?
It works for Lions Mane, but it usually takes two years to see fruits and yields are comparatively low. It works great for Shiitake though with oak, beech, or hard maple. Ideally, you always want to cut your trees during the dormant season (leaf fall - bud swell). If you do that you can use them immediately and your yields will be better. If you must cut during the active growing season, it's best to let them sit two weeks, and your overall yields will be lower.
Hello my friend...I Love your videos......i really like the coat you are wearing....can i ask what make and or where to get one😊Thank you
Here's a link, same jacket just a different color. I bought mine at as local shop that sells gear to fishermen.
poshmark.com/listing/ANGLUR-FISHING-Mens-Black-Red-Waterproof-Jacket-6404749836660e96b9a7befe
Do you cover the 1/4" hole with polyfill of tape? Great content on all your videos I've seen, glad to be subscribed to this channel. Keep it up!
Glad you are enjoying the channel 👍 No need to cover the hole with anything when doing totems.
Thanks for the quick reply. I'm going to try some pathfinder oyster on some box elder that were in the way of a garden. One video you made recently that has me more confident is the one on the dancing hen on phwfp. Maitake seems intimidating, but your video helps👍
@@jonsmith5503 I was intimidated too, but it turned out great. It's an awesome strain.
Hey! Thanks for great content! :) I have a few questions.. First, during the incubation period, do you open the lid, give water, anything? Or keep it closed except when checking it from time to time? 2nd - I have seen that most people use wax with parafine to seal the logs where they have been 'opened'.. How come it is not necessary here? And thanks again!
You don't need to do anything, the bucket holds in moisture from the log and that is all you need. Just make sure you drill two or three 1/4" holes so the bucket can breathe a little. Waxing is only necessary when inoculating logs using the drill and fill method. It is not necessary with the totem method.
Thanks for making these videos! This method seems to be just a ticket for starting them indoors and then moving them outdoors later on. I’m going to start them in the basement and use a dolly to transport them outside when it warms up.
Do you see any reason that galvanized ductwork wouldn’t work instead of a pails?
No that should work fine. You just want them to breathe a little but maintain humidity. If its sealed pretty tight, 1 or two 1/4 inch holes would be fine.
How old is your assistant? I thought it was cool that Gary gave you a shout out on your last fantastic cordycep grow. You certainly deserve it. Keep on Rockin!
Also can you do a in depth video on lighting on mushrooms. I see people using all kinds of lights. The lights you use are they ordinary shop lights? I know you say they are 6500k but I have no idea what it means. Thanks for all your help in the past.
He's a little over 2 years old, but he's been wandering the woods with me since he was a puppy. He's a great dog, I'm lucky to have him. Yeah that was nice of Gary, I'm a big fan of his work and always look forward to his videos. I'm not a lighting expert by any means, but it is a subject I would like to further explore. All bulbs have a rating, so 3000K is more rich in the red spectrum, while 6500K is more in the blue spectrum. Most people go with blue spectrum lights (6500K) because the idea is that spectrum closely mimics the filtered light of the forest floor that most mushrooms evolved to grow in. I'm hoping to do something in the future working in some full spectrum light with my blues to see how it affects the cap color of different mushrooms.
Yes my lights are standard 6500K fluorescent shop lights.
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Do the legs have to be fresh? I have logs with less day, some with more decay. Some logs have white rot, others have brown rot. I ordered oyster sawdust spawn and they said I could use the lasagna method to create an outdoor garden but I really like this method
Logs not legs 🦵
Yes, you really do need fresh logs. Those logs you have are already taken over by other fungi. For best results, logs should be cut from conducive tree species during the dormant season, between leaf change in the fall and bud swell in the spring. Logs cut during the dormant season can be inoculated immediately as long as temps are good for colonization. Winter cut logs can sit until spring. Summer cut logs should be aged 2 weeks before inoculation, but fresh is key.
Great video, so after about 8 weeks you dump them outside on the ground in shady area and keep them watered
Yep you got it. I stand them up though, they will stand on their own if they are a decent diameter. Shady, out of the wind if possible. Keep them watered and check them a few times a week. Oysters grow fast.
Great video!!!👍🙏😎❤️🧫🦓
I like this method. I did some lionsmane with the plug method. It's been a year so far. This style seems like it would be considerably faster. I also did TT and got almost zip year one.
This method works great for oyster, shiitake, enoki, and turkey tail. Lions mane are best grown indoors in my experience. Outdoor yields are spotty and sparse.
@@RenegadeMushrooms That's good to know. I just grew a couple 10 lb blocks from michigan mushroom. They did pretty good. In your opinion, why don't they do well outdoors? I'm in northern NY by the way. I'm a reishi and chaga forager hobbiest and have only seen one , small lionsmane in the wild. I like lionsmane for all the obvious reasons and would like a good steady supply. I'm new to cultivation but planning on doing more as time and money allow. Especially interested in cultivating our native reishi. Tried some spores on logs but all I got was some half ass tt flushes. Also do you sell cultures and or supplies? I did a google search and only found your videos.
@@timothylongmore7325 I'm along the Lake Ontario shoreline and there is quite a bit of wild Hericium in my area, mostly H. americanum and H. coralloides. You should look for areas with lots of large Beech trees. They are most common on Beech, usually stumps or fallen logs and limbs in September. Hericium just isn't very reliable on logs. They fruit intermittently and yields are small. They are not worth the effort IMO. I actually cloned a couple wild Reishi last summer and I hope to grow them soon. I used to sell all kinds of stuff but I closed my Etsy shop and website. For now, I'm just doing the RUclips thing, but I enjoy it a lot. I also have a video on how I grow H. americanum:
ruclips.net/video/N-Qpb3K8EL0/видео.html
@@RenegadeMushrooms Thanks for the reply. I've seen some of your videos and are some of the best hands on info I've watched. Most don't reply to questions either which turns me off. I always check the coments for replies by host and answers to my questions first. Im up on TugHill an hour from the big park so beech are pretty common. I'm looking for supplies because of the reishi propagating I'd like to do. I have reishi spores from several different collectings. I did not do spore prints though. I just wiped them of mature mushrooms so I don't know if they're even viable but thought it wouldn't hurt to try to inoculate a half dozen agar dishes. Any thoughts on that would be appreciated. Also do you have live cultures of gano tsugae? I sold about 120 lbs @ $30 per to one client in cali and would love to cultivate on an idustrial scale. I'll be 63 this season and hope to NOT carry 50 pound packs around in the 90 degree heat, lol. I'm not wanting to buy just hoping you'll do a video. Your way more adept at shrooms than I'll probably ever be. I do have the room , access to hemlock logs and a sawmill , so , good to go on that part. If ya want to go reishi hunting to I'd be glad to show you around. I've got a crappy video on my channel about reishi hunting in one of my favorite spots too. Check it out and thanks again.
@@timothylongmore7325 I will check out your video. As someone who's also humped out 50 lbs. of Reishi on several occasions, I feel your pain, literally. I mostly hunt Ganoderma tsugae as well. Last year I found quite a bit on red maple growing right in and amongst the hemlock stands. I cloned one fruit off of red maple and one off of hemlock. I have viable cultures of both now in liquid culture form after cleaning them up on agar. Your spores should be fine, you just might have to do a few generations on agar to clean up contamination. I tried growing both of my cultures on hardwood sawdust blocks this summer and they colonized beautifully, but refused to fruit. Hemlock sawdust may be the key to fruiting them indoors. Outdoors, I think they would do well on hemlock or red maple logs laying on, or partially buried in soil. Keep me posted on your experiments, I would love to hear how you make out. I have a vid on my channel of me cloning my Reishi:
ruclips.net/video/xi8e4_fr7x0/видео.html
I enjoyed your video, that was nice score of chickens too. Beautiful country you have there, reminds me of some the spots I hike in the Catskills and Southern Tier. You should make more videos. I'm still filming all of mine with my old S8+ phone. As long as you can film in 1080p at 60 frames per second with video stabilization. That's all you need.
Hey, will give this a try!
Is there a follow up video to your wheat bran supplementation tek? I was thinking of doing it as well. I'm following your HWFP Tek with great success! But I would like to try the wheat bran. I saw you haven't posted a follow up video showing the yields yet, how's that coming?
Yields are better for sure, but not by a huge amount, probably because I spawn so heavy to begin with. The best result so far for oysters seems to be at 5% bran or 1.6 oz./2 lb. dry pellets or by mixing the bran in with the grain spawn. The bran will boost your yields, along as it doesn't increase your contam rates. So far for oysters it seems to be 2 - 3 oz. increase on the first flush.
@@RenegadeMushrooms great, thank you!
@@zorg621 I'm going to talk about it more in later videos, but in comparing yields I'm being reminded that each species and strain also have their preferred fruiting methods (top vs. side fruiting, single vs. multi-cluster, etc). This also can have a significant impact on yield that often outweighs and defies supplementation levels. This is why, especially if you're going for production, it really pays to learn well and stick with a few dedicated strains.
That’s awesome! It’s been almost two months, Any updates? 😲
I posted a pic recently of the logs colonizing in the buckets. You can find it in my "Community" section. They are colonizing beautifully.
@@RenegadeMushrooms thanks :)
I have ash logs that were cut down last fall could I grow shiitake or lions mane? Or anything? Lol google has a range of your screwed to you can do it
Ash is really only good for growing Turkey Tail and Chicken of the Woods in my experience. Because of the age of your logs, I would recommend Turkey Tail. For Shiitake, you really want oak or sugar maple. Lions Mane likes sugar maple and beech. Lions Mane can be sporadic on logs though, so I generally recommend people grow it indoors on sawdust instead of outdoors on logs. Much more bang for your buck.
@@RenegadeMushrooms thanks for the reply , I appreciate it.
So my neighbor is taking down a maple tree today. I really wanna try this method but I have no spawn ready yet. Think i can preserve the logs by cutting to size and tossing them in the freezer til I have spawn ready?
Where are you located roughly if you don't mind me asking? Your local weather greatly affects the answer. Just region is fine.
@Renegade Mushrooms central Illinois. I think they call us grow zone 7 maybe?
@@kiwicanoeboy2 OK cool, so you're trees are still dormant. I would just lay the logs on the ground until you have spawn ready. If they start to look dry, you can water them a little but just being in contact with the grass/soil will help keep them hydrated. They should be fine like that for a couple of months. I often cut in the middle of winter and leave logs laying under the snow/on the ground until I inoculate them in April or May.
@@RenegadeMushrooms awesome thank you, and thank you for the channel, i am enjoying watching.
How do you do your sawdust spawn? Is it like your grain spawn 101 or HWFP tek?
HWFP Tek
@@RenegadeMushrooms Do you still mix the pasteurized HWFP with wheat grain jars to get the sawdust spawn started?
@@dylski4294 I do it just like I show in my original HWFP tek video, first video on my channel. Colonized grain spawn to pasteurized HWFP.
@@RenegadeMushrooms Thanks man. I love that video. I guess I worded that question poorly. My question was if you inoculated the straight up fuel pellets with LC or if you knocked up the usual wheat grain jar first then dropped the colonized grain into the HWFP bag. But you answered my question. Would make sense to get the wheat grain jar colonized first then add it to the pasteurized HWFP, then wait for the the sawdust brick to colonize, and then add that grain/sawdust spawn to the logs in the bucket
How many of these videos have I seen. They put everything together and they never give you an update video. You never find out if it worked. I hope you will be responsible enough to come back and update Us in 2 months when you're taking these logs out of these buckets.
I will certainly be posting updates on these. I actually already posted a video of last spring's logs starting to fruit last fall. They were made using the identical process. Here's a link:
ruclips.net/video/POkHcMtTlWE/видео.html
@@RenegadeMushrooms thank you!!! Its been depressing not finding updates