Ben Built a DIY Wooden Mushroom Bagger!
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- The Mossy Creek Mushroom Crew has Upgraded again! Thanks to Ben, we have a new DIY mushroom substrate bagger! Perfect for any small business looking to get into the mushroom business or for any current small mushroom farms to increase production and ease of operation! Check out the video for more info.
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Awesome Job Ben!!
He's my miracle worker for sure.
Having a larger tube to put the bag over makes it a bit easier and less messy. I like the design! All you need now is a contraption to hole up bags for you.
Thanks for the suggestions!
You guy's are blessed!!!
Every new video im surprised.
Keep that alchemy goin!!!
Thank you very much!
You scrappers out there!!! Love it
Auction naming rights. I’ll throw $20 on Bilbo Baggins.
Thanks for the plug man. I like the water valve setup, although I'm not sure what the kickout on the left is? Just extra volume without the full length in one stretch of tube?
You are very welcome man! Thanks for iterating on our design and improving it! The kickout on the left is actually how we measure our water, and how we switch to other formulas. Just have pre-cut sections of pipe for different amounts of water.
I know it's been a year but I just went to your website and I'm not seeing any plans. Are they still happening?
Fantastic! Plans available yet? Or is there a walkthrough on the system and parts you can do? Super cool!
Very Nice Andrew and Ben 👏 going to try and build one myself I have a nice oak cabinet that’s a little deeper then this hopper but I think I can make it work my basement ceiling is 6’6” and I stand about 5,11 so not much head space but I can clear it. 😂 I give you props man putting together the lab, incubation room, and fruiting room as well as setting up a bagging station is a hell of a lot of work especially when you do it all by yourself. It’s a shame it’s hard to find anyone who wants to work anymore. Thanks for the video brother, keep on grindin!!
Hi Ben and Andrew!! Because of the consultation my partner and I did with Andrew 6 months ago we finally have a business, Gold Miner Mushroom Farm in Northern California, that is actually making money!! We are SOOO proud. Thank you Andrew!! Now, on to business...are your plans, for Prometheus the Great bagger, available? Would love to be able to make this version of your baggers. Love the fact that we would be able to use sawdust and cut some of our costs from using pellets. Please, please let me know!!! I WILL hold my breath 🙂 Have a great one!
Hey Ben! Did the plans ever manage to make it out there? Living in Canada and being handy, it would make far more sense to get plans and build myself. Love your videos!
Did the plans for Prometheus happen, have not been able to find them.. Happy to buy them..
Looking good bro!
Thanks Rich!
You know, I have a turkey tail block, put it outside under a tree and water it once a day. Beautiful turkey tails are growing, not mold or problems. I took it inside put it under a humidity tent and even tried to clone one, and a long mycelium forms almost like cobweb mold and forms black spores. That's pretty interesting. Cause essentially outside the block absorbs a lot of water when I water, gets a little microclimate under the tree, tons of air exchange, dries out near end of day, gets cool at night, but forms no mold. Inside with prolonged moisture, and hampered air exchange, whatever mold it's infected with start to grow in Mass. So it's huge to have a good environment to successful grow them in none sterile settings. I've noticed turkey tail mycelium recovers being dried out so I speculate it can thrive in dry environments much easier than mold.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Big Ben!!!
love your work !!! You helped me a lot !!! Studying mushrooms now !!
Glad we can be of some help!
Love this!
I’m totally interested! Thanks.
You are very welcome, thank you for watching! Plans will be out shortly for sure!
What brand of gate valve do you use. Does the blade of the valve ever get caught up on the pellet material
Promethius is a good name
That looks awesome, but where is the detail? how does it work? I don't find plans on the patreon. Is it the same principle of your previous bagger converted to pedal control ? please show us more
2 quick questions. Do you use a flowmeter controller for the water? Why is there two pneumatic gates for water and not only one?
@@themushroomcircle-3995 Hey there. In the video I said that we'll be putting up the plans in a couple of months. It is very much the same principle as Thor. No, we don't use a flow meter. They are too slow unless you want really expensive ones. We just measure the water between the two valves with the pipe off to the side.
@@Mossycreekmushroomsofficial thanks for the reply. No flow meter then and the pipe measure the water, but what stops the water ? a float valve ? In any case, I'll wait eagerly for the full details.
@@themushroomcircle-3995 Yes, there is a float valve in the reservoir, but the valve on the top closes when the one on the bottom is open. That is what stops the water in the reservoir from flowing into the the surge tank between the valves.
So you soak in the bag then pasteurize?
How many bags does your hopper hold? how many bags will it fill without refilling the hopper?
Are you already selling the plans?
MUSHMETHIUS
Promushius?
Mossbagger!
Where can I find the blueprints?
Do you think this could be modified to use bran flakes or loose soy hulls? I'm looking to build a bagger, but I cant find organic pelletized hulls. I can get loose ones or organic bran easy enough though.
Sorry Matt, but no. This would bind up big time with loose substrate. Pellets are really what this beasty is designed for.
We both know that it's better to keep it simple. You should name it "The Bagger."
You don’t pre rinse your grain? How do u combat the contamination? Is the grain clean already or do you pc for a longer time.
Just wondering I hate pre rinsing my millet but if I don’t it usually gets contaminated.
Man I'm really looking foward to get those plans. I am currently in the process of finding a way to build some kind of "thor" myself, but I have basically zero carpentry skills (the only thing I built myself made of wood was my flow hood, which is just a couple of boxes, cant get any simplee than that). It might be problematic for me to get those fancy pneumatic gate valves though, as I live in a poor underdeveloped country. I am very curious about the dispensing system used for the pellets, can you give some quick information on that? Is that some sort of sliding volumetic measurer powered by a penumatic valve, like the one Eric Myers has a video on?
Also, You gus think this project (or thor) would work for "real" unpelletized material? Again, where I live, I dont have access to either sawdust or soybean hulls in pelletized form, only the original "powdered" material.
And one more question, why do you guys use 2 gate valves for the water dispensing system instead of a solenoid valve with with flow measure? I believe this kind of system in waaay cheaper than a couple of pneumatic gate valves. Maybe its because of the speed you wanted?
Yes, that is the short of it. I don't think it would work for anything loose, or "bulk" substrates. Flow measures are slow, unless you go for one that is way expensive. It's easy to use the two gates and a side of pipe to measure the water out.
@@Mossycreekmushroomsofficial thanks a lot for the feedback!
@@Quiablo you are very welcome.
should call it the Wood Chuck.
Hey, nice work, just a quick question, where did you find the knife valves? Please respond
Hey there Greg, we got the knife valves on Amazon. Can't link them here. RUclips doesn't like for me to link in the comments. They think I'm spamming you.
@@Mossycreekmushroomsofficial model
hey i had a question
i just did my first batch ever of grey oysters
the water content of the substrate was perfect but after a few hours that i put everything into my buckets there was alot of water that dripped out of the bottom holes (meant for if there would be too much water
now a good month further and the substrate is still not fully colonized
temp was for a long period just a degree or 3 below the needed temp for colonization
now it is ad the perfect temp and i still can not see anny improvements
i also see on the top of the bucket a part das just does not want to colonize and it looks a bit dryer
i already tried to spray that "dry" spot with a plant spray but still no colonizing there
now im starting to think ... i pressed the substrate down to make it more compact
i saw them do it with straw and i think i saw them do it with pellets too so i did it too (i use pellets) was this wrong ?
Toasty well u want moisture at field capacity. Basically if u squeeze a handful hard, u should only get a drop or two. Growers tend to shake bags after a week or two of good growth, or shake the bag well after initial inoculation. You want the mycelium spread out either way. And u don't want it too compacted. If you follow magic mushroom growing techniques you'll notice they say it's important not to compact the substrate when loading it in jars, u want to just lightly smack the jars to settle the media. With the exception of logs, u don't want media compressed, wood has a structural design mushrooms favor. Dunno why it won't grow, reasons could be poor strain, bacteria, too much moisture, not enough. It's easy to go overboard adding moisture when u see it's dry, the only thing I've seen respond well to adding water is wood and that's because bacteria doesn't grow on wood as easily as other substrates like cardboard and grain or coffee, and woods really good at absorbing the right amounts of water that encourage fungi. Plus, mold is not adapted to growing inside a log. Most molds that grow on logs feed on nutrients on the surface of the logs, it takes higher fungi to actually consume and breakdown the wood like brown rot or white rot fungi. Molds don't enter into the wood so it's a good technique and oysters go crazy for wood.
Toasty, it's hard to say what exactly has gone wrong without me really dissing in to try and unpack this. I will say that while lots of growers have used buckets and liked them, I personally never saw them as a good way of growing mushrooms. My bags sometimes have a little water in the bottom, but usually after I've cooked my substrate it has fully absorbed into the pellets. Hard to really say for sure what went wrong. Chris is right to list off a ton of variables. Try again and change a couple of variables and see if those help. If they don't then I would try again having changed a couple of different variables like moisture content, temp, etc.
Thank you so much for your ingenuity and kindness for posting info love the vids. When you think your plans will be on patreon? Also is it possible to buy as you briefly mentioned that in video would be very interested just need bit more info on that. Cheers!
Thank you for watching with us! It'll still be another month before the plans are ready for upload. Ben is working on them with a couple of other growers right now. And yes, we are building these out for people, but there is a waiting list and we can only offer local pickup at this time. Just give us a call if you're interested.
@@Mossycreekmushroomsofficial amazing! thank you to you an your team :) will be looking forward to see the plans.if you could update us if you ever plan to deliver in future would be even better or else if I can arrange a pick up etc myself would also be great. Thanks for helping out all the growers out there.
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I can build anything you want!!
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THE DUMP!!!!
A good dump is always a good thing! ;)
@@Mossycreekmushroomsofficial yes it is 🤣🤣🤣
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a few names,,,i like just Kusabira
Oh, I like that one!
Disagreed! 🤣