Tour of a Commercial Mushroom Farm, Part 2: Fruiting and Harvest
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Commercial Mushroom Farming Business: Fruiting and Harvesting
Fruiting and harvesting while mushroom farming is an important endeavor
For indoor commercial mushroom farming, the whole cycle with oyster mushrooms typically takes about 6-8 weeks. Fruiting the mushrooms takes a specialized room where temperature, humidity, CO2, and lighting is controlled. Temperature can range between 55 and 75 degrees; different strains and species of mushroom can be grown as the temperature vary or wide temperature fruiting strains can be used.
When developing a mushroom farm, the fruiting room is an important place to dial in. Keeping CO2 ppm below 800 is necessary for mushroom farming. In practical terms this means exchanging all the air in a room every 10-15 minutes. Humidity should be kept between 80-95% during pinning and 70-85% during fruit body development. It can be advantageous to drop the humidity several hours before harvesting to increase storage and quality of mushrooms.
Storage and compost for mushroom farming: Storing the mushrooms should be done in a container which allows airflow. The mushrooms should be allowed to breath and not stacked too high on top of each other. On a commercial mushroom farm immediately after harvest the mushrooms are placed into cold storage at 34-37 degrees. The substrate can be used to fruit an additional time or composted.
Such an excellent, concise, expert description of every stage of the process. It's rare to find exactly what you are looking for like I did with this video. Thanks for making this. Thanks for finding the perfect interviewee. Couldn't be better. Inspiring.
This lady has amazing knowledge. Best I have seen
While i enjoyed Her farm, You need to check southwest mushroom for knowledge!
not the best speaker but dam does she knwo her stuff!!! Without a doubt the absolute most informative of any video or other website. THX !!!!
Impressive, the mushroom mecca! Great informative vids. Thanks!
This walk-through was so helpful! I am currently designing an urban mushroom farm for a graduate architecture studio and this was the most clear explanation of the process. I have read a lot of articles about mushroom cultivation, but tend to get lost in all the science-y terminology talk. Fundamentally, I am a visual learner. Thank you for sharing!
Big operation she knows what she wants has knowledge good information thanks for sharing with us all
Thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge. This is the best ive seen so far 🙏God Bless
Excellent interview. She is amazing at explaining mushroom farming. My son grows mushrooms but I think even if I had no knowledge of it before this I would have understood the whole process.
Yeah Jane she really knows her stuff and runs a great farm! Glad she is down the road from me
Outstanding. What a great operation and in-depth look at the process.
She is a mushroom Encyclopedia, Well Done!
this teacher is amazing.....absolutely clear, simple and straight to the point.
I would love to hear about the economics of a business of this size!
This was dope. The lady teaching is information packed. Thank you both for the video
Shes amazing! Lots of information. Thanks for your time explaining everything clearly 🌷
Great video! lots of good information. Thank you
Really cool. Nice tour.
love the video thanks for making it learned allot of good info
Great video, very informative.. I too have seen the ALL and this is the best!
I learned a lot. Who knew it took so much work to grow a mushroom. Much respect! Now let’s see the back room ;-)
thanks, lots of info !
Excellent, very nicely presented.
she is amazing!
Best walk through I've seen on youtube to date (and I've seen them ALL :-)
YEAH!! Julia is an awesome farmer, so generous to give us the tour.
I completely agree!!!! What an epic setup. Gotta love the all american 41 quart.
Thanks guys
you can see, she´s doing it with joy ;)
Learned so much! Thank you 🙏 liked and sub ✅
great thx
This was so good. Thank you! She is clearly very knowledgeable. I would have also liked to see where the Mushrooms went from there. How do they fill the orders for the Mushrooms, who are their Customers, restaurants, Grocery Stores, ? I would have found that part of the process interesting too. Do they deliver weekly, daily? How many staff run this facility? Anyhow, great to see this and hear her speak about the process.
2) what is the ratio of your sawdust /woodchips to the milet grain for your different types of mushroom varieties to grow in.? Nice video would have like to see how you take a growing mushroom after harvesting and create new cultures or how you create the misophonia cultures for growing the next batches. Can you do it with store bought mushroom if you had the time aka grow cultures from it or is store bought ones already killed interms of the misophonia cultivation?? Thanks for any answers to these important questions.
could a novice grower apply at faciliries like this? i really love hands on stuff
She knows her product! How long ago did she start?
Should link her site so we can buy blocks, great video
RUclips blocked our link we will try and repost
Thank you for the information. How do you maintain temperature and humidity in the appropriate range. The grow tent in very practical but how do you avoid direct sunlight.
It is inside a building. Temperature and humidity are maintained by a heated concrete pad, swamp coolers, humidifiers, and spraying with a hose. Nothing to high tech.
curious a few question i am not fully sure about yet. 1) Do you grow all the varieties of mushrooms in the same mixture of wood-chips/dust /pellets mixed with a grain such as milet? Or do you uses different growing medium such as peat moss , pasteurized soil mixes , hay/straw mixed with grain...etc. Basically what i am trying to figure out is will all mushroom varieties grow well enough if i just focus on using wood based materials mixed with a grain. I know milet has the highest inoculation points making it one of the best grains to supplement there diet . But if you cannt get those can you uses other grains such as wheat, oat , rye ,...etc more common to everybody anywhere?
I watch this video over and over to get as much info as possible! I’m having some failures with my shiitakes....I’m wondering when you put the blocks in the fridge what is the temp and for how long? Thanks 🙏
Shiitakes are always hard! Important to keep them at steady temp during colonization and not move them. After 7-10 weeks depending on strain they should be fully popcorned and browned. At that point put them in the fridge, below 40 for 12-24 hours. strip the plastic off spray them down with a hose and they are good to go
Hello Fungi friends!!! My partner and I are having a blast coming up with a mushroom grow operation and were very curious how one can keep the floors clean. Utilizing humidity controls and the presence of moist floors, were concerned about avoiding bacterial growth on the floors. Any help or pointers would be so helpful. Thank you for uploading your work!!!
Elevate your growing room off the ground with pallets if your doing it inside in a tent.
It looks cool. What substrate are you using?
They use a mixture of sawdust and soybean hulls 50/50.
Greenhouses in what a barn? Fucking great.
Yeah in a retrofitted horse barn
how much light intensity and duration ?
Mushrooms don't need much light just enough to be able to comfortably read in the room. For timing anywhere 12-12 to 24 hours on. I do 16 hours on 8 hours off
You can feel she worked for fungiperfecti.
yes indeed
That woman is amazing but god damn it with the boom mic...
I bet she puts out.
Mushroom related any job in your company??
Nope nothing currently. Thanks for asking though
does she have any employees??
Yeah I think 10 or so.
More is not always better. 12,000 blocks a month is way more than I’d ever like to manage. With proper marketing this is just outlandish. I’ve seen small farms pushing 400 blocks a month that make good money. Why you’d want to manage so much is just a mystery to me. To each their own though
She was saying they sell a lot of pre colonized blocks to growers to fruit themselves. I'll bet they sell a lot of pre sterilized bagged substrate too.
I'm not sure if cold shocking has increased yields or the growth in any way. It seems like more labor, a waste of time and money!
We have definitely seen an increase in yield and uniformity in fruiting. I love it as an initiation strategy. Have you tried another technique to initiate shiitake fruiting?
WOW! She's come such a long way!