I really enjoyed this video. I used to grow mushrooms, I got hooked after growing one of those oyster kits from whole foods. I remember the smell of soaking grains and the sound of the pressure cooker weight rocking back and forth for hours. I also remember beating heck out of the jars on a bike tire to break up the colonized grains. The Shroomery is probably still the best resource for growing edible mushrooms, even if they focus on the other kind haha. Good luck, hope they dont turn green!
@@Williamfp It is worse than the seasonal flu, but not orders of magnitude worse. In a bad flu season, 60,000 people in the US can die from the flu - and there are undoubtedly many more that are not listed as being due to flu complications. That may change in the future as researchers are finally studying how viruses affect the body, both immediately and over the months that follow an infection.
@@buggsy5 Except that we're seeing much worse than flu effects outside of the optimal period for cold/flu style diseases (both the first wave and the second wave that's already started), and this despite most of the populous limiting their exposure way more than we do during normal flu seasons. Then there's the nastiness of "long covid", which bad even without the risk of lasting lung/heart damage. And it happens to at least 1 in 10 people that catch COVID, going up to 1 in 5 for the elderly (only one of the at-risk groups). There's a reason why people who specialize in these kinds of viruses are seriously concerned by COVID.
@@perchy22 Yep. The scientific consensus I posted a month or so ago is no longer valid. More recent estimates are that the corona virus is about 20 times as lethal as the seasonal flu. Just as a clarification an "order of magnitude" is ten times.
@@chuckcrunch1 Sorry to tell you but LSD actually does come from a fungus. But it's not one that makes mushrooms so you are technically correct. It's called "Claviceps purpurea" and produces natural LSD, together with 80 other alkaloids. Edit: I was also wrong, LSD doesn't actually get produced directly, but one of the alkaloids can be used to make it or something... check Wikipedia if you want something more accurate.
TheOtherWhiteBread0 “LSD was first made by Albert Hofmann in 1938 from lysergic acid, a chemical from the fungus ergot.”, you are correct, although some contain lysergic acid, and so does rye seeds. That’s sadly not at all the same thing and is missing a key part of the formula. Source:wikipedia. (You have the internet at your fingertips boys, how is misinformation still a thing?)
@@Ultrazaubererger Its my understanding that Claviceps purpurea produces Ergotamine which is chemically similar to LSD and is also used in the production of LSD. However, I wouldn't describe Claviceps purpurea as literally "producing natural LSD" as this fungus is responsible for causing ergotism and poisoning many people in the middle ages.
as far as i know the DEA isn't really that interested in hallucinogens... don't get me wrong, they don't like it, but they have other priorities than someone growing some mushrooms
as someone who's grown my fair share of mushies from liquid culture, spores, grain to grain transfer, and even a bit of agar isolation, i'm really impressed by your setup! i had to make my own jar lids, but it's really cool now that they sell them now. you should also ideally have an alcohol lamp to sterilize your needles before you inject the spores into the substrate. but i'm really excited to see what your yields look like. i wonder if you have any other mushrooms growing that couldn't be shown on film. are you working in a glovebox? it looks like you are, but i can't be entirely sure. don't need a laminar flow hood, just a cheap sterilized glovebox is good enough. can't wait to see your yields!! i love mushies so much!! and in a pinch, you can even eat the mycelium/grain substrate. you didn't do any brown rice flower vermiculite jars, so i'm guessing you're not growing psilocybes, but you're definitely on the right track for an undocumented side product :D
Actually all you need to do is soak pine or aspen shavings in boiling water then after it cools add spawn in a 5 gallon bucket to grow oyster mushrooms. You can buy ready to go spawn blocks. The way Cody is doing it is a bit more complicated but not exactly necessary, he's making his own spore blocks
Seems we think alike Cody. I started this same project as soon as I heard rumblings of the virus and lockdowns, lol. I think we even got liquid culture from the same company.
@@davidbergmann8948 in the US that is a big negative there bud. Theres a couple places with decriminalized mushrooms but its still illegal to manufactur them as they are still a scheduled drug.
Even though I've been practicing Social Distancing for years now...as it's no longer by choice, every bit of distraction is welcome, and there's even the big BONUS of the wealth of knowledge I gain from this and a few other of my favorite channels. But nobody, I mean nobody does a better job of not only Sharing your experiences while making me feel so welcome and appreciated. Best of the Best . Thanks and stay safe and healthy everyone 🥴👍
@@ocloud7389 I mean wouldn't it be a waste to turn anything into charcoal if you think about it? It would be cool to see if the lamellae retain their structure afterwards or not
I’ve always wanted to watch a process like this but I’ve never been drawn to other channels that have done it. Finally my time has come, thank you Cody!!!
70% Alcohol sanitize better than 91%, there is theory behind that, it has to do something with contaminants absorbing water with alcohol better then pure alcohol. Also, that does not desinfect the needle inside, neither you can actualy wipe everything clean with your paper towel, you will always leave some contaminant bact there on needle. Flame it, squirt little fluid to cool it down, and then inoculate. Cheers.
@Cody'sLab Also learn agar and agar plates, then you will make yourself your strains/isolates, have much more mycelium, save money and time. Aluminium foil used to cover the Jars are for keeping the inoculation ports clean when you are handling and transporting them from your PC. Also Cody, make yourself a SAB (Still Air Box) or a Glove Box ... You can make yourself a SAB by turning plastic box uspide down and cutting two holes for hands. It will lower your contamination by 80% my friend. Good luck.
Also, I wanted to mention to you that I personally never found rubbing alcohol to be very effective for disinfecting surfaces for mushroom growing. It sounds crazy but what worked for me was using acidified bleach because while diluted bleach at an alkaline pH is a relatively poor disinfectant, acidified diluted bleach will virtually kill anything in 10 to 20 minutes. (The recipe I used involved diluting one cup of household bleach in one gallon of water and then adding one cup of white vinegar afterwards)
I just wanna say that i love your channel and i find this kind of stuff very interesting. I think your channel offers incredible content thats nowhere else on RUclips. Continue the good work!
Wonderful everyone should explore the beautiful world of fungi! Thanks Cody, looking forward to all the tips and tricks I'm sure I'll pick up from this series.
Who knew that mushrooms are so much work. I always thought you'd just put some dirt in a dark place, add the spores and you'd be done. I suppose the real world isn't minecraft.
It depends on the variety but what you thought isn't entirely wrong. Most oyster varieties can be grown in a straw bed outside in your garden without much thought. Some varieties you simply shove in some dead hardwood and forget about.
They're not so much hard to do actually, but the emotional and time investment lost is absurd if something goes wrong. You can lose weeks in a single night if you start to see mold or other contaminants (which, albeit, will happen eventually, unless you're growing in a professional lab-grade environment). I've had fungus flies ruin a perfectly good and well-fruiting cake (thankfully it gave me five awesome flushes to that point).
Next time you make jars to inoculate, just mix dry grain and water in your jar. After pressure cooking they will be saturated and ready to do. No need for soaking, boiling and drying steps.
And a few days ago I rewatched NileRed making alcohol for chemistry experiments. It makes me think some of the laws about home distillation should be relaxed a bit so more people can get disinfectants and batches of homemade hand sanitizer going.
I'm so glad you've gotten into mushrooms, I've recently picked up the hobby myself, if you ha rnt realised by now, it's a VERY big rabbit hole to go down, very excited to see updates!!! I hope you enjoy it!!!
I remember discovering Cody when he was at around 1400 subs and most of what I remember is watching this crazy guy talk about some crazy cool science and I had binged watched everything he made, cus he reminds me a lot of what I would be doing if I had unlimited resources to do so lmao, and I never would of thought he would get this far and explore so many different sciences/hobbies and I've not yet been dissapointed. Keep it up man!
I have that exact water heater for my aquarium and I can see it is not at its minimal water level, please make sure it is further into the water, otherwise it will fry itself eventually. I know this from my own very expensive experience....
Just started growing fungus as well, though in a much less extensive manner. I'm using the five-gallon bucket method with aspen bedding. I did thoroughly pasteurize my bedding though. Currently waiting for the 4 oyster varieties to finish colonizing. As for the Lion's Mane. I already have fruiting bodies growing out of the holes in the bucket less than 14 days after "planting" Northspore provides some strong grain spawn, my leftovers in the bags they came in have fully recolonized and are ready for storage. Cheers, Cody good luck.
this is great, ive been watching your channel for years now and I've also studied mushrooms for a couple years now and seeing the two combined makes me excited as hell
quite a return to form. cool hobbies involving cool science. i think the greatest thing ive learned from cody is that getting into any hobby is very much possible and worth it.
Hi Cody, I'd advise you to additionally use a bunsen burner while inoculating, just to blaze the openings and to reduce the microorganisms in the air. It's quite simple but effective
Hey Cody, I saw a video years ago of these guys using used coffee ground for growing mushrooms. Reusing waste product from coffee shops and their own home coffee machines, apparently it's an excellent material for growing mushrooms in
Only 2 varieties of morels are currently able to be cultivated iirc. Being grown out in China, India, and Pakistan but they don't sell well and don't taste as good. They are mycorrhizal so they only grow alongside roots of certain trees.
@@buggsy5 Two cultivation processes have been patented. The first process is based upon work by Ronald D. Ower, Gary Mills and James Malachowski, who were the first to produce morels in a controlled environment at San Francisco State University in 1982. The findings were published in Mycologia 74. Jan-Feb 1982. Still, at last report, no one, besides the inventors, has been able to produce morels by the instructions in the patent. The other process is highly suseptable to bacterial infection and really only works with yellow morels.
@@buggsy5 having property that grows morels =/= being able to cultivate morels. I'm literally from oregon and forage for mushrooms throughout the year.
Cody, this is a huge hobby of mine and I am really looking forward to this new series! One thing that you might consider is starting out on agar. It is a more advanced technique, but really worth it. Since already have a background and most of the equipment, I think you would benefit a lot from skipping straight to agar for your initial culture.
You're so patient! I just mixed up water and flour today to try and get some sourdough starter to form (also gettin' funky with fungi), and I can't resist checking every couple of hours to see if it's done anything yet. I can't even wait a day, and you have to wait for weeks!
I've been seeing you pop up in the comment section of all the mushrooms channels lately, I was looking forward to this video, hopefully everything work out well with the mushrooms! it's a great hobby if you figure out how to work clean
Really great video I love it! May I reccomend that you also grow Laetiporus sulphureus, they're great for food as they can grow incredibly large, you can eat all of it and they're very tasty. Just a heads up, they take on the flavor of the wood they grow on. My reccomendation is to grow it on oak.
When you said "So, I'm getting into mushrooms" I thought for a second you ment psilocybin mushrooms. I think it's super cool anyway. I think they are really interesting because some of them can break down almost everything.
tip: 1. you will get better colonization by injecting spoors down along the inside of the jar till it reaches the bottom (seen from the outside of the jar. ) do this multiple times around the jar. 2.use the flowhood...your gonna regret not using it for grain transfers. Great to see you do some mycology and look forward to see them grow!
Great to see you back at it doing your thing Cody! It's been a while what with everything else going on in the world and in your life. But this feels like a proper old school 'Cody's Lab video' and I can't wait to follow along with the outcomes 👍🏻
@Hakim Smailliw he's actually correct. 90% evaporates to quickly to be able to be absorbed by all bacteria to kill it, 71% is weaker, but will evaporate slowly enough to be absorbed via osmosis and destroy bacteria.
@Hakim Smailliw also Shulgin found that a 70% solution was best for extracting intracellular compounds from mushroom fruiting bodies in solution. It simply is better at crossing cell membranes.
To give a (scientifically wrong) analogy that illustrates why 71% is better: The Leidenfrost effect! 90% is just to busy evaporating to get the job done completely. in 71% they actually get to swim and 'wash'.
Cody I love how smart you are, your videos are super fun to watch and you're definitely making me smarter by extention. Keep up the videos and please never stop hehe. Much love from chicago
So exited for this. Can’t believe how far he came in his RUclips career. From showing how to clean up mercury for less than 100k people to having over one million subs.
Depends on the setting imo. Worked in a parking lot pushing shopping carts, a few of us hooligans enjoyed some LSD when a blizzard came thru & it was amazing. If I was stuck at a desk the whole time I woulda gone nuts. Then again, acid & mushrooms have very diff energies
This looks like a fantastic project. I had tried a homestead mushroom kit back in college - went from spores to healthy mycelium on Petri dishes, but the rye I picked up must have had antifungal so it went no further. I'm very tempted to grow some edibles ones, as a constant supply of fresh mushrooms would be amazing!
@@yoRockstardude134 along with lactarius indigo and some boletes, neither have any actives. That's why you should use morphology and enviroment to id mushrooms not just bruising
@@Kenfuy the same way one shouldn't rely on the ehrlich reagent... cubensis will turn purple, but so will some toxins if i'm not mistaken... but i guess it would be easier getting some spore prints and doing the whole agar thing ^^
Right on time, I was thinking about ordering supplies to start cultivating my own mushroom, this is the right motivation to definitely do it, so as always thanks Cody!
I love this idea! Something you may want to consider is working under a flame when opening the lids of jars and transferring materials between containers. Your aseptic technique was good, but the flame couldn't hurt (if used properly).
I have a feeling that is exactly right. I know whe I started growing mushrooms I did start with the gourmet edible ones such as lions mane and oyster but then moved into growing psychedelic ones. Now I grow both and it's just so much fun to watch them grow
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day 3 of self isolating-"So, I'm getting into mushrooms"
Hehe
Haaaaa I’ve been into them even b4 the isolation also I may be a tab bit crazy
He has a time machine! December 2020.
Mushroom Farming is sounding pretty exciting right now!
Haven't you been raided by the feds enough times already?
8:46 "Let's nuke it!"
FBI: We've talked about this, Cody.
Such an under appreciated comment
Thought the exact same thing
Fuker
Paul the Average fbi! Open up!..........Again!
don’t start the magic ones till they’ve been back
So you made a cat bed filled with mushrooms. She sure appreciated that.
He. I think his fluff ball is a boy.
If the mushrooms don't turn out, at least the cat is happy.
@@batt3ryac1d Definitely a boy's face.
wow❤️❤️
I really enjoyed this video. I used to grow mushrooms, I got hooked after growing one of those oyster kits from whole foods. I remember the smell of soaking grains and the sound of the pressure cooker weight rocking back and forth for hours. I also remember beating heck out of the jars on a bike tire to break up the colonized grains. The Shroomery is probably still the best resource for growing edible mushrooms, even if they focus on the other kind haha.
Good luck, hope they dont turn green!
The other kind are still edible :-)
The shroomery is king when it comes to mushroom info. Just make sure you find a recent/updated Tek and the poster has a trusted cultivator badge
Only 2 replies that's no Justice
Yes haha please make an ID video for those types of mushrooms
Alternate title: Cody makes oatmeal for fungal friends
He's such a fun guy.
Ye, okay, it's a bad fungi pun... sorry.
Those mushrooms eat better than I do.
Cody: “I’m getting into mushrooms”
*Joe Rogan has entered the chat*
The world was a different place when you recorded this.
How?
@@Williamfp It is worse than the seasonal flu, but not orders of magnitude worse. In a bad flu season, 60,000 people in the US can die from the flu - and there are undoubtedly many more that are not listed as being due to flu complications. That may change in the future as researchers are finally studying how viruses affect the body, both immediately and over the months that follow an infection.
@@buggsy5 yeah, but the flu won't leave you with lasting lung- and/or heart damage
@@buggsy5 Except that we're seeing much worse than flu effects outside of the optimal period for cold/flu style diseases (both the first wave and the second wave that's already started), and this despite most of the populous limiting their exposure way more than we do during normal flu seasons. Then there's the nastiness of "long covid", which bad even without the risk of lasting lung/heart damage. And it happens to at least 1 in 10 people that catch COVID, going up to 1 in 5 for the elderly (only one of the at-risk groups). There's a reason why people who specialize in these kinds of viruses are seriously concerned by COVID.
@@perchy22 Yep. The scientific consensus I posted a month or so ago is no longer valid. More recent estimates are that the corona virus is about 20 times as lethal as the seasonal flu. Just as a clarification an "order of magnitude" is ten times.
Next Episode: Cody's LSD Part 1: microdosing the chickens
LSD is not from mushrooms your thinking psilocybin
@@chuckcrunch1 Sorry to tell you but LSD actually does come from a fungus.
But it's not one that makes mushrooms so you are technically correct.
It's called "Claviceps purpurea" and produces natural LSD, together with 80 other alkaloids.
Edit: I was also wrong, LSD doesn't actually get produced directly, but one of the alkaloids can be used to make it or something... check Wikipedia if you want something more accurate.
TheOtherWhiteBread0 “LSD was first made by Albert Hofmann in 1938 from lysergic acid, a chemical from the fungus ergot.”, you are correct, although some contain lysergic acid, and so does rye seeds. That’s sadly not at all the same thing and is missing a key part of the formula. Source:wikipedia. (You have the internet at your fingertips boys, how is misinformation still a thing?)
@@Ultrazaubererger Its my understanding that Claviceps purpurea produces Ergotamine which is chemically similar to LSD and is also used in the production of LSD. However, I wouldn't describe Claviceps purpurea as literally "producing natural LSD" as this fungus is responsible for causing ergotism and poisoning many people in the middle ages.
lol dang yallies it was comedy, i doubt the guy was trying to deliver a collegiate doctoral thesis.
Cat: My human slave has built me the heated bed I ordered
*FBI has left the lobby*
*DEA has joined the lobby*
8:46 Cody: "Let's Nuke it!"
*FBI has reentered the lobby
as far as i know the DEA isn't really that interested in hallucinogens... don't get me wrong, they don't like it, but they have other priorities than someone growing some mushrooms
Just as a small FYI: Push against the paper when using needles, the plastic is much tougher.
Not great aspectic technique though to rupture the paper with the cap :) just peel it at the split.
as someone who's grown my fair share of mushies from liquid culture, spores, grain to grain transfer, and even a bit of agar isolation, i'm really impressed by your setup! i had to make my own jar lids, but it's really cool now that they sell them now.
you should also ideally have an alcohol lamp to sterilize your needles before you inject the spores into the substrate.
but i'm really excited to see what your yields look like.
i wonder if you have any other mushrooms growing that couldn't be shown on film.
are you working in a glovebox? it looks like you are, but i can't be entirely sure. don't need a laminar flow hood, just a cheap sterilized glovebox is good enough.
can't wait to see your yields!! i love mushies so much!! and in a pinch, you can even eat the mycelium/grain substrate.
you didn't do any brown rice flower vermiculite jars, so i'm guessing you're not growing psilocybes, but you're definitely on the right track for an undocumented side product :D
Danielle Spargo you already know he’s got some cubes growing.
The lady who discovered DNA loved mushrooms. She discovered DNA while on them.
AWarmCoffee
yeah, that was my guess :p
fractal goop
that's pretty awesome :D
Could I use rice instead of wheat? I have celiac so I really don't want to be handling wheat/rye/barley.
Next episode: Traveling to mars and seeing aliens with the help of shrooms
i like the cut of your jib!
Did that last night LMAO
The special ones that will be farmed off-camera.
@@pauljs75 that's the actual purpose of chicken hole base
Marshrooms?
Finally my favorite RUclipsr is getting into mycology.
Kill3r Bamb1 innit!!
I'm so excited.
The amount of sterileness needed to grow mushrooms is wild, you wouldn't believe those things actually grow outdoors without any help at all.
Because these are lab genes, wild ones are much more resilient
that's because it fails in 999 out of every 1000 places spores land. nature wins by small probability in massive numbers
Still air box will do
Did about 20 grain jars without contamination
Not that bad if you know how to use a sab
Actually all you need to do is soak pine or aspen shavings in boiling water then after it cools add spawn in a 5 gallon bucket to grow oyster mushrooms. You can buy ready to go spawn blocks. The way Cody is doing it is a bit more complicated but not exactly necessary, he's making his own spore blocks
I tend to like Cody’s videos even before watching them! Never have I ever regretted it!
Seems we think alike Cody. I started this same project as soon as I heard rumblings of the virus and lockdowns, lol. I think we even got liquid culture from the same company.
4:55 Genius! I was thinking how did he fold that bag up one handed! and you did it backwards! Loved that easter egg!
Next up on Cody'sLab: Growing Psilocybe mushrooms and pondering upon the universe
Investigating alternate dimensions. :D
Whell when you are in isolation the next best thing to do is exploring the uneverces of the mind :P
I mean it is semi legal to buy psilocybe spores because they dont contain psilocybin
@@32Rats it's completely legal to grow and own them. They grow outside near forests or in fields. Someone owns the field and is growing mushrooms.
@@davidbergmann8948 in the US that is a big negative there bud. Theres a couple places with decriminalized mushrooms but its still illegal to manufactur them as they are still a scheduled drug.
Even though I've been practicing Social Distancing for years now...as it's no longer by choice, every bit of distraction is welcome, and there's even the big BONUS of the wealth of knowledge I gain from this and a few other of my favorite channels.
But nobody, I mean nobody does a better job of not only Sharing your experiences while making me feel so welcome and appreciated.
Best of the Best . Thanks and stay safe and healthy everyone 🥴👍
Alright everyone! Welcome back to mycocody's lab.
Hi Cody, excited to see your progress.
My 1st attempt was a learning experience.
Sanitizing is an art form, you get better as you go!
Best of luck!
When these are finished growing can you score them for taste and ease of growing?
Also I want to see a Will It Charcoal: Mushrooms
@@dELTA13579111315 YES
dELTA13579111315 what a waste though
@@ocloud7389 I mean wouldn't it be a waste to turn anything into charcoal if you think about it? It would be cool to see if the lamellae retain their structure afterwards or not
Cant wait for part two, thanks for the knowledge. The incubator was approached with genius and simplicity.
I love how straight forward Cody is. He has charcoal, so he experiments with charcoal.
i see no other possible alternatives
Awesome I also just started a small mushroom farm, currently starting my first fruiting of my King oysters and Lions mane good luck !
Finally. Honestly I'm surprised you'd never done this before
Yeah, I'm sure Cody has done mushrooms
He did some in the mine before
He did, years ago.
He did the arsenic levels in the dirt made him stop out of fear of posing
Lilly like da flower he did in the mine series I think
I’ve always wanted to watch a process like this but I’ve never been drawn to other channels that have done it. Finally my time has come, thank you Cody!!!
70% Alcohol sanitize better than 91%, there is theory behind that, it has to do something with contaminants absorbing water with alcohol better then pure alcohol.
Also, that does not desinfect the needle inside, neither you can actualy wipe everything clean with your paper towel, you will always leave some contaminant bact there on needle.
Flame it, squirt little fluid to cool it down, and then inoculate.
Cheers.
They are using 70% alcohol in hospital, not 90%, so yeah ...
@Cody'sLab Also learn agar and agar plates, then you will make yourself your strains/isolates, have much more mycelium, save money and time. Aluminium foil used to cover the Jars are for keeping the inoculation ports clean when you are handling and transporting them from your PC. Also Cody, make yourself a SAB (Still Air Box) or a Glove Box ... You can make yourself a SAB by turning plastic box uspide down and cutting two holes for hands. It will lower your contamination by 80% my friend. Good luck.
@@danielcruzzz1427 You just add tap/distilled water to your alcohol to make it 70%. Thnx on your compliment, im just informed, not smart :D
@@sunflowertv2677 Or even better, make yourself a Flowhood for under 200$ and never worry about contamination again :)
You want 70% for wound disinfection because 90+ evaporates so fast.
As someone who is a fan of Cody'sLab and also used to grow mushrooms, I can't emphasize enough how excited I am to see your results!! Fingers crossed!
Also, I wanted to mention to you that I personally never found rubbing alcohol to be very effective for disinfecting surfaces for mushroom growing. It sounds crazy but what worked for me was using acidified bleach because while diluted bleach at an alkaline pH is a relatively poor disinfectant, acidified diluted bleach will virtually kill anything in 10 to 20 minutes.
(The recipe I used involved diluting one cup of household bleach in one gallon of water and then adding one cup of white vinegar afterwards)
Has the cat been named already?
(I'm still rooting for a mars rover name, team Sojourner hup hup!)
Rooting for cat damon
If he's going with mars rovers, then the only choice is _Curiosity_
Explorer I thinks that's one of the Mars rovers
I'm seeing your comment is posted 22 hours ago, while the video has been uploaded just 10 minutes ago, wow youtube!
Darmok but curiosity killed the cat
The most said thing in cody’s vids:”should have probably done *insert here*”
I just wanna say that i love your channel and i find this kind of stuff very interesting. I think your channel offers incredible content thats nowhere else on RUclips. Continue the good work!
Growing mushrooms has really started to take off. Now with Cody doing this.... it is going to go trendy.
Suddenly Cody receives a request to be on the Joe Rogan show.
Wonderful everyone should explore the beautiful world of fungi! Thanks Cody, looking forward to all the tips and tricks I'm sure I'll pick up from this series.
Who knew that mushrooms are so much work.
I always thought you'd just put some dirt in a dark place, add the spores and you'd be done.
I suppose the real world isn't minecraft.
It depends on the variety but what you thought isn't entirely wrong. Most oyster varieties can be grown in a straw bed outside in your garden without much thought. Some varieties you simply shove in some dead hardwood and forget about.
They're not so much hard to do actually, but the emotional and time investment lost is absurd if something goes wrong. You can lose weeks in a single night if you start to see mold or other contaminants (which, albeit, will happen eventually, unless you're growing in a professional lab-grade environment). I've had fungus flies ruin a perfectly good and well-fruiting cake (thankfully it gave me five awesome flushes to that point).
Next time you make jars to inoculate, just mix dry grain and water in your jar. After pressure cooking they will be saturated and ready to do. No need for soaking, boiling and drying steps.
Usually I like these videos, now it seems Cody is just flexing on us that he owns gloves and rubbing alcohol
And a few days ago I rewatched NileRed making alcohol for chemistry experiments. It makes me think some of the laws about home distillation should be relaxed a bit so more people can get disinfectants and batches of homemade hand sanitizer going.
@@rvaughan74 yes. I want this too.
For home made.. sanitizer.
(Moonshine isn't a good sanitizer :))
@@AnttiBrax If you insist on drinking Everclear go right ahead.
mmmmmm blinding
I'm so glad you've gotten into mushrooms, I've recently picked up the hobby myself, if you ha rnt realised by now, it's a VERY big rabbit hole to go down, very excited to see updates!!! I hope you enjoy it!!!
I remember discovering Cody when he was at around 1400 subs and most of what I remember is watching this crazy guy talk about some crazy cool science and I had binged watched everything he made, cus he reminds me a lot of what I would be doing if I had unlimited resources to do so lmao, and I never would of thought he would get this far and explore so many different sciences/hobbies and I've not yet been dissapointed. Keep it up man!
Nice! Done a lot of things over 51 years, growing (or trying to) mushrooms is something I've always wanted to try. Thanks Cody!
I have that exact water heater for my aquarium and I can see it is not at its minimal water level, please make sure it is further into the water, otherwise it will fry itself eventually. I know this from my own very expensive experience....
Yes, I can confirm that too...
Mine shattered from not being in enough water
Just started growing fungus as well, though in a much less extensive manner. I'm using the five-gallon bucket method with aspen bedding. I did thoroughly pasteurize my bedding though. Currently waiting for the 4 oyster varieties to finish colonizing. As for the Lion's Mane. I already have fruiting bodies growing out of the holes in the bucket less than 14 days after "planting" Northspore provides some strong grain spawn, my leftovers in the bags they came in have fully recolonized and are ready for storage. Cheers, Cody good luck.
Can’t wait for part two! I wanna see how these turn out. Just realized you filmed part of this on my birthday, that’s cool
That looks really cool, love the idea in general and the videos coming from you dude
Can't wait for this comment section to be full of "shrooms" jokes.
yeah but that's after Cody publishes it at least
Love your name Bjørn
First we had him with whippets in one of the gas episodes now mushrooms. When will it end
Can't really go out much atm...why not take a trip within. ;)
I have
Charco might work well. Many growers mix vermiculite into the culture to aid in water retention. I imagine that charcoal could work very similarly.
Makes you wonder how mushrooms survive in the wild and who does all the sterilizing out there while we ain't looking.
Ultraviolet light. The sterilization is to prevent mold (mushroom's ugly cousin), which UV light does a good job of killing.
Isn't it obvious?...It's gotta be the elves. ;)
In the wild you don't see the ones that failed. It's survivor bias in action.
The sterilisation is to keep competing bacteria out of the jars.
Philippe Santini quit being stupid it’s obviously the mushroom knomes kinda look like the Keebler elves
Yep. It's dog eat mushroom out there.
this is great, ive been watching your channel for years now and I've also studied mushrooms for a couple years now and seeing the two combined makes me excited as hell
11:08 I love how he writes the name where the date is meant to be, and then the date right under it lol
dunno if that was on purpose
quite a return to form. cool hobbies involving cool science. i think the greatest thing ive learned from cody is that getting into any hobby is very much possible and worth it.
Curious how the charcoal will affect the results, seeing how biochar allows for mycelium to hide in and breathe better
These are the kinds of videos I miss. Thanks for the great content, Cody!
Cody: "So I'm getting into ___"
Me: YEEEEES
Hi Cody, I'd advise you to additionally use a bunsen burner while inoculating, just to blaze the openings and to reduce the microorganisms in the air. It's quite simple but effective
I think we missed the chicken hole base episode where Cody built his kitchen
Hey Cody, I saw a video years ago of these guys using used coffee ground for growing mushrooms. Reusing waste product from coffee shops and their own home coffee machines, apparently it's an excellent material for growing mushrooms in
I'd be curious to see how you would tackle the morel growing mystery
gokucrazy22 which is?
Only 2 varieties of morels are currently able to be cultivated iirc. Being grown out in China, India, and Pakistan but they don't sell well and don't taste as good. They are mycorrhizal so they only grow alongside roots of certain trees.
@@Kenfuy They are grown commercially in Oregon and possibly Washington.
@@buggsy5 Two cultivation processes have been patented. The first process is based upon work by Ronald D. Ower, Gary Mills and James Malachowski, who were the first to produce morels in a controlled environment at San Francisco State University in 1982. The findings were published in Mycologia 74. Jan-Feb 1982. Still, at last report, no one, besides the inventors, has been able to produce morels by the instructions in the patent. The other process is highly suseptable to bacterial infection and really only works with yellow morels.
@@buggsy5 having property that grows morels =/= being able to cultivate morels. I'm literally from oregon and forage for mushrooms throughout the year.
Cody, this is a huge hobby of mine and I am really looking forward to this new series!
One thing that you might consider is starting out on agar. It is a more advanced technique, but really worth it. Since already have a background and most of the equipment, I think you would benefit a lot from skipping straight to agar for your initial culture.
We always knew that Cody was a bright fellow; now it appears he is also a fun guy... Sorry, I'll leave now...
The question is can he be a Golden Teacher?
It’s fungi
Works best said out loud to put the emphases on the fung part
very interesting, i've ever been courious of how mushrooms are grown, thank's cody to show it!
“Let it soak for a few hours” hey that’s how I wash dishes
You're so patient! I just mixed up water and flour today to try and get some sourdough starter to form (also gettin' funky with fungi), and I can't resist checking every couple of hours to see if it's done anything yet. I can't even wait a day, and you have to wait for weeks!
Until this point i have had no interest in the process of growing mushrooms and now I'm desperate to find out more
As a mushroom grower but also a long time follower I love seeing this come up in my feed
I've been seeing you pop up in the comment section of all the mushrooms channels lately, I was looking forward to this video, hopefully everything work out well with the mushrooms! it's a great hobby if you figure out how to work clean
Really great video I love it! May I reccomend that you also grow Laetiporus sulphureus, they're great for food as they can grow incredibly large, you can eat all of it and they're very tasty. Just a heads up, they take on the flavor of the wood they grow on. My reccomendation is to grow it on oak.
When you said "So, I'm getting into mushrooms" I thought for a second you ment psilocybin mushrooms. I think it's super cool anyway. I think they are really interesting because some of them can break down almost everything.
tip: 1. you will get better colonization by injecting spoors down along the inside of the jar till it reaches the bottom (seen from the outside of the jar. ) do this multiple times around the jar. 2.use the flowhood...your gonna regret not using it for grain transfers.
Great to see you do some mycology and look forward to see them grow!
Walter White: Chemist who gets rich off of making and selling methamphetamine
Cody Don: Chemist who gets rich off of growing and selling magic shrooms
I've been watching Cody for the past 3 years and this WHOLE TIME i thought he was saying Cody-don, like the japanese suffix. Wtf.
@@dustinsmith8341 His name is actually Cody Don Reeder.
@@dustinsmith8341 me too haha
good luck getting rich off of mushrooms haha finding bulk customers is not easy
Kerspaprog Balceram clears throat loudly
Great to see you back at it doing your thing Cody! It's been a while what with everything else going on in the world and in your life.
But this feels like a proper old school 'Cody's Lab video' and I can't wait to follow along with the outcomes 👍🏻
I was wondering the reference for why myshrooms instead of mushrooms, then I realized the u and y are next to each other so typo lol.
𝘰𝘶𝘳shrooms.
Also he's most likely dyslexic
Where is this typo?
@Kaylee Gallisdorfer Did you eat some hallucinogenic shrooms?
@@theCodyReeder it's on the patreon post for this video.
Fungi is in my opinion the most interesting organisms on the planet. So much left to learn about them.
Finally nerdshit !!!! I've missed this man love the ranch videos too but secretly jusy want to see more auqaregia
You might like the channel 'Explosions and Fire'
you should grow Psilocybe Cubensis, they are my favorite type of mushroom and very fun to grow!
Hey, Cody! FYI, the 71% isopropyl alcohol is more effective than the 90% for these applications.
I was going to say that, and now we also have the OMS recipe to make the right proportions without calculating anything
@Hakim Smailliw he's actually correct. 90% evaporates to quickly to be able to be absorbed by all bacteria to kill it, 71% is weaker, but will evaporate slowly enough to be absorbed via osmosis and destroy bacteria.
@@The.scott.nickyt It will also destroy the fatty coating on virus particles, and cause them to become non viable within seconds.
@Hakim Smailliw also Shulgin found that a 70% solution was best for extracting intracellular compounds from mushroom fruiting bodies in solution. It simply is better at crossing cell membranes.
To give a (scientifically wrong) analogy that illustrates why 71% is better: The Leidenfrost effect! 90% is just to busy evaporating to get the job done completely. in 71% they actually get to swim and 'wash'.
Love this new series! Excited to see the time lapses of different species
I've just got into growing mushrooms recently and Cody picks it up too. Top notch.
The "elves" made it so. ;)
Thank you for posting Cody!
Your videos fascinate and entertain me greatly!
"Today on Cody's lab, howto make a cat bed."
Cody? Growing mushrooms?? Hell yes!!!!! Been waiting my whole life for that series!
lol, I was hoping to hear "golden teacher" casually listed with all the other shrooms at the beginning
Cody I love how smart you are, your videos are super fun to watch and you're definitely making me smarter by extention. Keep up the videos and please never stop hehe. Much love from chicago
even got a little purr in there
So glad you started this. I've been a subscriber and cultivator forever.
Next video: "I accidentally introduced psilocybi cubensis spores into my cattle feed"
"i did a whoopsie and now there are cubensis growing everywhere"
Interesting video Cody, thank you!
May you, your family, and friends, stay safe & healthy!
“So, I’m getting into mushrooms”
Social distancing really be hitting different huh
No corona in the 4th dimension
So exited for this. Can’t believe how far he came in his RUclips career. From showing how to clean up mercury for less than 100k people to having over one million subs.
Was on mushrooms last week at work, tripping while trying to do paperwork was hilarious
Depends on the setting imo. Worked in a parking lot pushing shopping carts, a few of us hooligans enjoyed some LSD when a blizzard came thru & it was amazing. If I was stuck at a desk the whole time I woulda gone nuts. Then again, acid & mushrooms have very diff energies
I hope you and yours are doing okay during these crappy times. Please stay safe and keep posting if you can.
3:05 Cody: "mushrooms are probably fine with broken glass."
Mushrooms: "HOW THE HELL WOULD YOU KNOW!"
This looks like a fantastic project. I had tried a homestead mushroom kit back in college - went from spores to healthy mycelium on Petri dishes, but the rye I picked up must have had antifungal so it went no further. I'm very tempted to grow some edibles ones, as a constant supply of fresh mushrooms would be amazing!
There are these really wacky mushrooms called Psilocybe Cubensis, you should give them a try :)
The wacky ones bruise blue ;-)
@@yoRockstardude134 along with lactarius indigo and some boletes, neither have any actives. That's why you should use morphology and enviroment to id mushrooms not just bruising
@@Kenfuy the same way one shouldn't rely on the ehrlich reagent... cubensis will turn purple, but so will some toxins if i'm not mistaken... but i guess it would be easier getting some spore prints and doing the whole agar thing ^^
I remember one time i found a purple mushroom. Maybe it was the light but it looked like it glowed
Right on time, I was thinking about ordering supplies to start cultivating my own mushroom, this is the right motivation to definitely do it, so as always thanks Cody!
In this episode of Cody's lab cody teaches you how to start a shrooms farm.
I love this idea!
Something you may want to consider is working under a flame when opening the lids of jars and transferring materials between containers. Your aseptic technique was good, but the flame couldn't hurt (if used properly).
we all know he didn't document his psychedelic mushrooms for legal reasons
;)
I have a feeling that is exactly right. I know whe I started growing mushrooms I did start with the gourmet edible ones such as lions mane and oyster but then moved into growing psychedelic ones. Now I grow both and it's just so much fun to watch them grow
Very nice content. I can't wait for the next episode of your chicken hole project. Thanks for your good Videos and please stay healthy.