Nervousness is all in your head, that’s all you. We as your community come to watch your videos. Love all your content man, very informative, keep up the good work man appreciate everything you put out
That's great stuff, I have followed you for some time now, learning about mushrooms. I have been using spent substrate for red worms also but did not think to feed it to meal worms, which I also grow. I feed the mealworms on bran and vegtable waste. I am going to try them on substrate now though. Keep up the great work.
I was already thinking about how insects could be raised along with mushrooms in symbiosis, possibly to use frass as a oyster substrate supplement, so it's so rad to hear that mealworms chew through the blocks. We need to eat our weeds, eat insects, and eat fungi!
Check out continuous flow worm bin setups that is what they use for commercial level production of worm castings. with the amount of food and bedding you are producing each week. You should be able to support a fully functional worm castings farm. That's my one of my goals if and when I get my mushroom biz off the ground
The Mossy Creek Bug-Out Hour! Buggin Out Mossback Style! Andrew buggin out cause he's got that camera chasing him around, and the cockroaches have grown big enough that you gotta show em some RESPECT! heh
I watched this one guy fail to grow tomatoes in his greenhouse because of a large nematode population in his soil, it made me realize spent oyster mushroom substrate could likely solve problems like these since oyster mushrooms are predators of nematodes
@@Mossycreekmushroomsofficial It would be interesting to see if it is possible to eradicate nematode infested soil by making oyster mushroom straw beds on the surface of the soil
I compost my spent hardwood sub with worms, throw your table scraps in with it.. I do 80% spent sub, worms love it... strait from the grow house in to bins.
So good to see you, Andrew. I believe that using an old jobber cement mixer to break up spent blocks could be a huge time-saver for instances where you'd like large quantities ground down nice and consistant. You'd need to use some washed river rock or similar to make it something of a ball mill, and more than likely you'll want to remove any paddles as they're not helpful in a ball mill anyhow. Electric is quiet if it's close to home, and gas is portable and independent. It *may* be useful in processing composting feed BEFORE adding it to bins or piles. Could speed up the process? Okay, look, part of it has to do with, "Stuff like ball mills are cool." Ask Ben. He's a problem solver extrodinaire. (Hi Ben!) Even a beat up old mixer that hadn't run in years is fine. Give it bearings and and electric motor and you're in business. Grind them on the loading dock and shovel it out into xxxxxx. Truck - Bins - Trailer - Bagger - ????? Portability (gas) is nice though, because then you can x-port blocks, and grind 'em up right on site where ever you want to use / apply them. Mush love to you an the crew, Andrew. Y'all are doing just as fine as frog hair. ;)
I grow mealworms to feed to my tarantula and ant colonies but i never thought to try to feed them my spent mushroom blocks. Do you think the main reason your mealworms can subsist of off them is because they are 50% soyhulls and straw? I mean that's basically animal feed. Because my blocks are poplar sawdust and around 20% wheat bran do you think it would also work?
Have you thought about mixing the red wrigglers with the insects? Maybe the worms would take care of the moist part and the insects would eat the dry bit 🧐
Question. If you're want your insects to breed more quickly, can you split an equal amount into separate bins, and then weigh the amount of insects after a period of time, and then keep the ones that breed faster? If you keep the amount of food and environment consistent, it should work, right?
Was this shot in RAW? It's looking good but bit of more or different color correction would really make the video pop and at least person makes really high resolution video even nicer
Yes, you can. Contam for mushroom cultivation (bacteria, molds, fungi nematodes) are food to earthworms. Every mushroom enterprise is one silly-easy step away from having a very profitable vermicompost enterprise (look at market prices for worms and castings). BSFL love them too-in fact you can stack insect and earthworm enterprises in one vertical integration of spent mycelium blocks if you calculate your bsfl feed rate so you batch grow bsfl in just enough substrate to reach pre-pupa, then they self harvest out of block which allows you to then feed their frass and left over substrate to earthworms. Self-harvested bsfl can be fed to aquaculture, chickens, hogs, sold to reptile stores, etc. Alternatively you can “inoculate” the spent blocks with insect larvae then after a week of feeding and growing into plump grubs toss into your chicken coop and they feed on them and scratch them into loose workable pre-compost (mixed with their poop for extra nitrogen), which can be left to turn into aerobic compost or tossed into a vermicompost system. If you toss the blocks with insects into hog paddocks, they’ll eat the entire blocks and drastically cut down your organic non-gmo feed (great for straw, bran, coco coir based substrates). All these are value-added products and increases profitability for small scale mushroom cultivation in a way that I feel changes the game moving into next 5-10yrs. Remember, in nature, there is no concept of waste. I wish you well.
Leachate...not worm wee, it's just the water releasing from the scraps your feeding. Also worms don't actually eat the scraps.....they eat/slurp up the bacteria that is breaking down the scraps. I grind down eggshells into powder, which I then sprinkle onto their scraps....it helps them eat like chickens do with their gizzard, by providing some grit.
If you do then they may we dangerous to birds. Mushroom spores are extremely, painfully, dangerous to most birds. The mealworms can possibly carry the spores and transfer them to the birds they’re fed to.
Mushroom spores are extremely, painfully, dangerous to most birds. The insects can possibly carry the spores and transfer them to the birds they’re fed to.
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Nervousness is all in your head, that’s all you. We as your community come to watch your videos. Love all your content man, very informative, keep up the good work man appreciate everything you put out
Doing this has made my yard greener and my plants larger.
I have a angel trumpet that I put old substrate and ifni get contaminate spawn..damn plant is to the roof and only been in ground a year
That's great stuff, I have followed you for some time now, learning about mushrooms. I have been using spent substrate for red worms also but did not think to feed it to meal worms, which I also grow. I feed the mealworms on bran and vegtable waste.
I am going to try them on substrate now though. Keep up the great work.
Good luck with it.
Appreciate your channel/videos I have started my own small farm and all your info is so helpful
You guys are brilliant!
Thank you, but all I'm doing is presenting other people's ideas!
Great video, this is giving me all sorts of ideas.
I'd like to see a detailed video on the meal worms or any others. And even on earthworms/wigglers. Thanks.
Awesome video man thank you!!!
13:13 I love this setup!
I was already thinking about how insects could be raised along with mushrooms in symbiosis, possibly to use frass as a oyster substrate supplement, so it's so rad to hear that mealworms chew through the blocks. We need to eat our weeds, eat insects, and eat fungi!
Check out continuous flow worm bin setups that is what they use for commercial level production of worm castings. with the amount of food and bedding you are producing each week. You should be able to support a fully functional worm castings farm. That's my one of my goals if and when I get my mushroom biz off the ground
Id love a more in depth Video about insect farming !
I'll make sure to do some updates.
The Mossy Creek Bug-Out Hour! Buggin Out Mossback Style!
Andrew buggin out cause he's got that camera chasing him around, and the cockroaches have grown big enough that you gotta show em some RESPECT! heh
I watched this one guy fail to grow tomatoes in his greenhouse because of a large nematode population in his soil, it made me realize spent oyster mushroom substrate could likely solve problems like these since oyster mushrooms are predators of nematodes
That is a great idea. I've never thought about how nematode free my garden seems to be!
@@Mossycreekmushroomsofficial It would be interesting to see if it is possible to eradicate nematode infested soil by making oyster mushroom straw beds on the surface of the soil
I compost my spent hardwood sub with worms, throw your table scraps in with it.. I do 80% spent sub, worms love it... strait from the grow house in to bins.
Thank you for that.
@@Mossycreekmushroomsofficial millipedes make haste of the spent sub too. They are in there with the worms
My red Wiggler's go crazy for my spent substrate!
So good to see you, Andrew.
I believe that using an old jobber cement mixer to break up spent blocks could be a huge time-saver for instances where you'd like large quantities ground down nice and consistant.
You'd need to use some washed river rock or similar to make it something of a ball mill, and more than likely you'll want to remove any paddles as they're not helpful in a ball mill anyhow.
Electric is quiet if it's close to home, and gas is portable and independent. It *may* be useful in processing composting feed BEFORE adding it to bins or piles. Could speed up the process?
Okay, look, part of it has to do with, "Stuff like ball mills are cool." Ask Ben. He's a problem solver extrodinaire. (Hi Ben!) Even a beat up old mixer that hadn't run in years is fine. Give it bearings and and electric motor and you're in business. Grind them on the loading dock and shovel it out into xxxxxx. Truck - Bins - Trailer - Bagger - ?????
Portability (gas) is nice though, because then you can x-port blocks, and grind 'em up right on site where ever you want to use / apply them.
Mush love to you an the crew, Andrew. Y'all are doing just as fine as frog hair. ;)
Would it be possible to hang the substrate in a chicken pen and have the worms drop out to feed the chickens?
I grow mealworms to feed to my tarantula and ant colonies but i never thought to try to feed them my spent mushroom blocks. Do you think the main reason your mealworms can subsist of off them is because they are 50% soyhulls and straw? I mean that's basically animal feed. Because my blocks are poplar sawdust and around 20% wheat bran do you think it would also work?
I think it's a good food source for them yes, but I think sawdust works as well since that is their natural food source in the wild.
Have you thought about mixing the red wrigglers with the insects? Maybe the worms would take care of the moist part and the insects would eat the dry bit 🧐
Question. If you're want your insects to breed more quickly, can you split an equal amount into separate bins, and then weigh the amount of insects after a period of time, and then keep the ones that breed faster? If you keep the amount of food and environment consistent, it should work, right?
Was this shot in RAW? It's looking good but bit of more or different color correction would really make the video pop and at least person makes really high resolution video even nicer
It was. I'm still learning how to color grade. I've only done it a couple of times so far. I'll have it down eventually.
Can I use the contaminated substrate with the red rigger worms as well as the mealworms?
Yes, you can. Contam for mushroom cultivation (bacteria, molds, fungi nematodes) are food to earthworms. Every mushroom enterprise is one silly-easy step away from having a very profitable vermicompost enterprise (look at market prices for worms and castings).
BSFL love them too-in fact you can stack insect and earthworm enterprises in one vertical integration of spent mycelium blocks if you calculate your bsfl feed rate so you batch grow bsfl in just enough substrate to reach pre-pupa, then they self harvest out of block which allows you to then feed their frass and left over substrate to earthworms. Self-harvested bsfl can be fed to aquaculture, chickens, hogs, sold to reptile stores, etc.
Alternatively you can “inoculate” the spent blocks with insect larvae then after a week of feeding and growing into plump grubs toss into your chicken coop and they feed on them and scratch them into loose workable pre-compost (mixed with their poop for extra nitrogen), which can be left to turn into aerobic compost or tossed into a vermicompost system. If you toss the blocks with insects into hog paddocks, they’ll eat the entire blocks and drastically cut down your organic non-gmo feed (great for straw, bran, coco coir based substrates).
All these are value-added products and increases profitability for small scale mushroom cultivation in a way that I feel changes the game moving into next 5-10yrs. Remember, in nature, there is no concept of waste.
I wish you well.
Looks like Lura already has you covered!
In addition to what's already been said, trichoderma might improve plant growth.
Secret to growing a particular mushroom is using meal worm.
Could the substrate be use in a open fire too heat a house?
Leachate...not worm wee, it's just the water releasing from the scraps your feeding.
Also worms don't actually eat the scraps.....they eat/slurp up the bacteria that is breaking down the scraps.
I grind down eggshells into powder, which I then sprinkle onto their scraps....it helps them eat like chickens do with their gizzard, by providing some grit.
Thank you for the clarifications and the eggshell idea. I'll start using that myself.
Can we buy your spent blocks
How much sell spent blocks four
Maggots and Mushrooms. That's my next farm name. I think it will be a hit.
I'm Rollin hahahaha
How about “Moldy Maggots “ ?
@@vinniewedge I approve
If you do then they may we dangerous to birds. Mushroom spores are extremely, painfully, dangerous to most birds. The mealworms can possibly carry the spores and transfer them to the birds they’re fed to.
You look just like my old buddy Drew when he was your age(25 years ago or so). Same build, nose, hair and even name (his real name is Andrew too)
You think sawdust would be able ready for red worms.
Mushroom spores are extremely, painfully, dangerous to most birds. The insects can possibly carry the spores and transfer them to the birds they’re fed to.
Devil's beard
Or 'Devil's tower' (the name for your new Devil's back mushrooms)