Mushrooms did wonders in my life. I was diagnosed with cptsd since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting cptsd. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with similar health challenges.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here
Can you help me with the reliable source. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Spain. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.
YES very sure of Dr.raymycology. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Ive done shrooms last month in my house. It taught me how severely traumatized I was from alcohol. I healed from many mental traumas from my past and was able to forgive, let go. Shrooms to me is a remedy not a vice. I even felt more refreshed the morning after. So no hangovers. No depression mood for days. No anxiety.l now have a more calm mind
I got into mycology as a side hobby, but your channel has inspired me to start my own tiny mushroom business. I'm making decent money on the side and it's all thanks to you and Boomer Shroomer. Thank you!
@@happyvibes8415 -- not just you, don't worry. It's hard to pick one when you're balancing cost, complexity, availability of resources, space... and on and on. This video is a great guide.
That's actually one of the reasons I find it so interesting! The options are diversly abundant. You can experiment with anything you find mushrooms thriving on took.
I have watched hundreds of mushroom growing videos. This man's descriptions are by far the best and most understandable information anywhere on the web. Thank you for being so clear and informative.
Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life. They drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had become medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.
My friend told me about how psilocybin shrooms helped him deal with trauma, anxiety and depression. I would love to try them though I haven't found any legit grower to get it.
I was having this unbearable anxiety and depression because of mental stress from school, work and life generally. Then I came across a mycologist dr.joeshroom He saved my life honestly.
Been binge watching your channel, my first batch of grain spawn is growing currently. I know how much work it is to create a TH-cam channel, really good work. Kudos and really enjoying watching the evolution of your channel.
I’m a super beginner and I have been given a welcoming gift from the community in Reddit, however I am not, NOT, prepared and I have stored them in the fridge. Your videos are helping me so much and you are so informative. I enjoy your videos and I appreciate the work you put in.
This is awesome. With everything you’ve put together you should have a publisher put it into a book. I’m sure it would rival the best of what’s out there for starting, home cultivation and getting to up to the level of commercialization. This is great stuff. Thank you. Easy to understand, not difficult to do... great results... Just awesome.
special thank to you! we lack of somebody like you,you are giving this knowledge to us in the most comprehensiblely way so special thanks again from Hungary👍👍
Wow, this video was great. I enjoyed the editing and the information in it. Substrates can be a bit confusing. Can you also make one about agar plates and spawns ?
At 20 I’m looking at turning my greenhouse for orchids into a larger fruiting chamber. My living room is a lab and my bedroom incubation rn. Looking at expanding and saving up to get a head start in Jerkeys, fresh mushrooms, and more when I get older
don't put too many in your bedroom the mycelium can fill one space whit co2 over danger limit for your body. better to pay attencion.. don't close you in the bedroom and go to sleep, and if you can make the air run a bit.. people never die for low oxigen livel but always for too much co2
@@alexsfamily4166 ...you can very easily die from low oxygen levels, in fact just dramatic negative changes in available oxygen can cause sickness and/or death even if both levels are live-able by humans. Most commonly referred to as High Altitude Sickness (triggered by people traveling "quickly" to a higher elevation) But I agree, don't grow lots of mushrooms in your bedroom, that many spores are not good for you, larger indoor growers have extensive venting and masks for non-covid reasons lol
Informative video--thanks; next time I would appreciate your suggestions for which substrate works best for different varieties such as Shiitake, Portobello, Porcini, Lions Mane, etc.
I have been absolutely LOVING the information, mushrooms are something i definitely want to work with. Youve mentioned you live in Alberta, is there anyway i could get a hold of and work for your business? you do awesome work and I'd love to get involved perhaps!
I've been using a 50/50 mix of pea straw and dry tree fern fronds from my property for my Grey Oyster mushrooms. I live in New Zealand, and my property has a lot of ferns. When dead and brown, the fronds shatter into something similar to a fine straw when run over a few times with a lawnmower. I think I'm going to try a bag with 100% fern fronds next time I make some fruiting logs, and see how that compares, yield wise.
@@insertphrasehere15 More detail please.. did you pasteurize the fronds after mowing? I'd imagine they'd be pretty sharp and be likely to puncture the bags?
@@yeahnahsweetas No they don't puncture the bags, I pasteurise them with the straw with hydrated lime. Recently I've taken to getting some coffee grounds from a local coffee cart and mixing them in too (about a third of the total, with the other two thirds being straw and dry fronds. So far it's working well, with much better yields. Coffee grounds have to be very fresh (less than a day) or they get moldy, but the oyster mushoom mycelium will outcompete the mold anyway if the spawn is strong.
he have a vid like this on the channel.. in my expirience you can do a good LC whit honey or canadian Sirup, remember never put more than 4% sugar or mycelium don't grow, target the 2%, also malt extract, yeast, dextrosie is good stuff, don't use corn sirup (make the LC milky, is good for agar dish), for the agar i do the same plus a bit of agar,food color, and a tip of amid for cooking (maizena).. for the jar and the lid follow what tony say in he's vid.. LC are more easy and safe for start, but you need some equip, if you whant kick start buy some kit (ready substrate) or if you have the substrate buy some grain spawn, some bags and some polipropilene wool (acquarium filter is great), have fun
Recently I found mushrooms growing on my orchids pots :) Apparently they love that orchid substrate. I had to change the substrate or I would have a lot of mushrooms and no orchids... Nice video about substrates. A few years ago I tried to grow enoki on straw substrate and it worked fine. Thanks for sharing 👍
This video, (like all of your instructional videos,) is very comprehensive and to the point. Having been educated by you, on the topic of growing specific mushrooms, I am moving forward with great confidence. Thank you so very much, for sharing your knowledge with us.
FYI, Coco prices are about to go up. Work exclusively with Coco at work, most bulk companies are delaying their orders a few months out. Grab it while you can!
I find the coco coir really good information, thanks for sharing this. I am trying bark outside on top the soil where my compost bin used to be, most people tell me it won’t grow because I didn’t sterilise the bark. But I thought since it came in a bag from the garden centre it was clean. I planted portabella mycelium from grain which I bought from Amazon.
Excellent:) thank you. Your vids have given me so much confidence to experiment and just go for it!...And you’ve totally earned saying, choir, if you like...everyone else can be normal and boring and say quar!
Does the substrate effect a mushroom's edibility? I believe in one video (if not this one) you mentioned growing oyster mushrooms on cigarette butts. Are there substrates that make a mushroom dangerous to eat when it normally would not be?
good question! I heard about the oyster mushrooms grown on oil spill contaminated soil and they were edible and safe. Growing mushrooms on uranium rich substrate may be questionable. LOL!
Love your videos. Thanks for sharing your many talents. We have a sawmill and cut tons of oak I have 2 questions. Would fresh sawdust be best, or should I let it age a bit? How much does 1 cup of hardwood pellet weigh? Thank you again.
Love the intro and the mid effects with the mushrooms 🍄 great 👍 .. I'm having problems finding soy pellets in my area, can I use bio hay pellets ? (Food for old horses easy digestive) I found oak , should I do 50-50? What about gypsum and wheatbran? Pls help me get the right mix with the the options I have , thank you 😊 🙏
Great video. I just have a question. Why do you say that softwood is not good? You dismiss it as a suitable substrate without explaining why, yet I've seen other growers using it with success.
Just want to make sure I’m understanding you right. 5 cups of hardwood pellets (850g) + 1-1/4 cup of wheat bran (87.5g) = 937.5g. 60% hydration would be 937.5 x 0.6 = 562.5g of water. There are 1325g of water in 1.4 liters, so that would be almost 2.4x the amount of water needed for 60% hydration. Not trying to challenge your recipe, but I want to make sure us new growers have the right info. Please advise at your convenience, Thanks!
thanks for the tips. I use the hwfp / wheat bran to make my shiitake blocks. (2lb hwfp + 100 grams of wheat bran _ 1,200 to 1,400 grams of water) pending on which strain of shiitake. makes a 5lb block
I live in Oregon, and buying soy hulls, especially if i'm not ordering a literal ton, is hard. Don't know why it's so difficult, but i'm considering using alfalfa. Alfalfa hay is tempting, since it's easy to get a hold of, but i think i might go for the pellets instead due to contamination issues. The pellets list a protein content of 20%, which is actually about double what soy bean hull is listed as online.
The masters mix substrate recipe is a bit off if the soy pellets weigh less which in my case they do, 2 and a half cups of them is not equivalent to 2 and a half cups of hardwood pellets. This lead to overhydration as the total weight prehydration was 750g, so only 1200ml of water was needed if I kept the ratio at cups only instead of by weight.
Thank you so much you are so clear I love you I've been on the internet I've been on TH-cam for 2 days trying to figure out how to grow mushrooms with my liquid something culture that I ordered from Amazon and nobody made any sense whatsoever but you you make sense thank you thank you thank you God bless you
Used coffee is pretty good aswell. Some friends used it for a variety of mushrooms. But as you know, carbon-rich substrates are a big key :) Thanks for the video!
Coffee is rubbish as far as I’m concerned , I have tried it a number of times and every time it gets contaminated , I’ll never use coffee again , it’s not worth the effort to even bother , good luck to those that can do it ,definitely does not work for me.
StoOv… if you got some explanation on how to use the coffee I think you should put it in here with the steps so others can use those ideas , I notice nobody puts out there how they do it with coffee funny enough.
@@fishmut Here in the Netherlands there was a company growing oyster mushrooms on used coffee. Important is to only use one-day-old coffee residu. They grew 'm in bags about 4-5 kg's large.
I have been buying masters mix for a couple year now. Costs about $43 with shipping for 40 lbs. I make 5 lb blocks so 20 blocks can be made from that. Using 2 lbs masters to 3 lbs water.
Another great informative video. Thanks! Have you ever tried or known anyone who has tried growing on hemp hurd? I'm thinking of using 4 parts to one part wheat bran. You didn't mention this, by why to some substrate recipes call for adding gypsum? Thanks!
Anyone use RYE Flour instead of Brown Rice Flour? (PF TEK} I heard that the Rye flour needs less water in the mix. (I bought Rye by mistake instead of BRF today) A few years ago I tied both separately to compare but I forget . At age 69 I forget short term memory anyways. Can't wait for Golden Teachers!
i can't find any resources that walk through growing oyster mushrooms from inoculation to harvest using the coconut coir substrate. would brown rice inoculation work for oysters? i dont own a pressure cooker. basically, i'd like a video for the easiest and cheapest way to grow some mushrooms!
i have electric pressure cooker, but goes to 10 PSI only so not sure if its enough... i have used the microwave, not sure if that's enough. bought some stuff from Amazon to make my own Mushroom blocks, but no luck so far.
@@jimmymisle910 the uncle ben tek is super easy and after researching some more, I think it can accommodate oysters. No pressure cooker required with that one or brown rice tek
I followed your bucket guide with very fine sawdust from the park (I suspect it's hardwood, but didn't check) and coffee grounds. We had a decent first round but the pins and fruiting bodies started getting very very dry. I realized that very fine woodchip does not absorb any water. So I think I'll go with less dense substrates that can absorb water better. Does this match your experience? Also, how are fallen leaves as a substrate?
use vermiculite or cocoa coir to keep the substrate moist for longer and keep it from being too dense. Fallen oak leaves or fallen aspen leaves work well but get spent with first flush.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I am learning mycology in order to produce mycelium composites for modeling (rc airplanes and maybe cars as well). And I love to eat muchrooms, I'll give it a try as well. Cheers from Brazil!
what would the ratio for the Manure loving mushrooms be? I saw 50/50 coconut husk to Vermiculite but but how much of a ratio would the compost to that be?
i recently tried shredded palm leaves as an oyster mushroom substrate. The mycelium seems to be colonising it at the same rate as sugar cane or straw mulch so fingers crossed on the fruiting stage. Hopefully its successful because I have plenty of dry palm leaves falling all over the place for free.
Just a heads up- If you have a tractor Supply near you, you can get 80% of everything you need to grow there. Their ASPEN Wood chips are less than $10.
Very Interesting, thanks 👍 Have you or anyone else tried wood shavings from a chainsaw? Was wondering if I turned bar oil down to a minimum if it would be OK for oysters, only one way to find out I guess.
So to make a 5 pound fruiting block you only use 5 cups of hardwood pellets then the bran and water? Or am I missing something? Btw I've been taking your Freshcap mushroom supplements and I've been feeling pretty great! I've been pretty sick for a long time and my treatments got me to a pretty good point. Now I've only been taking your Ultimate Mushroom Complex and extra Lion's mane, bc I've got some pretty bad nerve issues, and I have been doing remarkably well. Thank you so much!
For the "dung loving" substrates, about how much water would you think would hydrate it properly? Feels like I missed it or you blew past it and I totally can't find where you said it lol
Ive been thinking about mixing coffee with straw, hard wood saw dust, and vermiculite. I have really long jars so I was thinking about making pf tek logs and see how itll grow
I've heared you can also pasteurize your substrate by submerging it into water for about 2 weeks. After that time, most of the oxygen will be used up, which will leave anaerobic bacteria. I don't know if this will work for every mushroom, do you have experience about this? It seems to be a more sustainable approach, because it does not require a lot of energy.
Has coffee as a substrate any other drawbacks than the high risk of contamination? I started my mushroom journey two months ago with access to an autoclave and a fequently used coffee mashine. I directly inoculated the coffee in the autoclave bags with dowels and built an air filter with a plastic tube and a face mask. The mycelium grew strongly from the Side with the air filter, but did barely grow on the opposite side. I suppose it did not get enough oxygen there. Is it a good idea to puncture the bag there to increase air exchange or does that make the risk of contamination too big? I would appreciate some advice from more advanced growers.
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Very good explanation. Lol at your dog.
thanks! yes, she always tries to make her way into the videos lol
Mushrooms did wonders in my life. I was diagnosed with cptsd since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting cptsd. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with similar health challenges.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here
Can you help me with the reliable source. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Spain. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.
YES very sure of Dr.raymycology. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Ive done shrooms last month in my house. It taught me how severely traumatized I was from alcohol. I healed from many mental traumas from my past and was able to forgive, let go. Shrooms to me is a remedy not a vice. I even felt more refreshed the morning after. So no hangovers. No depression mood for days. No anxiety.l now have a more calm mind
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
I got into mycology as a side hobby, but your channel has inspired me to start my own tiny mushroom business. I'm making decent money on the side and it's all thanks to you and Boomer Shroomer. Thank you!
amazing to hear!! all the best in your mushroom growing adventures!
Boomer Shroomer is one of my favorites too!! (Along with FreshCap of course)
That is so awesome, good for you, I hope to do the same 😁
What equipment do you use and where are you selling ? Congrats 🥳
I like Boomer Shroomer but it bugs the hell out of me how she says she 'sterilizes' with isopropyl, instead of sanitizes.
Substrates are an overwhelming topic when it comes to new growers. Thanks for this!
I agree I didn't know if it was just me 🤣🤣😭😭
@@happyvibes8415 -- not just you, don't worry. It's hard to pick one when you're balancing cost, complexity, availability of resources, space... and on and on. This video is a great guide.
That's actually one of the reasons I find it so interesting! The options are diversly abundant. You can experiment with anything you find mushrooms thriving on took.
Very
I have watched hundreds of mushroom growing videos. This man's descriptions are by far the best and most understandable information anywhere on the web. Thank you for being so clear and informative.
Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life. They drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had become medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.
My friend told me about how psilocybin shrooms helped him deal with trauma, anxiety and depression. I would love to try them though I haven't found any legit grower to get it.
So many people have testified about this and it still marvels me. I'd really love to give it a shot 😂😂
I was having this unbearable anxiety and depression because of mental stress from school, work and life generally. Then I came across a mycologist dr.joeshroom He saved my life honestly.
is he on insta?
Yeah dr.joeshroom
Been binge watching your channel, my first batch of grain spawn is growing currently. I know how much work it is to create a TH-cam channel, really good work. Kudos and really enjoying watching the evolution of your channel.
thank you! good luck with your mushrooms :)
I haven't watched this channel in a while and I gotta say the editing style is really good
I dont grow mushrooms, but watching these videos are so fun for some reason
I’m a super beginner and I have been given a welcoming gift from the community in Reddit, however I am not, NOT, prepared and I have stored them in the fridge. Your videos are helping me so much and you are so informative. I enjoy your videos and I appreciate the work you put in.
Love the new intro. Editing overall is looking great
This is awesome. With everything you’ve put together you should have a publisher put it into a book. I’m sure it would rival the best of what’s out there for starting, home cultivation and getting to up to the level of commercialization. This is great stuff. Thank you. Easy to understand, not difficult to do... great results... Just awesome.
Thanks for what you do. All of your myco/videos ROCK!.....lucid...well thought out....no ridiculous fluff..... a clear step above the rest!!!
thank you so mush!
Oh dear lord - you are opening some new market clues for everyone - after just 2 videos I've subscribed! Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot for all your videos! I'm a begginer in growing mushrooms and I find your videos very helpful and full of information!
special thank to you! we lack of somebody like you,you are giving this knowledge to us in the most comprehensiblely way so special thanks again from Hungary👍👍
Wow, this video was great. I enjoyed the editing and the information in it. Substrates can be a bit confusing. Can you also make one about agar plates and spawns ?
At 20 I’m looking at turning my greenhouse for orchids into a larger fruiting chamber. My living room is a lab and my bedroom incubation rn. Looking at expanding and saving up to get a head start in Jerkeys, fresh mushrooms, and more when I get older
don't put too many in your bedroom the mycelium can fill one space whit co2 over danger limit for your body. better to pay attencion.. don't close you in the bedroom and go to sleep, and if you can make the air run a bit.. people never die for low oxigen livel but always for too much co2
@@alexsfamily4166 ...you can very easily die from low oxygen levels, in fact just dramatic negative changes in available oxygen can cause sickness and/or death even if both levels are live-able by humans. Most commonly referred to as High Altitude Sickness (triggered by people traveling "quickly" to a higher elevation)
But I agree, don't grow lots of mushrooms in your bedroom, that many spores are not good for you, larger indoor growers have extensive venting and masks for non-covid reasons lol
@@svenkollskegg3812 he have incubation in bedroom not fruting so no spore but co2 from the bags
Very informative, thank you! Also this man looks like Jack from Lost.
i spent the first 30 seconds of the vid shocked there was no ridiculously long intro, or any intro at all. right to the info, fk an intro. good stuff
Gracias. Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷
Informative video--thanks; next time I would appreciate your suggestions for which substrate works best for different varieties such as Shiitake, Portobello, Porcini, Lions Mane, etc.
Porcini can't be grown usefully, since they're a mycorrhizal mushroom. You'd need to plant an entire forest.
Thank you for your videos, just curious what do you prefer and why? Aspen shavings or straw?
If I were to place a fruiting mushroom block into a bin of species-appropriate sterilized substrate, would the mushrooms colonize the new substrate?
You are the most simple and understandable professor.
Thanks all the information you gave me was great I appreciate you
Love your videos and this one is FUNGTASTIC!!!
If you have made an autoclave vid already where can I find it? I am loving these vids and seem to be getting inspired to try it.
I have been absolutely LOVING the information, mushrooms are something i definitely want to work with. Youve mentioned you live in Alberta, is there anyway i could get a hold of and work for your business? you do awesome work and I'd love to get involved perhaps!
I've been using a 50/50 mix of pea straw and dry tree fern fronds from my property for my Grey Oyster mushrooms. I live in New Zealand, and my property has a lot of ferns. When dead and brown, the fronds shatter into something similar to a fine straw when run over a few times with a lawnmower.
I think I'm going to try a bag with 100% fern fronds next time I make some fruiting logs, and see how that compares, yield wise.
How did it go?
@@fionnawheatley9095 quite well!
@@insertphrasehere15 More detail please.. did you pasteurize the fronds after mowing? I'd imagine they'd be pretty sharp and be likely to puncture the bags?
@@insertphrasehere15 I bet. I wonder about growing on waste streams.
@@yeahnahsweetas No they don't puncture the bags, I pasteurise them with the straw with hydrated lime.
Recently I've taken to getting some coffee grounds from a local coffee cart and mixing them in too (about a third of the total, with the other two thirds being straw and dry fronds. So far it's working well, with much better yields.
Coffee grounds have to be very fresh (less than a day) or they get moldy, but the oyster mushoom mycelium will outcompete the mold anyway if the spawn is strong.
love the new intro
Making notes from your vdo for exam , literally
Will you ever do a video on liquid cultures? What nutrients the mycelium needs to grow how to make a liquid culture sterilization and so on?
he have a vid like this on the channel.. in my expirience you can do a good LC whit honey or canadian Sirup, remember never put more than 4% sugar or mycelium don't grow, target the 2%, also malt extract, yeast, dextrosie is good stuff, don't use corn sirup (make the LC milky, is good for agar dish), for the agar i do the same plus a bit of agar,food color, and a tip of amid for cooking (maizena).. for the jar and the lid follow what tony say in he's vid.. LC are more easy and safe for start, but you need some equip, if you whant kick start buy some kit (ready substrate) or if you have the substrate buy some grain spawn, some bags and some polipropilene wool (acquarium filter is great), have fun
All of your videos are awesome you go straight to the point with a clear explanation hope to meet someday once I become a pro on growing mushrooms
i'm so in love with the editing of these videos. thank you for the tips 💖
Glad you like them!
So if you have a substrate source, what's bests way to determine what to grow?
Thanks for the great video on substrates, it's nice to have all this info in one video
Recently I found mushrooms growing on my orchids pots :)
Apparently they love that orchid substrate. I had to change the substrate or I would have a lot of mushrooms and no orchids...
Nice video about substrates. A few years ago I tried to grow enoki on straw substrate and it worked fine.
Thanks for sharing 👍
What do you use for orchid substrate?
Mushrooms are actually good for orchids
Many orchids actually parasitize fungal partners, so that's actually quite interesting.
This video, (like all of your instructional videos,) is very comprehensive and to the point. Having been educated by you, on the topic of growing specific mushrooms, I am moving forward with great confidence. Thank you so very much, for sharing your knowledge with us.
FYI, Coco prices are about to go up. Work exclusively with Coco at work, most bulk companies are delaying their orders a few months out. Grab it while you can!
I find the coco coir really good information, thanks for sharing this. I am trying bark outside on top the soil where my compost bin used to be, most people tell me it won’t grow because I didn’t sterilise the bark. But I thought since it came in a bag from the garden centre it was clean. I planted portabella mycelium from grain which I bought from Amazon.
How’s it going? That sounds like it’ll be super contaminated
Thanks, I've been looking for this information
Excellent:) thank you. Your vids have given me so much confidence to experiment and just go for it!...And you’ve totally earned saying, choir, if you like...everyone else can be normal and boring and say quar!
Does the substrate effect a mushroom's edibility? I believe in one video (if not this one) you mentioned growing oyster mushrooms on cigarette butts. Are there substrates that make a mushroom dangerous to eat when it normally would not be?
I'd love to know this!
good question! I heard about the oyster mushrooms grown on oil spill contaminated soil and they were edible and safe. Growing mushrooms on uranium rich substrate may be questionable. LOL!
Stay away from pesticides/chemicals and I'm sure you'll be fine!
Bamboo mulch is excellent too. Lots of cellulose xx
Love your videos. Thanks for sharing your many talents. We have a sawmill and cut tons of oak I have 2 questions. Would fresh sawdust be best, or should I let it age a bit? How much does 1 cup of hardwood pellet weigh? Thank you again.
Love the intro and the mid effects with the mushrooms 🍄 great 👍 .. I'm having problems finding soy pellets in my area, can I use bio hay pellets ? (Food for old horses easy digestive)
I found oak , should I do 50-50? What about gypsum and wheatbran?
Pls help me get the right mix with the the options I have , thank you 😊 🙏
Damn you got some sick video effects
Great video. I just have a question. Why do you say that softwood is not good? You dismiss it as a suitable substrate without explaining why, yet I've seen other growers using it with success.
Looking to start my mushroom growing journey soon. This helped a ton, thanks mate!
Liams_spores_
Just purchased your supplements for my father.
Thanks Tony for sharing all that precious knowledge!
Awesome job with this video, you’re good at this!
Just want to make sure I’m understanding you right. 5 cups of hardwood pellets (850g) + 1-1/4 cup of wheat bran (87.5g) = 937.5g. 60% hydration would be 937.5 x 0.6 = 562.5g of water. There are 1325g of water in 1.4 liters, so that would be almost 2.4x the amount of water needed for 60% hydration. Not trying to challenge your recipe, but I want to make sure us new growers have the right info. Please advise at your convenience, Thanks!
very good video. Many very useful tips, advices, ideas, amazing sourse of info, thanks a lot man!!!
Just excellent!!! Learned a ton!!
thanks for the tips.
I use the hwfp / wheat bran to make my shiitake blocks.
(2lb hwfp + 100 grams of wheat bran _ 1,200 to 1,400 grams of water) pending on which strain of shiitake. makes a 5lb block
You are my teacher now.
Как всегда великолепно. Информативно и без воды.
Thanks for sharing all your invaluable knowledge. What about brewers spent grain?
I live in Oregon, and buying soy hulls, especially if i'm not ordering a literal ton, is hard. Don't know why it's so difficult, but i'm considering using alfalfa.
Alfalfa hay is tempting, since it's easy to get a hold of, but i think i might go for the pellets instead due to contamination issues.
The pellets list a protein content of 20%, which is actually about double what soy bean hull is listed as online.
We grew wine caps on wood chips found at a work site 😅 didn’t sterilize it or anything
Good informative presentation, the confusing aspect is the switching between imperial and metric measurements. lbs, litres, cups..
For the manure and coco coir/verm mix. To pasteurize it, do you mix the boiling water to the coir and then add the verm?
The masters mix substrate recipe is a bit off if the soy pellets weigh less which in my case they do, 2 and a half cups of them is not equivalent to 2 and a half cups of hardwood pellets. This lead to overhydration as the total weight prehydration was 750g, so only 1200ml of water was needed if I kept the ratio at cups only instead of by weight.
Thank you so much you are so clear I love you I've been on the internet I've been on TH-cam for 2 days trying to figure out how to grow mushrooms with my liquid something culture that I ordered from Amazon and nobody made any sense whatsoever but you you make sense thank you thank you thank you God bless you
I have tried pasteurization for coco once and later got a bunch of mushroom flies. Since that time I only use sterilization.
thank you for your content it's been inspirational to watch
Used coffee is pretty good aswell. Some friends used it for a variety of mushrooms.
But as you know, carbon-rich substrates are a big key :)
Thanks for the video!
Coffee is rubbish as far as I’m concerned , I have tried it a number of times and every time it gets contaminated , I’ll never use coffee again , it’s not worth the effort to even bother , good luck to those that can do it ,definitely does not work for me.
StoOv… if you got some explanation on how to use the coffee I think you should put it in here with the steps so others can use those ideas , I notice nobody puts out there how they do it with coffee funny enough.
@@fishmut Here in the Netherlands there was a company growing oyster mushrooms on used coffee. Important is to only use one-day-old coffee residu. They grew 'm in bags about 4-5 kg's large.
I'm experimenting with shredded paper/cardboard as a substrate for blue oysters. Great video man!
I have been
buying masters mix for a couple year now. Costs about $43 with shipping for 40 lbs. I make 5 lb blocks so 20 blocks can be made from that. Using 2 lbs masters to 3 lbs water.
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you forgot about kitty litter! the old newspaper kind. worked really well with king trumpets.
Another great informative video. Thanks! Have you ever tried or known anyone who has tried growing on hemp hurd? I'm thinking of using 4 parts to one part wheat bran. You didn't mention this, by why to some substrate recipes call for adding gypsum? Thanks!
Anyone use RYE Flour instead of Brown Rice Flour? (PF TEK} I heard that the Rye flour needs less water in the mix. (I bought Rye by mistake instead of BRF today) A few years ago I tied both separately to compare but I forget . At age 69 I forget short term memory anyways. Can't wait for Golden Teachers!
i can't find any resources that walk through growing oyster mushrooms from inoculation to harvest using the coconut coir substrate. would brown rice inoculation work for oysters? i dont own a pressure cooker. basically, i'd like a video for the easiest and cheapest way to grow some mushrooms!
i have electric pressure cooker, but goes to 10 PSI only so not sure if its enough... i have used the microwave, not sure if that's enough. bought some stuff from Amazon to make my own Mushroom blocks, but no luck so far.
@@jimmymisle910 the uncle ben tek is super easy and after researching some more, I think it can accommodate oysters. No pressure cooker required with that one or brown rice tek
I followed your bucket guide with very fine sawdust from the park (I suspect it's hardwood, but didn't check) and coffee grounds. We had a decent first round but the pins and fruiting bodies started getting very very dry. I realized that very fine woodchip does not absorb any water. So I think I'll go with less dense substrates that can absorb water better. Does this match your experience?
Also, how are fallen leaves as a substrate?
use vermiculite or cocoa coir to keep the substrate moist for longer and keep it from being too dense. Fallen oak leaves or fallen aspen leaves work well but get spent with first flush.
Pronounced coco core. Love your teaching technique!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I am learning mycology in order to produce mycelium composites for modeling (rc airplanes and maybe cars as well). And I love to eat muchrooms, I'll give it a try as well. Cheers from Brazil!
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Thank you for all great informations.
what would the ratio for the Manure loving mushrooms be? I saw 50/50 coconut husk to Vermiculite but but how much of a ratio would the compost to that be?
Thank you
This awnsers so many of my qeustions
Great vid! what size bag should I use?
i recently tried shredded palm leaves as an oyster mushroom substrate. The mycelium seems to be colonising it at the same rate as sugar cane or straw mulch so fingers crossed on the fruiting stage. Hopefully its successful because I have plenty of dry palm leaves falling all over the place for free.
Just a follow up, the substitute has just started fruiting so for anyone reading this yes shredded palm leaves work for oyster mushrooms.
Im learning and though this info may help later, I was still hopful your mushrooms would be able to fruit with free supply
Just a heads up- If you have a tractor Supply near you, you can get 80% of everything you need to grow there. Their ASPEN Wood chips are less than $10.
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Very very good explanation.
Very Interesting, thanks 👍
Have you or anyone else tried wood shavings from a chainsaw?
Was wondering if I turned bar oil down to a minimum if it would be OK for oysters, only one way to find out I guess.
So to make a 5 pound fruiting block you only use 5 cups of hardwood pellets then the bran and water? Or am I missing something?
Btw I've been taking your Freshcap mushroom supplements and I've been feeling pretty great! I've been pretty sick for a long time and my treatments got me to a pretty good point. Now I've only been taking your Ultimate Mushroom Complex and extra Lion's mane, bc I've got some pretty bad nerve issues, and I have been doing remarkably well. Thank you so much!
For the "dung loving" substrates, about how much water would you think would hydrate it properly? Feels like I missed it or you blew past it and I totally can't find where you said it lol
5:40 that looks like a piece of my wall, growing mushroom on them looks fun 🤣
Thank you for amazing video.
Which substrates neded for MC Kenai mushrom?
Ive been thinking about mixing coffee with straw, hard wood saw dust, and vermiculite. I have really long jars so I was thinking about making pf tek logs and see how itll grow
Great video! thank you!!!
I've heared you can also pasteurize your substrate by submerging it into water for about 2 weeks. After that time, most of the oxygen will be used up, which will leave anaerobic bacteria. I don't know if this will work for every mushroom, do you have experience about this? It seems to be a more sustainable approach, because it does not require a lot of energy.
Do you pasteurize the aspen shavings the same way as the coco coir? Or is it sterile when you buy it in a bag?
Has coffee as a substrate any other drawbacks than the high risk of contamination?
I started my mushroom journey two months ago with access to an autoclave and a fequently used coffee mashine. I directly inoculated the coffee in the autoclave bags with dowels and built an air filter with a plastic tube and a face mask. The mycelium grew strongly from the Side with the air filter, but did barely grow on the opposite side. I suppose it did not get enough oxygen there. Is it a good idea to puncture the bag there to increase air exchange or does that make the risk of contamination too big?
I would appreciate some advice from more advanced growers.
Heyy, I was wondering, how many kilos of oyster mushrooms do you think will grow on 1 kg of substrate? Great video btw!
Generally 60% to 100% of substrate dry weight