Do Mushrooms Need Light To Grow? | GroCycle
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- Growing mushrooms, either at home, or on a commercial scale, is a great way to have an ongoing supply of delicious gourmet or medicinal mushrooms, and you don’t need much to get started.
To get the best yield and properly formed mushrooms, you’ll need to provide the best fruiting conditions possible, and one factor you’ll need to get right is having the correct amount of light.
This may come as a surprise, as a lot of people assume that mushrooms are grown in the dark!
Join us in today’s video to find out if mushrooms do need light, and what you can do to create the ideal lighting conditions for the best possible mushroom harvest!
#mushroomfarming, #light, #mushroomdiy, #growathome, #farming
Chapters:
00:25 - Do mushrooms actually need light to grow?
01:05 - Why are some mushrooms grown in the dark?
01:13 - Manipulating mushroom growth through darkness
01:44 - What does light do to mushrooms?
01:50 - The affect of light on mushrooms in nature
02:43 - Light helps fruit bodies to form
03:17 - Mushroom growth: Dark vs. light fruiting conditions
05:23 - Creating the optimal lighting conditions
06:12 - Choosing the right types of light
06:31 - How to calculate the right amount of light
07:20 - Measuring your light levels
08:08 - Cycling your lights with a timer
08:35 - Further learnin
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Thank you all for this video soooo many people think mushrooms don’t need light. Keep up the good work guys 👍
really great video! thanks!
Woa, I love this man !! Science and with proof !!
Thanks.
Now I have solid proof. So many people still think they pop over night and only in the dark. 🤦♂️
Thanks! This was very informative and helpful.
Very interesting indeed. As I write this I have one of your kits sitting next to me which I shall activate tomorrow. So looking forward to this❤
Thanks a lot for the motivation 🎉
Another awesome experiment with the Mella there and great info. Bless you both & Namaste. I am just starting out after some grow kits from USA and stem budding such and am busy building new homes for THINGS that are growing! Can't thank you guys enough for the starting pointers :)
Thanks!! Glad you're starting your journey, and we wish you the best of luck!!
I have learned so much from your videos. I am curious. You use a lot of filter bags do you have a video on how to add micron filter to grow bags. Because I would like to buy poly tubing and micron filters to help cut my cost of production. Also I cannot find grow bags with filters over 450mm tall. Would like to have bags 1 meter and would like to know if I would need multiple micron filters in a bag that tall.
Thank you for this vidéo
I've a question please.
For lux calculation, What surface do you considère in a room L 3m x W 2,5m x H 3m ?
Is it the ground surface (7,5m² here) or all surface (ground, walls and ceillin)?
In the second case, if we have a 3rd shelve in the middle of the room, do we considere it and increase the surface reccordingly?
Thanks
Could you please more detail process of Cold Water Process of Substrates Pasteurizing. Is it really helpful for more productive in all aspects of low cost farming. Awaiting a detail video. Thanks for great advice.
Thank you 🙏Amazing content as usual. Can you do a tutorial on mushroom chamber ventilation in a grow tent? There is so little out there...everyone seems to be doing something different. 🤔
Hi there... glad you're finding the channel useful!! We'll look at doing the video you suggested shortly, as we know there are quite a few people out there that have mentioned this...! Thanks for the recommendation :-)
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very useful video..... just a doubt...do oysters need blue light in spawn running room?
Hi Adam, you say that you found that white and blue LED lights are best at growing mushrooms. Well according to a website, it all depends on the mushroom species. E.g. oyster mushrooms grow better in red light than in blue light, magic mushrooms that produce psilocybin grow better in blue light and shiitake mushrooms grow best in green light.
Can you specify what species of mushroom you found grow best under white LED lights please?
Also LED lights come in cool white or warm light or ice blue colours. What colour would you recommend buying for lion’s mane and black pearl oyster mushrooms? I hope you reply to my comment and query.
Best
I watched a video where a fellow did a very comprehensive study of light levels and growth and weight yields of the different mushrooms, I am sorry I can't find it to link to it, but he tested 100, 300, 500, 700 lumens on the various shrooms and the general outcome was that 500 lumens were the most productive as to the ratio of head size to mass and weight yield.
The 700 lumen was not much more but the difference going from 5oo to 300 and then to 100 lumens was profoundly less productive.
I just installed 1.5 meters of 6500K LED light strip to the lid of my 66qt grow box and was somewhat disappointed to discover it only produced 170 lumens at the media surface level. I am going to go with it per your advice as I am just a hobbyist and increasing yield is not a big deal for me at my beginner stage. Thank you for the info.!
Which type of light is best to grow various types of mushrooms, as I am not sure which light/s to buy?
How much require light for volvarea mushroom in closes farm
Great stuff, does the nutritional value change when grown in the dark compared to the light?
We were asking ourselves the same question, and we've not actually tested anything grown in the dark, as his was the first time we've (purposely) grown badly formed mushrooms!! It's got our thinking caps on though!!
@@GroCycleTV haha nah your mushrooms are the best!! It’s great you guys are testing things like this, good luck for future experiments
Great question!
Mushrooms generate vitamin D from sunlight just like humans, so I assume yes, but only if UV lights are used since this is the wavelength of light that synthesizes vitamin D.
When and/or how long do you lihht them?? 24/7? 12 & 12? Follow the sun times? 6on 6off 6on 6off?
I love mushrooms, great content
Thank you!! Glad you found it useful!!
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Now, after growing the mushrooms, how should we store them? Should we consider dehydrating them, and is it possible to process them into a powder form for use in pills? It would be greatly appreciated if you could create a video that covers this information, Thank you
Yes its clear you know this stuff well why are you asking
Do the lights need to be waterproof? Can you share a link where I can find these lights? Thank you
Hi there - we've gone for waterproof, as they are safe in high humidity, and in case we ever need to clean using a hose... IP 67 rating covers you for that. A useful link on the ratings and their context is here: www.flexfireleds.com/led-ip-ratings-led-flex-strip-waterproofing-explained-waterproof-v-nonwaterproof-led-strip-lights/ - but if in doubt, speak to an electrician in your local area who can advise on an official capacity!
There are so many places out there that stock these and a quick Google search brings back lots of results, one example is - www.ultraleds.co.uk - but just one of many!!
Have you tested with the other colors of LED lighting? It seems odd that you'd need the room that intensely bright. I also suggest eye protection in that room.
Hi - we've tried different coloured LEDs and use these cool white ones, as they best mimic shaded/indirect sunlight. A lot of mushrooms would tend to grow on a forest floor, so tends to be a lot more shaded that being in direct sunlight, and that's what we aim to recreate...
No eye protection needed! The video camera makes these lights glare a lot more than they do in real life, and as with any lighting source, you're best not to look at it directly - same as a normal light bulb really - but lighting like this in a fruiting room creates a safe working environment...
What lighting source do you prefer? Always great to hear what setups other growers use!! :-)
Did you ever try defused natural light? What were your findings?
Yes - and it's ideal, but if you grow on a commercial scale you need to be able to control the quantity of light, the hours of light, not have changes in a bright/stormy day, etc. We actually recommend diffused, or indirect, natural light when using a grow kit at home, and it does mimic exactly what you would find in the wild, so for home growing, yes, it's spot on!
May I know Straw Mushrooms need lights or not?🙏🙏🙏
I'm curious about your environmental box - how does it work? The environmental controller I've been developing is becoming quite sophisticated.
Hi - I think you mean the small environment box? If so, it's called a Mella, and it's built specifically for growing mushrooms, and allows you to control light levels, humidy, and fresh air exchange. They're really easy to clean and look after, and the perspex screen means you can watch your mushrooms grow! firstbuild.com/inventions/mella/
@@GroCycleTVThat's really neat and I love the finish, but wow it's expensive! Coincidentally I spotted that they use the same humidity sensor I do. My one also does temperature, but no lighting. And it has a screen and menu system. I have an extra output I was planning to use for cooling or a mister, but could use for lighting, perhaps. I was aiming mine at DIY and installing into tubs or grow tents. Exciting!
@ChristieNel That's great that you've made your own system - the Mella isn't a budget product, but it's a great system for those that want to get up and running quickly and without the need for lots of practical skill and knowledge of electrics - if you can make your own though you'll learn even more along the way like you have done - kudos!!
@@GroCycleTV I'm hoping initially to sell these as kits with instructions for how to install them and then start selling pre-made tubs. I'm hoping to do it at a fraction of the cost. Maybe I'll send you one from my first manufacturing batch.
Sounds interesting, and would be a greta topic for a future video...!
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Newbie here..why would you want to hold back ‘pinning’?
Hi, greta question - it just ensures that the energy goes initially into allowing the mycelium to colonise the block before then going into the fruiting stage. It means that after that, all the energy goes into the fruiting bodies, rather than splitting the energy between colonisation and fruiting, so your more likely to get well formed, and larger, fruiting bodies.
Does this mean it's better to keep mycelium in the dark until you want it to fruit?
Yes
1:32 hey what???? Don't just drop that on us willy nilly and move right along, that is a crime against the mushroom on the order of what we did to the Pug breed of dog via artificial selection; someone must pay for this...
Hey - firstly, thanks for watching and challenging up with this comment... we're not changing the breeding mushroom here, it's just what happens when you grow in the wold (lots of oxygen, access to light) vs. growing under different controlled conditions (high CO2 and low light) - it changes the appearance of the mushrooms, but of you fruited the same mushroom from the same spawn in wildly different conditions (one to mimic wild, the other high CO2 and dark) you would get very different looking mushrooms - I agree that selective breeding with dogs has caused some very dangerous issues, but that's not the case here and we're not changing, or trying to change the breed! Thanks :-)
@@GroCycleTV LOL thanks for the reassurance; I have a very dry sarcastic sense of humor sometimes my jokes fall flat I was being purposely over-dramatic about the nonexistent "suffering" of the mushroom to make a point about how crazy different it looks just from different lighting/humidity conditions etc. Fascinating stuff!
@@GroCycleTV Imagine an angry disheveled guy running through the lab "make them look like this again!! *pointing to your video on an iPad* Where are you hiding the REAL enoki mushrooms? 🤨"
"Sir, this is what they look like under optimal conditions, they like it this way most. We're sorry, please don't hurt us! 😨"
7:19
There's an App for that? Jeez... I bought a light meter, dammit!
Brother send your musroom spawn to my state .. 🙌🏻🫠
Hey I I'll refer you to were I got mine. they're super reliable and ship directly to any location
They're on Instagram and telegram as
terry_trips11