Make an inexpensive but highly effective mushroom fruiting chamber for under $20. You can do this!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- Ready to up your home mushroom-growing game? This fruiting chamber can be built in well under an hour, using a clear tote that you may have around already (we used a 56L tote from Target -- $7.50 new) and a 40mm, 5V mini-USB fan that you can get for $8 from Amazon. Other than that, you'll need an empty yogurt container (or peanut butter container, or literally anything else that's about a quart in size, holds water, and is easy to cut), a rag or some sort (could even be an old t-shirt), a couple of clips of some sort, micropore paper tape (you can get it at a pharmacy in the 1st aid section) and some tools. A drill, drill bits, a hole saw set, a Phillips screwdriver, and a utility knife. If you don't have those things, you've probably got an uncle or neighbor who does.
This chamber will produce perfect conditions to grow one or two fruiting blocks (might I suggest the high-value, low cost DIY fruiting kits from The Fungal Network?), and is extremely easy to clean.
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I am looking for a better way to fruit two blocks so this great. Question and a comment:
Q: if you are blowing unfiltered air into the chamber what is the purpose of the micro-pore tape on the exhaust? Or is the wicking cloth filtering enough and the micro-pore tape is filtering any spores and/or back flow?
C: It can help to run the hole saw backwards on both sides to score the plastic before going forward (slowly pushing but spinning fast with the finest tooth you can get). The drill bit will still sometimes catch and pull the saw through too fast. I guess melting a hole with a soldering iron would be foolproof but not too good to breath.
Good question, and good comment! So I don't worry about filtering incoming air because it's not going to be a "clean" environment in there regardless. But I like to filter the outgoing air to keep it from sending spores out into the home. It also keeps things like flies from getting in (hopefully the fan would kill them on the intake side).
And I like your idea about running the saw backwards to score the circle before going all the way through. I'll try that next time. I had thought about melting a hole as well, but test holes had worked pretty well with the hole saw, so I just went with that. Of course it waits until the camera's running to catch wrong. Still worked fine though:)
Hello could you tell me how to clean a monotub that had trichoderma?
Well everything gets exposed to lots of different molds eventually, so whether it's a regular cleaning or a cleanup after a known contamination, you can use the same thing -- regular dish soap and hydrogen peroxide. If you're having problems with contaminated fruiting blocks though, it's probably not coming from your grow chamber. Nine time out of ten it's a problem with your spawn. It could also be from not adequately pasteurizing your substrate, but that's less common
@thefungalnetworkvideo ok thank you !!!!