Growing Mushrooms In A Homemade Tabletop Fruiting Chamber, Grow Your Own Food
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video I show you some modifications to my homemade mushroom fruiting chamber and include a time lapse of oyster mushrooms growing out. Check my earlier videos for a step by step on how I built the chamber.
The thumbnail always gets me lol. Like when i inoculated my first jar and it took 😢😳😍
This is great! I might try building one soon and add a humidity controller to possibly mitigate the accumulation of water in the chamber.
I. Would use the hubby's hole saw and attach a pour spout on the bottom pan?
I only just found this video. In the process of making a fruiting chamber. You could try Perlite. Psychedelic mushroom growers quickly wash it, rinse and pour it in the bottom. I believe it does retain moisture, so you could just try using enough for your cake to have something to sit on, so the Perlite doesn't compete with your humidifier. That should keep your shroomies nice and dry.
Awesome 👌👍
a plug timer would be useful to reduce water pooling, a great fruiting chamber nonetheless
Is the fan blowing or sucking air out?
Did you measure the humidity? Maybe you don't need so much steam -> you could use a timer for the power socket to limit the water filling on the bottom.
Thanks for the video :)
Yep a timer would definitely help. Never bothered to measure the humidity. The fan is blowing fresh air in. It's probably a little overkill but seems to work.
It is nice to see a follow up on your project! Are the seams on the expansion panels sufficiently air-tight? Or purposely NOT air tight? Thanks!
They are not air tight. Not on purpose though. I could probably seal it up with some tape or silicon but it would look messy. Seems to work fine as is.
Honestly you don't even have to use the reptile fogger. You just need moist perlite and you can either spray it or use a wicking cloth in front of the fan; preferably something that's not made from organic materials.
what do you mean a wicking cloth in front of the fan;
That's cool. Exactly what I wanted to do. Can you use that water to inoculate more bags/jars?
Good question. I would bet there would be a high risk of contamination.
hello! excellent fruiting. Does the humidifier deliver heat? And if not, how do you keep the temperature stable? greetings from Chile
No heat. Its in the house so temp is room temp controlled by thermostat. Thank you for watching!
exhaust for the spores ?
Excellent harvest! Were the filters special or just cloth?
They are made from actual filter material you can find at any hardware store by vents.
@@thejackalopefarm6201 thanks! 👍
should the fan be blowing air in or out?
Fresh air in. Old air out through filter patches.
Im copying you! Looks great. I'll only add a timer for the fan and a timer for the humidifier.
That's a lot of water. It doesn't seem like it would require that much water going in there everyday. Have you considered any way to turn down the humidifier for it doesn't put so much water in there.
Its already at the minimum setting. Doesnt bother me to do it. The other option would be to put the entire outlet on an intermittent timer. But I have not seen a fruiting chamber that does not require drainage of some sort. Theres always a spray bottle 😉
@@thejackalopefarm6201 I like that idea. Put the humidifier to where it comes on for an hour every 6 hours. I've been growing pink oysters. I put them in cardboard boxes. Because they're supposed to consume the cardboard box and then just grow the mushrooms off the side of the box wherever they want to.
I don't know if it'll work. But I've got boxes layered with hardwood sawdust and popcorn grain spawn in black garbage bags incubating now.
I'm enjoying your channel
@@medicineswisdom5661 thank you! Im trying to get more comfortable in front of the camera still. Just hoping I can help other people in suburban/urban settings take some control back from the commercial food chain. As for oysters, they are ambitious lol. Can grow on nearly anything. Ive grown them on toilet paper. Good luck with your project!
@@thejackalopefarm6201 I thought you did really good in front of the camera.
You didn't get into long drawn out conversations.
You kept it entertaining but to the point and informative.
You are definitely an A+ in my opinion
Why is there a pool in the bottom good place for bacteria to live
Is there a reason the block cant be turned on its side to grow out the mushrooms? (so its not so top heavy)
I actually tried, so much water pooled on the inside of the package that it was getting mushy. What would actually be best would be to suspend it inside of a fruiting chamber, which some larger growers do. They have large walk in fruiting rooms with their bags suspended from the ceiling. Its just a space issue in such a little chamber.
@@thejackalopefarm6201 A small, stainless steel trivet might give sufficient uplift for a single block.
@@u.synlig not a bad idea, wouldnt even have to be small, infact it would have to be large enough to also support the weight of the mushrooms once they begin to flush. If it cant the block would just continue to tip forward as it becomes top heavy.