I want to help everyone from the single parent to the budding entrepreneur learn how to effectively cultivate mushrooms and Fungi. In 2019 I founded The Humble Fungus - a “spore-to-table” mushroom farm and mycology laboratory and supply business. During those 3 years I learned more than I had in the previous decade.
Unfortunately, like most of us in the industry, I learned most of it the hard way, through trial and error and tears. Massive failures, contamination, tons of equipment, lack of automation, buying a million tools only to realize they don’t work. Before closing The Humble Fungus, I had grown the business to over 6 figures of revenue, built and sold sterilizers, fruiting beautiful mushrooms and had a genetics library containing over 200 culinary, medicinal and therapeutic mushrooms.
No matter your skill level - from a home cultivator growing on a counter, those just beginning to those running at scale grows looking just to improve, you'll learn!
The cutting technique would only be for your environment, right you couldn’t do that for a bookshelf or your counter because I would lead to contamination correct?
But bro I don’t have a fruiting chamber. Can I keep my bag sealed away from contamination any way? Just mixed up my mycelium and waiting for it to fully colonise. I know I’m late but I’m always late 😂
This is great, but I've tried it and I'm finding my bags/millet are getting wet rot after a week or so? I'm only using 400ml of water to 1kg of millet the bags are coming out like in the vid completely sealed up, I end up sealing them and mixing them up to spread the moisture in there and some parts sweat and eventually start to rot. Any ideas?
Thank you so, very much for sharing all of this highly valuable information. I am a novice mycologist and spent more than 6 months just researching and throughly studying prior to finally diving in with my first grow. Having decided to go big with my first grow, I have been really anxious to see great results. I’d initially decided to cut a large monotub recipe down to about 1/5 the recommended size. I really would’ve regretted having to throw all of this out due to contamination. Again, I appreciate your help so much!
Who did you think was turning the plants' excess byproduct of oxygen into breathable co2 before animals came about? The earth would blow up or lose all habitability if oxygen levels increase too much. Mushrooms apparently didnt cut it, so here we are
When do u put the rubber band on ,right after I mix and I'm waiting 2 weeks or so before it's a sold block ,do I put the rubber band on when I switch to fruiting stage?
So the injection actually spreads through the whole block and doesnt need more? Ive opened the top of my bag and pegged it shut. I open it in the morning to replace air and close it again. Same at night. It has some pins. Ive placed it in a tray inside a large clear tub under my window. Indirect light. Temp is about 75f though of a day being near summer.. ideally it should be lower right?
Which millet brand are you using ? I’ve been trying this method with little wings millet brand from a feed store, and I am getting contamination after inoculation. I am pressure cooking with the same ratio of water to millet at 15 psi for 2.5 - 3 hours..
So I am using a monotub, and I just went into fruting conditions. Im using a 6500k led light. How far away from the tub does it need to be, or are there signs in my grow tub to look for and adjust as needed? I just don't want to burn up my substrate. I get it if you don't have time to answer. I just thought I would throw a hail mary out here to see everyone's input
🤯 thank you! 🤯 I was very curious about Co2 content and the correlation between pinning and fruiting! I really appreciate the information 😊 ... I'm really surprised at how simple you made this to understand!
I'm using a small bathroom for the fruiting chamber. Once I cut the bag open a tiny bit do I put a humidifier in there with a small fan? Please advise!
What a great video. Now everything makes complete sense. Using the knowledge you explained, im thinking to stick a layer of bubble wrap 3/4 of the way up the tub with a few small bubble holes in. That way the mushrooms will produce decent stems and reach the size im looking for then will remove the bubble wrap once reached. The reason for that is the stems are what weigh the most and for "active" mushrooms they contain the most "sybin". What do you think?. Thank you so much for explaining and making this fab vid. Mush love
As long as it's fully colonized, the only reason it would get contaminated at that point was that there was a hidden contamination in there or. Sometimes a little dry spot can open up The surface to a more aggressive contamination like trich or still standing water sitting on the sirface cam absorb nutrients and become a soup that bacteria will start growing in. There could be a few other possible ways that I could get in contamination even after it's fully cultivated but you learn how to avoid those pretty easily with experience.
