Did you try all in one bags for 3790? If yes - does it work? What is the sawdust / grain ratio? With grain inoculation I am having issues with contam all the time, even with the flowhood, spraying etc. So thinking to try all in one tech. Any advice?
Thank you for your time and sharing your experience. As far as using bran, do you have a recommendation on alternatives for those of us who cannot consume gluten? I’ve had difficulty finding good info regarding this.
You mntion it is hard work with almost certain contamination from time to time. WHat else makes it hard? That is only one issue. It it the need for near daily harvest? The setrile work? Setting up the right environments for colonizing and then fruiting. Is it the difficulty in finding buyers and making sales. or scheduling harvest to meet sales commitments? Could it be sudden and unexpected costs? I like that you are giving info from a businees perspective. I just dont see much actual info in the video. Have you got some examples of why you say it is so hard?
First of all I just like to reiterate what most everyone else has said "you are the man!" That was an absolutely awesome video a little intense but awesome. I'm in my first go round of ever trying shiitake in blocks. I have shitaki in logs but not grown yet in blocks. Your detailed week by week explanation took some of the worry out of my brain, I know shiitake can take a while and it seems like I wanna speed things up or worry about what I'm seeing but you made it seem perfect. I wish I could drop you a picture because I didn't use fresh wood chips or sawdust & bran. I made a concoction of straw, oak pellets, wood pellets, a little bit of alfalfa pellets, coffee grinds & gypsum. The only question I would have for you is do you have a set PH that you start off with? Do you think that might have something to do with the variations and how the blocks run in the same strain?
How can you know when the grain is just right for the spawn? I've been doing a boil, followed with the sterilization, and afterwards, it's getting overcooked.
Where'd you go brother, i miss seeing new uploads. Seems like the whole mushroom youtube sphere has sloweddddd down. Please keep making videos man, I loves regular uploads.
We are very pleased that we use the cleaners used in operating rooms :) because our laboratories and production rooms are no different from operating rooms. The cleaner, the more successful the product.
I am starting to experiment with mushrooms in West Africa oysters, lion's mane, shitake and button (on decomp. manure and straw). We don't have oak sawdust for one, so I am trying other tropical timbers. Also we don't have soy hulls/bran. I am trying out millet and sorghum bran and will try a "master's mix" with millet bran and eucalyptus sawdust. Any ideas or support would be greatly appreciated!
If there are too many big sellers, price will drop and volume won't save you. Fortunately, the profession is so difficult that it could takes years to get to the saturation point.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I'm not a professional grower, I'm just starting with mushrooms that I'm growing for my family because of their health benefits. I don't have any kind of professional fruiting chamber or grow setup, but I've heard these mushrooms are delicious so I'm going to give them a try... I'll keep my expectations low about getting them to fruit. I really appreciate this good specific information, but I have pretty strong reservations about the level of success I'll achieve.
Hi. Just a quick qestion. Do I have to slit the bags to give the blocks some air to get them brown? Will it help? They are 2 months old and still mostly white with a lot of popcorn.
Straw is definitely a mess. I haven’t used it in more than 10 years yet. I still get yelled at about it because it still showing up in my sisters car. I switched over to brown rice hulls it’s amazing.
I have to say, I've been trying to grow shiitake mushrooms for the last year. The knowledge I've got from this video has increased my yield so much I don't know how to thankyou. Much love brother!
Very inspiring in terms of seeing how large scale production is done the RIGHT way. I am a small scale block producer in the south of France and aim to your level. Shiitakes are a great way into the market since the shiitakes produces here kinda suck at the moment. I hope to make an improvement on that front in the long term. Thanks for your videos 👍🏼
I am very interested since I got a free syringe of LC. It is awesome that they are warm tolerant. It's going into my rotation. So you add sawdust to your grain spawn jars? I think that's a great idea to acclimate the mycelium to wood. I have a modified popcorn tek I am trying out this week. It's about 2/3 popcorn, 1/3 brown rice, with coffee grounds. Popcorn makes very vigorous spawn, and the large kernels are a huge bank of energy that just leaps onto the sub. The brown rice provides hundreds of smaller inoculation points, and the coffee does even more. as well as being a source of nitrogen.
Thank you MASTER! They're not making any pins, I'm going crazy. The pure white compost is starting to turn yellow. Really, no genre has ever challenged me this much, I fell into obscurity.
This is not how you build a business..... if you have to work more then 10hrs a day 5 days a week to run your business your doing it wrong. There is no if's or but's about it.
