If I can assimilate half of the knowledge that you're putting down in these instructional videos I'll be ready to take on any growth. I appreciate it keep them coming
ro water with a calcium filter comes out at 8.3 ph by the time you add all your crap to the media it levels the ph down to 6.8-7.2ph. paul stamets lab found the mushrooms while active have a 7.4 ph. they concluded they got stronger results using a higher ph closer to the human blood ph of 7.2 and gypsum was used as a buffer to slow competing organisms as it acted like a growth inhibitor and brought the ph back up. i did my own experiment leaving out the gypsum and by adding a high quality calcium after filter to my R/O with a max ppm of 27 and a ph 8.8. i also use ph ICE water to fog my unit. sounds goofy but brings room temps down 3 degrees and shocks the blocks into action as they believe they are on the edge of a cold season which means growth priority for the block to finish its life cycle. i have found i get better tasting fruits, larger fruits and i control the ph and water through the entire growth process. i pressure cook at ph i mix at ph i fog at ph and i have had serious chefs and old timer mushroom farmers tell me that my fruits taste the best they have ever had even dried they taste "clean" on top of the already nice flavor of mushroom meat. take what you will from it i sense you like to do things different and be a bit of a rebel but with your store front type operation you may not be fortunate enough have the time to increase the quality of the product at that scale. im fortunate im a disabled combat veteran i have nothing but time and money to play with these things. ive been doing this for 11 years now and the smallest details matter a lot in the mushrooms life cycle. it also has stress just like plants and it shows if you dont square every edge to make them happy. ive seen species that have small fruits by their own genetics get 40% larger bc their water source was already to their make up making energy transfer easier on the animal. fungus is alive and can feel. its a animal and a plant. just like cows, lower stress and easier life better meat and yield.
I have been using RO DI run off to grow cup mushrooms and whatever the inkcaps were in my yard and it's been going amazing. I always felt weird about RO runoff since it's like 2 to 1 waste to usable water and this has been a boon for my guilty conscience. Cup mushrooms look like oyster mushrooms from the top once they get big, and they colonize like oysters too. Been draining the RO runoff over straw and cardboard and the mushrooms are loving it.
Every time he says this line it makes me smile. Would buy a t-shirt with this on it. Humble Fungus - "Fungi don't give a shit" with a picture of mushrooms growing out of poop.
The thing about the pH of fallen trees is that it's logarithmic. Lol question for you, how is boiled brewers yeast for mushroom nutrient in a gypsum/pearlite/coir substrate? I figure the yeast absorbed nutrients from the grain during fermentation and it's also a fungi so it makes sense. Thanks!
the question is, whether the dead yeast is a better for the contaminants than the mushrooms. Theoretically, it should be great for growth; it's just that it may also be a big vector for contamination.
In earlier videos he talks about adding spent coffee grounds (fresh grounds are too acidic!). The problem I've found is that nutrients are a magnet for contamination growth, while using plain coco coir, or coco with vermiculite as a substrate gives nearly as good yields, if not just as good. The nutrients work better in theory than practice.
@@syberphish sorry I meant pH not mineral content. I was on a different planet when I wrote that. The pH is much more regulated as the lower the pH the more copper and lead from the pipes enters the system. If you live in an area with low pH that's great but generally the water resource authority of your municipality would prefer you weren't drinking heavy metals so they'll correct. Now the problem with high pH is it reduces the solubility of the chlorine as it's reacting the excess hydrogen. So some WRA have to add chloramines and more chlorine to sanitize the system
@@syberphish k...vast majority of people don't so your point is that when I was using general language I didn't specifically state every possible situation just the one that affects you
@@WhoFramedMSG If you leave the city and go to pretty much any rural area in the country you'll find people on wells... its incredibly common. You could just leave it indeterminate without trying to state exactly what its like for everyone everywhere.
