+tom c hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to learn about how do i grow mushrooms try Nevolly Mushrooms Maker Nerd (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some super things about it and my colleague got cool success with it.
This is fantastic, and, being a mushroom lover and an animalist, I´m also happy that the fact that mushrooms as ideal meat-substitute is also being promoted in the video description! Thank you so much for this!
This might be the first time I've heard someone talking about bioremediation, the medicinal value of mushrooms, pallet balance, and slow foods without sounding like a stuck-up, self-involved, empty-headed fad chaser. I bet it would be fun to hang out with that guy.
@Canonpixmalogitechko Good information. How great that you were also a mushroom farmer. We didn't talk much about pests, though perhaps he's just fortunate due to the climate in his area. Moss Landing is in between Santa Cruz and Monterey and that whole area spends much of the year in the fog and rarely gets that hot. I would guess this wouldn't be ideal for gnats, but I have never farmed so I really have no idea.
@StarFlower99654 Good question. I remember Ian saying that with some types of mushrooms he could get 2 "crops" from each bag. Others just 1 and a half and others just one, all depending on the type of mushroom. One type of tree oyster mushroom he had broken up the bags after 2 flushes (crops) and was growing a third on an open bed (you see him standing in front of it in the video at one point).
Thank you for sharing the information with us Ian Garrone and Kirsten Dirksen, very interesting, I'm looking in ways to use mushroom for bioremediation. :)
This was such an informative video. Thank You Ian Garrone for sharing this with us! This is something I'm contemplating doing here in the midwest. Is there anything you can recommend for me to study up on, to see how I can become a fungi Farm/Company? Thanks
I must be doing something right because a 10-pound block only takes me about 12 days to completely propagate itself through the block not a month. I actually usually get pinning before the two-week. I don't keep him in the dark enough environment so that's kind of my own fault
Lol I've ran into you on other vids, yeah I was thinking the same though. Seems like they don't mix up the sub after inoculating with grains just dump in the grains and let it grow top down lol, old style of growing I guess? Most people don't colonize in the dark anymore.
@@jordanmercier3616 the only thing that really needs dark is white button in Portobello that I know of everything else benefits from a little bit of indirect light
weird thing about youtube is that u a in a time-warp. pretty sure this company in west coast went belly up - but sooo wish I had seen it working before it shut down. If this is NOT that company, great video - charge for walk-throughs n u will be fine.
Considering the high humidity, I wonder the wooden shelves are free from bacteria... Please help, is there any special conditions of the wooden shelves in the incubating & growing rooms?
Hey I know this comment is a little old, but it's a possible to grow tree mushrooms on logs w very little plastic involved. Most dumps have logs cut down bc of danger to power lines etc, and you just drill holes and plug the spawn in!
I'm truly amazed by what you have accomplished and do everyday. I love mushrooms and I would love to see, and eat, any recipes you might have for the 40 different varieties of mushrooms you grow. I'd be in mushroom heaven.
@kirstendirksen You can grow other kinds of mushrooms on the compost produced after one kind is done with it. For instance, you can grow white buttons on the compost from shittake and oysters. After the musrooms have had their turn, what is left over is great for growing vegetables in. I'm amazed at the lack of pests he has at that farm, What was he doing to prevent fungus gnat infestation? I used to operate a small oyster mushroom farm in New Zealand and we had constant pest problems :(
How many harvests do you get from those bags? I would think they are resusable, but perhaps they dont have enough nutrients to produce more than one harvest? Very interesting video, Thanks Kirsten!
+Wild Mushroom of Humboldt County growing mushrooms is great fun if you have never tried before there is no reason not too! if you are into mushrooms, growing them takes it to the next level.
What Oil Spill was this? What year? any peer reviewed research papers or articles documenting the clean up process? Are prokaryotes involved in this process? Thanks ahead for any leads.
Many people are terrified of growing mushrooms because they don't have the knowledge to know the difference between a mushroom that has compounds that can make you sick or has psychedelic compounds and those that don't. How does someone know the difference????
Fast speaking interviewer: explain how this supports my passion for slow foods. Slow talking farmer: well, you know, they can be eaten slowly. Fast speaking interviewer: thanks for agreeing- I’ll name my video around my slow food agenda then.
music in the background on part of this video - do they grow better with music? :) - Mythbusters proved that plants grow better with Rock & Roll - very loud R&R. Have you ever tested that?
Good vid, but there has to be a more sustainable way of farming those mushrooms then to use plastic throwaway bags. Also he never said what they do with all the used medium? do they compost it and reuse it?
***** Hugelkultur perhaps (burying logs in the grounds and stacking them then covering with soil) to promote growth using inoculated (entire) logs, shocked into pinning with cold water and buried in between rows of generally acidic plants. Starting off hardwood logs indoors and keeping them in an inoculation room would be a sane way of getting a large amount of mushrooms naturally from the logs in any practical business sense.
Really dumb question.. can i use treated sawdust? I have access to sawdust, but its from 2x4's and building materials. I also have 200 pounds of Rice hull.. How can i use those 2 things, and what ever would i need. I have plugs coming, but id rather have to spend huge money on what is essentially trash products.. im on a budget. HELP!
Bit late maybe, but don't grow shrooms in treated sawdust. Teh toxins go into the shrooms. You can get free untreated sawdust easily from timber mills or some cabinet makes have that to give away too... craigslist sometimes has people offering it.. good luck!
My family used to have 80 acres of land. It grew mushrooms all over the land. We used to go picking the mushrooms every summer. My dad taught me about nature from the age of six. He grew up on a farm that had much nature on it. And his dad taught him.
To speed up growth. They're breaking up the mycelium and clumped sawdust to shake things up inside the bags, to promote the mycelium to grow over all the sawdust at the same time, not slowly take over.
pls help, i want to know a mushroom which is small and orange in color has tiny dots on it and when it grow a bit large the color fades; as i have got only two of them grow in my garden and i am surprised to see that also want to know that can we have/eat it. thank you.
If you are asking this question, you probably shouldn’t be trying to grow mushrooms. If you don’t practice aseptic technique and assure a monoculture, you could grow the wrong thing or have contamination (mixture)...which would not be good for health or life.
