How I'm Growing my own Shiitake Mushrooms 

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I remember favoriting & sharing your mushroom video awhile back with my family. Such a great idea & tutorial!!! Not super familiar with your channel, but will have to check out your other videos

Love the name Sylvan! I live in a 3 storey walk up with a balcony - any channel suggestions for small space food growing?

@@angelaroseart3898 any "guerilla gardens" in your area? And now there's "covert gardening" apparently... Good luck!!! 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦

Cool stuff, your handheld drill might last alot longer, and go faster if you use a wood drill instead of a metal bit 😉

Thank you for this info! And MSG is pure magic. 🥰🤤

I don't live by the sea so I have to order it in. But I love kombu! The whiter, the better, lol. Basically, $1 an oz I buy 3 pounds at once and go through it about every other year. Two nice pieces (4" by 5" or so) in my chicken or beef stock while it'd simmering down adds such a rich flavor yet doesn't change the profile. Ive also added a few shiitake mushrooms to my soup stocks as I make them. My shiitake logs are only going to be 2 this year so I'm hoping for a bigger harvest. My mother lost a huge red maple in a storm and let me salvage logs. I wish I had taken more lol I get so excited seeing the little mushrooms pin and then pop unto big mushrooms in a day or so. But we have slugs here so I have to pick early sometimes, or I don't get any, lol.

GET IT CAROL!!!

I subscribed u😊

When mushrooms are dried and their nucliotide metabolites bind with sodium forming the flavor enhancing compound guanylate, its the fungal counterpart to inosinic acid (a very similar shaped nucliotide metabolite created in animals) which is found in meat and especially in bonito flakes which greatly amplifies the umami sensation of glutamic acid (the source of savory flavor most commonly found stabilized as MSG and in kombu). Foods that contain glutamic acid include fresh shitakes (dried shitakes actually loose some glutamic acid as they are being dried while guanylate levels increase), other mushrooms, kelp especially royal kombu, fermented goods like miso, soy sauce (can be a byproduct of making miso like tamari), fish sauce, vegetables etc. Guanylate is actually better at inducing a greater, more pleasant sensation of umami than inosinic which means vegans are not left out of having good savory food when using Guanylate along side sources of glutamic acid, its so popular as a flavoring that many people have consumed it without knowing, often in the form of yeast extract which also includes glutamic acid.

I don't know.

there is the funeral bell, that looks a little like shiitake, but when you google how they look, you can 100% differentiate between them and the mushrooms you want. Besides that, its veeeeeery rare for them to grow on already inoculated logs, but still keep an eye out in case you see them, since funeral bells, as the name suggests, are highly toxic

​@@averybrown7910Neither does Mike

You can research more on line, but the 1st rule of inoculating mushrooms on logs is don't use old wood. Fresh cut logs should rest for a couple of weeks, but not older than 4 weeks. That's why these lovely folk were stalking tree trimmers. Also mushrooms all have a preferred medium for growth. The funeral bells mentioned prefer conifer, or broadleaf tree stumps. Shitake prefers oak or other hardwoods. Stay safe & happy mushrooming!

@@brandyjean7015 All these should be at least put as a disclaimer to the video, maybe even in small print.

Boxing?

@@susanweber5089 hes a pro home boxer

*half

Magic mushrooms?

.. can you share what happens when you feed chickens hot peppers

@@Lumablueglass The carotenoids (orange redish pigment found in plants) in the skin of the peppers imparts on the eggs laid a more yellowish red yolk seen in fancy grocery stores, you can do the same by feeding your chickens calendula or marigold flowers which are healthy for them to eat as well, since birds cannot detect the spicy compound capsasin they are not detered by eating hot peppers (especially considering birds are the primary dispersal animal for hot peppers in the wild) hot peppers do however affect gastrointestinal parasites and helps to purge and keep your chickens from free from many kinds of nasty worms, feeding them hot peppers alongside cadulas/marigolds results in healthier chickens and fancy colored yolks (know that your eggs don't become spicy as a result only the colour changes), the taste as a result may get richer due to the health of your birds.

Literally watched that and saw this comment at the same time 😂😂