Loading Shiitake Mushroom Production Blocks Into Grow Room for Fruiting | Southwest Mushrooms 

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Same here

much colder than that.. shitakes like it 50-60f

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@@Tinmanjlw yea, that’s what I was thinking.

If you're just using Oak Hardwood sawdust w/o Wheat brand, then no, you dont have to sterilize it because the pellets are already pre-steralize. If you add a supplement such as wheat brand then you will have to pressure cook it or pasteurize it to kill the microbial organisms that will try to compete with the mycelium.

@@unbornG4 great answer lol you beat me to it. Its always fine to sterilize, and can't hurt, but it's not always necessary.. if you're really worried about your hardwood sawdust, you can pasteurize, if you don't have a PC, to increase your chances of success, but the hardwood pellets are formed under alot of heat and pressure, and thus are sterile

He allows the block to inoculate for 3 months before opening them for fruiting. Some growers don't wait until its brown and start fruiting while its still white, but the results are better if you let it ripen.

im guessing around 55f since that's what they want lol

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I have the same question

Cold shocking isn't necessary. He keeps his facility in the 70s and it doesn't effect the spawn. As for soaking the blocks on a commercial scale for Shiitake it really isn't worth it if you dont have adequate space. You have to let the block completely dry out and that takes up to 3 weeks then you have to rehydrate it and the yield will always diminish after each flush. Not to mention taking up valuable grow space for other mushrooms.

all the moisture that's needed to grow the first flush is added to the substrate before sterilization. as far as cold shocking goes, that's only necessary for some types of mushrooms, and it's not so much for shitake. It's a cold weather mushroom anyway, and prefers about 55f

You could always use a mono tub. Place the block in a mono tub. Mist the tub once or twice daily to create the humidity and fan inside the tub 2-3 times a day to displace the CO2 levels. Or you can buy a mini green house which doesn't take up much space and recreate what he has but at much smaller scale.

@@unbornG4 i just got a 2x2x5 greenhouse tent/rack, and put it in my closet with a plastic tray underneath it.. i pump in air and humidity with a small, cheap humidifier, and i have 20 sq feet of growing space in my closet lol

@@seancostello26 Nice!

Hi Adam, I’m not the owner of the channel, but I feel like I can answer your questions. If you have any other concerns, please reach out. There are a couple of solutions, of which hardly any industrial operation utilizes them. The short answer is: there’s an absolute boat load of plastic waste that is trashed. Most of the time plastic bags are NOT reusable, since you need to inoculate a nutrient rich sterile sawdust medium with spawn, and unfortunately there’s not a whole lot of options for you to do that; especially since shiitake grows so slowly.. The bag needs to be autoclaved, inoculated, sealed, and opened. It’s not realistic to clean them out and reuse them after that. One solution unicornbags came out with is a patented biodegradable plastic bag that’s ACTUALLY biodegradable. I did some testing with them, and exposed to constant sunlight compared to traditionally composted, and it began to break them down completely within a couple months. Very interesting solution that needs more testing and testimonials before being used industrially. Another solution is grow the shiitake on logs, or don’t grow them at all. They’re particularly difficult in the sense that you can’t grow them like oysters, or lions mane, etc,, on less nutritious bulk that can be nocc’d in buckets, trays, etc., or even portobello on manure substrate. This is because of the extremely long incubation time shiitake has which makes it only realistic to do in a sterile setting when industrially producing. Otherwise contamination becomes a huge issue. In my grow op, I only use bags for shiitake grows, and bulk substrate steam pasteurization of wood chips, straw, and manure. That way I can utilize biodegradable bags whenever I want to do a small batch of shiitake, and I can reuse my XLST bags for bulk over and over again, since I’m not sealing them. Then I use a massive amount of glass mason jars to inoculate and prepare grain spawn, and a TON of reusable bins, which admittedly is much less efficient than bags, but in my opinion more sterile, sustainable, and eco-conscious. Plus, I never have to seal bags which is an absolute nightmare unless you want to invest in an industrial grade impulse sealer ($500+!!)

@@randomd00d17 Thanks for posting this comment - very informative. I'm about to start a small grow in my home and was wondering the same thing.

Hardwood Oak Sawdust pellets w/ wheat brand

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shiitake, unlike most mushrooms, do so naturally

unfortunately, that is one drawback to mushroom cultivation, but it's pretty hard to avoid.. you can grow some stuff decently well in 5 gallons, or plastic tubs, but in terms of space management this is tops

There is my friends in mexico have corn bags they use that

They’re biodegradable