Thank you for the video 🍄 I think we are going to try the second setup. This is a great homeschool project to keep our garden science going though the winter ❄️
yes thats a great way to use this project!!... the second setup is nice and it will require periodic involvement such as monitoring the humidity to tell when you have to "re-hydrate" the perlite and such... I'll make a video more on this method in the future
Hey Nate, we love your channel and all of the great content! Thank you! I just want to throw something interesting out there that some of your viewers may like. The light spectrum that you give your mushrooms will affect their color, growth, quality and yield. Generally, Bluer light will get you larger thicker caps and shorter stems and redder light will get you smaller caps and longer stems. Also adding UV light at the end of fruiting (last day or so), will increase the mushrooms vitamin D content substantially. I found this very interesting and had to share. I found a highly customizable LED light at a local saltwater fish tank store. You can customize what light spectrums you want and the intensity of each color, also the time the light will be on. The light cost a couple hundred dollars, so not for the beginner, but something fun to play around with once you get the basics down.
this is very interesting to me my friend thank you for sharing!!... I may try some experiments soon to test the results of this and we can see for ourselves!!...
@@gardenlikeaviking Awesome! glad I could give back. I have grown Snow Oysters and Lions Mane so far and have a block of Black Kings about to go under my new light and have gotten much larger harvests, I would guess about double the yield, I wish I weighed my early harvests. I found that they explode into growth under a bluer light and the mushrooms get very large. I wish I had more time to be more scientific in experimenting, but time seems to fly these days. Looking forward to learning more from you! unfortunately, I am going to miss your live today.
SUGGESTION: to make growing your own mushrooms even more economical, you can obtain the buckets FREE at your local bakery. Many of their ingredients come in large buckets and they are food grade. The large grocery stores are happy to give you their buckets. Also, restaurants are another source of free food grade buckets.
Brilliant Nate thanks again, I really like the bag over the bucket, I've watched lots of videos explaining the bucket method, I had questions about the humidity outside the bucket your bag has answered that, my biggest problem is the size of my house, no basement, 3 toilets so I'm using my downstairs toilet room for mushrooms as it's dark and got ventilation, bigger house on the to do list but not this side of the financial collapse.
Hi Nate, to drill cleaner holes in plastic, once the teeth in the hole saw have bitten into the plastic, set the drill on reverse. The resulting hole will come out much cleaner with fewer plastic burrs.
There is another RU-vidr, Greg Judy who is engaged in regenerative agricultural who use honey locust logs to grow shiitake mushrooms in bulk. I like this setup to do it on a small scale in my basement.
@@gardenlikeaviking Good point, I'll have to give some thought to how one could condense the water from the fungi air before moving it to the greenspace.
In the third set up are there any plants that could grow in those conditions to absorb the CO2 instead of the air extractor? My mushrooms kits did great with just a little misting so do I assume I have good conditions already or do mushroom kits function a little differently to the bucket method? Many thanks, Nate, looking forward to the next video :o)
yes the kit is a bit different than the buckets will be for sure... it also depends what your environment is like... whats the %humidity in your place?... and in order to successfully filter the CO2 the entire tent would have to be packed to the hilt with plants and even then there would not be sufficient air circulation so no that wouldn't work because we would have no room left for the buckets! lol
Just looked this up: Better Light Spectrums = Better Mushroom Growth The coolest spectrum around features 450 nm (blue) wavelengths and full-spectrum 6500K white light designed specifically for promoting the healthy development of mushrooms during incubation and fruiting cycles.
So on the first method I’m putting the mushroom inside the bucket on what? In a dish of something or just laying on bottom of bucket? How many holes in bucket and at what height please? Would do this for first round to see if I enjoy growing mushrooms . Thank you .
we have not gotten to that point yet in the video series... the buckets will be filled with straw and inoculated then they will grow out holes in the sides of the buckets... all of that will be explained in the next mushroom video
So far Utl organic straw closer than 4.5 hour drive. There is a lot of oak and some Hickory wood shavings and saw dust in these parts. Is it OK to use that instead?
it can yes but there's a much higher risk of it growing mold... the perlite is sterile and has no nutrients for the mold to grow on so its much more resilient to the mold
Having a circular fan for airflow will not yield the same results as a soft linear breeze. If you believe otherwise, think about outside. Plants are not used to circular airflow. They evolved with linear airflow. My firm has researched this extensively. Videos coming soon.
