I've heard the name "masters mix" mentioned so many times on other mushroom growing channels. I had no idea you invented and coined the name until this video got recommended to me by RU-vid!
Damn what a fuckin ' legend. Once everyone is growing gourmets, this recipe is gonna be known far and wide. Within the mushroom growing community, this mix is very, very well-known. Respect and mushlove.
Came here from Tony and Tegan's (FreshCap Mushrooms) vid, where he explained about your mix. Kudos!!! And then I see another mushroom farmer who's videos I also watch (What The Fungus with Brian and Faith) is in the comments. Stoked. Thank you Sir, we really appreciate you and all of your trials, and are very thankful that you choose to share it.
I can not believe how you share your precious know how about growing mushrooms. So valuable gift for humanity :) It would be great to make a video about how you mix the masters mix. The mixing method, total weight of bags or any other parameters that i can not even imagine :) A honest thank you in advance.
I'm currently in the middle of corn & soybean country. I wish they weren't all GMOs sprayed with weed killers. Thanks for sharing your mix and videos!!
Now this will really make you blush... i am in Australia and have just got into mycology, i bought some substrate for my first grow as i didn't have a pressure cooker at that point, so i bought some from ebay, thinking that the type i am growing likes a hardwood substrate i went with that, when it arrived you can guess what the label said on it... yep... masters mix haha. I don't know if it contained soy bean hulls, it looked just like dark saw dust (i am a carpenter) but i thought you would laugh at that 😂
Hello, I am also from Missouri and cotton is definitely grown here. The bootheel is actually a very important cotton growing region in the US and one of the major crops down there in our highest yielding area in the entire state
I was meaning not to the extent of real cotton producing states. There is no real cotton industry that would support oil mills. Which is where you get cotton seed hulls.
@Earth Angel Mushrooms ... would using softened water in substrate be a big no no? I feel like the sodium would mess things up from growing. what about non softened well water with a high nitrate content? .. mycelia will feed on nitrates but so will bacteria. .. thanks in advance and super thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Hey T.R. love your channel. I have a quick question. What's the ratio you recommend interms of spawn to substrate? I'm doing 4lbs of spawn to 100lbs dry weight of substrate. It works for me but I know it could be contributing to the time it takes to fruit and my contam levels. What do you think is best? Growing oyster btw
Straw is definitely a mess. I haven’t used it in more than 10 years yet. I still get yelled at about it because it still showing up in my sisters car. I switched over to brown rice hulls it’s amazing.
I grow mostly for myself and I tried straw because my friend gave me a few cubic feet. I was using sterilized hwfp and bran only since I started. It was a f****** mess trying to do it in my apartment with hydrated lime. I couldn't figure out how to dry it and I ended up dumping it in the bath tub to dry. It's also extremely filthy and I have little wheat plants sprouting in the bags. Somehow I managed not to contaminate all my bags and buckets despite the filth. Almost two weeks later it's still everywhere even after vacuuming it several times. My cats always tracking it into the bed. Also for the longest time I was wondering what was in this masters mix stuff people kept talking about. I've been meaning to get myself some soybean hulls for the longest. After my straw experience I'm sticking with my HWFP and sterilized bran bags.
What else do you grow on this? I'm mostly interested in species that conventionally do best on supplemented sawdust -- black poplar, lion's mane, king oyster. I will definitely give this a try with Calocybe indica when it warms up.
Hello there! I've got question to you maestro , which way is better to hang bags or to put them on shelves ? I want to start my journey with mushrooms . I have around 26-29 m2 room for this and I don't know which way to do it . Thank you!
I'm having difficulty finding soybean hulls in my area unless I buy by the ton however wheat bran is easily available. would this be a suitable replacement and should I change the ratios?
Hi TR, I'm just getting into this stuff, can I just "cook" the sawdust and soybean in the pressure cooker along with water for 30 mins at 15psi? Wouldn't that sterilize the substrate better? Then dry off the substrate till it has required moisture for bagging?
Hello, one question, accualy 2. I am from Slovenia and it is realy hard to get soybean hulls in our county. can i use wheat instead or any other? We have a sawmill at home, so i have a lot of fresh beach sawdust. but i am a bit confused to use volume or weigt %. or i need to dry sawdust that i can get equal ammount of sawdust and soybean hulls (or wheat if possible)
Hello, I am from Iran. In Iran, there is soybean meal that has 45% protein. The soybean pellet that you use has a lower percentage of protein, and of course your soybeans have higher fiber. Do you think it is suitable for the 50.50 formula?
I am starting to experiment with mushrooms in West Africa oysters, lion's mane, shitake and button (on decomp. manure and straw). We don't have oak sawdust for one, so I am trying other tropical timbers. Also we don't have soy hulls/bran. I am trying out millet and sorghum bran and will try a "master's mix" with millet bran and eucalyptus sawdust. Any ideas or support would be greatly appreciated!
Great vid man! I wanted to ask you if you’ve ever done any data on ph? I’ve read that optimal ph for mycelium growth is from 5.0-6.5.ph .. one could adjust neutral water very easily to achieve different levels of ph.
Do you know if the use of soy hulls can transmit the thyroid issues that soy can cause through to the mushrooms? Thanks for the informative video. I really appreciate it.
Ive watched a lot of sites now and have not had this question answered---instead of all the bags where you get a few mushrooms from a hole here and there, and the nutrients are used up; after a few growths---why not just have long open 3 inch deep flat trays so that fruit can grow on every inch of it?? And cant you spray fertilizer on the substrate to keep it viable and let some mature shrooms stay there and keep dropping sores on it?
Haha! Great video! Theres a saying - the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Looks to me like that big mouth of yours paid off with the name "master mix". I'd say well deserved. Sweet operation you've got going on. Peace and love from Luton, UK
ICopiedJohnOswald softwood is pretty trashy. Phoenix oyster likes it as well as reishi and some others. You can try it. There’s nothing in softwood that would kill mycelium outright, they just don’t like it.
Hey TR, I just started growing on sawdust and bran a couple months ago with a presto p.c.and want to up my production without having to use more energy and or buying a huge barrel steamer. Aloha medicinals has done tests on straw, chopped vs whole, and different ways of pasteuizing. They say that chopped straw pasteurized with wood ash gives the best B.E. and cheapest way for a farmer to grow. Have you seen this info they have put out? I'm wanting give it a go but you and Myers and Jewell all say blocks are way better. Can you give any more clarification on this? It seems a lot of people say oysters do awesome on straw. Thx man, just trying to make sense of all this before I commit to one way or the other
Earth Angel Mushrooms Why yes you did, you said it was messy and it didn't grow well. That's why I'm asking YOU, in particular about it because it goes against other wisdom that says straw is excellent for oysters. Since you did so much experimenting with "masters mix" to perfect it I assumed you did some experimenting on different methods with straw. I haven't seen anyone put out a video comparing sawdust vs straw. Just people promoting either side. I get the messy aspect for you it just "seems" to me that it would be so much cheaper to do straw pasteurized with lime, because you cut out the cost of so much big equipment to where the only extra cost for straw is the added spawn since it's used as a higher rate. I don't expect you to write a book on here about it. Maybe a good idea for making a video. Or maybe I don't make any sense lol
There is absolutely no comparison in regards to the economics of straw compared to sawdust and soybean hulls.... yield alone destroys straw, then there is the space savings. The list goes on and on.
