You were one of the first comments on this video and you followed up. I'm happy to offer you the 7 cultures man! Send me an email bcallow@wtfmushrooms.com
Mr. Callow, My name is John Coffman, me my wife and my four boys live In Inola Oklahoma. I want to start by saying Thank you for all the work you do on RU-vid. It is a great deed providing the information to others about your farm. Also congratulations on the subscription progress you do a great job and anyone with an interest in mushrooms amateur to Guru benefits from your channel in my opinion. With that said this Is my story. I started this myco journey around a year ago. While trying to adopt a food as medicine mentality. Last June I Read an article online about the medicinal properties of the Reishi that lead me to Paul Stamets after reading his books and many other articles I became very fascinated and intrigued with the mycelial organism and it’s necessary place in the biosphere, along with all the other curious knowledge I gained about what a mushroom actually is. This odd curiosity and fascination lead me to RU-vid, searching how to grow mushrooms. WTF, being my first choice on the list of videos. I watched every video you had up and really wanted to do what you are doing. Starting a Mushroom farm I Talked to my Wife about it then my Mom and my brother, some of the dudes at work. All of them looked at me like I was Nuts which basically made it even more interesting to me. After being crazy eye nodded at for a couple weeks of tossing the idea around. I just made up my mind this is what I’m going to do. I researched all the pricing for different buildings Or material, and all the supplies and equipment I needed took notes from you and others videos on RU-vid and decided to leave my welding job-(don’t worry I get a VA disability check I get paid to go to school and my wife works)- and utilize my Veterans education benefits to attend a trade college for heating ventilation and air conditioning being that climate control is key and basically the only thing I don’t have a fair amount of knowledge or skill construction wise is Electrical. And also after the technical part of the schooling I can continue in an AOS program which will give me a two year degree with the business management skills as well. I been enrolled in school since last august. I am basically committing twenty grand into staring this farm I’m going all in despite what everybody else thinks about it. What the fungus was a great source of inspiration for this decision so man from me too you I don’t know you but you are a great human being In my little notebook. Those cultures would be an honor for me to raise up and fruit out and a great learning tool for the future success of my Oklahoma based mushroom farm. And that’s the path I’m walking , Brian, take care my best to you and yours and thanks again man. JC
My twin sister and I are starting Mayshrooms in Clearwater, FL. We’ve struggled a lot in our lives and are now trying to start our dream business. After 10 years of medical issues we finally got diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, a fusing autoimmune disorder. My husband is a firefighter who works almost 30 hours of overtime a month. He’s always been supportive and understanding throughout my issues. So I can’t wait to take some weight off his shoulders.
I'm in Tampa, elderly retired. I've got a small place next to the fairgrounds. I'm getting my sister started first, then me. Maybe we can start communication so we organize our insanity s into a cooperative. I grew up on a farm, so I'm used to dirt. I'm just not a "technology guru". My background is water/ wastewater and ac/refrigeration. I'm really interested in lion's mane cultivation. Also wood ear. What are you interested in?
Awesome job Brian! I am working on getting my business off the ground and have very limited funds to purchase cultures and this giveaway would help me tremendously. You are my biggest inspiration that has kept me from giving up.
@@whatthefungus I am growing out of a four by four tent at the moment. I am working on a deal with local government to expand. I plan on doing one greenhouse for this spring at my in-laws house but I want to get into a building.
I'm 25 years old, I've lived in a tent at my friend's house, and you have inspired me to grow mushrooms. I first saw an interview with you and Curtis stone and it proved to me I didn't need to go to college to make a living. I've been on the shroomery and grown cubensis, but you proved to me I could take this experience and make a living off of it. My dad got married in summerland B.C. and I thought of you. I live in Spokane WA and I watch every video you put out.I really want to take your mentorship course. I found a partner and just recently finished building our clean room. I spent a few hours today shoveling just so I could get to it lol...I'm especially interested in Lion's Mane, even though it tends to fruit early, and strains of oyster mushrooms. I have only one culture and it's of lions mane; I would be extremely grateful for anything you could provide me to get my business of the floor. No matter what, I thank you for your channel because it has been a tremendous help to me. I hope to emulate you someday soon.
Hello, I want to thank you. Love watching you grow. We are a small farm in Suffolk, Virginia that started out a production livestock farm. The city came in and shut us down saying we were improperly zoned. We have had to transition to produce and looking to add mushrooms this year.
Way to go, 30K. Pick us for this amazing give away. My 8 year old daughter snd I have researched growing long enough. We have purchased equipment over the last year, and have a grasp on techniques. Her birthday is May 14.
my neurons would love it to get a brother colony of your lions mane, I havent found a viable strain here! Congrats on the 30K & thank you for sharing! Pz & love from Scotland. A young start up mushroom, aquaponic and microgreens urban farm. trying to get the people off the fish & chips... xD
@@whatthefungus it can't be worse than the local delicacy, a deep fried Mars bar. I haven't been able to taste lions mane yet, only way I could would be to win your competition. Have you tried it deep fried? Does it really taste similar to lobster? Or am I crazy
Brian. This may be amazing luck for me. I am currently putting together a 45 foot trailer for mushroom farming. I’ve wAtched your videos for over a year now. I am now taking the plunge. There aren’t too many mushroom farms here to my knowledge Sourcing everything has been a challenge. This would make my day and possibly my business.
Congratulations on the 30k! I know how much hard work you’ve put into the channel and the farm so rightly deserved. I’m lucky enough to have experienced the fruits of some of those cultures and I’m sure the lucky winner will do too!
Hello...i already told u who we are and our situación but im really happy to tell u that our grow finally its ready and finally have a name...Setas Pungentes..like i told u many time ago we are a seasonal mushroom farn in Barcelona/Spain and its a proud for us if we can work with your cultures and its the point that will make us different then all the others..and also work with your cultures here is almost like have a bit of WTF in Barcelona/Spain and that was amazing...we hope to deserve them and have the opportunity to start working with so top quality cultures....boom
Congrats Brian!!! You deserve it buddy! Thanks a million times a million for your content. My mushroom story started with tradd cotter, then to paul staments, then i found you threw curtis stone. Your content has helped me add a huge revenue stream to go right along with my vegetables. I really believe mushrooms are one of those amazing things that could change the world and yet so few people cultivate them and even less doing research. You have taken your passion and turned it into a profitable business. I love your model. I will continue to grow the mushroom part of my business and in the mean time use the profits to pay for my expensive hobby. Cheers!
We are still in the planning stages and should startup in a few months. I'm sitting here with one of my munchkins dosing on my lap while actually designing our new house and grow room on Minecraft. Yep, I drew it on paper and my daughter wanted to build it so she could visualize it. Thank you for all the info, it really helps!
Just got home from that 40 hour a week thing and wanted to follow up... So my plan is to start a small in home operation (approximately 200 square feet of dedicated grow room.) I want to concentrate on cultivating select choice edibles for personal consumption from locally collected specimens. It would be nice to also produce a little extra for small commercial endeavors, maybe a local chef or two. Taking your advice, I plan on a second business vector as well and that is to create "nests" so to speak in the native environments where permitted in order to facilitate a wild forage harvest. This I am hoping this will generate continued interest in my products by offering a "wild harvest" option. I am in a uniquely perfect environment for mycodiversity here in eastern Minnesota. Almost every day I can look at the 400+ foot tall bluffs and literally watch the clouds form out of the temperate hardwood forested hillsides. It's a magical place and one I feel deserves to be enriched in every way possible. There's more to say but this is a youtube post..... Thanks again for your courage to share your stories of success and less 😉. Your content is inspirational for us who are just getting ours toes wet for the first time in this awesome mycoverse. Be well.
From Algeria, Congrats for the 30k. You do great job with mushrooms, you & the other growers. Learned so much from you. I want to takeoff in the mushroom business but I still have doubts about the commercial side, Algerians still not having mushrooms on their tables. That would be a great jump-start for me if I will win these strains. Thanks man!
Congrats Brian on 30k, i just recently subscribed to you channel and I’m learning a lot of techniques that you have showed and really working on developing a technique that you have show. Building my clean room now and also building my air box with the instructions that you have given. Its really scientific about the way the mushroom grows and it would be really hard if I hadn’t found your channel. Keep up the good work and will soon hope to order your spawn.
Congrats on the 30K! I've been following you for almost the whole way! I've been experimenting with growing mushrooms as a side thing while I've been home from college (study in Horticulture) and find fungi one of the more interesting aspects of the field. I would tinker around with the strains to continue learning!
Hey Brian, congratulations for such a success! I'm very glad you created this channel, thank you for that. Since the first WTFungus video I watched - a interview with Curtis Stone - you guys have been a source of inspiration and learning in my journey. My adventure through mycology started in 2016 when I was visiting my father in Brazil. He had just retired after decades working as electric engineer and he was willing to move in the middle of nowhere in the mountains to get a more peaceful life. So, he bought a small plot and was proudly showing me the place. So, we were walking around and I was listening his plans to build a small house, a shed, a veggie garden and that he was planning to grow shiitake on some eucalyptus logs available in the area. I got really curious about the mushroom idea and he explained he wants to produce something that requires skill and technique -proper engineer - but also not physically demanding for someone over 60yo. When he finished the talk my mind was spinning. Somehow everything was making sense in my mind and I love what I just heard. I didn't sleep that night learning about mushrooms and by the morning I had a pretty rough idea how amazing was this culture and how much I have to study. A week later I got back to the UK - where I live - and I devoured all I could get my eyes on related to mushroom. I read everything about Paul Stamets, watched all his lectures and got fascinated about his work with Lion's Mane for Alzheimer & Turkey Tail for cancer. It then turned to be my goal: To help my father but also to grow mushrooms to make people better. A month later I found myself freezing in a tent, camping in a mushroom farm in Wales for a weekend work&learn kind of thing. However right at that time my daughter was born and - with just one of us working - I had to park the idea for a while. Unfortunately we lost a relative to Alzheimer 2 weeks ago. I felt really sad and a bit guilty for not being studying and growing mushrooms that could have helped somehow - not that I'm expecting to find the cure for Alzheimer, but if I help with 0.001% to assemble the puzzle to find its cure, I will feel immensely happy. So, I got back to it and I finally inoculated my first Turkey Tail Agar Dish this weekend in my flat in London. I know it sounds very nooby and naive, but every big dream has to start somewhere and this is a big one - at least in my mind. So, this is where I'm, this is my mycelium story. If you send me one of yours, I will proper study the specie, grow it and be a proud owner of a WTFungus mushroom and it will definitely be a symbol to carry on and never leave it behind. Keep the good work and soon we'll see a 100k celebration. Best, Alex Allmeida ps.: I'm happy to pay for the shipment.
Hey have you ever thought of teaming up with a chef to make some "cooking with mushrooms" content? I feel like that would be a great way to feature your product in a different light as well maybe reaching a broader audience for your channel. May also be a good way to create filler content for the channel when needed. I personally love cooking with mushrooms and would enjoy seeing some content with more of the end game side of things say like talking about the different flavors or suggested methods of cooking etc... I'm from Vernon and am new to the channel, I'm excited to come to the market this year and try the farms different varieties!
Hi Brian! My boyfriend who’s a big fan of yours and starting his mushroom 🍄 business would be super happy to get those for his birthday. Keep going with the videos, it’s really helpful! ✌🏽😊
Been a long time sub. Love the videos you take the time to put out. Keep up the great work. Thank you. Been doing some small scale growing for a few years now. Playing around with some wild local varieties. It is an addicting hobby. It would be great to grow some of your strains. Kind of fits right in with our organic grass finished beef and pasture raised hogs. It is always fun to talk with the big farmers around me about soil health. One of the first things I bring up is mushrooms. Very good conversation topic. They just look at me funny. Best of luck this coming season with the new strains. Thanks again for taking the time for the great quality vids. Shooting for 100000 now! The hard ones are out of the way.
Hi Brian, love the channel. We started our mushroom business May of last year. Started selling at our farmers markets, we were growing 20 to 3o pounds a week with good sucess. Since November of 18 we have been going after restaurants and have gotten several on board. We are growing for our current clients and for samples as we are always knocking on new doors. We currently use North Spore for our spawn, we are getting close to the 100 pounds a week threshold. We now want to start producing our own spawn. Not only to save some money but also to offer some varieties that NS does not offer. My wife and I have watched all your videos and modeled our business after you and Mossy Creek, "direct to chef". We have made many mistakes and were having trouble with mold and we watched one of your vids where you said you were cutting back on the soy to combat the same issue, we did the same and it worked. We are looking forward to more of your informative videos. Plus you have the best name WTF!
Keep it going i learn a lot from you. Our mushroom farm is on it way couple more months it would really be nice to win those for sure.i can not wait for the contruction to be over.
Congratulations!! and thanks for sharing your experience and your knowledge, I work as a chemist in an agricultural laboratory so I get all kinds of grains that are thrown away, so i wonder if you ever tried high grain content fruiting blocks? or whole grains fruiting blocks ? I started 3 months ago with fungi and I only have one strain that i clone from a market pleurotus.I use cheap PP bags, 50ml falcon centrifugue tube necks and for gas exchange three 5mm holes in the cap fitted whit acetate cigar filters Im now bluilding a drum substrate sterilizer fed with bioethanol that I get free. greetings from Argentina.
Hey Brian, My passion is mycology but was scared to take the plunge with the not so established market and the love/hate relationship with gourmet mushrooms in the southeast US, i found Curtis and started his market garden and the past 3 years it has been really rough establishing a following and client-tale but we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and profit. I also found you through Curtis and currently repairing a old tobacco pack-house to convert into a mushroom grow, we plan to run both small scale and to forward ourselves as a medicinal garden doing both mushrooms and plants! But ofc, one step at a time!
Love what you are doing Brian. I have been trying to get a start in growing mushrooms for just over two years now. I am trying to get something going on my small farm that no one else, locally, is doing. It's a retired poultry farm with large buildings sitting idle. Since Cancer took my wife 3 years ago, it is getting harder and harder to keep things floating on the wages of a line chef. Buying cultures is out of the question for me. My frige is full of grain spawn. My living room is full of bags colonizing. A portion of my basement is being built into a fruiting room as a climate controlled place to start. I built a small flow hood from a hepa filtered vacuum. I use a turkey roaster for a sterilizer. The process works but, I am having limited success as all my cultures are from spore prints of mushrooms I have bought in the store or found wild. Proven to produce cultures could make all the difference.My farm is licensed through the Minnesota Department of Agriculture . I sell garden produce in two stores and 3 local farmers markets but, the growing season is too short to be sustainable. Each of these outlets are waiting for production of mushrooms. You could be the difference I have been looking for.Thank you for all you do and the information you share.
That's very generous of you. I have a goal of starting my own mushroom business, but I'm not there yet. Someone else could probably benefit more immediately from most of these than I could. However, my wife has a disease called gastroparesis. Due to the very promising potential of lion's mane to help with certain nerve issues, I'm looking to get a strain to cultivate. We live in California. Let me know if it's feasible to get a culture down this direction.
Hello all. I am a new-comber to growing mushrooms. meaning I have never grew mushrooms before. to be honest the real reason I have been interested in growing mushrooms is two fold. one i have been researching Co2 development for a green house. I really was looking at a total waste system that is non sustainable, several propane burners. i have used sugar and yeast in the past but it is a low producer. From what I am reading and viewing so far producing mushrooms for Co2 seems to fit my idea of growing my veggies. so one is to supply Co2. the other side is that now I have an additional product to take to the local market as well. i have been recently divorced and disabled. i am moving back to Michigan where I am from. I am looking to buy something cheap build my 16x48 greenhouse attached to my pole barn. in the pole barn will be the grow room for my mushrooms attached to that will be a mechanical room with an air exchange to accommodate both the veggies as well as the mushrooms, Seasons will be offset for much of the year as the green house side will be submerged five feet and deeper yet will be geothermal ducts to supply cool air in summer and warmer air in the winter. i still have some time to go before i close on my house but as soon as it is mine i will break ground . I am particularly interested in Lions mane, as i read it helps with neurological disorders such as I have. thanks and happy growing
Hey Brian, would love to get our hands on some of your best strains. Everything we've gotten thus far from you has been great even with our super hill billy set up that we get infections with. -Andrew
Love the channel, congrats to you for all your success! Would looooove some cultures, I’m a fungi geek! Thanks also for sharing your stories, has inspired so many of us to start our own mycology journey.
hard work has its reward, you are proof of it. Congratulations! About me I have nothing more to say, just that the mushrooms are my life and my life are the mushrooms, and I plan to use them to achieve my dreams in life, colonizing my ambitions as Armillaria on agar plate
@@whatthefungus continue learning everything I can about mushroom growing, help other growers, and someday work my farm. I'm really interested in learning different farming methods (not precisely the more efficient or high tech ones), so going to Southeast Asia to learn the methods they use there would be great
Hey brother. There are many ways that I could use just one of those plates. I just started my farm under 6 months ago, Mr. Mushroom LC, and classically, it's in my basement. At this point I'm totally grassroots. I mainly grow oyster varieties in the column system along with lions mane in sawdust. I've been wanting more variety but It's hard to find online or the price for cultures is very high and still there is a lack of variety or quality genetics. I've managed to get myself 2 restaurant buyers and have been heavily working the farmers markets. I have a large scale competitor who simply orders truckloads of spawn from a company and beats my wholesale price. Hopefully with a better variety of mushrooms and unique genetics, I can give more restaurants a reason to purchase from me. I admire the work you put into your farm and the fact that you are only seasonal is all the more awesome. Keep the videos coming. Even when they're not directly educational or applicable to what I'm doing, they're still inspirational. 🍄😊🍄
Great videos been watching your channel now for more than a year great content and music always interesting. Just retired and moved from SK to Nova Scotia and have been interested in market gardening mushrooms here in Tatamagouche area. Thanks your for videos.
Hey Brian, congrats with 30k subscribers! im just started to build my lab and its defiantly not me who needs to win :))) Thank you for adding videos i got a lot of good ides and good understanding what, how, when and so on. Keep promoting videos!! thank you.
Loving the channel, thank you all so much for all the generous video content, Brian and team. As a half Canadian, English guy, I'm hoping to start a mushroom grow here in the UK, but we are no where near ready for culture yet! I will hopefully purchase some from you guys in the future :-) I wish you guys all the very best and hope 2019 is even better than 2018! Go WTF!!!
Hello again, Brian! Thank you for all you do for the community. Anytime I wear your shirt I get MANY comments and great conversations and have encourage newcomers to check out your channel as well as TR's and FreshCap's channels. I have some shiitake logs with improving success and ready to work on cloning and cultivating in bags. I would appreciate any of the strains that you could provide but I'm sure anyone who receives them is well deserving. Cheers!
Been watching for ~18 months. Just realized I had not subscribed. I was 29,999! Thank you for the great educational videos. As I type I am wearing a WTF shirt and hear the lovely rattle of my pressure cooker.
Really enjoy your channel. I'm in the beginning phase of cultivating. I've only grown Cordyceps militaris so far but am in the process of building a small fruiting room for other edibles/medicinals. My culture library is kinda small, only an oyster I cloned, blewitt from a friend, and I'm working on a few others from dried specimens I collected.
Hi Brian, Thanks again for sharing knowledge and cultures, they only strain I'm missing is Lion's mane, I start to give some extract to my family and that Mushroom is fantastic. I'm looking at practicing and developing my extraction technique and would love to get lots of fresh Mushrooms. I have some bags, pressure cooker, HVAC, looking to get a Flow hood and I'm ready for my next adventure. Let me know how I can get that strain. Congrats for the 30k subscriber's Cheers!
Hey! I sure would appreciate a culture! I have been inspired by your channel and really want start growing some fungus! I do some farmers marketing. Mostly veggies and soap and think that mushrooms would be a great and potentially profitable addition to my small business:) thanks for your consideration
Hello! I live in morocco 🇲🇦 and culture selling websites like aloha medicinals or bvbb mycelia don't ship their products to my country so i only collect wild mushrooms and i clone new tissue from them but not much variability .so if its possible to get some unique mushroom cultures i will with all admiration ask for confederation to get the prize 🙌 because it really is some of the strain selling sites are asking for 200 EUR per petri wich is very expensive for someone like me who lives north africa thank you! ✨✨✨✨✨And Thank you for the videos .
