Since we got a gardening thread now it seems only right to get ourselves a mushroom thread.https://blogs.cornell.edu/learning/how-to-grow-mushrooms-a-beginners-guide/https://www.almanac.com/plant/mushroomshttps://northspore.com/pages/mushroom-growing-guidesWhat are you growing?What are you trying to grow? How do you avoid contamination?
I have been thinking of using cargo containers as makeshift mushroom farms by installing a solar powered HVAC system and hydronicsJust something basic like oyster mushrooms.
>>2994330Would be a pretty good time. Just gotta have really good circulation.
>>2994330You will almost never regret buying a shipping container if its cheap. I got one for like 4 grand and it is one of my top all time purchases. I would live in a fortress made of shipping containers if I had my way.
How do you guys deal with energy loss in the system?They need fresh air so obviously you vent to the outside and then replace the lost air by sucking in new air. However if there is a large temperature difference you need to heat/cool the fresh air. As an added problem there will be a huge dampness loss and you have to rehumidify the new air. So what can i do to avoid this energy trap? Obv a heat exchanger would be viable but imo they are only viable after a certain size of growroom. And venting towards the inside is also possible but i would like to avoid that for health and smell reasons.Thaughts?Lions mane is my fav but i also like oyster for mass and would like to forage and cultivate some "exotic" ones for variety.
It's been years since my last monotub grow. I've been successful with some beginner varieties, while not so much with the expert sorts.Growing mushrooms is tricky.
>>2994352it sounds too good to be true, doesn't it rust or something?
>>2994463looks good.theyre complicated all the way up until you find yourself suddenly overflowing with too many of them.
Is plugging logs in a shady part of my lawn sufficient to get started with this? Wondering what to do with all the dead trees.
>>2994302I get loads of coffee grounds are they any use? I’d kinda like to grow mushrooms, but like as in not getting a full now hobby and investing lots of hours and money but as in ‘put the coffee grounds in x and add y’Is that possible or should I not bother?
>>2994719Button mushrooms absolutely fucking love coffee grounds.Definitely would recommend.>>2994634Yes that's possible.
>>2994462Shotgun Fruiting Chambers allow the fungus to respirate while retaining moisture. Unmodified monotub Tek is even simpler by simply flipping the lid upside down. The moisture differential is enough to force air currents.
>>2994634I'm new to mushroom griwing, but everything I've read says you don't want to use a tree that's been down for more than 4 weeks or so otherwise it's probably already infected with some other fungus.(Also want to wait 2 weeks from it going down before inoculation, so that the tree's own defenses don't prevent inoculation.)>>2994302Logs are a very slow method of cultivation, so I haven't gotten a chance to see results yet. Really hoping my logs really will fruit for ~5 years like the guides say.I've got a few acres of maples trees. Mushroom cultivation is my new use for branches/trees brought down by storms.
>>2994302This is my first set of logs.>>2995147Ive got Blue Oyster, Lions Mane, Nameko, and Shitake growing here.
Fucking love Golden Teachers.
>>2995151Fungus is almost certainly already on those bitches.
>>2994719>as in ‘put the coffee grounds in x and add y’ You can buy mushroom grow kits that are literally this
>>2995140NTA but I am also interested in this. I have an arrangement where I get 1 - 4 kg coffee grounds per working day. These are quickly overrun by other types of mold, some green, others are orange. Do I have to heat treat the grounds first, or will it work if I quickly mix it with button mushroom mycelia?
>>2994302>Since we got a gardening thread now it seems only right to get ourselves a mushroom thread.Correct. And we have a FAQ from earlier such threads:https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki//myco/_-_FAQ
>>2995296There's cheapshit handheld vacuum sealers out there nowadays. If you can seal the grounds ASAP the material is going to be clean enough for the button mushrooms to outcompete what's already in.Sterility is always preferable but not strictly required.
>>2995414>outcompeteSo if I mix one part freshly used coffee grounds with 2 parts myco saturated substrate, will that work? Or can I get by with 1:1 and just stir the mix together?Oddly, around here I cannot get button mushroom kits, just oyster mushroom and lion's mane kits.
>>2995230very based
Can we talk about magic mushrooms here or nah?
>>2996188We already are
>>2996188It is a rather open secret that most myco DIY guides are written with an eye for psychedelic shrooms.
>>2996352Well, since we are, I would like to ask a few things. I have absolutely zero knowledge on these things. That being said I live on a farm and see a few growing here and there. (Pic related) I would like to know which ones are good and possibly how to prep them?
>>2995238What do you mean?They're all cut from a live tree split in half during a wind storm. I got them cut up and innoculated 2-3 weeks after the storm.
>>2996462Can't tell if that's the right one, but if it is, just eat it raw. You'll need some 10g wet for a good buzz.
>>2996359Yeah most edible shrooms are either significantly less or significantly more demanding than cubes.Though on that note I'm still not entirely sure why wood loving shrooms didn't take over.The sterility demands of coprophilous fungus are *fucked* all things considered.Meanwhile a shockingly low amount of things can chew on cellulose so pasteurization rather than pressure Sterilisation is more than sufficient.
>>2996462just buy spore syringes and grow your own, collect the spores when they open their film.
>>2994719I salvaged a few pieces of oyster spawn from my first attempt at growing on hay that got 3 different mold contaminants. Put them in a small tub of stale coffee grounds and the fuckers started colonising it beautifully in a day somehow. No sign of the mold coming back yet, shit might as well be magic.
I have some grain spawn that I started but don't really want to go through the trouble of making bulk tubs.I see people burying spent tubs in their yard and getting more flushes. Can I bury the spawn itself and get flushes or does it need to have been spawned to bulk first?I live next to a police officer, will he know what I'm doing if I bury a jar of white grain or a tub of colonized coir?
i know this is not exactly on topic but does anybody know a real effective no bs method of getting rid of mold in bathrooms?? internet gives me conflicting info. some say bleach, some say no bleach actually vinegar, some say not vinegar hydrogen peroxide etc.what's the true way to get rid of that shit? (without hiring professionals ofc, i don't think there's even anyone who does that in my area)
>>2998340>I see people burying spent tubs in their yard and getting more flushes. Can I bury the spawn itself and get flushes or does it need to have been spawned to bulk first?unironically you can put mycellium anywhere and it'll probably find a way if the environment enables itwhen I did tubs I would dump them in the shade in the yard after harvesting 3 flushes or so. i'd still get stuff for awhile. nowhere near as much, but just kept going.>>2998340>I live next to a police officer, will he know what I'm doing if I bury a jar of white grain or a tub of colonized coir?loli presented magic mushrooms for my high school senior project, the judges were from the community including copsboomers don't know anything>>2998348treat cause, not symptoms. exhaust fan.
>>2998392>boomers don't know anythinghe's a 40 year old black guy with a blond wife and two pit bullsAnyway, I guess I could have just waited a few hours to make that post. I buried a jar of grain spawn a month and a half ago and by coincidence this morning, I found four mushrooms growing there. I think I'll just bury the rest of my spawn and forego any indoor growing.
>>2994352What about the asbestos and lead paint? If you live in the city the ordnance enforcement will give you a citation for junk.
What's a good gourmet species to start with? I've only grown the other kind (legally).
>>2999466Regular brown oysters are the best place to start. Oyster mushrooms are extremely aggressive colonizers so they are ready quickly and are less contamination prone. You can try pink oysters but those are a tropical species so you need more heat and humidity. Golden oysters are considered invasive in most places so don't grow those. Trumpet oysters are also easy but have a different growth habit. A big difference between growing cubes and anything else is that cubes are some of the most CO2-tolerant species, so prepare to increase your fresh air and humidity delivery. Wine caps are supposedly easy to grow outside and are very beneficial for the soil of your garden, if you have one. Add wine cap spawn under your mulch and you will eventually get random bonus harvests of wine caps among your plants.If you have the room for logs, Chicken of the Woods and shiitake are good choices. Pioppinos can be grown like cubes but I've never looked into them.
>>2999618Thanks for the suggestions. I'm in the middle of the desert so I dont think outdoor is an option for me. Actually makes it pretty easy to achieve high humidity because shit evaporates like crazy.
>>2999649There's a select few mushrooms that grow in the desert that you could try growing for the novelty of it, like Agaricus deserticola, if you can track down the genetics.
I wanna grow turkey tail but I'm focusing on gardening right now. Had a rough patch with my partner so that made me feel down and some of my plants died because of the head and lack of watering. Time to start again with what's left
>>2998396Outdoor growing can be incredibly rewarding if you feed the patch right.Look up charged biochar.Basically you soak charcoal in a highly concentrated nutrient solution (worm casting liquid for example) and add it to the soil.That helps the shrooms to grow into the location and constantly access moisture and minerals.
