I love how incredibly informative this was! You can tell they really do care about mushrooms and how to grow them. I really appreciate the use of an older crockpot. It definitely gave me vibes of the crockpot being thrifted to use specifically for wax, instead of going out and buying a brand new one. Better for our environment to thrift!🖤 I also appreciate how they mentioned to use the left over stump for mushroom growing, to kinda give back to the land for taking the tree.🖤 I’ve seen this company on my FB for YEARS and I’ve always wanted to buy from them, but now I REALLY appreciate them as a company 😊🖤. Thanks for the insightful video!🖤
That crockpot has been with us for many many years! We always recommend people try to find a dedicated wax one at their local thrift store. Cool that you’ve seen us on social media. Think you’ll grow some mushrooms soon?
@@jacquesinthegarden you’ve done a fantastic job a showing that in the video! Louis was FULL of knowledge and is a fantastic teacher! He knew when to slow things down and when to talk about the little details that really matter!🖤
@ I can tell! It totally looks like it’s from the 80s! 🖤 I’ve wanted to buy some of your product for YEARS but haven’t had the disposable income to do it 😭💔. Which sucks because my husband and I LOVE mushrooms and I love to garden 🤣🖤. When we get some disposable income y’all are definitely going to be the first purchase on my list 🤣🖤.
WOW, what an epic NorthSpore factory/farm tour, of such a low to hi-tech set up and awesome tutorial of log grows. A seriously impressive video. I'm jaw dropped at the scale of the NS operation. Mush Love from UK.
Glad you were impressed by the facility! We started as a tiny mushroom farm about a decade ago and bootstrapped the business to where it is now. We hope others are inspired to start their own mushroom grows or businesses! Do you grow mushrooms in the UK? There are some cool businesses that side of the pond
I heard they even have chicken of the woods spawn that can go into oak logs. I've always wanted to try that, but I don't have the proper equipment to sterilize the logs.
Nice! One of the coolest things about growing mushrooms on logs is how you can take mitigate waste from trimming or felling trees! Shiitake a great species to start with and looooove oak!
Love this video. I first learned about wine cap from your video Jacques and ordered oysters to grow. Now I got pink oyster, shitaki and lions mane liquid cultures from north spore and growing them out. My two favorite UA-cam channels doing a Mashup, awesome.
Watching that arborist was like watching an artist... His cuts dropped the tree into the thick branches, and he used them to hold the log while he cut it into pieces of a particular size without moving it. 🤯 3 cuts? The economy of motion was gorgeous. I love efficiency.
I'm so glad they're covering this because I absolutely love mushrooms. It's just been intimidating to grow them because I live in a sunny AND dry climate. Would love to try varieties I can't buy from the stores and also compare my homegrown ones from store bought.
Chicken of the Woods , my husband found a giant one growing on a tree on our property.Never had one, so we made sure it wasn't the poisonous look alike and ate it, for days, it was so big. It is so tasty and dense, you could seriously substitute it for any meal with crumbled or shredded meat and carnivores wouldn't know the difference 😜
I am SO excited to see you all doing this content. I love mushrooms like a hobbit. Costco had this pack of 6 types of mushrooms and I bought like 2 dozen packs and made multiple mushroom stews and froze them for the winter. I have tried to grow them before with kits from North Spore but nothing grew so I gave up. Probably bad spores, I don't know (the spores weren't from North Spore). I'd love to try again - trying to grow trumpets. I also ate Chantarelles recently, my new favorite, but from what I understand those can't be cultivated. They're SO good though. Morels too. So hard to find locally and I know they are not successful being grown domestically sadly!!
Love this! So proud to have this company in Maine! We love love love North Spore products! We have used the grow boxes to gift for Christmas, the supplements are great and have also used substrate to spread in the garden for wine caps! Best company!
I just LOVED this. I have been trying to grow winecaps here - but my "warm" season is just too short, I think. Also, pill bugs too rampant and eating the young pins before they can mature. That said - I haven't given up yet!
I have been buying from North Spore for years and always recommend them when people tell me they want to grow mushrooms. I really enjoyed the tour of the facility. Thanks!
This is one of my most favorite episodes you have done. I love North Spore and have been growing their fruiting blocks for a couple of years. Particularly the part of the tour where you inoculated the logs has gotten me over my fear of doing so and I look forward to next year’s growing season in zone 5b NY to get some wine caps in the garden. I hope there are more episodes to come from your trip to Maine, Jacques and hence more valuable knowledge for an advanced beginner like me. Cheers!
Loved this informative video. We are growing for the first time. Saw the North Spore add on FB. Trying shiitake in fresh cut oak logs. It took a while to drill all those holes, fill with plugs, and wax but will be fun to watch and hopefully harvest!
Thank you so much for the introduction to growing your own mushrooms! Just harvested our first blue oysters from north spore and followed recipe on their UA-cam videos. Had to fight my son for the last golden pieces. Jacques you’re amazing, thank you so much!
Wow! What an impressive and super clean facility! I knew this place was serious the moment you walked in because all the worker's outdoor shoes were sitting under a bench. My jaw dropped when I heard the autoclave also functioned as a clean room pass through. Super cool! Also - using a pipette to add substrate to the logs seems so innovative to me because I'd never think to use one outside of the lab.
I love hen of the woods😍! My friend makes a crispy vegan chicken pattie with them.Soooo delicious. I'm so jealous of you Jacques, but happy that you get to see all this and learn so you can give us tips. Happy gardening my peeps.
This was so interesting. I cannot even believe their facility. Amazing Jacques your face just lights up, listening to this guy. I can’t wait to see what you do in your garden.
That was a blast to watch... This seals the deal for me, I'll be buying some Wine Caps thru Epic Gardening in the weeks ahead. Have to prep the small shady part of my garden first tho'. Thanks Jacques and thanks to Louis as well; I really learned a lot. Cheers...
Excellent video, guys! I just want to recommend automatic watering with a soaker hose or something. We went through the trouble of inoculating a log and was difficult to keep it wet enough for it to colonize. I’m ready to try again with a better set up. 😃
This was awesome. Loved getting the knowledge. I was really intrigued by this. Keep it up. Would love to see a follow up down the road to see how those logs are doing.
Thanks for a fantastic and informative video! My husband and I learned a lot and found the whole process fascinating! Good luck with your mushrooms - looking forward to seeing what you end up doing!
That is an extremely helpful guide! ❤ was thinking for half are year to grow mushrooms on logs on my balcony but had too many unanswered questions in mind. This video answered ALL of them, thank you both!
Fantastic and informative. I'm in Oregon and I live a half mile from a mushroom farm. We get mushroom farm smells all summer! 😂 There is also a farm just a short distance from mine that grows black truffles on pre-innoculated oak trees.
Awe shoot, you were in my back yard and I missed ya☹. Last year, for the 1st. time, I bought from North Spore, my adult kids mushroom kits for Christmas, they loved them! I've been trying to save up so I can buy them a BoomRoom, Every week my daughter & (sometimes I ) end up spending a small fortune on fresh mushrooms at the Farmers market, it would be great if they could grow them consistently.
Best mushrooms are mycorrhizal. Like porcini, black trumpets, chanterelles, milk caps. You can actually buy trees with roots pre cultured with them now which is pretty cool. Curious if north spore gets into that
I was happy to learn Maple is a good candidate for shiitake inoculation. I just cut down a tree from between the houses and kept it for mushrooms but I think it might be too thin. It’s probably about 3 inches wide. I’m still going to try…
I purchased a Lion's Mane grow bag from one of the vendors at our local farmers market. The coolest room in our place is my bedroom. The vendor did not have instructions to hand out; but, he told me basically how to get them to grow. I cut a slit in the bag and put it in a 5 gallon bucket. I sprayed the inside of the bucket almost every day. By the end of two weeks, I was harvesting mushrooms.
Pro tip - beware of poison ivy if you are inoculating or moving mushroom logs in a shady wood. I got the worst case of poison ivy of my life doing this in shorts one summer.
Hey, I’m not sure if you guys are aware but I just got a short that I thought was from Epic Gardening but it was actually from this account called Your Future Garden. But it has videos with Eric in it.
What an informative video! When we cut down some of our oak branches and place them along our garden paths, mushrooms appear on the Oak logs over time.
This was so cool! I have a question regarding the logs. I’ve heard conflicting info about whether you should use brand new logs or older logs (specifically for oaks). I have live oaks surrounding my yard and they drop limbs all the time. Are those ok to use for maybe shiitakes? Sometimes they may drop because they are dying a bit.
You want to use freshly cut (or fallen) wood. The reason for this is that competitor fungi will also want to grow in that fresh oak wood. Cutting it or knowing that it has recently fallen means that it’s a blank slate ready for the species of mushroom that YOU want to grow. I wouldn’t use fallen wood that came down because of rot or being too old. Moisture content is also very important in your wood, if something fell because it was dead for a long time it will likely be too dry to grow edible mushrooms
@@NorthSpore this makes sense, thanks! I'm on my 3rd flush of your spray & grow lions mane right now. The spray & grows seem to love my laundry room and 3x a day spritzes. I'm in FL so it's humid here all the time, even inside 😂
The greatest thing about growing shiitakes on logs is that they produce for YEARS! Good rule of thumb is one year per inch of diameter of the log. I’ve seen logs produce for over a decade though. So imagine, one day of work and a decade possibly of harvests. We’re obviously huge evangelists for mushroom growing, but I honestly don’t know why it’s not more widespread!
@@margaret2222 yes, though I find lions mane less prolific when compared to oysters or shiitake. I always push shiitake for first time log growers because it’s so dang impressive. Another great starting point is using Wine Cap spawn and growing mushrooms in beds. I know Jacques is covering that in another video yet to release, but we have tons of information on mushroom bed growing too.
Great video. Very informative. I grew wine cap, lions mane and oyster this year. I have been wanting to grow shiitake and now I am going to. Do I wait until spring (Chicago zone 6)?
I love mushrooms and I love foraging and growing them, but I struggle to get blocks and kits to grow. There are just too many wild fungi species around, and the house is moldy and mildewy, and those end up competing with my cultivated mushrooms.
Great video. I need to grow mushrooms again. My climate pretty much always has high humidity and I've never had to do any spraying or special treatment. 😂. My garden and "wild" field are full of hundreds of different types of fungi, some edible. So I like the certainty of buying in ready made substrate. I highly doubt I could get anywhere on my old farmhouse property to be sterile enough to make clean substrate to grow up from cultures. But I have a perfect climate for mushrooms. I'm missing out when I don't grow them.
It’s not as hard as you may think to grow mushrooms or find suitable space for making your own substrates if that’s something that interests you. We sell a product called the NocBox that is a cheap, portable clean space. That said, using ready made spawn and growing mushrooms outdoors is a tried and true process
I have a question about growing mushrooms outside. What if unknown varieties/species start growing along with the species you started in the logs? I have a bunch of logs outside of my house, laying on the ground, that I use for bon fires. I have seen all sorts of different kind of mushrooms growing naturally out of them. Does inoculating the entire log like shown in the video keep other species from growing and taking over?
The reason you want to use fresh wood is to avoid there being any other competitor fungi present in the log. A fresh log inoculated with spawn is unlikely to grow other species of mushrooms though proper identification of your harvests is best practice!
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Love that Jacques kept the iconic hat on inside
He can't help himself
The hat is non-negotiable!
We wouldn’t let him in the building without wearing it 😉
And out of nowhere…NOW I WANT TO GROW MY OWN MUSHROOMS!!!
That's what we like to hear!
North Spore has "spray & grow" boxes that are really easy and a good way to start!
RIGHT? 🤸♀️ My enthusiasm has been renewed!!!!!
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I love how incredibly informative this was!
You can tell they really do care about mushrooms and how to grow them. I really appreciate the use of an older crockpot. It definitely gave me vibes of the crockpot being thrifted to use specifically for wax, instead of going out and buying a brand new one. Better for our environment to thrift!🖤
I also appreciate how they mentioned to use the left over stump for mushroom growing, to kinda give back to the land for taking the tree.🖤
I’ve seen this company on my FB for YEARS and I’ve always wanted to buy from them, but now I REALLY appreciate them as a company 😊🖤.
Thanks for the insightful video!🖤
They really do care about everything they do, it is something I really appreciated after visiting!
That crockpot has been with us for many many years! We always recommend people try to find a dedicated wax one at their local thrift store. Cool that you’ve seen us on social media. Think you’ll grow some mushrooms soon?
@@jacquesinthegarden you’ve done a fantastic job a showing that in the video!
Louis was FULL of knowledge and is a fantastic teacher! He knew when to slow things down and when to talk about the little details that really matter!🖤
@ I can tell! It totally looks like it’s from the 80s! 🖤
I’ve wanted to buy some of your product for YEARS but haven’t had the disposable income to do it 😭💔. Which sucks because my husband and I LOVE mushrooms and I love to garden 🤣🖤.
When we get some disposable income y’all are definitely going to be the first purchase on my list 🤣🖤.
WOW, what an epic NorthSpore factory/farm tour, of such a low to hi-tech set up and awesome tutorial of log grows. A seriously impressive video. I'm jaw dropped at the scale of the NS operation. Mush Love from UK.
They're amazing!
Glad you were impressed by the facility! We started as a tiny mushroom farm about a decade ago and bootstrapped the business to where it is now. We hope others are inspired to start their own mushroom grows or businesses! Do you grow mushrooms in the UK? There are some cool businesses that side of the pond
Perfect timing: we just trimmed our biggest oak and have the logs ready. Plus, the CA rains are just starting. I need to order some plugs! 💚
That is going to make for some amazing mushroom stock!
I heard they even have chicken of the woods spawn that can go into oak logs. I've always wanted to try that, but I don't have the proper equipment to sterilize the logs.
Nice! One of the coolest things about growing mushrooms on logs is how you can take mitigate waste from trimming or felling trees! Shiitake a great species to start with and looooove oak!
Love the mushroom content, thanks for including it! Feels like it’s a very overlooked crop 😢
Love North Spore. Currently growing lion's mane from them and will be setting up their grow bin pretty soon.
Thanks for the support! I hope the Boomr Bin setup works well for you. Reach out if you have any issues or questions! Enjoy your lions mane!
Love this video. I first learned about wine cap from your video Jacques and ordered oysters to grow. Now I got pink oyster, shitaki and lions mane liquid cultures from north spore and growing them out. My two favorite UA-cam channels doing a Mashup, awesome.
Watching that arborist was like watching an artist... His cuts dropped the tree into the thick branches, and he used them to hold the log while he cut it into pieces of a particular size without moving it. 🤯 3 cuts? The economy of motion was gorgeous. I love efficiency.
Genius
I'm so glad they're covering this because I absolutely love mushrooms. It's just been intimidating to grow them because I live in a sunny AND dry climate. Would love to try varieties I can't buy from the stores and also compare my homegrown ones from store bought.
I've had great success with wine cap and oyster mushrooms outdoors in my garden here in San Diego!
Chicken of the Woods , my husband found a giant one growing on a tree on our property.Never had one, so we made sure it wasn't the poisonous look alike and ate it, for days, it was so big.
It is so tasty and dense, you could seriously substitute it for any meal with crumbled or shredded meat and carnivores wouldn't know the difference 😜
…you seem vegan and so i don’t believe you
@@Paputsza thank you for your input
I am SO excited to see you all doing this content. I love mushrooms like a hobbit.
Costco had this pack of 6 types of mushrooms and I bought like 2 dozen packs and made multiple mushroom stews and froze them for the winter. I have tried to grow them before with kits from North Spore but nothing grew so I gave up. Probably bad spores, I don't know (the spores weren't from North Spore). I'd love to try again - trying to grow trumpets. I also ate Chantarelles recently, my new favorite, but from what I understand those can't be cultivated. They're SO good though. Morels too. So hard to find locally and I know they are not successful being grown domestically sadly!!
Give them a shot! We've had a lot of success with their kits
I think Morels are starting to be cultivated, it is still a challenge but people are working on it!
Thanks Jacques for going there and sharing. I've been wanting to grow lions mane but didn't know a reputable place to get it. Thank you
Love this! So proud to have this company in Maine! We love love love North Spore products! We have used the grow boxes to gift for Christmas, the supplements are great and have also used substrate to spread in the garden for wine caps! Best company!
Great video on mushroom farming. Love it. thanks Jacques!
It was truly my pleasure to learn it hands on!
I just LOVED this. I have been trying to grow winecaps here - but my "warm" season is just too short, I think. Also, pill bugs too rampant and eating the young pins before they can mature. That said - I haven't given up yet!
Ahh, the pests eating the pins is frustrating for sure! Hopefully you can outcompete them and get those tasty mushrooms!
I have been buying from North Spore for years and always recommend them when people tell me they want to grow mushrooms. I really enjoyed the tour of the facility. Thanks!
This is one of my most favorite episodes you have done. I love North Spore and have been growing their fruiting blocks for a couple of years. Particularly the part of the tour where you inoculated the logs has gotten me over my fear of doing so and I look forward to next year’s growing season in zone 5b NY to get some wine caps in the garden. I hope there are more episodes to come from your trip to Maine, Jacques and hence more valuable knowledge for an advanced beginner like me. Cheers!
Loved this informative video. We are growing for the first time. Saw the North Spore add on FB. Trying shiitake in fresh cut oak logs. It took a while to drill all those holes, fill with plugs, and wax but will be fun to watch and hopefully harvest!
You’ll have tons of shiitakes soon! Takes at least a year for colonization, but you’ll have years of mushrooms!
Thank you so much for the introduction to growing your own mushrooms! Just harvested our first blue oysters from north spore and followed recipe on their UA-cam videos. Had to fight my son for the last golden pieces. Jacques you’re amazing, thank you so much!
Wow! What an impressive and super clean facility! I knew this place was serious the moment you walked in because all the worker's outdoor shoes were sitting under a bench. My jaw dropped when I heard the autoclave also functioned as a clean room pass through. Super cool! Also - using a pipette to add substrate to the logs seems so innovative to me because I'd never think to use one outside of the lab.
This episode is of a bit of quality production. Great script and direction, more educational vs advertisement. Learned of many fungi farming terms.
Great video, very interesting and cool to see this business. You can see how passionate Louis is! The factory looks so clean and organised too. ❤
Like 315. I am gettting one of those humidifiers. Not to just grow mushrooms but I can use it with my shop. Thanks Jacques.
Of course!
I can’t wait to see the logs around the gardening beds fruiting!!!! here’s to next year!!!
I love this video . I didn’t realize there was so much science behind growing mushrooms. 🍄. I would love to see more videos of like this .
I love hen of the woods😍! My friend makes a crispy vegan chicken pattie with them.Soooo delicious. I'm so jealous of you Jacques, but happy that you get to see all this and learn so you can give us tips. Happy gardening my peeps.
Loved the mushroom guy, and I loved the video overall. Big time fan of mycology, and I hope to see more shroom content)
Awesome informative video. Was waiting for this to come out. Thank you Jacques!!!!
Glad you liked it! - Jacques
Wow!!!! Incredibly informative and amazing facility. Def will be ordering - many thanks for sharing the content 🍄🍄🍄
Our pleasure!
Very informative. Really looking forward for more videos about mushroom growing. Makes me want to try it . Thanks so much. Dave
You’re in walking distance to my house!! Hope you had fun in our little foodie state 😃💚
It's beautiful there!!!
I love North Spore. Harvested so many mushrooms from our logs this year. Especially Shiitake. Had so many to share ❤
Thanks for the support!
This is one of the MOST FUN videos yet, Jacques!!!!
So glad to learn about North Spore and gotta get my mini boomr box and some spawn!
I just got a grow kit from them, lion's mane ftw.
Lovely variety
This was so interesting. I cannot even believe their facility. Amazing Jacques your face just lights up, listening to this guy. I can’t wait to see what you do in your garden.
It was so much fun and every on the North Spore team was amazing to chat with! - Jacques
That was a blast to watch... This seals the deal for me, I'll be buying some Wine Caps thru Epic Gardening in the weeks ahead. Have to prep the small shady part of my garden first tho'. Thanks Jacques and thanks to Louis as well; I really learned a lot. Cheers...
Excellent video, guys! I just want to recommend automatic watering with a soaker hose or something. We went through the trouble of inoculating a log and was difficult to keep it wet enough for it to colonize. I’m ready to try again with a better set up. 😃
This was awesome. Loved getting the knowledge. I was really intrigued by this. Keep it up. Would love to see a follow up down the road to see how those logs are doing.
Wow that was so educational, North Spore is so Cool, I want to grow mushrooms, thank you!
Phenomenal content, more lile this!
Thanks and hopeful we will be making more like this!
I LOVE this! Thanks Jacque! Im a huge fan, and customer, of North Spore so was very excited to see this. It is so cool!!
I’ve been planning my mushroom harvest since I received a kit as a gift! Thanks for the info, will cut my logs this February!
Amazing! Wishing you great mushroom success! - Jacques
I'm so glad y'all did this. My temps are ALMOST cool enough to start my mushroom logs with my North Spore spawn plugs. Exciting!
This is how mushroom are made 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🗣️🔥
10:56 Lion's mane, Lion's mane, Lion's mane, and ... Lion's mane!
I am so excited about growing mushrooms next year. Thank you for this video! 😊
So educational and fun. Thanks for doing this video!I may try this in the future.
Thanks for a fantastic and informative video! My husband and I learned a lot and found the whole process fascinating! Good luck with your mushrooms - looking forward to seeing what you end up doing!
What a coincidence you went to north spore, i just received my first fruiting blocks from them a couple of days ago!
I hope you get some bountiful flushes! Reach out if you have any questions!
Wow. Seeing how the mushrooms are grown was such a TRIP!
Get it? Ok, I'll leaf now.
It was quite the TRIP!
@jacquesinthegarden 🤣🤣🤣
Great video Jacques
Thank you!
That is an extremely helpful guide! ❤ was thinking for half are year to grow mushrooms on logs on my balcony but had too many unanswered questions in mind. This video answered ALL of them, thank you both!
Fantastic and informative. I'm in Oregon and I live a half mile from a mushroom farm. We get mushroom farm smells all summer! 😂 There is also a farm just a short distance from mine that grows black truffles on pre-innoculated oak trees.
Awe shoot, you were in my back yard and I missed ya☹. Last year, for the 1st. time, I bought from North Spore, my adult kids mushroom kits for Christmas, they loved them! I've been trying to save up so I can buy them a BoomRoom, Every week my daughter & (sometimes I ) end up spending a small fortune on fresh mushrooms at the Farmers market, it would be great if they could grow them consistently.
Best mushrooms are mycorrhizal. Like porcini, black trumpets, chanterelles, milk caps. You can actually buy trees with roots pre cultured with them now which is pretty cool. Curious if north spore gets into that
Those oysters are beautiful.
I watched 12 min of the entire video and i'm already amazed and learned a lot so far. That's envious 👏🏻
Awesome video makes me want to grow mushrooms!! 🍄🍄
I was happy to learn Maple is a good candidate for shiitake inoculation. I just cut down a tree from between the houses and kept it for mushrooms but I think it might be too thin. It’s probably about 3 inches wide. I’m still going to try…
Great video! Growing mushrooms next year!
I purchased a Lion's Mane grow bag from one of the vendors at our local farmers market. The coolest room in our place is my bedroom. The vendor did not have instructions to hand out; but, he told me basically how to get them to grow. I cut a slit in the bag and put it in a 5 gallon bucket. I sprayed the inside of the bucket almost every day. By the end of two weeks, I was harvesting mushrooms.
Placing it in a bucket for humidity sounds like a great idea! - Jacques
This video was awesome, so informative! I’ve grown a few things from North Spore spawn successfully, and the Boomr Bin is on my wishlist 🙏🏻
So cool! We live in oaks & maples here in NC. Would love to try this. Great demonstration 👍 🍄🟫
I had to do a double take on the old crockpot because it looks identical to the one I have. It was from my granny, an old New Englander.
Pro tip - beware of poison ivy if you are inoculating or moving mushroom logs in a shady wood. I got the worst case of poison ivy of my life doing this in shorts one summer.
Props on the crock pot table is our oldie
Hey, I’m not sure if you guys are aware but I just got a short that I thought was from Epic Gardening but it was actually from this account called Your Future Garden. But it has videos with Eric in it.
Very informative and interesting. ❤
Loved this! I am making cream of mushroom soup for dinner tonight.♥🍄🥣
Oh my god!! I've been dying for a grow at home chicken of the woods!
What an informative video! When we cut down some of our oak branches and place them along our garden paths, mushrooms appear on the Oak logs over time.
Incredible!
Interesting story about mushrooms👍
Cool! Thanks!! 🌿
so you used brand new fresh cut logs in this video. do you not have to wait 2-4 after cutting for the log to fully die?
That was super fun 🍄
This is amazing!
Been waiting on this one! What an incredible video!!!
This was so cool! I have a question regarding the logs. I’ve heard conflicting info about whether you should use brand new logs or older logs (specifically for oaks). I have live oaks surrounding my yard and they drop limbs all the time. Are those ok to use for maybe shiitakes? Sometimes they may drop because they are dying a bit.
You want to use freshly cut (or fallen) wood. The reason for this is that competitor fungi will also want to grow in that fresh oak wood. Cutting it or knowing that it has recently fallen means that it’s a blank slate ready for the species of mushroom that YOU want to grow. I wouldn’t use fallen wood that came down because of rot or being too old. Moisture content is also very important in your wood, if something fell because it was dead for a long time it will likely be too dry to grow edible mushrooms
@@NorthSpore this makes sense, thanks! I'm on my 3rd flush of your spray & grow lions mane right now. The spray & grows seem to love my laundry room and 3x a day spritzes. I'm in FL so it's humid here all the time, even inside 😂
i had to cut down my old maple tree but the logs are much shorter. does it have to be 3 feet long?
Where did you get your birch wood chips for red wine mushrooms Jacques?
Loved the video! I have lots of logs from my avocado orchard. Is that hard enough for shiitakes?
Do the logs continue to produce fruit long term or do they just produce once and then are done?
The greatest thing about growing shiitakes on logs is that they produce for YEARS! Good rule of thumb is one year per inch of diameter of the log. I’ve seen logs produce for over a decade though. So imagine, one day of work and a decade possibly of harvests. We’re obviously huge evangelists for mushroom growing, but I honestly don’t know why it’s not more widespread!
@@NorthSpore Thank you. Would it work the same on logs for Oysters and Lions Mane?
@@margaret2222 yes, though I find lions mane less prolific when compared to oysters or shiitake. I always push shiitake for first time log growers because it’s so dang impressive. Another great starting point is using Wine Cap spawn and growing mushrooms in beds. I know Jacques is covering that in another video yet to release, but we have tons of information on mushroom bed growing too.
@@NorthSpore Thank you. I will check those out.
@Epic Gardening,hey Jacques- with all the holes drilled in the logs that resembles a giant Cheese Log from Deli Market sells,ha?.
It is a big ol swiss cheese log for sure!
Great video. Very informative. I grew wine cap, lions mane and oyster this year. I have been wanting to grow shiitake and now I am going to. Do I wait until spring (Chicago zone 6)?
I love mushrooms and I love foraging and growing them, but I struggle to get blocks and kits to grow. There are just too many wild fungi species around, and the house is moldy and mildewy, and those end up competing with my cultivated mushrooms.
Great video. I need to grow mushrooms again. My climate pretty much always has high humidity and I've never had to do any spraying or special treatment. 😂.
My garden and "wild" field are full of hundreds of different types of fungi, some edible. So I like the certainty of buying in ready made substrate. I highly doubt I could get anywhere on my old farmhouse property to be sterile enough to make clean substrate to grow up from cultures.
But I have a perfect climate for mushrooms. I'm missing out when I don't grow them.
It’s not as hard as you may think to grow mushrooms or find suitable space for making your own substrates if that’s something that interests you. We sell a product called the NocBox that is a cheap, portable clean space. That said, using ready made spawn and growing mushrooms outdoors is a tried and true process
Those pink oyster mushrooms look like coral
great video. learned allot, will be checking out NorthSpore
Just got my Lion’s mane kit.
those blocks once harvested would make great filler for raised garden beds
I ❤ Mushrooms!
Thanks for this.
Very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I totally want to do this..but where can I buy the logs from and is a discount code?
I have a question about growing mushrooms outside. What if unknown varieties/species start growing along with the species you started in the logs? I have a bunch of logs outside of my house, laying on the ground, that I use for bon fires. I have seen all sorts of different kind of mushrooms growing naturally out of them. Does inoculating the entire log like shown in the video keep other species from growing and taking over?
The reason you want to use fresh wood is to avoid there being any other competitor fungi present in the log. A fresh log inoculated with spawn is unlikely to grow other species of mushrooms though proper identification of your harvests is best practice!
Nice channel.
Bookmarked.
Could you cure sweet potatoes in the mini boom room thingy??
This was so interesting!
Where does the mycelium come from?