5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Growing Mushrooms For A Living | GroCycle
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- Here are 5 of the main lessons I've learnt after more than a decade growing mushrooms for a living.
The 5 lessons are:
1) You don't need to grow mushrooms using sterile techniques (low tech methods work well)
2) It's easier to source your spawn from a supplier (instead of making it yourself)
3) Growing mushrooms is really labour intensive (start small and scale up once you know what is involved)
4) Selling food can be more difficult than growing it (focus as much time on selling your produce as you do growing it)
5) It's difficult to grow mushrooms as a full-time business (unless you incorporate value-added products like mushroom grow kits, workshops/courses, or charitable activities)
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It's very wholesome for a business owner to give away his knowledge to the general public. I appreciate your info. Hello from Australia.
Thankyou :-) glad you find it useful
Thanks for the video lad. From Byron Bay/ Australia.
Born in Brazil
@@GroCycleTV I'm just starting and I couldn't do it without people like you. I hope to do the same once I get my operation going! Thanks!
Yellow Mrs Potato head im headed there @ some point fer my UA-cam project
Yellow Mrs Potato head im going to interview the Aussies to make the world safer
Dude, without you realizing, you just changed many people's lives. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience. Life has a way of rewarding those who share selflessly. Much respect, from sunny South Africa
Hi fellow south african
Awe from SA. 🤙
Jody & Bronwyn
Hallo daar🙋. Which province, and are you growing 'shrooms ?
I love what you both had to say, "Life has a way of rewarding those who share selflessly." Thank you for putting this into words. I want to share these words with others. Much respect, from Fremont, California.
i like the name bronwyn..only ever met one girl named bronwyn...
So much better than a TED talk, more like a walk in the woods with an olde' friend ! Thanks a billion !
Others have stated this, but I'll say it again. It says a lot about your character that you're willing to share this information. Thank you
Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life. The drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit. it has also helped me to survive depression
Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again again but it’s just so hard to source out of there.
I was having this constant, unbearable anxiety because of university stress. Not until I came across dr.chris345, a very intelligent mycologist.He saved my life honestly
I’m feeling the same way too. I put too much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety level. I am so glad to be part of this community.
Is he on inSta?
Tripping is not really bad but find a good mycologist who will teach you the right things you need to know
This hit my heart. As a small scale producer of specialty fats, these lessons you share are pretty close to the same advice i would give to artisans no matter what they make. Know your customers and work backwards to your actual production needs. Don't assume scale is better. Reliable income can be small scale and gives more joy and less complications.
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"I started growing mushrooms around about 2007-" Sir that was the year I was born and now here I am trying to learn how to grow them because the first time I ate a mushroom it totally changed my life. Thank you so much for sharing this video.
I have no idea why some of the comments are so rude.
New mushroom lover subscribed.
Every mushroom grower looks so happy and calm..
Some types of vids always attract unusually negative comments. Example: you want to see negative and overly critical comments? Watch any video about how to build a deck or any other household addition. Ridiculous.
Some people are hurting so much they want others to and they don't even realize it.
People are just plain selfish rude
I have researched and found out that shrooms are very helpful , it has really helps to reduce anxiety and depression . I would love to try magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some , Is there any realiable source I can purchase one
I have been having constant and unbearable anxiety because of university.
dr.jeromespores is life saver. Thank you
dr.jeromespores
You can contact him on l G
Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once . Breathe . You're strong . You got this . Take it day by day .
@@lucasanthony5648 Does he ship?
I can’t believe I watched your 15-min. video having zero interest in growing mushroom; I do love eating them though. It’s nice of you to share your knowledge to the world. Thank you so much. I learned something today.
Everyone who buys a starter kit gets romantic notions of starting a farm. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
Mushrooms sent him down a rabbit hole. That's just what happened to me!
We're all mad down here 😉
I have to learn how to plant the mushrooms . can you please teach me how to grow the mushrooms? Thank you
@@angprobinsyanatv8461 did you ever begin
Yeah down we go….
gonna join u soon since i quit my job and ordered few hundred spawn bags olredy.. 😁😁
Wisdom is that thing you need to have in order to prevent the experience that gives it to you. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
With so much clutter full of sales pitches and advertorial driven focus, it is genuinely refreshing coming across HONEST information spoken from the heart that is both informative and helpful. When your workshops eventually open up and we can travel from Australia (yes, another Aussie commenting on here), I'm looking forward to one of your face to face workshops. I don't feel you put me off growing mushrooms, rather, you helped me have realistic expectations and thoughts to ponder :)
As someone considering pursuing mushroom farming for a living, thank you so much! Really invaluable knowledge.
@scott_fordd on instagram.he literally grows shrooms and refine DMTS professionally, sells ..he gets your orders discreetly delivered to any location
Did you eventually start the project?
did you do it?
You are a man of value....don't loose your grip champ......i am Botswana most importantly am on earth
#4 is my absolute biggest frustration with watching all of the 'grow' or 'ranch' videos. No one tells you how to get customers. Only how to grow, which I can learn pretty quickly. Thank you for acknowledging that.
There’s a lot of potential in psychedelics, I can’t wait to try any of them mushrooms specifically but it’s just so hard to find a reliable source over here, I’ll be glad if anyone can be of help
Magic mushrooms awoke my mind, expanded my thinking, opened my heart, Heald my psyche, & literally saved my life after 14years of torturous abuses.it truly began a transformation for me.God made 'em and God bless 'em🍄
One of the most peaceful experience I've ever had..I really need to get my hands on some DMT
@@JuicyLife3
DMT is Earth shattering, literally.even after over a dozen mushroom trips ,it does me up. It is EXTREMELY powerful. everything I experienced was good, but when returning to this life and the way we live,I have become very disheartened with everything
@Jeffrey Hart
pls how do I find him?
Is it on IG?
The Trips I've been having have really helped me a lot,I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
I've grown mushrooms on and off as a hobby over the years: indoors, outdoors - logs, strictly sterilised environments... more recently straw from the duck cage - it can be a crap shoot; varieties can be picky. I've dumped failed spawn at the edge of the woods and it took, when wouldn't do anything under all the indoor complexities. It's an adventure. Thanks for the video!
Tell me about it !!!!
Same here.
Sounds like a fun thing to try to be honest
@@georgeianta2088is
Your the man! I am on 5 acres in San Diego and I started a small farm last year. I couldn't sit still during the lockdown so I went outside to begin my journey. Now I am going to start growing mushrooms. As an owner and creator of multiple business, growing became the best thing I have ever done for myself. Thank you for breaking down your genre and blessing us with your knowledge and experiences on your mushroom journey. Knowledge must be shared, not horded and kept locked up. L L L Life Long Learning! Thank you for what you have done! Its Keeping it real 101! Rock it!!!
This is what being human is all about! Sharing knowledge and experience without fear. I respect you to the point that I subscribed on my first viewing 👌🏿 Excellent video
I'm about to buy my first mushroom kit. Last week: mild interest in mushrooms. This week: obsessed.
Thanks from Canada for this helpful information.
You make mushroom growers sexy buddy. >sheepish blush
@scott_fordd on instagram.he literally grows shrooms and refine DMTS professionally, sells ..he gets your orders discreetly delivered to any location
have to say, I was completely mesmerized by the woods, and their beauty.
sounds like a really good thing to add to a small farm. add it in
Thank you for taking the time out to give very valuable advice, My wife and I run a mushroom farm here in Thailand mainly different varieties big oyster mushrooms.
Number 4 advice we have managed to obtain many customers to sell too, best flush we had was 400 kilo in 36 hours, we did not get much sleep but we did manage too offload all the mushrooms we even had to go to a night market that started around 2am in the morning to sell the last lot.
It's good fun and hard work but we'll worth it.
Hi! im Valeria, from Chile, and im really interested in make my little store of oyster mushrooms. i have good space in my home, and i just downloaded your book, so im gonna study from there.
i really thankful for you to help people like this, teaching just to be helpful. thanks really
Extremely valuable REALISTIC wisdoms shared there and what a wonderful wild crop of Oysters to boot! Many thanks :) It's becoming more obvious the serious graft involved to upscale hobbyist side earnings, into a realistic business model and your video series have been invaluable, as per many other folks with such gems of knowledge.
As a designer of mushroom cultivation environmental conditions I agree with your comments about marketing. However, if you succeed in establishing the market the hobby turns into an all absorbing 24/7 beast where you are not allowed to make one error in the six week growth cycle (white mushrooms). To be able to supply mushrooms on a regular basis you need crops in all stages of production otherwise one week there just are no mushrooms to supply your customers.
You are also correct in buying spawn - to create and maintain sterile conditions is very, very difficult not only from the environmental aspects, but due to people management.
The main reason for sterilization of substrate is to ensure a consistent end product. It can be achieved by fermentation, autoclave or rinsing in hydrogen peroxide. Any sterilization process adds to the production cycle and therefore to the costs.
You are also correct about labour. The minding of the growing rooms temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide and air velocity during the various stages of the cycle is labour intensive. The picking and packing is also labour intensive. The often overseen problem of lots of labour in a growing room is that the room needs extra cleaning due to the intense occupation.
Commercial mushroom growing is an established venture. However, the smallest commercial farm I have seen growing white mushrooms have a capacity of 600 kg/week. Smaller is OK for speciality mushrooms like shittake, oysters and others. The market shrinks for specialities, but unfortunately the production cycle is still there as explained above.
This was amazing thank you. From USA 🇺🇸 Arizona. Home of the psychedelic 🍄.
Is AZ home of the psychedelic 🍄 ? I'm in the East Valley.
Thats a great dude right there, explains mushroom growing like no problem.
Thank you. I've been into gardening now for about 5 years. I've learned GOBS about gardening in those 5 years. Unfortunately, most of what I've learned, I learned the hard way. I just went out and tried things. I think I've made most of the common mistakes that gardeners make. Now, I want to grow mushrooms. I decided to learn about it from people like you first and hopefully avoid some of the common mistakes. I appreciate the information you shared.
Great comment :) I'm just starting out in gardening, knowing nothing. Starting out by growing sprouts in mason jars, and then going from there. :) Thank you for sharing your experience!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! These lessons are so useful.
Thank you for sharing this! ❤❤
Great video! Thank you so much for these tips, I love watching your stuff man!
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Mushrooms can be very profitable depending on where you live. I started up in Vietnam and Bali. Growing Oysyers and snails on small 1 acre lots. I found the best places were to upscale or medium upscale buffets. Especially to like these big fancy hotel buffets. They would pretty much buy everything. Plus labor is cheaper so I just watches the operation. Gave me more time to shake hands and take samples to smaller places with a chef I had hired to do demonstrations on the product.
Thank you for your honesty and tips 👍
Your a good guy, the world needs more people like you.
appreciate your honesty & genuine advice.
Awesome Information, love the honesty
Thx for sharing your experience.
Thank you for shearing your experiences and knowledge
Love this, thank you very much for all the useful information.
Thanks a lot. Very educational.
Thank you! Wonderful resources!
Thank you! What great insights😎
Very informative. A nice walk through the woods too.
Great video! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge !
Considering getting into the business and this was exactly what I needed to see! Thank you!
Some top class advice. Thanks, it has given me some things to think about.
Thank you very much. Your Free Ebook is a GREAT overview. I'm excited to get started.
It was insightful to stubble upon your video, thank you...
Thanks for your advice and especially for the walking tour of the countryside while you filmed - the area is beautiful!!
So nice to hear a completely honest, informative and interesting description of an enterprise! ---- Just as I always do; you are low key, no frills, no bullcrap and so open and giving with your info and help! ------I've often thought about growing mushrooms, but have no idea of how. I will shortly view your "how to e book" to learn more. Again thank you for your simple, sincere and "not-to-pad-your-pockets" , and just help others approach. i applaud you and wish all people could be as we both are! Keep up the great ways!
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. Just putting a summary for time pinched people. But I recommend watching the whole thing for full context.
1) You can grow in non-sterilized medium/substrate, done waste time on sterilization. Learn about pre-sterilized substrate like coffee grounds
2) Its easier to buy spawn/spores from a supplier rather than growing yourself
3) Growling Mushrooms at scale is really labor intensive, not like hobby growing. So start at lower scale 20kg/week and see if you can scale up
4) Selling food can be more difficult than growing it. Difficult to get a market so get buyers lined up before growing.
5) Its difficult to grow mushrooms as a full time business. Need to augment with other businesses like mushroom kits, courses etc
Thank you. This is so helpful and honest.
Thank you... this was sooo enlightening ...
So very kind of you to share your decade long knowledge. Greetings from Spain :)
Great information- I appreciate the share. I have also passed it on to other mushroom groups that I am a part of. I might end up doing your online course too.
Wow, thank you, exactly what I needed to know. Just starting out and readily appreciate the info 🙏🏼
Thanks for sharing your acquired knowledge. !!!
Thank you for this education.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience, hello from Estonia!
Watching this as my first kit is wrapping up, truly inspired to continue through into hobby level production.
Cheers 🍄
I love your honesty about your business, it’s so true what you say about going to big to quick.
Thanks for giving your experience!
Good advice. Many thanks
went from rainy to sunny in 10 minutes. welcome to UK. great content - subscribed :)
This is amazing. Thanks
Your online course has been a great foundation to build on - almost finished building my first mini farm and super excited to be starting, at last!
Also thank you for your detailed videos. Growing for my low income disabled neighbours is exactly why I'm doing this. 💜❤💜
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Thank you for sharing.🙂💜
Well done Sir, great info.
You're such a genuine and honest man. Great video! Loved every second. You Good Man! May God bless you more and more!
Thank you. Fantastic, honest information.
Great video Adam. Love the scenery in the background too.
Thanks Kandice, perfect time of year for a woodland walk!
Great info. Thank you for sharing your experiences and your knowledge.
Watched this with the biggest smile on my face - wonderful, thank you
I like and appreciate your advice and thoughts, keep the great work.
Thank you so much for your insight. very valuable.
You're videos are so good I end up going to 'like' multiple times. I actually started opening up your other videos just to press like, I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience.
Thank you so much for all your honest experience
Very informative. Thank you
Good info....thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing you knowledge and experience.
Thank you for sharing
How wonderful to share your knowledge, when everyone is selling every tiny thing they know. I'd buy from you first just because you care. Thank you!
May I just say that I am in total sync with you. Ok, I'm now 68 and you look a lot younger and have the opportunity (time wise) to achieve your goals. I was very impressed by your video, not just because you seem to have sorted your business out to a large degree), but because you have shared it with others, giving them a chance to judge for themselves whether to get involved in a venture such as this, whereas otherwise they would not have felt it possible to advance to the beginning. From personal experience, I spent most of my childhood on a farm, both horticultural and agricultural, and since about 40 years ago have been trying to get back into that lifestyle. As the years have passed, I have found that sheep run faster than me, as does my wife, digging has become more strenuous, and the prospect of farming has become more remote.
I now live on a busy main road which is a great opportunity for me to sell produce on the roadside. I would really like some more detailed advice as to how to produce mushrooms from scratch. If this is not available from you, then I can fully understand, and I wish you well with your endeavours. Warmest regards
Great video, thanks
Good experience sharing. Thanks and Regards
Great video, very helpful.
Thank you so much! I am a beginner and I really appreciate this
This video saved me hours of time each week. Thx x
One of the best, most informative videos I have ever seen on UA-cam. Thank you for your time and passion!
I wondered about the sterilization aspect because when mushrooms grow in nature there is no sterilization. Thanks :-)
yes, good question, this is something people often wonder about...in nature, there are also billions upon billions of mushrooms spores, only a few of which land in favourable conditions and outcompete other organisms and go on to grow to maturity. So when people first tried to master the cultivation of mushrooms they worked out you can make it much more reliable by sterilising the substrate to remove all competing organisms. It works well, but we found over time you can also make it work reliably in non-sterile or semi-sterile conditions as well. Check out our video on the history of mushroom cultivation if it's of interest: ua-cam.com/video/gt-_MmdKAVA/v-deo.html
@@GroCycleTV HA! So simple I should have realized it. Nature has numbers working for it. Thanks for the video link :-)
Wow! The sterilization part got me. I started cultivating mushrooms 7 days ago and it took me more money, energy and so much time to sterilize.
Thank you for enlightening us.
What exactly are the things that could prevent growth of the mushrooms after inoculating the spores?
@@GroCycleTV thanks - I would be worrying about other spores from dangerous, but similar looking mushrooms colonizing or is it the case that using spawn stage media in the substrate means that the head start it has, eliminates all possibility of spores of another type taking hold? More of a problem when creating your own spawn, I guess.
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Thanks for great share!
Sincerely appreciate the honest information sharing regarding to mushroom growing
Great tips and information.