Low-Tech Outdoor Oyster Mushroom Grow on Banana Leaf + Wood Ash Cold Bath
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Growing Oyster Mushrooms Outdoors in Hawaii using Banana Leaf Substrate and Wood Ash Cold Bath with NO fancy sterilization equipment. Normally Oyster Mushrooms are cultivated on Straw or Sawdust, here we use Banana Leaf which is readily available here in Hawaii or in any tropical location.
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Such a great video, man. This helped me so much. Mahalo nui! I
Yay!!!!
You look so innocent 😇😇😇
Yo thanks for sharing Wild Sherbet! We are on Kauai looking into creative ways to harness some oyster production on our small farm. Appreciate the tip!
Mixing with woodchips helps if you can get them!
Hey bro, great video. I love in Ecuador and have been looking for an abundant substrate. Here banana palms are everywhere, so I'm going to try your method and see how it goes. I make my own spawn though with Oysters bought from the store, I don't buy premade spawn...
I've been mixing woodchips and getting pretty good results
Great job man. This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing. I'm over in Maui and teach mushroom cultivation. We've been experimenting with different invasive species of trees, all log cultivation so far but we're wanting to incorporate more low-tech, off grid, bucket cultivation so this is perfect! Mahalo brah
We're super interested in using invasive species and log cultivation, the logs we tried all got covered in slugs so I think I might need to keep them under a dry space, it's so wet here. Any specific trees or mushroom strains you suggest trying out?? Mahalo!
Also we found mixing in woodchips 1:1 to help fruiting yields. Mainly guava and avo chips
@@wildsherbet7077 Hey, thanks for your reply. So far, we've had success with Shiitake on Eucalyptus, Oyster on Christmas Berry, and Shiitake on Grevillea robusta a.k.a. Silk Oak. We've also inoculated mango, guava, wattle, African tulip, gunpowder tree, and schefflera. We'll be trying your banana leaf method in our next class to show others how to do it except I think I'm going to boil the banana leaves in a metal trash can over a fire instead of cold pasteurization w/ wood ash. I'm still so stoked that you made this video and that it worked for you!!! Mahalo!
keeping it simple
@@wisconsinfarmer4742 gotta love the simple life!!! I'm sure there's all sorts of cool mushrooms in Wisconsin!!
You said you're the farthest from a sterile environment...are you kidding? You're 100 times better off out where you are. Your property is so natural and nice.
Mahalo! We are truly grateful and blessed
Very nice! I hear winecaps grow well with dragonfruit and....control the soil nematodes. If I saw you at Makuu or Hilo my wife and I would buy some.😃🌈🤙
Yes we are trying to grow winecaps now! They are colonized but no fruit yet. We stay near south point, but haven't really been selling any. Just for the ohana.
love it! Keep up the great videos
Mahalo!!
What oyster mushroom spawn did you use? I have grown a few different types of oysters in straw & coffee grounds. I used sterilized straw & grew in buckets (coffee grounds too) but I tried growing them in straw bales & they fruited but then other spores contaminated the bales and took over. I had success with wood chips I hauled all the way from Kamuela to South Kona where I live, they did well & had a lot of shrooms but they ate up all the substrate & died off. I have lots of bananas so I think that would be a great option. Also where did you get the spawn from. I bought from Mushroom Mountain sawdust spawn & may try again. Aloha
@starfisher87 this video we used blue oyster sawdust spawn from far west fungi. Due to ag regulations it's become harder to order spawn online. We have luckily found a local source here in Ka'u. Our favorite oyster has been the king pearl. Mermaid mushrooms is in kona and she supposedly has spawn, but we have had disappointment in our interactions with her. Volcano mushrooms sells sterile kits that can be used as spawn. Either way great to hear your growing! All those substrates sound great, we recently have been doing cane grasses with great success. South kona, depending on elevation, should be prime spot for oysters!!!
Did you use banana leaves exclusively or did you supplement it with other stuff? That's really cool man, I live in a tropical country as well and this could be very useful.
We used only banana in this video. since we have settled on a mix of woodchips, coffee and banana
Thanks for sharing! Love it :)
Glad you liked it!!
I too am living in Hawaii. I want to use banana leaves as well! Did you just put in a plastic bag tent?
We used the plastic draped over a ladder just as a wind block. Oysters like lots of fresh air.
@@wildsherbet7077 that's genius! I will try that too.
Hey there! Looking great! I need help! Haha... Mine colonized great in the water heater closet. But once I brought them outside, they have done nothing :( do yo have any great tips for me? I live on the big island, wet side in Kea'au. At first I had them out of the wind, covered, sprayed then every other day or so, but maybe they were in the direct sun :( ... Then after 3 weeks of nothing more happening, I put them in a thick bush of Buffalo grass... Still nothing. You think I've ruined them? Have any suggestions of saving them?
Sorry to hear, Kea'au should be good weather unless it was too warm summer time for the pins? Some types of oyster won't pin above 65 or 70. Also, always check for contamination, that will prevent fruiting.
@@wildsherbet7077 thank you! Yeah, they never pinned :(
Man tysm here on UA-cam is too much "gourmet" things i live in Brazil and survive with 300usd/mo i can't do everything those videos says
@DruggiePlays Yay!!! I wish you the best luck. Oysters are so easy!!
Yo dude I’m doing the same thing over in Kauai, same substrate but heat pasteurizing as there is a 40g drum on the farm I live at. What type of spawn was it that you used? Let’s chat brother! Mush love to you and the fam!
We have a friend that works at far west fungi in Santa Cruz, ca. I believe they were blue oyster sawdust spawn. Let us know how your grow is going? I've been adding woodchips and getting pretty good results.
Im on kauai too spawning my banana trunks this week
Hat is the wood ash from
i think i need to tr this cause here lot lot of banana and corn
Corn works even better!
Thanks for the video! Do you do this exclusively with dead banana leaves? Where do you source your wood ash from?
Currently the mix I have been using is woodchip/banana/sawdust approx 40/40/20. I have found that the woodchips give it some extra life. we burn fires here pretty regularly so we just use ash from the firepit, hydrated lime also works if you are unable to burn.
@@wildsherbet7077 thank you! Blessings!
Nice ! Do you think that wood ash cold bath would work on other substrates ? Like straw ? Did you mist at all ?
Definitely should work, was using banana instead of straw. I've gotten better yeilds supplementing with coffee grounds, but I don't have an excess of that. I misted heavily when they were pinning. Then once or twice a day while the fruits were getting bigger. It's really humid here so didn't really need to. Just keep them out of the wind/direct sun.
@@wildsherbet7077 do you pasteurize your coffee ground using steam?
@@cvictor8999 just use fresh coffee grounds after they are brewed, the brewing is the pasteurization
Did you get your mycelium from store bought oysters or is this a local strain? I live South Kona, Aloha.
We bought the spawn online, blue oyster. Would love to get some local strains going. found old oysters on our land once but never fresh ones to culture. I've seen pictures of oysters in hamakua 1 foot wide! Gotta find that one! Yea you should be good in south Kona, as long as you aren't too low on the hill. Lmk of you ever want to meet up, we're in kau.
@@wildsherbet7077 thanks, I'm at a thousand feet so the blue might grow here. Managed to get mycelium to grow in coffee grinds from store bought oysters but no luck fruiting. Much Aloha.
Definitely going to be on the lookout for those giant ones in Hamakua though!
Hello, mahalo nui for sharing this information! Do you know if using different mediums to grow the mushrooms will affect growth and/or taste? Any certain materials to forsure avoid or anything?
I'm not sure about taste, but using different substrates will definitely effect the amount of time it takes to spawn as well as overall size of fruits. from what we know, the more nutrition available in the substrate the bigger the yield, but also the higher the chance of contamination
@@wildsherbet7077 have you found a way to optimize between getting a good yield and avoiding contamination?
Do you need to wash it after soaking?
No just get it dry enough so that it doesn't drip.
@@ravilambmusic ok thanks bro I'll try it 🙂
Have fun guy!