Back in my country I harvest mushrooms under banana stalks and leaves on ground. They grow without sterilization. They usually grow when lightning is present at night. I hunt banana mushrooms the following morning and cook it by wrapping with banana leaves. It is so yummy
The typical mushroom growing howto focuses on indoor growing for the purpose of profit so there is a need for a LOT of high-quality, disease-free, pretty looking mushrooms. Getting this from mushrooms grown outdoors is difficult. Sure, the mushrooms in this video are edible, but you're going to have a hard time selling them for $10 a pound. You might be able to sell them for $5 a pound, and due to the low cost, that might work, but the harvest from this setup just isn't going to be much. Of course, if you just want mushrooms to cook with in your own home, this method would work great.
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken mass-produced things are usually cheap and these videos are probably for those who are interested in growing mushrooms as a hobby.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja perhaps the appearance of the mushrooms will be better looking after each harvest, because the gardener will try change small bits of the setup everytime and compare the result
@@NotSoCrazyNinja If you're selling mushrooms that aren't disease free then the government would probably shut you down for risking the publics health. Not that I think you mean human diseases of course but they'd notice it wasn't sterile and err on the side of caution.
Thank for this idea. I tried it but with two spent oyster mushroom blocks. After three flushes indoor, I placed one block in the middle of 6 inches thick soaked and un pasteurized straw. The other block I broke up and scattered around between layers in the same straw bed covered with landscape fabrics. After two weeks it started pinning again and again. I did this five months ago and up until this week in march, I'm still harvesting the biggest and heaviest mushrooms in every two to three weeks. Amazing that I never thought it would work with unpasteurized straws obviously I was wrong. However having a lot of rain helps I think.
I just started a bed the same way Today. I had a 2 gallon bucket that seemed spent. so I cracked it open and distributed it among a bed of straw on top of some cardboard. I used half a bale of straw. I chose the spot cause I saw some mushrooms growing there already ( they may have come from some grain that I toss there from my bucket project) I figure if it could grow there on it's own, it should grow mine with additional care from me. Wish me Luck.
@@carinecampier Poorly. It barely made one mushroom and then wheat grass and weeds just grew in the straw. then the cats started using it as a litter box! I don't know if it was because the spent mushroom spawn was weak or the straw was contaminated but it just rotted instead of the mycelium spreading. Oh, Well, That's what experiments are for. Success is NOT guaranteed.
love how easy you boiled it down to. all those videos about sterile technique and pasturizing straw/etc make it seem really tedious, but this is really appealing
Yesss! I have some spawns and don't have all these sterile gadgets...great for growing for sale though. But this is for 2 people and we're trying to get on that self sufficient trainn. Thanks a bunch for this vid 💯😘
Hi Tony, thanks to you and PGT - I AM A MYCOLOGIST! My question is as this is a few ago is this outdoor bed still fruiting? I assume the mushrooms drop plenty of spores there and you can top it up with extra grain spawn and fresh straw. Thanks to you or anyone else who replies :)
Well in order to make good videos like this you have to get paid somehow, this guy I totally agree seems like a nice non greedy guy and I wouldn't mind buying the spawn direct from his company
I have spent months researching into how to grow mushrooms after which we found a great website at gregs mushroom grower (google it if you're interested)
@@brittanyainsworth9307 I recently started a business making mushroom logs. Also just successfully created a mushroom garden bed as well and got my first flush of blue Oysters. Amazing stuff
The guy from southwest mushrooms is pretty chill and honest, he tells you exactly to the degree how to do things. Doesn't try to hold on to every trick and every method to himself, even though he is a mushroom producer
Thank you! Today we used this video to make our first-ever mushroom bed. Just finished, and then watched again to make sure we had done it right. So easy, so much fun!
I'm planning on giving this a try once the weather begins to warm up a bit. I anticipate having a spent block I can use to start the bed by then. However, I think I'll use row covers rather than plastic sheeting to help with moisture and humidity control. The row covers will allow more oxygen through and won't cook the bed if some stray sunlight happens.
Just found your channel and watched about 4 or 5 of your videos. You've literally answered all of the questions I had about growing mushrooms in one afternoon ha. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge :)
again, you make it look easy. just before watching ur video I watched another one where he sterilized everything with alcohol at every step and then I see your dogs running in and out of your mushroom bed and I'm thinking - I like this way - way better!!
Years ago, I found some wild oysters growing on a log. I harvested them and used the tissue where the wood and mushroom meet, and simply diced it and added it to soaked and shredded egg carton. 6 months later, I have a mason jar full of spawn. Have been putting it back into logs, but maybe it's time I try this. I found the first batch on Japanese walnut and have also seen it here growing wild here on black willow. Wish I knew if they would work on black locust, we have tons of that. Thanks.
Amazing. I've got a spot at side of house doesn't get sun for 7 months of the year. Vegetables usually pretty poor. This straw idea might make this 2m x 0.5m really useful.
Love the video your guidance helped me allot I used mulched hardwood for my red caps and blue oysters. *Morels are popping up all around my yard so far 25+ and I live in the middle of the city in MN👍👍👍 sorry can't give my location :)
This is a great way to use spent blocks. The mushrooms you grow outdoors will probably not be good for restaurants and farmer's markets because of the odd shapes and insects, but they are great to eat while you sell the pretty ones.
really appreciate all the information you share, learning a lot. thankful you include the whole process in the video rather than ending it after set up
What if you keep adding straw or other 'food' after each flush? And what about making a bed border with logs--eventually they would get inoculated as well, right?
Bravo, Tony! Not needing to pasteurize the straw is a biggie. I would've suspected some kind of contamination and therefore not tried this technique. Grateful. Also, the cardboard put down first is a practical and efficient way to make a new weed-free future garden bed for shade loving plants and vegetables, so it's a win-win. All the spent straw turns into soil. It was also very insightful to watch a "partial failure"??? in this video, where half the bed was drier, and you made some adjustments, to get that side to fruit. Gratitude, Sensei!
Dude. I wanna do this like farmers do silage. Hell yes. The finished compost could be biodigested or used ruth stout style for potatoes garlic and onions.
Very interesting take on growing them effortlessly. I am thinking I will probably try one of those cheap greenhouses with plenty of micro aerating plastics to get fresh blocks started. Then to re-do them similar to this for additional harvest(s) out of them if possible. As many commenters mentioned, as long as you intending to eat them as opposed to selling them then doing this might be very good idea indeed.
Thank you for another helpful video! Can we use sawdust instead of straw? I can't find a source for organic straw and am concerned about pesticide use on non-organic straw.
I can’t wait to try this next year. I had always thought about doing something like this, but worried about the pasteurisation of the straw on a big scale. Your video more than proves that this could be a very worthy project, with minimal input 🍄🍄🍄😛
TY for your video. I have never had experience with mushrooms before. It has been a challenge but with the help of your videos, I WILL have the victory!!
I would love to try this. I really like mushrooms and i have never tried an oyster mushroom. And it might be worth getting a food dehydrator to preserve the extra.
Thanks for your informative video. I was told I can grow mushrooms outside as a winter crop. Is that true? I live in northern California, so there's no snow.....but it does get cold. 50s during the day. Mid 30s at night.
Awesome video! Thanks! I was surprised to learn that you can use grain spawn because I read that grains could be an issue with mice or birds or something.
I wonder if it would be possible to grow oysters in round haybales? I've got quite a few good bales left over from last year. Would flipping it on end, inoculating with grain spawn and soaking work?
Could sugar cane mulch be used instead of straw? In tropics we’re don’t have access to straw, only hay (Rhode Grass) which can be seedy, but we got lots of sugar cane and bales of mulch
Do you see a difference in yield between this and the straw log method? Video suggestion; how to make a spore print/spore seringe and how to properly store them.
jackson.wilmes put a mushroom with a broken veil that’s releasing spores on clean tin foil and put a glass or Petri dish on top of it and wait a few hours if nothing happens after 2-3 hours put a drop of water on the cap and wait longer although sooner or later you’ll develop purple brown spores on the tin foil and in a still air box or somewhere contaminant free and then you take a heat sterilized scalpel and scrape 1/4 of the spore print in 10ml of water (or however much your sterilized syringes fit) in a sterilized dish and suck it up a few times in a sterile syringe and make sure it has a slight purple tint to it and it’ll work really well also for storage a cool dark place works well make sure your syringes are capped and spore prints sealed well and folded multiple times to risk possible contamination’s in the fridge also works just make sure it doesn’t freeze and it’s sealed well
Super cool video! Heck... makes me feel like I could grow my own mushrooms... I love them haven't tried many diffrent species of them but I live in north Florida so moist is not a problem warmth isn't one either... and we can still have some what of a "winter" I'll have to give it a go thanks!! Keep up the great work
Is there a mushroom that can REALLY suck down the moisture? during the summer my AC dumps a lot of water outside the side of my house and I've been thinking about planting something over in that area to help soak up all the water.
I read in Paul Stamets' book that Oysters don't grow that great upwards, they prefer fruiting sideways, mimicking their growth from their natural habitat (trees) Great video though keep it up, love your stuff!
This looks like the way I want to try growing oyster mushrooms! I have a pearl oyster and a pink oyster mushroom grow kit and I've grown one round of mushrooms. I have several milk crates available and wheatgrass straw. Can I just crumble up the mushroom grow kits substrates and layer it with the wheatgrass straw, making a vertical garden? I figure the mushrooms would grow through the sides of the crates, through the holes. Is this a feasible idea?
I'm totally burned! when I cultivate obsession is sterility and dust hunting. Only an accomplished artist can take the straw with full hand, walk on the substrate with a dog, also very kind, and inoculate with grain in hand. I saw a violinist a few years ago who played easily with his instrument. In both cases, you can't see the years of work that have led them to perfection!
I live in a rural area of SE Arizona. It is hard for me to find straw in this area, but I do have Pine wood chips. Can I use them for growing oyster mushrooms? Also, since we only get a few days where it gets down to freezing, do you think I could put the oyster mushrooms outside or should I keep them inside to grow if I want to start them in the next month?
@@quinnrichards5969 hi can you please tell me how long it takes oister mushrooms to fully harvest, mine is almost 35 days and my mushrooms are very small, what am I doing wrong, please advice me Thankyou
Would you recommend making my own spawn for a garden bed or should I order it already steralized and ready to go? This is my first time growing mushrooms but I'm hoping i could sterilize the grain just as well on my own but maybe i should play it safe since I'm a noob.
I have these mushrooms growing in my garden inside my greenhouse. I didn’t expect it the raised garden bed soil just started growing them. I was looking how to get rid of them but am figuring out it’s ok. So now I need to figure out what kind they are they kinda look like grey purple
I was wondering if a person could put a darker plastic over the bed instead of clear? Also, if you let some of them go, will they drop re-spawn and continue to grow naturally?
Would orchard Grass work? I was also thinking about trying a mixture of brown rice boiled and then left slightly damp some vermiculite and orchard Grass I also have some pine chips do you think that would work
Je suis carrément brûlé! quand je cultive l'obsession est la stérilité et la chasse aux poussières. Seul un artiste accompli peut prendre la paille à pleine main, marcher sur le substrat avec un chien, très gentil aussi, et inoculer avec du grain à la main. J'ai vu il y a quelques années un violoniste qui jouait facilement avec son instrument. Dans les deux cas, on ne voit pas les années de travail qui les ont mené à la perfection!
Best way I promise get a plastic bag fill it with yesterdays news kitty litter and a handful of rabbit food mix in the spawn and you got yourself a grow bag!! Put like 6 holes in it and leave it at around 70 F. If you see it getting dryish spray a little with DI/ sterile water.Dont add too much rabbit food pr it will take forever to fruit just a handful. When it pins put a loose bag over it ( not too tight as to let some fresh air in!) super easy
No need to grow outdoors~ mine is growing here in my dorm room just fine have like hundreds of pins ALSO make sure its open to indirect light when it starts pinning!
I see some growers stressing about sterilizing straw or wood chips, I also see a lot of growers who make no mention of sterilization. What’s the deal with this?
My guess is that the former are creating an environment for optimum growth and speed of growth and thus also create the optimum environment for competing microbes to grow. If you take away all competition, the strongest will take over that much more easily. OTOH, out of doors has its own challenges, dry air, hot air, sunlight, UV, etc as well as so many different microbes competing for the same space such that not ONE is completely dominant all the time. Because Oyster is SO aggressive, giving it a bit of advantage in a field of many players still gives it a greater advantage due to it's nature. So it can out-compete other hungry microbes that want to feed on the substrate that may also be aggressive but need more specific environments to thrive. By using grain spawn, it's an Overwhelming wave of one type and will win by numbers.
Ditto what Metqa said. Also, many want to get into it in order to sell, and to sell they need to look nice and be free from contaminates. It's more efficient to grow in a sterile environment indoors for many, especially beginners, if planning to sell them.
Back in my country I harvest mushrooms under banana stalks and leaves on ground. They grow without sterilization. They usually grow when lightning is present at night. I hunt banana mushrooms the following morning and cook it by wrapping with banana leaves. It is so yummy
We call that pina isan here in cebu phils
This is the first mushroom upload I've seen where the harvest is greater than the expense.
Nice one!
The typical mushroom growing howto focuses on indoor growing for the purpose of profit so there is a need for a LOT of high-quality, disease-free, pretty looking mushrooms. Getting this from mushrooms grown outdoors is difficult. Sure, the mushrooms in this video are edible, but you're going to have a hard time selling them for $10 a pound. You might be able to sell them for $5 a pound, and due to the low cost, that might work, but the harvest from this setup just isn't going to be much. Of course, if you just want mushrooms to cook with in your own home, this method would work great.
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken mass-produced things are usually cheap and these videos are probably for those who are interested in growing mushrooms as a hobby.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja perhaps the appearance of the mushrooms will be better looking after each harvest, because the gardener will try change small bits of the setup everytime and compare the result
Materials (hay) could be refined But as a cost to FAE. Hay can scaffold but can it be fed? Oysters love paramecium.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja If you're selling mushrooms that aren't disease free then the government would probably shut you down for risking the publics health. Not that I think you mean human diseases of course but they'd notice it wasn't sterile and err on the side of caution.
Thank for this idea. I tried it but with two spent oyster mushroom blocks. After three flushes indoor, I placed one block in the middle of 6 inches thick soaked and un pasteurized straw. The other block I broke up and scattered around between layers in the same straw bed covered with landscape fabrics. After two weeks it started pinning again and again. I did this five months ago and up until this week in march, I'm still harvesting the biggest and heaviest mushrooms in every two to three weeks. Amazing that I never thought it would work with unpasteurized straws obviously I was wrong. However having a lot of rain helps I think.
MyChilepepper Did you continue to add fresh straw to keep it going?
I just started a bed the same way Today. I had a 2 gallon bucket that seemed spent. so I cracked it open and distributed it among a bed of straw on top of some cardboard. I used half a bale of straw. I chose the spot cause I saw some mushrooms growing there already ( they may have come from some grain that I toss there from my bucket project) I figure if it could grow there on it's own, it should grow mine with additional care from me. Wish me Luck.
How was the yield? Better or inferior to the ones grown in bags?
@@Metqa so, how did it go?
@@carinecampier Poorly. It barely made one mushroom and then wheat grass and weeds just grew in the straw. then the cats started using it as a litter box! I don't know if it was because the spent mushroom spawn was weak or the straw was contaminated but it just rotted instead of the mycelium spreading. Oh, Well, That's what experiments are for. Success is NOT guaranteed.
love how easy you boiled it down to. all those videos about sterile technique and pasturizing straw/etc make it seem really tedious, but this is really appealing
E L indeed.
Yesss! I have some spawns and don't have all these sterile gadgets...great for growing for sale though. But this is for 2 people and we're trying to get on that self sufficient trainn. Thanks a bunch for this vid 💯😘
@@jor2833 did u learn to develop those spawns here?
@@mohammadamir4486 - I bought them on amazon and this is my first time trying it out🤗. So I hope it goez well
Jo R how’d it go?? Interested in a update
Hi Tony, thanks to you and PGT - I AM A MYCOLOGIST!
My question is as this is a few ago is this outdoor bed still fruiting?
I assume the mushrooms drop plenty of spores there and you can top it up with extra grain spawn and fresh straw.
Thanks to you or anyone else who replies :)
Oyster mushrooms are super easy to dehydrate & they rehydrate beautifully!!
Somehow you don't come across as smug and greedy and oozy as the rest of youtube food growers. It is always calming to watch you.
Well in order to make good videos like this you have to get paid somehow, this guy I totally agree seems like a nice non greedy guy and I wouldn't mind buying the spawn direct from his company
@@nati1025 you can easily make this video on your phone and some experience editing. He's just an honest nice guy.
I have spent months researching into how to grow mushrooms after which we found a great website at gregs mushroom grower (google it if you're interested)
@@brittanyainsworth9307 I recently started a business making mushroom logs. Also just successfully created a mushroom garden bed as well and got my first flush of blue Oysters. Amazing stuff
The guy from southwest mushrooms is pretty chill and honest, he tells you exactly to the degree how to do things. Doesn't try to hold on to every trick and every method to himself, even though he is a mushroom producer
Thank you! Today we used this video to make our first-ever mushroom bed. Just finished, and then watched again to make sure we had done it right. So easy, so much fun!
I'm planning on giving this a try once the weather begins to warm up a bit. I anticipate having a spent block I can use to start the bed by then. However, I think I'll use row covers rather than plastic sheeting to help with moisture and humidity control. The row covers will allow more oxygen through and won't cook the bed if some stray sunlight happens.
I am actually thinking about using a TINY greenhouse like that for that exact reason. More air circulation while keeping humidity in.
Just found your channel and watched about 4 or 5 of your videos. You've literally answered all of the questions I had about growing mushrooms in one afternoon ha. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge :)
again, you make it look easy. just before watching ur video I watched another one where he sterilized everything with alcohol at every step and then I see your dogs running in and out of your mushroom bed and I'm thinking - I like this way - way better!!
oyster pins are the cutest
and you are the gayest
@@samwaldorf8777 and you are the rudest, congrats haha
They are cute 😍
Defiantly somebody I'd want to be friends with!
I’ve grown pink and blue oyster mushrooms they are so fun!
Years ago, I found some wild oysters growing on a log. I harvested them and used the tissue where the wood and mushroom meet, and simply diced it and added it to soaked and shredded egg carton. 6 months later, I have a mason jar full of spawn. Have been putting it back into logs, but maybe it's time I try this. I found the first batch on Japanese walnut and have also seen it here growing wild here on black willow. Wish I knew if they would work on black locust, we have tons of that. Thanks.
Thank you, I m still learning how to grow mushrooms in my garden
Amazing. I've got a spot at side of house doesn't get sun for 7 months of the year. Vegetables usually pretty poor.
This straw idea might make this 2m x 0.5m really useful.
this is more or less the beginning of a lasanga garden after it's finished you have some excellent compost to start some sweet potatoes
man this is so wholesome . I can't wait to have my own space so I can start doing this 💛💛💛
Love the video your guidance helped me allot I used mulched hardwood for my red caps and blue oysters. *Morels are popping up all around my yard so far 25+ and I live in the middle of the city in MN👍👍👍 sorry can't give my location :)
This is a great way to use spent blocks. The mushrooms you grow outdoors will probably not be good for restaurants and farmer's markets because of the odd shapes and insects, but they are great to eat while you sell the pretty ones.
really appreciate all the information you share, learning a lot. thankful you include the whole process in the video rather than ending it after set up
That's badass. You should start a blue oyster CULT..:")
jjonestowne hahaahaaa
and don't fear the reaper.
Joke needs more cowbell
Hello, do you have any videos about what to do with used/spent mushroom kit? I really don't know what to do with my used mushroom kits. Hahaha
What if you keep adding straw or other 'food' after each flush? And what about making a bed border with logs--eventually they would get inoculated as well, right?
Bravo, Tony! Not needing to pasteurize the straw is a biggie. I would've suspected some kind of contamination and therefore not tried this technique. Grateful. Also, the cardboard put down first is a practical and efficient way to make a new weed-free future garden bed for shade loving plants and vegetables, so it's a win-win. All the spent straw turns into soil. It was also very insightful to watch a "partial failure"??? in this video, where half the bed was drier, and you made some adjustments, to get that side to fruit. Gratitude, Sensei!
Dude. I wanna do this like farmers do silage. Hell yes. The finished compost could be biodigested or used ruth stout style for potatoes garlic and onions.
I like your show very simple instructions, not intimidating easy to follow,thank you.
I will use your video to get my mushroom patch going. Thank you! Great and simple video. Will update.
Very easy to understand,I have my kit that I order,crossed my finger it will be successful, thank you for easy instructions. 😊
Will those gnats eat poisonous mushrooms, or do they only eat ‘edible’ ones?
Very interesting take on growing them effortlessly. I am thinking I will probably try one of those cheap greenhouses with plenty of micro aerating plastics to get fresh blocks started. Then to re-do them similar to this for additional harvest(s) out of them if possible. As many commenters mentioned, as long as you intending to eat them as opposed to selling them then doing this might be very good idea indeed.
Thank you for another helpful video! Can we use sawdust instead of straw? I can't find a source for organic straw and am concerned about pesticide use on non-organic straw.
This is great, I have some space under some big old trees where nothing wants to grow.
Curious if you did this, and results, because I have the same kind of area
If your using cherry wood chips, would it take significantly longer to colonize and fruit?
I can’t wait to try this next year. I had always thought about doing something like this, but worried about the pasteurisation of the straw on a big scale. Your video more than proves that this could be a very worthy project, with minimal input 🍄🍄🍄😛
Hi are these going to come bak next summer ? I’m in zone 7b
Will the mushrooms grow back again next year as well as long as the environment doesn't change and it has the straw for food again?
TY for your video. I have never had experience with mushrooms before. It has been a challenge but with the help of your videos, I WILL have the victory!!
Love the Canadian representation! SOME day I will get to follow my passion to start growing mushrooms!
I would love to try this. I really like mushrooms and i have never tried an oyster mushroom. And it might be worth getting a food dehydrator to preserve the extra.
Thanks for your informative video. I was told I can grow mushrooms outside as a winter crop. Is that true? I live in northern California, so there's no snow.....but it does get cold. 50s during the day. Mid 30s at night.
This mate is good looking dang
Is it possible to grow several strains of oyster mushroom in one bed?
Awesome video! Thanks! I was surprised to learn that you can use grain spawn because I read that grains could be an issue with mice or birds or something.
I wonder if it would be possible to grow oysters in round haybales? I've got quite a few good bales left over from last year. Would flipping it on end, inoculating with grain spawn and soaking work?
Did you ever try it? Was wondering the same thing.
Could sugar cane mulch be used instead of straw? In tropics we’re don’t have access to straw, only hay (Rhode Grass) which can be seedy, but we got lots of sugar cane and bales of mulch
Do you see a difference in yield between this and the straw log method?
Video suggestion; how to make a spore print/spore seringe and how to properly store them.
jackson.wilmes put a mushroom with a broken veil that’s releasing spores on clean tin foil and put a glass or Petri dish on top of it and wait a few hours if nothing happens after 2-3 hours put a drop of water on the cap and wait longer although sooner or later you’ll develop purple brown spores on the tin foil and in a still air box or somewhere contaminant free and then you take a heat sterilized scalpel and scrape 1/4 of the spore print in 10ml of water (or however much your sterilized syringes fit) in a sterilized dish and suck it up a few times in a sterile syringe and make sure it has a slight purple tint to it and it’ll work really well also for storage a cool dark place works well make sure your syringes are capped and spore prints sealed well and folded multiple times to risk possible contamination’s in the fridge also works just make sure it doesn’t freeze and it’s sealed well
Can I using the sugarcane straw to grow mushrooms because I can not found the rice straw
i am planting/sowing? mushrooms today, Oyster mushrooms 🍄 i cant wait to have them grow!
Wow this method is interesting. I am planning to do such. thanks I found your channel. New friend here. Keep it up.
This is freaking awesome, u've motivated me to make a lab, but now also to make a bed for outside 😅 for them, for next year
Oh heck yeah!
Our mushrooms look fabulous. Will def order again. thank you.
Awesome!
That is so cool! Its been a while since i learned something new and made me wanna try!
awesome, ive been working on mine almost 2 years now
How much do you think using water from a local creek for watering would affect the bed?
Looks great! I think I would try soaking the straw in water before adding it to the bed.
Where I get a bag grade spand 5 tons garden Mushroom seeds ? Great video. I'm trying . 😀
Super cool video! Heck... makes me feel like I could grow my own mushrooms... I love them haven't tried many diffrent species of them but I live in north Florida so moist is not a problem warmth isn't one either... and we can still have some what of a "winter" I'll have to give it a go thanks!! Keep up the great work
Is there a mushroom that can REALLY suck down the moisture? during the summer my AC dumps a lot of water outside the side of my house and I've been thinking about planting something over in that area to help soak up all the water.
good idea with the plastic tarp to keep in the moisture! thanks
If you cover it with a tarp and add more straw next year, will the mushrooms regrow or do you need to add more substrate?
I read in Paul Stamets' book that Oysters don't grow that great upwards, they prefer fruiting sideways, mimicking their growth from their natural habitat (trees)
Great video though keep it up, love your stuff!
They do, but not as nicely like he showed in the video. They look more oddly shaped and not attractive if you plan to sell them
nice job,, simple and practical style,,, no more fruiting bag,,, thanks for sharing
Wonderful content. Been composting for 6 years now. / anxious to grow some veg
I was wondering if planting them near a wood structure is a bad idea since they eat wood. The best area in my property is near a shed.
This looks like the way I want to try growing oyster mushrooms! I have a pearl oyster and a pink oyster mushroom grow kit and I've grown one round of mushrooms.
I have several milk crates available and wheatgrass straw. Can I just crumble up the mushroom grow kits substrates and layer it with the wheatgrass straw, making a vertical garden?
I figure the mushrooms would grow through the sides of the crates, through the holes.
Is this a feasible idea?
Do your oysters come back the following year or do you need to purchase another batch of spawn?
From what I learned you'll get a few flushes then have to start over. You'll know once you stop getting pins.
From what I've read you can mix the old spawn with new material
@@thomaswalker1525 Thanks for your reply! :)
@@jacman1111 Great! Thanks for letting me know.
Don't harvest them all and let some shed their seed.
Lol, dog's are quite helpful
Thanks so much I am going to try this right away! This is a great way to try something new!
I'm totally burned! when I cultivate obsession is sterility and dust hunting. Only an accomplished artist can take the straw with full hand, walk on the substrate with a dog, also very kind, and inoculate with grain in hand.
I saw a violinist a few years ago who played easily with his instrument. In both cases, you can't see the years of work that have led them to perfection!
nah, oysters just grow wherever they want to grow
How come no stralization ?
Wao great video man... Do oysters have a particular favorable temperature wherein they can flourish? Thanks
I live in a rural area of SE Arizona. It is hard for me to find straw in this area, but I do have Pine wood chips. Can I use them for growing oyster mushrooms? Also, since we only get a few days where it gets down to freezing, do you think I could put the oyster mushrooms outside or should I keep them inside to grow if I want to start them in the next month?
You gave me an idea... Straw in cardboard boxes... Thank you!
Nice! Updates?
@@quinnrichards5969 nicely written, tasty one would say
@@quinnrichards5969 hi can you please tell me how long it takes oister mushrooms to fully harvest, mine is almost 35 days and my mushrooms are very small, what am I doing wrong, please advice me
Thankyou
That was really cool, thank you. I'm definitely trying this!
Would you recommend making my own spawn for a garden bed or should I order it already steralized and ready to go? This is my first time growing mushrooms but I'm hoping i could sterilize the grain just as well on my own but maybe i should play it safe since I'm a noob.
How much did it cost to do it?
Great to see a new well made video from you. What happened to your sawdust block tutorial? I was looking for it...
jean girardeau it should still be available, check out the channel. I know it was erranously removed for a week or so
Wine caps do great this way too.
I have access to plenty of coffee grounds. Can you use layers of coffee grounds in with the straw
Can you cover with woodchips?
you inoculate the straw with liquid culture or seed it with grain spawn
I just moved to a house with some shade. I think I'm start some king stropharia spawn.
If you keep adding straw to the bed will the oysters keep producing year after year like Wine Caps do?
Can you do other types of mushrooms with this method?
Absolutely yes :)
You can also grow paddy straw mushroom on the same method :)
I have these mushrooms growing in my garden inside my greenhouse. I didn’t expect it the raised garden bed soil just started growing them. I was looking how to get rid of them but am figuring out it’s ok. So now I need to figure out what kind they are they kinda look like grey purple
I was wondering if a person could put a darker plastic over the bed instead of clear? Also, if you let some of them go, will they drop re-spawn and continue to grow naturally?
Would orchard Grass work? I was also thinking about trying a mixture of brown rice boiled and then left slightly damp some vermiculite and orchard Grass I also have some pine chips do you think that would work
Could you fill a 5 gallon bucket with water mixed with spawn and soak the straw in that before putting it down? Might speed it up?
I live in Utah. What is the best time of season to start this? I'm thinking fall? Thanks for the videos🍄
Are you planning on adding wood chips after the fall for next spring or you going to stick with straw?
What is the theory on avoiding contamination? Is it because it is old enough to have an immune system? Does this work on Ps Cubes?
Can they survive cold winters, or do you have to add new spawn every year?
Can never find the answers to the most important questions in this stuff
Why did you choose to not pasteurize your straw this time?
I am about to start my first bed outside and wondering if pasteurization is necessary
Great video! Thanks for the content!
Je suis carrément brûlé! quand je cultive l'obsession est la stérilité et la chasse aux poussières. Seul un artiste accompli peut prendre la paille à pleine main, marcher sur le substrat avec un chien, très gentil aussi, et inoculer avec du grain à la main.
J'ai vu il y a quelques années un violoniste qui jouait facilement avec son instrument. Dans les deux cas, on ne voit pas les années de travail qui les ont mené à la perfection!
What state are you growing these outdoor mushrooms in? That's highly relevant because not all of us know where it can grow.
Alberta, Canada :)
He's Canadian eh!
The moment he said, dry oot instead of dry out, I knew he is Canadian.
Best way I promise get a plastic bag fill it with yesterdays news kitty litter and a handful of rabbit food mix in the spawn and you got yourself a grow bag!! Put like 6 holes in it and leave it at around 70 F. If you see it getting dryish spray a little with DI/ sterile water.Dont add too much rabbit food pr it will take forever to fruit just a handful. When it pins put a loose bag over it ( not too tight as to let some fresh air in!) super easy
No need to grow outdoors~ mine is growing here in my dorm room just fine have like hundreds of pins ALSO make sure its open to indirect light when it starts pinning!
Can I inoculate with a bag of some oysters I’ve had in fridge that are starting to go???
Where I can buy mushroom spawn
Thanks
I see some growers stressing about sterilizing straw or wood chips, I also see a lot of growers who make no mention of sterilization. What’s the deal with this?
My guess is that the former are creating an environment for optimum growth and speed of growth and thus also create the optimum environment for competing microbes to grow. If you take away all competition, the strongest will take over that much more easily. OTOH, out of doors has its own challenges, dry air, hot air, sunlight, UV, etc as well as so many different microbes competing for the same space such that not ONE is completely dominant all the time. Because Oyster is SO aggressive, giving it a bit of advantage in a field of many players still gives it a greater advantage due to it's nature. So it can out-compete other hungry microbes that want to feed on the substrate that may also be aggressive but need more specific environments to thrive. By using grain spawn, it's an Overwhelming wave of one type and will win by numbers.
Ditto what Metqa said. Also, many want to get into it in order to sell, and to sell they need to look nice and be free from contaminates. It's more efficient to grow in a sterile environment indoors for many, especially beginners, if planning to sell them.