Use hardwood sawdust pellets instead of straw, hydrate to 40-50% moisture, sterilize in a pressure cooker, add grain spawn when cooled. Straw is a terrible substrate, and lime is a terrible sterilization method. Not trying to be a dick, this is an outdated method of growing.
@@theCodyReeder go for it, sometimes I come across rude, or so I've been told! Lol, hope I didn't! Sometimes I forget the good ol days of exploring all the different aspects of this hobby. Such a good feeling when you finally get your first crop. Have fun man, cool channel too, this was the first video I saw from you.
I think part of the idea, is for it to eventually be a self contained system - Large, slow growing trees might not be on the table. I wonder what the best plant option is, when counting growth speed, ease of care, and substrate viability as factors.
@@mortenrl1946 well, the best yielding substrate mix for wood loving gourmets is actually 50% soybean hulls and 50% hardwood saw dust. I'm sure there's some plant that has a similar composition to hardwood trees that grows faster. the hobby is still relatively new in comparison to other forms of farming, there would be a lot of reading and testing to do, but I'm sure there's something.
@@jordanmercier3616 Interesting, thanks for replying! Soybeans seem like they could definitely be an option. It's hard to think of a good hardwood substitute.. Maybe bamboo, or even roses. Would need some sciencing to know for sure I guess.
This is barely scratching the surface with mushrooms 😊 You’d be amazed by some of their benefits to the world/nature. Try watching fantastic fungi on prime video 🤯
I love that Cody has been getting into mycology lately. I would like to add that it's not always "if" you get contamination its "when" because it's bound to happen sooner or later. Just part of the hobby.
I've always wondered, how do you know that it hasn't been contaminated with a toxic fungi? Can't small amounts of other fungi grow in or around the mushrooms and not be noticable?
@@rubiconnn After being in the hobby for a while you learn to notice what is good and possibly bad for your mycelium. There are tons of possible con-tams so it's a bit challenging to figure out what is threatening your grow. There is the method of Agar to grow out healthy mycelium and lots of info on the internet to help identify the unwanted growths if you have a microscope. You get to notice most things over time just by it's color,growing pattern and smell. I'm no expert in the hobby but do share what I've learned thus far. I hope I helped to some degree.
Not with oyster mushrooms. Contamination is very unusual and in this case my suspicion is anaerobic conditions. Hot water pasteurization is the best method for growing oysters on straw and I have grown hundreds of pounds without any contamination issues during colonization. Of course after a few flushes it is inevitable. Pleurotus sp. are bacteriophagous making them very easy to cultivate, especially in non-sterile conditions. Bonus, they are also nematophagous and I suspect their predatory capabilities are adaptations to the low nitrogen environment of their natural substrates.
The hole are NOT too small. I use 1/4" holes for my oyster bucket and I get mushrooms bunches the size of a volleyball from them. I use aspen wood chips (animal bedding) that I steam with about a cup of used coffee grounds per bucket. I don't soak them after they fully colonize the bucket, I just wait a week and they start to fruit. Then I wait another month and pour a couple of cups of water on the top and a week later I get a second fruiting. After that, I just stuff more wood chips and coffee into the middle of it and it starts up again.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me I used to use Aspen chips for my snake but I always had a problem with mold and mildew forming extremely quickly on them so I switched the coconut fiber which doesn't do that lol
@ I just have a large 12 buck stock pot from Walmart that I do a 5 gallon bucket's worth, at a time in. Once steamed, I put it straight into the sanitized bucket, after it cools down, with alternating layers of mycelium from old bucket and the new steamed stuff.
I had never really thought of mushrooms as something that interesting (except the fun ones) but I am really enjoying this series. That sucks about the maggots and the failed bucket.
I've been a mushroom picker (mostly the boring ones, that you put in your soups, sauces and near your meats) for most of my life, this series made me consider becoming a mushroom farmer. So far I've been gathering some mycology books on the matter and looking for some good indoor methods.
all life is interesting, the simple fact that complex organisms are able to exist in the vast cosmic randomness is astounding. the only problem is most people don't give them the attention they deserve. most people are scared of rats, but they're actually really cute when you see them up close. same with mushrooms and bees.
@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter haven't had much interaction with rats, but can confirm the other two have a sort of a natural beauty to them, something I feel we partly lose a connection to when living in the city.
I absolutely love the mushroom series! It’s cool too that you’ve found some wild ones on your outings. You’ve inspired me to look into yet another hobby. Thank you Cody for all you do, very inspiring!
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear pt
I just started growing my first batch of Lion's Mane mushroom in one-step grow bags. I love to see that you're getting into mycology from a much different direction.
Hey Cody, look up growing mushrooms with hydrogen peroxide. The mycellium is more resistant to it, than bacteria is, and will eventually break it down, so it doesn't accumulate in the mushrooms. PS: please upvote this comment so Cody sees this.
@@chaegibson720 I think the general idea of hydrogen peroxide, is that it allows you to be more lax with your sterile technique. You don't have to autoclave your substrate but can just steam it instead. Anything that survives the steaming, or later contaminates the substrate will then have it's growth severely inhibited by the hydrogen peroxide. Meanwhile the mycelium (which has a headstart on any contaminating fungi) colonizes the substrate, and out-compete contaminants. I have to add that I did not try this technique yet. My forays into mycology have so far resulted in partial failure due to lack of proper sterility. I read up on this as a sort of easy band-aid fix for a beginner like me.
I've been growing oyster mushrooms about a year like this, I think if you add more spawn it colonizes the buckets faster and you can "outrun" the contamination. I've also been adding near boiling water to the straw. Those maggots seem make their way into the mycelium, I gave up on fruiting buckets outside because of them. Great job on this series so far, those kings are looking good!
You can dry the mushrooms in as well. The maggots will go away, and you can then use the dried mushrooms to flavour foods - great for roast sauces and gravies.
@basil fawlty LSD is only semi synthetic my guy. Its synthesised from natural sources 🤷 P Cubensis mushrooms are fantastic but dont downplay Acid just because it isnt "natural" thats bullshit. Ive had some absolutely beautiful trips on both substances.
Thanks for the update, after seeing your first 2 videos it peaked my interest and i too started researching/growing. Well here we are.... i now have a climate/humidity controlled mini greenhouse and my first go of it I bought a bag of blue oyster mycelium and did the same bucket method. Pulled like 2-3 pounds off it. After that i bought spore syringes and am making my own mycelium jars. I plan to make some spore prints so I can make my own syringes and keep going. I switched over to bags/totes and have like 4 pink oyster bags on the way and a few totes of shiitake and portabella. Thanks for indirectly giving me a new hobby! Its incredibly enjoyable, especially since you literally can see progress over night. It is very gratifying.
I'd been interested in growing mushrooms since some time around 12-14ish years ago when I'd first looked into it. The process seemed difficult and expensive for a high school student and I never ended up trying it. After seeing your first(?) mushroom video a few months back I decided to get back into it and try growing my own! Doing some searching online, and it seemed Oysters are the easiest to grow, and there's an amazing idea of using bags of 90 second brown rice as pre-sterilized containers for starting a colony in. You just insert the syringe into the bag, squirt, and tape over the hole.. This week I finally got my spores in the mail and hopefully soon I'll have some delicious mushrooms too! (Though I doubt I'll have any 1lb ones!) Thanks for reintroducing me to a hobby I wish I'd tried when I was younger.
Eating the maggots is fine, it's just extra protein. Eating a mushroom that is almost entirely maggots is bad, not because of the maggots but because of the waste the maggots have produced. It's not toxic or anything, it'll just upset your stomach.
I would say it's fine to eat in a sustainable situation but if you are in a survival situation an ammonia stomach irritation can be pretty bad to deal with... Not that you're gonna find beautiful Oyster mushrooms like that so easily
As for the maggots just cut out the infested parts and the rest is perfectly fine. Or if you need saving every bit of the mushroom (and don't mind eating a bit of maggot droppings), soak the mushrooms in cold salty water before cooking. The bugs will float to the surface.
@@Spiralem mushrooms are already full of water, so I don't think so? maybe a slight exchange of saltines but I don't think they'd get any wetter. Like, look how much water comes out of mushrooms while frying and how much they shrink
@@Spiralem no, I don't think so. Can't swear for all mushroom types but fresh chanterelles or boletes are not very porous or sponge-like so I've never had any problems with them absorbing either water or saltiness
Look up "Back to the roots" grow your own oyster mushroom kit. $12 at Walmart for the small like $20 for a larger one. Very fun for kids to see the process.
I got a growing block at my local farmer's market for $10 because it was the end of the day and the guy wanted to clear stock. Look around, maybe contact any local farms
what i like about Cody's videos the most is that he is REAL and always shows his results, even when a failure has occurred he doesn't edit it out, he learns from his mistakes and also seems to have just as much fun with it as he does when something was successful, plus i like the science and experimentation :D
bro this is the beauty of Cody video, instead of end the video right after the preparation complete, he mostly give us the full video from start to finish, even tho sometimes it took him couple of week, month, even years,,,
One of my friends also grows mushrooms as a hobby and he keeps the substrate in clear containers, I find it very interesting because sometimes a little mushroom decides to fruit next to the plastic under the surface and the ones that do this always look very funky
The lime water also breaks down the cell walls in the straw, making it's nutrients more available to the fungus. It's the same process used in nixtamalization of maize (corn in the Americas). You wouldn't get tortillas or tamales or corn chips without nixtamalization, and vegetarians wouldn't get enough vitamin B12 from maize without nixtamalization. Very cool to see it being used here.
cody, the next time you get such a hughe mushroom, you should try to "clone " them, so after some generation you have your own "breed" of monster fungi
I think the whole mycelium has the same exact genome, it is one single organism. Cloning the big one or the smaller ones would make no difference, and the only reason it grew so big are the ambient conditions.
@@ZioStalin its kinda tricky with mushrooms. You can have multiple differnt phenotypes in one tub. So my explanation is that you have one mycelium, but different parts of the myclium has different genetics. But my experience is based on squared mushrooms. The only way to get one "monoculture" is through cloning.
Dude I’ve been bingeing your vids for awhile. I wish I had been with you for the journey. My wife and I REALLY enjoyed your nightshade stew video. It inspired us to start pressure cooking all kinds of things and we are filling our pantry. I’ve learned a vast amount of everyday thinking and execution processes from your videos, as well as a better understanding of chemistry and physics. You are an excellent teacher, and a treasure to anyone smart enough to see that. Cheers brother, and keep on crushing.
There are strains of oyster mushroom that can clean up oil spills, eat cigarette butts and accumulate dioxins. They can be trained to eat almost anything. Plastic is definitely on the cards! Check out the Mushrooms will Save the World video.
I had big success using the PF Tek method with crushed brown rice. After introducing spores, it was just a waiting game until it caked over. From there I put the caked over part into a high humidity chamber. Steaming all parts beforehand sterilizes well.
Whenever picking mushrooms from the forest, we always slice the mushrooms is small pieces and get all of the maggots out, I suggest that you do the same, slice each and every mushroom at least once.
When my Oysters start shitting spores everywhere, I need to leave the house. For some reason, Oyster mushroom spores in particular; really mess me up. Allergy horror.
This is interesting truly. You should pick your favorite variety and run a bunch of experiments things like different hole sizes and different mixes aswell as leaving them in different locations.
In the wild, they're usually breaking down wood or nitrogen fixing, straw is digestible by a much larger array of organisms. Not to mention the wild ones are mostly inedible
When picking boletus here in the UK there are almost always maggots in them. If you're really worried you can dry them in the oven first but they're usually pretty easy to get rid of and just come with the territory really.
Me: "never EVER have even thought about propagating a single mushroom in my entire life" UA-cam: Hey kid, wanna se some dude propagating mushrooms in a bucket? Me: hell yeah thats what im talking about
This is all very interesting, I personally do not eat any kind of mushroom, and very few vegetables (I hunt to eat), however I find cultivating and harvesting the non moving foods very interesting. I do have a couple of pear trees and do cultivate a few blueberry bushes but the harvest is mostly for my neighbors and family.
I felt bad for not being able to watch the last two videos as they came out. But nothing hits quite as nice as knowing I have two Cody'sLab videos to catch up on on my day off.
The one time I found some big beautiful oysters locally I brought them home and was all excited until I realized they had some sort of larvae infestation, guess it's best to avoid picking ones too close to the ground as bugs find them fast.
You'll almost always find maggots in wild fungus and soft fruits, and you usually never notice them. It's Nature doing its thing. They would not have harmed you, especially if cooked. Even the maggots poop would have been harmless, because it's just digested fungus, with very little bacteria in it, apart from what is already in the mushroom naturally.
Cody, you need to get yourself a 3/4 inch (19mm) countersink tool to use for deburring drilled holes. You do a fair bit of fabricating, and I think this simple tool would really help you out and save yourself from potential injury. You just chuck it up in your drill and lightly bump the hole while spinning it at half speed. It will clean up the hole and has much less risk than the pocket knife.
"slacked lime" Oh, Cody, there you go with your weird pronunciations again! XD It's "slaked", rhymes with "baked". This word is derived from the word slake's meaning of "to diminish in force, quench, extinguish; as in thirst or hunger" that was given around the 14th century from its other meaning, which in modern days is split off into the word "slack". "Slaked lime" is called that because it's quicklime produced by burning limestone that has been hydrated (which is where the connotation of "quenching its thirst" is being attributed to the inanimate mineral, since we humans love to personify things).
Nice! I had a lot of infection issues with my oysters too. I was using hay and I had to steam pasteurize it, along with using a lot of spawn, to prevent trichoderma infection.
I love watching your mushroom videos man. I loved your vacuum videos and your gardening with Cody videos oh you're serious I hope you get back to the chicken hole base soon
Cody, if you attempt this again, I highly recommend using a clear plastic tote with a snappable lid. I did a similar experiment but used rye grain and had great success. I didn't get any mushrooms near as big as yours, but my largest was about the size of my hand.
Mushrooms look like they'd absorb/dampen sound really well on their underside. I wonder if this confers an evolutionary advantage.. I know those ridges on the underside are structural and disperse the spores but usually such "accidental" attributes do explain some of the organism's success.
I did this last month with polytubing worked well for loads of mushrooms . Hung the poly tubing in my kitchen near a window they fruited very well... only to find out I don't like blue Oyster mushrooms..DOH ...but it was great watching them grow humongous.. I've got another 20metres of poly tubing so going to try another variety.
Use hardwood sawdust pellets instead of straw, hydrate to 40-50% moisture, sterilize in a pressure cooker, add grain spawn when cooled. Straw is a terrible substrate, and lime is a terrible sterilization method. Not trying to be a dick, this is an outdated method of growing.
Im trying all methods to see what works best for me. 😉
@@theCodyReeder go for it, sometimes I come across rude, or so I've been told! Lol, hope I didn't! Sometimes I forget the good ol days of exploring all the different aspects of this hobby. Such a good feeling when you finally get your first crop. Have fun man, cool channel too, this was the first video I saw from you.
I think part of the idea, is for it to eventually be a self contained system - Large, slow growing trees might not be on the table. I wonder what the best plant option is, when counting growth speed, ease of care, and substrate viability as factors.
@@mortenrl1946 well, the best yielding substrate mix for wood loving gourmets is actually 50% soybean hulls and 50% hardwood saw dust. I'm sure there's some plant that has a similar composition to hardwood trees that grows faster. the hobby is still relatively new in comparison to other forms of farming, there would be a lot of reading and testing to do, but I'm sure there's something.
@@jordanmercier3616 Interesting, thanks for replying! Soybeans seem like they could definitely be an option. It's hard to think of a good hardwood substitute.. Maybe bamboo, or even roses. Would need some sciencing to know for sure I guess.
Cody : I put the bucket in the entrance of an abandoned mine.
Me following the recipe : Aww, man.
good quests always have prerequisite quests
So we back in the mine
@@Malva597 looks like a different mine!
What, you don't have your own abandoned mineshaft?
it's ok, abandoned castle or alien containment facility work too
This whole mushroom series can be summed up for me as extremely satisfying information that I never knew I wanted to know.
thats this whole channel.
often i skip over codys videos in my sub feed but whenever i click on one i never regret it
This is barely scratching the surface with mushrooms 😊 You’d be amazed by some of their benefits to the world/nature. Try watching fantastic fungi on prime video 🤯
I love that Cody has been getting into mycology lately. I would like to add that it's not always "if" you get contamination its "when" because it's bound to happen sooner or later. Just part of the hobby.
I've always wondered, how do you know that it hasn't been contaminated with a toxic fungi? Can't small amounts of other fungi grow in or around the mushrooms and not be noticable?
You know he’s growing some cubes on the side for a phun trip
@@rubiconnn After being in the hobby for a while you learn to notice what is good and possibly bad for your mycelium.
There are tons of possible con-tams so it's a bit challenging to figure out what is threatening your grow.
There is the method of Agar to grow out healthy mycelium and lots of info on the internet to help identify the unwanted growths if you have a microscope.
You get to notice most things over time just by it's color,growing pattern and smell.
I'm no expert in the hobby but do share what I've learned thus far. I hope I helped to some degree.
Perhaps more accurately: you DO have contamination, and it's a matter of who wins: the mycelium or the contaminant.
Not with oyster mushrooms. Contamination is very unusual and in this case my suspicion is anaerobic conditions. Hot water pasteurization is the best method for growing oysters on straw and I have grown hundreds of pounds without any contamination issues during colonization. Of course after a few flushes it is inevitable. Pleurotus sp. are bacteriophagous making them very easy to cultivate, especially in non-sterile conditions. Bonus, they are also nematophagous and I suspect their predatory capabilities are adaptations to the low nitrogen environment of their natural substrates.
After spotting the maggots, you quickly deduce, "I guess I'll proceed as if I never saw them . . . "
You're built for Mars . . .
Yes. I think this kind of mental state is as important as all the technical knowledge.
5 second rule on steroids 😹
Nah, built for Mars means maggots = yay protein!
Extra protein
I wouldn't waste a good harvest of mushrooms after seeing a maggot either. Shake em off or eat em, fuck it they won't hurt you.
Cody: literally puts mercury in his mouth
Cody: "don't wanna consume too many microplastics"
Okay we have now proven that Cody is an anthro fish.
Well, mercury is a purely natural thing, while plastic is a nasty chemical. Go natural!
@@lake258 how do you make plastic again?
stickemuppunk itsthefunlovingconservative Lead is a completely natural thing; I swallow fishing weights every day. Go Natural!
@@Vibakari the plague is au natural. I'm gonna have some of that.
"This is a bucket"
"Dear god"
"There's more"
"No"
...you want the bucket?
My friend showed me this and I couldn't stop laughing to save my life
nice expiration date joke
tf2 best game
Rip, the voice actor for soldier (Rick May) died to covid on April 8th.
Dying is gay. He lives on in the game.
Ah, yes.
The humble chemist-miner-mushroom farmer.
Truly, a euphoric way of life.
“That’s a humongous mushroom.” Really?!?!!!!?? When “humongous fungus” was right there on the table?
🤣
🤯
I feel "ready to be served?!" Is a necessary addition
You must be a fungi
We all have those ones that got away. 😭
Thanks for the content Cody. Hope you are doing well.
I love how he talks so quietly around the mushrooms. Is he worried they'll attack him?
He's sneaking up, don't want them to get away.
he doesn't wanna wake em up
I think it was due to the echo in the mine shaft. He was just trying to make sure he had good audio.
He doesn't want to scare the xxxx out of those maggots!
He doesnt want the feds to hear
The hole are NOT too small. I use 1/4" holes for my oyster bucket and I get mushrooms bunches the size of a volleyball from them. I use aspen wood chips (animal bedding) that I steam with about a cup of used coffee grounds per bucket. I don't soak them after they fully colonize the bucket, I just wait a week and they start to fruit. Then I wait another month and pour a couple of cups of water on the top and a week later I get a second fruiting. After that, I just stuff more wood chips and coffee into the middle of it and it starts up again.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me I used to use Aspen chips for my snake but I always had a problem with mold and mildew forming extremely quickly on them so I switched the coconut fiber which doesn't do that lol
What are the coffee grounds for? Nutrients?
@ I just have a large 12 buck stock pot from Walmart that I do a 5 gallon bucket's worth, at a time in. Once steamed, I put it straight into the sanitized bucket, after it cools down, with alternating layers of mycelium from old bucket and the new steamed stuff.
@@jameskelly1680 I have seen it all over the web, so I just add them when I make oyster mushrooms now.
What a great excuse to drink coffee
We always soak the mushrooms in salt water for a few hours after picking to get all the insects out of them.
Extra protein
If i do that and i don't cook all of them, how can i dry them?
@@jmbkpo normally if you dry them the bugs will go out alone.
They came out when cooking, I will try the soaking.
@@jmbkpo No idea, I never tried. We always used them up within a day or two.
Neighbour: Where have you been?
Cody: I went to mine today.
Neighbour: You dug out something?
Cody: One kg of mushrooms.
N E U I G H B O U R
@@yingxiawei821 shhh...
I had never really thought of mushrooms as something that interesting (except the fun ones) but I am really enjoying this series. That sucks about the maggots and the failed bucket.
I've been a mushroom picker (mostly the boring ones, that you put in your soups, sauces and near your meats) for most of my life, this series made me consider becoming a mushroom farmer. So far I've been gathering some mycology books on the matter and looking for some good indoor methods.
@@MedievalSolutions I stress *mostly*. On three separate occasions I started tripping balls after dinner. Unintentionally, I might add
all life is interesting, the simple fact that complex organisms are able to exist in the vast cosmic randomness is astounding. the only problem is most people don't give them the attention they deserve. most people are scared of rats, but they're actually really cute when you see them up close. same with mushrooms and bees.
@@marksmod You are lucky to be alive with that poor identification skills.
@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter haven't had much interaction with rats, but can confirm the other two have a sort of a natural beauty to them, something I feel we partly lose a connection to when living in the city.
Blue Oyster mushrooms?
Someone could start a Cult about that.
hmmm needs more cowbell
@@brokebois4073 🔊📣🔔🎸🥁
Every time i heard blue oyster i just want to eat some salad.
oh, there goes......my braincells
How about a tribute band: The Blue Oyster Mushroom Culture
This weeks episode of IRL Minecraft: Cody makes Suspicious Stew
I don't remember maggots in the crafting recipe.
I'm stunned by your straw stacking skills!
I absolutely love the mushroom series! It’s cool too that you’ve found some wild ones on your outings. You’ve inspired me to look into yet another hobby. Thank you Cody for all you do, very inspiring!
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear pt
@The Devil he's just spamming to get people to click his channel and watch the videos.
You should see his straw mulching skills.
I just started growing my first batch of Lion's Mane mushroom in one-step grow bags. I love to see that you're getting into mycology from a much different direction.
"we've been eating maggoty mushrooms for three stink'n days"
- some Ork probably
Thats a weir way of spelling br*t
nice to see the gold-plated measuring cups make an appearance again :) Love the videos Cody!
I think it was just copper, the gold ones were a gift for his mom and I'm pretty sure he doesn't live with them anymore.
Hey Cody, look up growing mushrooms with hydrogen peroxide. The mycellium is more resistant to it, than bacteria is, and will eventually break it down, so it doesn't accumulate in the mushrooms.
PS: please upvote this comment so Cody sees this.
Wow that's cool info.
i thumbs upped this comment and then i got an add for toothpaste with hydrogen peroxide in it
H202 is way more expensive than heat or lye and doesn’t kill other fungi
@@chaegibson720 I think the general idea of hydrogen peroxide, is that it allows you to be more lax with your sterile technique. You don't have to autoclave your substrate but can just steam it instead. Anything that survives the steaming, or later contaminates the substrate will then have it's growth severely inhibited by the hydrogen peroxide. Meanwhile the mycelium (which has a headstart on any contaminating fungi) colonizes the substrate, and out-compete contaminants.
I have to add that I did not try this technique yet. My forays into mycology have so far resulted in partial failure due to lack of proper sterility. I read up on this as a sort of easy band-aid fix for a beginner like me.
didn't he say in an older video that he reads every comment regardless of the number of upvotes?
I've been growing oyster mushrooms about a year like this, I think if you add more spawn it colonizes the buckets faster and you can "outrun" the contamination. I've also been adding near boiling water to the straw. Those maggots seem make their way into the mycelium, I gave up on fruiting buckets outside because of them. Great job on this series so far, those kings are looking good!
Just cook the maggots up too, extra protein
Bear Grylls would be proud.
@S K Thanks, son.
maggots in mushrooms is pretty common, unless you grow them in highly controlled environments..
Not really a big deal.
They poop inside the mushroom. I don't think eating the maggots will hurt you but the bacteria in the poo is probably not good.
@@guslook3184 Ah, just cook 'em, probably fine.
Probably
Sweet video. Well done. That was a humongous fungus!
You can dry the mushrooms in as well. The maggots will go away, and you can then use the dried mushrooms to flavour foods - great for roast sauces and gravies.
I don't like mushrooms and yet this makes me want to grow some.
I can't stand eating them but everything else about them is fascinating!
i love mushrooms and lsd
Cambodian cubensis mushrooms are basically plug and play.
@basil fawlty LSD is only semi synthetic my guy. Its synthesised from natural sources 🤷 P Cubensis mushrooms are fantastic but dont downplay Acid just because it isnt "natural" thats bullshit. Ive had some absolutely beautiful trips on both substances.
they're good on pizza, and cream of mushroom is a decent beef stroganoff base.
Thanks for the update, after seeing your first 2 videos it peaked my interest and i too started researching/growing. Well here we are.... i now have a climate/humidity controlled mini greenhouse and my first go of it I bought a bag of blue oyster mycelium and did the same bucket method. Pulled like 2-3 pounds off it. After that i bought spore syringes and am making my own mycelium jars. I plan to make some spore prints so I can make my own syringes and keep going. I switched over to bags/totes and have like 4 pink oyster bags on the way and a few totes of shiitake and portabella. Thanks for indirectly giving me a new hobby! Its incredibly enjoyable, especially since you literally can see progress over night. It is very gratifying.
To find if they have worms cut the stems and look for visual holes when they crawl up from the ground on wild ones
I love this mushroom growing series, it is so rewarding to see those huge mushrooms that you grew yourself!
I love how you were like "I'm just going to eat them like I didn't see them" lol haha
I'd been interested in growing mushrooms since some time around 12-14ish years ago when I'd first looked into it. The process seemed difficult and expensive for a high school student and I never ended up trying it.
After seeing your first(?) mushroom video a few months back I decided to get back into it and try growing my own! Doing some searching online, and it seemed Oysters are the easiest to grow, and there's an amazing idea of using bags of 90 second brown rice as pre-sterilized containers for starting a colony in. You just insert the syringe into the bag, squirt, and tape over the hole.. This week I finally got my spores in the mail and hopefully soon I'll have some delicious mushrooms too! (Though I doubt I'll have any 1lb ones!)
Thanks for reintroducing me to a hobby I wish I'd tried when I was younger.
Eating the maggots is fine, it's just extra protein.
Eating a mushroom that is almost entirely maggots is bad, not because of the maggots but because of the waste the maggots have produced.
It's not toxic or anything, it'll just upset your stomach.
I would say it's fine to eat in a sustainable situation but if you are in a survival situation an ammonia stomach irritation can be pretty bad to deal with... Not that you're gonna find beautiful Oyster mushrooms like that so easily
Thanks for the hint.
Cody, I have been watching for years, love you man, glad you're still making these informative videos for us to watch!
As for the maggots just cut out the infested parts and the rest is perfectly fine. Or if you need saving every bit of the mushroom (and don't mind eating a bit of maggot droppings), soak the mushrooms in cold salty water before cooking. The bugs will float to the surface.
wouldnt the mushroom absorb all the salty water?
Don't eat maggot poop.
@@Spiralem mushrooms are already full of water, so I don't think so? maybe a slight exchange of saltines but I don't think they'd get any wetter. Like, look how much water comes out of mushrooms while frying and how much they shrink
@@Spiralem no, I don't think so. Can't swear for all mushroom types but fresh chanterelles or boletes are not very porous or sponge-like so I've never had any problems with them absorbing either water or saltiness
Łoś Śpiący boletes aren’t sponge like? The pore surface is literally a sponge
for some reason I've never really wondered how mushrooms are farmed, and learning was really intriguing!
today I thought, I'm gonna rewatch codys mushroom videos. ^^ Started to read a book about mushroom identification recently .
Hey Cody, glad to see you're uploading again! Great video!
(Also: who can say they grew mushrooms in an abandoned mine...)
Those mushrooms look so delicious i want to grow my own...
Look up "Back to the roots" grow your own oyster mushroom kit.
$12 at Walmart for the small like $20 for a larger one. Very fun for kids to see the process.
I got a growing block at my local farmer's market for $10 because it was the end of the day and the guy wanted to clear stock.
Look around, maybe contact any local farms
what i like about Cody's videos the most is that he is REAL and always shows his results, even when a failure has occurred he doesn't edit it out, he learns from his mistakes and also seems to have just as much fun with it as he does when something was successful, plus i like the science and experimentation :D
bro this is the beauty of Cody video, instead of end the video right after the preparation complete, he mostly give us the full video from start to finish, even tho sometimes it took him couple of week, month, even years,,,
And here we are again. Something I had no idea could be interesting had me glued to the screen. Thanks for sharing your adventures!
6:00 the top of the mushroom looks like a model of hyperbolic space
Probably because it is sorta like it, a growing structure like that
Bruh
@@jessevos3986 The bottom side of the cap looks like a space-filling fractal tree
You mean the hypertonic lion tamer?
@@lordfabulous6198 You mean the hypersonic chime banger?
Thanks for sharing this process. Every time I see mushrooms out on the trail, I think of you now.
Nobody may ask here what’s the most cursed dish possible with mushrooms, so here’s one for the madlads:
Spore S’mores.
I don't know what it is about this series but i absolutely adore it and can't wait for the next installment of Cody's mushroom chronicles
The chickens probably would have liked those maggots-- I didn't. Cody is one of the few people I will look at maggots for? =)
This isn't Mortal Online 2.
Am I the only one who thought the first maggot looked tasty? Not like the rugged and dirty ones where I grew up. That maggot was clean and pure.
@@Shimmering I do watch other kinds of videos! (Mycology was in the MO1 Skill Tree, tho', under Botany.)
@@TheReaverOfDarkness Would you, like, roast it along with the mushroom?
@@NajwaLaylah Oh I was picturing eating it alive, but I suppose I would do that also.
One of my friends also grows mushrooms as a hobby and he keeps the substrate in clear containers, I find it very interesting because sometimes a little mushroom decides to fruit next to the plastic under the surface and the ones that do this always look very funky
Ooh, mushroom jealousy! That was one bigass mushroom. I'm not a good enough cook to do justice to ones that get that big.
The lime water also breaks down the cell walls in the straw, making it's nutrients more available to the fungus. It's the same process used in nixtamalization of maize (corn in the Americas). You wouldn't get tortillas or tamales or corn chips without nixtamalization, and vegetarians wouldn't get enough vitamin B12 from maize without nixtamalization. Very cool to see it being used here.
cody, the next time you get such a hughe mushroom, you should try to "clone " them, so after some generation you have your own "breed" of monster fungi
I think the whole mycelium has the same exact genome, it is one single organism. Cloning the big one or the smaller ones would make no difference, and the only reason it grew so big are the ambient conditions.
@@ZioStalin its kinda tricky with mushrooms. You can have multiple differnt phenotypes in one tub. So my explanation is that you have one mycelium, but different parts of the myclium has different genetics. But my experience is based on squared mushrooms. The only way to get one "monoculture" is through cloning.
Dude I’ve been bingeing your vids for awhile. I wish I had been with you for the journey. My wife and I REALLY enjoyed your nightshade stew video. It inspired us to start pressure cooking all kinds of things and we are filling our pantry. I’ve learned a vast amount of everyday thinking and execution processes from your videos, as well as a better understanding of chemistry and physics.
You are an excellent teacher, and a treasure to anyone smart enough to see that.
Cheers brother, and keep on crushing.
8:45 Look at that happy Cody. Hope robo-Cody got some soup too.
I thought robo-Cody ran on plutonium xD
I love these how to videos for mushroom farming. Mushrooms are so nutritious, and they taste great.
This one's for the algorithm hope you all are having a good day God bless
As always, a very good job at documenting your mushroom growing experiments. Thanks again.
I read title, thought: wtf cody invented a brand of mushroom that eats plastic.
Give it time. I'd be mildly surprised if there wasn't some kind of fungus that has that potential.
i thought the title meant that he created mushrooms out of straws inside of a bucket.
There are strains of oyster mushroom that can clean up oil spills, eat cigarette butts and accumulate dioxins. They can be trained to eat almost anything. Plastic is definitely on the cards!
Check out the Mushrooms will Save the World video.
I really really really love the mushroom series cody please please keep bringing this videos!!
5:58 missed opportunity to say "humongous fungus"
I had big success using the PF Tek method with crushed brown rice. After introducing spores, it was just a waiting game until it caked over. From there I put the caked over part into a high humidity chamber. Steaming all parts beforehand sterilizes well.
damn, imagine if he made the holes bigger. probably would've gotten a good few 1 pound mushrooms lol
I use 1/4" holes and get fruiting bodies the size of volleyballs....
doesnt work that way
Whenever picking mushrooms from the forest, we always slice the mushrooms is small pieces and get all of the maggots out, I suggest that you do the same, slice each and every mushroom at least once.
Mushroom: Im sorry human but unfortunately Im not that high in Protein content.
Maggot: *Fear not for I am here!*
Saving sailors and mushroom makers since 1492
Mushrooms are almost entirely protein, apart from the water.
A brief soak in a strong salt brine, followed by a rinse in fresh water should take care of any maggots in short order.
When my Oysters start shitting spores everywhere, I need to leave the house. For some reason, Oyster mushroom spores in particular; really mess me up. Allergy horror.
Gods. Be careful, or you'll be picking them out of your nose.
This is interesting truly. You should pick your favorite variety and run a bunch of experiments things like different hole sizes and different mixes aswell as leaving them in different locations.
Its weird to think that Mushrooms are so sensitive to contamination when in the wild they are pretty prevalent
dang ur everywhere
In the wild, they're usually breaking down wood or nitrogen fixing, straw is digestible by a much larger array of organisms.
Not to mention the wild ones are mostly inedible
It's easy to grow mushrooms, it's hard to grow a specific species of mushroom
So many of your videos are inspirational.
Keep doing what you're doing
Can you do more melting metals type of videos? Please
no
@@dunn2370 ok good reason
When picking boletus here in the UK there are almost always maggots in them. If you're really worried you can dry them in the oven first but they're usually pretty easy to get rid of and just come with the territory really.
Wild mushrooms almost always have maggots to get rid of :/
Me: "never EVER have even thought about propagating a single mushroom in my entire life"
UA-cam: Hey kid, wanna se some dude propagating mushrooms in a bucket?
Me: hell yeah thats what im talking about
I got a video for my birthday :D
Cool, we don't care.
happy birthday, enjoy your time.
@@idiotsimulator8055 you don't speak for us. Happy birthday Dancing Rain!
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This is all very interesting, I personally do not eat any kind of mushroom, and very few vegetables (I hunt to eat), however I find cultivating and harvesting the non moving foods very interesting.
I do have a couple of pear trees and do cultivate a few blueberry bushes but the harvest is mostly for my neighbors and family.
Every time he says "Blue Oyster" I think "Cody don't fear the Reaper!"
I felt bad for not being able to watch the last two videos as they came out. But nothing hits quite as nice as knowing I have two Cody'sLab videos to catch up on on my day off.
You should have had a HUGE crop. I'm sure the local rodents appreciate the constant food source though. 😉
Your content is so wholesome!
Much love for the work you do
The one time I found some big beautiful oysters locally I brought them home and was all excited until I realized they had some sort of larvae infestation, guess it's best to avoid picking ones too close to the ground as bugs find them fast.
Terminal Passage
Many larvae come from flies and gnats and such. Hard to prevent them from laying eggs on your stuff unless you can keep them away.
You'll almost always find maggots in wild fungus and soft fruits, and you usually never notice them. It's Nature doing its thing. They would not have harmed you, especially if cooked. Even the maggots poop would have been harmless, because it's just digested fungus, with very little bacteria in it, apart from what is already in the mushroom naturally.
Please make more of these I don’t know why I find it so interesting and satisfying
Always remember to soak your mushrooms in salt water to kill bugs that may be in them.
No.
@@lysergicide Yes.
Cody, you need to get yourself a 3/4 inch (19mm) countersink tool to use for deburring drilled holes. You do a fair bit of fabricating, and I think this simple tool would really help you out and save yourself from potential injury.
You just chuck it up in your drill and lightly bump the hole while spinning it at half speed. It will clean up the hole and has much less risk than the pocket knife.
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That big mushroom looks absolutely tasty af and I love the picc at the end of the video
There's a fungus among us. Is it good or is it bad?
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I'm loving this mushroom kick you are on! Keep up all the amazing videos!
You've probably ate many many insects before without ever knowing, as a matter of fact we all have. I wouldn't worry about it.
Super excited to see you starting to get into mycology. Lions mane is my favorite mushroom to grow
Damn I thought I was early and then I see comments from 2 days ago xd
Patreon gets early access.
That soup looked INCREDIBLE. Wow, gonna have to try something like that at home.
"slacked lime" Oh, Cody, there you go with your weird pronunciations again! XD It's "slaked", rhymes with "baked". This word is derived from the word slake's meaning of "to diminish in force, quench, extinguish; as in thirst or hunger" that was given around the 14th century from its other meaning, which in modern days is split off into the word "slack". "Slaked lime" is called that because it's quicklime produced by burning limestone that has been hydrated (which is where the connotation of "quenching its thirst" is being attributed to the inanimate mineral, since we humans love to personify things).
salck line is something else entirely and that's what I heard at first haha
Nice! I had a lot of infection issues with my oysters too. I was using hay and I had to steam pasteurize it, along with using a lot of spawn, to prevent trichoderma infection.
I love watching your mushroom videos man. I loved your vacuum videos and your gardening with Cody videos oh you're serious I hope you get back to the chicken hole base soon
Cody, if you attempt this again, I highly recommend using a clear plastic tote with a snappable lid. I did a similar experiment but used rye grain and had great success. I didn't get any mushrooms near as big as yours, but my largest was about the size of my hand.
Mushrooms look like they'd absorb/dampen sound really well on their underside. I wonder if this confers an evolutionary advantage.. I know those ridges on the underside are structural and disperse the spores but usually such "accidental" attributes do explain some of the organism's success.
I don't like mushrooms and will probably never grow any but it's always interesting to learn from you Cody
There's a hole in my bucket, dear cody, dear cody....
Then fix it... with what shall I fix it... With STRAW, DEAR CODY
Wait, what? I only knew the German version of this song. It exists in English as well? That's cool :D
you are by far the best youtuber out there
I like how you whisper so as to not disturb the mushrooms
I did this last month with polytubing worked well for loads of mushrooms . Hung the poly tubing in my kitchen near a window they fruited very well... only to find out I don't like blue Oyster mushrooms..DOH ...but it was great watching them grow humongous.. I've got another 20metres of poly tubing so going to try another variety.