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One of your best video yet! Thanks for sharing you experience
Awesome! Give that deep pit time, I think once the mycelium gets fully established in that area your mushroom production will really begin.
Great Mushroom video and Nice Layout. Sensimillia also. Beautiful. Blessings
2:40 in the top left corner, is that cannabis?
show the diff types of mushroomsa, are oyster shrooms edible? which ones ar not?
You could potentially leave some to spawn a well to increase your yeild.
nice hemp plant growing there…thanks for a great show as always
You mentioned in another video that you gross $100K a year. What is your net?
I'm wondering what your non-farm neighbors think about the large green houses on your lot. I don't think I'd be happy about them blocking my view and being so big. You must live in a city with very lenient building codes. Most cities don't allow front yard gardens or obtrusive outbuildings. (In my city you even have to get a building permit to put in a fence.)
I apologize that I'm a bit critical. I love your enterprise and ambition and think what you're doing is great, but as I mentioned I wouldn't like having your buildings next to my house.
Bah humbug!
Stropharia colonize a substrate much slower than oysters as well. They'll surely make an appearance!
the reason you might not be getting mushrooms in the one area is all that direct sunlight, from what I can see. try trowing some under your fruit trees for some shade, that seems to work best in my food forest area. welcome to the dark side of growing, I'm in my third year and finally figuring it out…kinda.
I live in Oklahoma and they are allll over my yard. They look like honey mushrooms tho. And where I had chips last year it is flowing with them. Your awesome Curtis and your girl reminds me of my little girl. She finds everything! Dad a mushroom! 🙂 hahaha
There is much to understand about soil or ground disturbance. Disturbance = motion of life.
Curtis, I'm interested in finishing my agricultural engineering degree at almost 43 years old. But I truly have some ideas that I'd love to speak to you about… I can email you if you'd like to talk. Thank you for your time sir!
lmao "..but that is not soil"
Its normal you have mushooms poppin up, actually mushrooms grow on hardwood , you can buy hardwood fuel pellets and grow them , and honey water(liquid culture) just take a fruit , clone it , through a agar petri dish, agar is simple, pour 50ml water in a pot , 1g agar, 1g dogfood, steam sterilise it for 90 minuts, and you have 1 individual single agar petri dish, you can clone on , be aware the dish is made to grow bacteria, do , if your workplace hasn't sterile air , it will most likely bring contam, but its detail to make a clean room , it just takes a day , anyway, honey water is simple aswell, take 400ml water, preferably destil , put it in a botle with a metal lid, first drill a hole and fill it with Rtv high heat silicone, it will take 1 day to dry, this will be your injection port than put 1 to 4 % honey in your 400ml water , and over sterilise it for about 50 minutes t 300°F , not more because it tend to caramelise, anyway , there are so mush more to say about , if you want to know more you can reach me out at regg1709@hotmail.com , i am by no meams a profecional, but i did get started 1 years age and what i know could enventually expodentially help you forward in mycology, you can keep on propagation , basily cloning a fruit 99999 times , cheap and effectivly , all other vegetables will be worthless growing soon 🙂 if you dig into mycology
Nice! If you dug your Stropharia bed 4ft down, it's probably still colonising and will fruit later once it's fully colonised. You can dig down into it a bit and see if there's a load of bright white mycelium if you want to check how it's doing under there…it'd probably benefit from some shade netting over the top too. We made a video about creating mushroom beds, for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYWzfVW-ws
I did an experiment with wood chips and i "screefed" the chips to plant zucchini and then I bought some mushrooms blended them in water and added the shrooms to the bottom of the zucchini. the zucchinis grow so big that they shade the wood ships giving the mushrooms a shady microclimate. this experiment somewhat worked i will continue to try this when the weather is cooler.
I wonder if the walking on it might have something to do with it as well? I've heard that when you want to get mushrooms in a log to start flowering you whack it, it simulates the falling of another tree in the forest, i.e. an opportunity for the mushrooms to spread to another freshly fallen log. So maybe walking on them is stimulating them to think there are opportunities to reproduce? Just a thought, mycologists correct me where i'm off!
Check out Paul Stamets for amazing info on mushrooms
doesn't the mushroom bed need some compaction?
Paul Stamets is the fungi king imo. Some of his JRE interviews are pretty informative. Fungi are more closely related to humans than they are to the plant kingdom if I remember correctly. fungi.com He explains that human/animal disturbances in soil and the things rotting are what mushrooms love. After all you're helping feed those mushrooms by giving them food in the chips(sugars) and walking on it breaking it down some. Add water and there we go.
Here are links to some great articles by Paul Stamets that I think to deserve more attention, possibly more so for farmers.
https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/celebrate-decomposition
https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/mycofiltration-for-urban-storm-water-treatment-receives-epa-research-and-development-funding
https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/permaculture-with-a-mycological-twist
https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/helping-the-ecosystem-through-mushroom-cultivation
Hopefully, the links' text provides ample information on the topic.
There are more and articles about health benefits for humans as well.
You should dig up a small section of your pit and check the mycelium growth. You might have a ton of growth below the surface and just need a top amendment for them to fruit. Also, does it get too hot with direct sun? Wonder if a small shade cloth would make a difference.
Mushrooms seem to love paths, maybe something about vibrations make the mycelium fruit. Similar results with lightning strikes.
I've been researching mycology a little and I think you need to make the substrate/grainspawn layers compact with little/no airholes and also a trick shitake growers use is they smack the logs to activate the mushroom growth so maybe try smacking it or even stepping on it like your path that grows mushrooms
I want to grow cannabis
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