There is more to mushrooms than you think!

amirm

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Certainly was the case for me. Was about to order some mushroom kits and spawns to grow and noticed the company founder has given this fascinating talk on Mushrooms and Fungi. He is a bit over the top at times but otherwise, quite informative.


Anyone else grow mushrooms? We got a couple of kits years ago and the product was amazing. Hope to inoculate an Alder tree we took down a few weeks ago.
 

Ronm1

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I admit to being an avid consumer but not a grower ;)
An interesting FYI I came across years ago is that raw mushrooms are a net caloric loss as a food source. Not sure if all types fall into that category and raw is the important word.
 

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Very impressive find Amir. Looks like I will be a future customer as well. Do you know what is in the life box other than the DVD, spores and fungi? I perused the website but could not find any information on the life box.

I would love to grow mushrooms both indoors and out! It would be great to walk to the sunroom or outside to pick some fresh portabella or shitake mushrooms for that night's dinner.

Would also be interested to thwart the population of ants/termites naturally, instead of termite chemicals and Triazicide.

Tom
 

amirm

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The indoor stuff is all self-contained. You get a container with compressed sawdust already inoculated. You just wet the thing and mist it occasionally and all of a sudden you have amazing mushrooms with flavor that store bought cannot match.

For the outdoor stuff, I bought the plugs. You have to have some freshly cut logs or stomp. You drill holes into them and stuff the dowels with the spores already on them. They start to consume the log which takes 9 to 12 months. Once they run out of food, i.e. the log is fully colonized, they think they are going to die and they start to immediately "flower" (i.e. produce mushrooms) and you get a full harvest. Sometimes you have to shock them by sticking the logs in water for 24 hours. That makes them think there is a flood coming and fruit as soon as the soaking is over. Some people even slam the logs as to make the spores think the end of the world is really there :). We bought the plugs but had to throw them away as we got busy and didn't locate an appropriate log.

Note that you have to match the tree with the mushroom you want to grow. Their site lists the appropriate species that make good hosts. In general the tree has to have rough bark and be deciduous (there are some exceptions). The time to cut down the tree is now before the leaves come out but after the sugars start to run up the stomp.

There is also a way to grow them directly in soil but I am not attempting that as I worry about all the other species also growing.

This is a very nicely done video on this topic and while more than an hour long, is super educational and presented in such a friendly manner.

 

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