How To Grow Mushrooms At Home | GroCycle - YTread (2024)

I am going to explain how to do it the easiest way at home in this video. Before we get started, I just want to make sure you know that you can also grow mushrooms outside in your garden. both in an outdoor mushroom bed and on logs and very soon we will have separate videos about that on the channel. Well, let's move on to this step-by-step guide on how to grow mushrooms at home, so it's worth saying right up front. To start, there are a few different ways to do this and you can complicate it in many different ways.

I'm just going to show you what I think is the easiest way to do this at home, so I've laid out here on the table a We're going to need some ingredients and basically there are three things that you need, in particular, you need a substrate and in this case we have straw balls, you need some mushroom seed, so we have oysters, mushroom grain seed and you. You will need a bag in which to add all the substrate and let it grow and for the mushrooms to bear fruit. With each of these there are different variations, so with straw pellets you can also use chopped straw and you can also now use wood pellets.

What I really like about both wood pellets and straw pellets is that they are already pasteurized in the process in which they are manufactured, so the pellets go through a high pressure and heat process to become eyes of pellets. and that pasteurizes them, so this is already really clean at this point and every time you grow mushrooms you need a clean substrate so you can grow them as wires for bags when you're starting out. Mushroom growing bags are really the most reliable way to grow your mushrooms, you can also grow them in buckets or you can make your own mushroom growing bags, but the best thing about these bags is that they have a filter patch and you can see through the bag everything happens inside, so when you start, I would recommend trying to get both going back to to get this right, let's get to the actual technique, so what I'll do in a minute is add water. to the granules and we are only going to use cold water.

Some people like to use hot water in this case to simply pasteurize the pellets, but in that experience we found that is not necessary. The granules are already very clean, so you can use them. cold water so when I add the water I'm going to mix it up a little bit and then let it sit for half an hour because it actually takes a little while for the pellets to hydrate and absorb the water, then I'm going to mix it all back together with the spawn and then load it up in the bags and that's the first phase of the growing process, so let's get off to a good start so you can see that we have our bag full. the substrate and the spore mixture and you can see a couple of things, one is that I haven't filled the bag to the top.

I left a space in this top third of the bag and you really want to do that to allow for air exchange and therefore the bags that will go in and out of the filter in this space at the top and it just allows for a good air exchange. air, if you place it correctly towards the top with this type of substrate, you will get poor air exchange. The bag and then the mycelium may have difficulty growing if you use chopped straw; however, you can fill the bag to the top because it has much better air exchange inside and larger straw particles are fine, so I sealed the bag with some tape on the top, but this bag is ready to now move on to the second phase of the growth process, which is called the incubation phase and which generally lasts about two or three weeks with oyster mushrooms and the bag needs to be placed. conditions of around 20 to 24 degrees Celsius, which I think in Fahrenheit is around 68 to 74 Fahrenheit for most people, that's kind of the ambient temperature inside your house, so you don't need to worry too much about that , just find a place somewhere where you can put it in a warm environment in the house and what you will see is that each of these little pieces of grain that has the spawn begins to come to life and begins to grow throughout the substrate and after about a week You will see lots of little white dots that start to come together quite quickly, they take over the whole bag and after 2 to 3 weeks you should have a bright white bag which will then be ready to fruit and grow the mushrooms after 2 to 3 weeks.

You should find that your bag is completely colonized by the mycelium like this and bright white and at this point you are ready for the mushrooms to fruit, so when it comes to the mushrooms fruiting the main conditions they need are moisture, they need some light a little bit of fresh air so the humidity that we're going to provide the easiest way to do it is to just spray it with a little bit of water and when it comes to light, they don't really need light to grow in this, plants do. you only need a little bit of indirect light, so a countertop on your kitchen window sill somewhere like that will be absolutely fine, and when it comes to fresh air, usually the space you live in already has enough exchange of air in the room.

If you don't have enough fresh air exchange in the room, you'll soon know because the mushrooms will start to get very long and thin, and if that's the case, then you'll just want to open the window nearby where the bag is. growing once or twice a day for five or ten minutes just to let some fresh air into the room and replenish it with some fresh oxygen, so the first step is to open the bag to give the mushrooms room to grow and grow. To do that, we're just going to take some scissors and cut the bag and at the same time we're going to fold the top of the bag, otherwise sometimes the mushrooms will try to grow out of the top and you can take that. down and then just remove the flaps inside the bag and spray it well with water like this a couple of times a day and you will find that after about five or six days the first little mushrooms will start to form. inside the bag and they will literally double in size from that moment on.

Usually about two weeks after opening the bag you will be ready to harvest the mushrooms, so this is the easiest way to do it if you just want to. to keep it simple and spray it with water, if you are going to do this more regularly you may want to create a fruiting chamber so you don't have to spray it with water a couple of times a day, in fact you can create a box like you can see in the video here it is called a shotgun fruiting chamber and it is filled with perlite which retains moisture and creates the kind of humid environment inside the box and also some holes for air exchange inside the box which you can see when placing the bag here and you can basically leave it there and allow the mushrooms to grow along the way without as much maintenance and there are other ways to build cylindrical structures like this, for example you can use a 40a greenhouse like the one you can see here. similarly just to create an environment where the mushrooms can grow without too much maintenance and conservation, so you can see here in this image some mushrooms at the perfect harvest point and you can see that they are ready to harvest because the caps are They've opened up but they haven't completely flattened out yet and this is really the sweet spot to harvest when that's the case and all you have to do to harvest is just put your hand under it, twist the crop and you should find that it comes off quite easily.

If it doesn't come out easily it's a sign they aren't quite ready, give it a day or so and try again and voila you can harvest them, cook them and eat some delicious fresh home grown oyster mushrooms so I hope you found this . This video is useful and will inspire you to go ahead and grow mushrooms at home, as you have seen it can be done very simply at home without too much equipment so go ahead and give it a try and if you want to find out more about this In more detail, check out the link in the description below because we have a complete online course that teaches you how to grow mushrooms at home and will also show you how to chamber the fruit and basically walk you through it. through the entire process in a little more detail.

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