How To Grow Mushrooms At Home (EASIEST Low Tech Method)| GroCycle

A lot of people think growing mushrooms is a complicated process. It is something that can seem a bit daunting but it needn't be. There are simple ways of growing mushrooms in the comfort of your own home! Mushroom kits are probably the easiest way to get started, but in this video we'll provide you with a step by step guide to doing the whole process yourself of growing mushrooms at home.

You'll learn:
- The easiest ways of growing mushrooms at home
- The conditions you need to create to grow mushrooms at home
- How and when to harvest your home grown mushrooms

If you'd like to know more about growing mushrooms at home or on a small scale please check out the link below:

[tomar]

Though I'd add this for anyone with questions regarding sterility:

Sterility is important during the stage of creating spawn. Once at the stage where this video starts sterility is not as important. That said, he did mention pasturisation of the substrate - for straw/wood pellet substrate this is done during their manufacture process.

For a species of mushroom that prefer coco coir as a growing substrate, this still needs to be done. You can do this yourself by cooking the coir once appropriately hydrated at 70-80 degrees Celsius in your oven for a couple of hours. Alternatively you can do it using the bucket technique where you add your dry substrate mix (normally coir or coir mixed with vermiculite and gypsum) to a bucket with a sealable lid and adding the correct amount of fresh off the boil water and leaving it for a number of hours until cool. I'd recommend insulating the bucket with a sleeping bag to get a better result of pasturisation. Just Google bucket tek for more information.

Worth noting is that different species grow on different mediums in the wild. My understanding (basic) is that oysters enjoy growing on wood and straw. Do research on the species you intend to grow and adjust your substrate accordingly.

TLDR: Sterility is important when making mushroom spawn which he has already done prior to this video. Once you have healthy spawn, you only need to worry about correctly choosing the substrate to add it to for your species and that the substrate is pasturised. Hope this is helpful to anyone reading.

[mrscpc]

I am so pleased to find you. This looks like next year I will finally achieve a lifelong goal of growing my own mushrooms after 60 years of growing only organic veg and fruit. Thrilled to find you.

[milododds]

This video is useful because it covers what it takes to get to the mushroom grow kit stage in terms of getting the sub-straight inoculated. I'm trying a slightly different approach by using ceramic bonsai planters (yeah because they just look really cool) and a thin layer of plastic wrap for now. Ideally I want to come up with a lid and air filter for these ceramic planters so I can reduce the amount of plastic waste, eventually only having to replace a small filter. I'm not trying to productionalize things, but instead wanting to grow mushrooms with a little more finesse than using cardboard and plastic. Watching your mushrooms grow is part of the experience, so why wouldn't you treat them as well as you treat your house plants let alone the vegetables in your garden. If I just wanted to eat mushrooms then I would just buy them, you grow your own mushroom because you want to participate in the process. You want to watch them grow and form. It's as much about the fascination and wonder as it is about the consumption or at least for the amateur grower.

[MalinaImport]

love mushrooms, love growing them, HATE the amount of single plastic bag use in the industry. like you said yourself dear Adam, there are alternatives like buckets that perform just as well but are re-usable. If visibility is a must, get a see-through plastic bucket? :) No reason to grow oysters in plastic bags, they are the least fussy about growing conditions ime.

[bluaaahhhh]

I just had my process with a couple of mushroom kits this year and I am so excited to try this method now, it is cheaper too
Hope it works for me

[redscorner]

Just found this channel and wanted to start growing my own mushrooms. Just finished growing my first kit and am wanting to grow my own. Where is the best place to buy spawn? And do any straw pellets work?

[littleshopintheshed]

Thank you for making these videos, it has really grown my interest in mushroom farming. Is there a ratio you use for holes in the bag? 1 hole /5lbs of growing medium?

[sunriseboy]

An excellent resource of insruction. Thank you.

[thesuburbanelectric]

Why is there such an emphasis on sterility in mushroom growing, when you weren't even wearing gloves or a face mask when setting up that bag. Am I correct that the need for sterility is largely when trying to grow spawn itself and not when the spawn is being used to colonize further substrate? Also, I've read that some people use only coir as the substrate when adding spawn. Since coir has no nutritional value, is that the same thing here with the straw pellets, or are straw pellets providing additional nutrients? Thank you so much for your wonderful and easy-to-understand videos! It's clear you love what you do and it really makes your videos enjoyable!

[stevenz]

am I allowed to completely take the spawn out of the bag at put it in a chamber with perlite? or ill have to keep the spawn in the bag as it is and just place it in the chamber?

[foxybuddy]

I experienced twice with the oyster mushrooms kit, after harvest once they don't seem growing again. Some said need to soak in water, some said need to put into refrigerator overnight. Doesn't seem help so far, not sure what's going on. I am now making my own grain spawns, will see what's happening.

[LairdWackyla]

I gotta thank you on this, I've been trying to use a mushroom kit, that I received as a gift, but the instructions were far too vague.
For instance, the instructions went straight from creating a humidity trap, to spraying it with water daily, but recommending against spraying the water on the mushrooms directly. I inferred this to mean not to spray the mycelia, and to instead saturate the humidity trap. No wonder there was no sign of growth for over a week!

[arceliabernathy]

Thank you for explaining this so easy and clear. I've watched other videos and very unclear in the process and some even teach in a detrimental way as speaking down to you because you are trying to learn. Not helpful and unproductive style. Thank you again for sharing your wisdom.

[Floridaisfun]

I'm just about to try this for myself!! I have been watching lots of videos but yours are the most informative..What size bags are you using in this video?

[omerfsen]

Great video and very simple technique with straw pellets..

[pakmana.k.]

Great videos.
Can we store growing kits for long times amd on what temperature?

[sweanna]

Fantastic video! So glad I found your channel!

[Eclecticrobinshields]

Thank you for all the great info! Curious tho, Can you use wood pellets that are used for smoker grilling?

[greenfingers]

Hello, great channel, have you got a uk link to the pellets you used please ?

[TheLivirus]

Is it possible to extract more than one fruiting from the same bagged substrate?