Growing Mushrooms in a Bucket! (Super Easy Method) | GroCycle

Growing mushrooms isn’t always difficult! In this video, we look at one of the easiest ways of growing oyster mushrooms at home in a bucket.
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All you need for this is:

- 20L food grade bucket (5 gallon)
- 0.5kg Oyster Mushroom Grain Spawn (1lb)
- 2.5kg Chopped Straw or Hard Wood Chips (5.5 lbs)

We run you through the process step-by-step, and at the end of this you’ll have a wonderful crop of delicious oyster mushrooms… It's so much fun too!

Chapters:

00:14 Introduction
00:58 Preparing your bucket
01:58 Pasteurising and hydrating your substrate
04:37 Inoculating and incubating
05:49 Fruiting your mushrooms
07:54 Harvesting

Links from our video:

- 5 Low Tech Ways of Pasteurizing Substrate

Related videos from our channel:

- What is Mushroom Substrate? Take a deep dive into the wonderful world of mushroom substrate:

- Easiest Way To Grow Oyster Mushrooms At Home

- Top 10 Tips for beginner mushroom farmers:

At GroCycle, we grow mushrooms the Low Tech way, and it's a great way to grow mushrooms with minimal energy use. We've put together an hour long, FREE workshop that covers all aspects of Low Tech mushroom farming:

[JohnGeorge-pwxo]

I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with BPD. Spent my whole life fighting BPD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

[tedward]

You can place the bucket with holes into a bucket without holes for the colonization. Blocks light and minimizes O2. Once it's ready to fruit, pull the bucket with holes out of the other bucket and set it in the fruiting environment.
Thanks for all the helpful info!!!

[petarknezovic]

Cover the holes with micropore tape to keep the humidity in and contamination out. Remove it when colonisation is done.

[abdullahalnoman]

I have grown mushrooms in bucket like this and it works flawlessly.
Thank you for sharing this

[flatgash]

I love what you guys are doing, more power to you all at grocycle!❤

[csn]

You want the water to be 70°C AFTER you put the substrate in, otherwise the contaminants aren't really seeing much less soaking in that temp.

[hemoharijan]

WISH YOU BOTH A HAPPY CHRISTMAS.
EXCELLENT EDUCATIVE VIDEO.
THANKS FOR THIS.

[staceylrogers]

Thank you for this video!! I am excited to start this adventure!

[KDAmica]

Thanks for this video! I just had my first harvest with this technique and they were delicious!

[faiyaaichannel]

wow, relly simple and looks easy, thank you :)

[tutedear]

Many thanks guys for information and explanation, I love it👍. God bless you.

[RevRedmondFarrier]

I am planning on doing this soon and was wondering if can you use the spent substrate to inoculate a new bucket instead of having to keep buying grain spawn? It seems like this should be possible as long as the mycelium in the old substrate is still active. My plan is to harvest the mushrooms from the first bucket once or twice and use the substrate just like I would grain spawn for the next buckets.

[joaquinsolanojimenez]

Can you use that used straw (the one that has finished fruiting) to colonize new buckets?

Thank you for the content! We are trying mushroom farming in a Ugandan school ☺️

[ThatBritishHomestead]

im growing them in deep multch woodchips this year, i have never grown them outside before. Growing blue oyster mushrooms and wine caps

[StephStruble]

A couple questions. First, can you grow Lions Mane mushrooms like this in a bucket? Next, where do you get your mushroom spawn?

[BarackObamaJedi]

would it be recommended to tape the side holes with micropore tape during incubation? or is it overkill? i mainly worked with sterilised woodchips or sawdust so far

[KristaDeCastella]

Great video! I recently set up a 20L bucket of oysters using these instructions and had pinning at every hole but then a lot stopped growing (aborted?) and started to brown/yellow. About 1/4 continued to fruit... Do you have thoughts on the main cause of aborts with this method? Drops in temp, humidity, overpinning, not enough oxygen... I can't seem to find answers on this... Love your thoughts!

[stefanklein]

Thank you for the video!
To me it seams for a small hobby single household level, hardwood or straw pellets seam to be the most convenient substrate to get. But you mention issues with compaction and air exchange with fine materials.
Do you think using smaller buckets would help with the air exchange?
What would you say is the smallest reasonable bucket to grow oyster mushrooms?

[lesliestouffer]

My 5 gallon bucket has been fruiting very well for its first flush. Is it possible for me to “repackage” some of this into a smaller container for a gift then fill the gap in mine with more chips and get them to spawn in the new stuff?

[raemachado]

How do you dispose of the used lime water?
I live near salmon habitats,