Grow Log - And So It Begins!

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

I was wondering if you ever thought/tried to grow those expensive legal mushrooms like white truffles ($2500.00 per pound) or pine mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake , $2,000 per kilogram) ??

They're not that easy.... there's a reason they're expensive.
I've done oyster mushrooms and shiitake and I've considered reishi and others, but I really don't have the time or space for any "commercial" growing.

With your skills you could make a fortune just by selling them to local restaurants ...

As you can see from the tutorial, there's not much skill involved. They do it all by themselves.
If you can follow a simple recipe, you can grow shrooms.

[Seamaiden]

I was wondering if you ever thought/tried to grow those expensive legal mushrooms like white truffles ($2500.00 per pound) or pine mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake , $2,000 per kilogram) ??

They're not that easy.... there's a reason they're expensive.
I've done oyster mushrooms and shiitake and I've considered reishi and others, but I really don't have the time or space for any "commercial" growing.

With your skills you could make a fortune just by selling them to local restaurants ...

As you can see from the tutorial, there's not much skill involved. They do it all by themselves.
If you can follow a simple recipe, you can grow shrooms.

Aw man... and here we have almost the entire footprint of our home available for something like this. I just haven't acted on it. I adore oyster mushies... aw hell, I love mushrooms, period. And straw mushrooms that Dave uses for some sort of Thai soup he likes to make. And we have oak forests out here, but I don't know if they could be inoculated with truffle spore, or if they grow truffles already or what. See, there's an old-timer who used to live next to a lady I worked for who'd grown up out here. Old Louey knows where to find the BEST mushrooms. But his house caught fire and he went to a nursing facility and has gone downhill terribly. WWII vet, served in Guadalcanal. He says to only get mushies from oaks or willows. Had a hell of a lot of stories and NOBODY makes a better cured olive than Louey, either.

Good Lord, the stuff that goes when they go, I hadn't had a chance to really pick his brain yet.

[rSin]

They're not that easy.... there's a reason they're expensive.

saw how many people were offering schools to learn with 10 grand tuitions for a couple weeks...

i lost interest...


but it led me to assume a website such as our could sell insurance policies to growers any time it wanted to...

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

Aw man... and here we have almost the entire footprint of our home available for something like this. I just haven't acted on it. I adore oyster mushies... aw hell, I love mushrooms, period. And straw mushrooms that Dave uses for some sort of Thai soup he likes to make.

If you want to have a go at any edibles, I'd recommend a couple of books:
The Mushroom Cultivator - Paul Stamets & J. Chilton
Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms - Paul Stamets
They're both packed with useful information. They're a little geared to the "medium sized" producer, rather than someone who just wants to do a few mushrooms here & there, but they provide growth parameters and substrate details for most of the commonly grown mushrooms.

A trip to Mycotopia's "Grow" section will also pay dividends.
http://forums.mycotopia.net/fungi-growi ... mushrooms/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There's a lot of stuff in the Archive & Vaults over there, too.

[rSin]

is that packing bored holes in logs method as genius as its cracked up to be???

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

is that packing bored holes in logs method as genius as its cracked up to be???

Well, it works. That's how my shiitake log was innoculated (but not by me). Probably gets boring after doing a couple of dozen logs, though.
You can use dowels or sawdust to pack the holes, depending on what your chosen species prefers.

Using rope spawn is probably easier if you have a lot to do.. most wood-loving mushrooms will grow on hemp or cotton rope, so you just colonise a coil of rope, then make a groove round your logs with a chainsaw and pack the rope into the groove.

[rSin]

my chainsaw would certainly like more to do!!!


:D

[Deej]

Weird...I posted here yesterday & now it's gone! WTF???
Is it another April Fools Day joke?

Anyway... Bloke..my son that grew 'shrooms
is staying w/ me & is impressed w/ your grow.
I love looking at them..am a reg mushroom fan..
the eatin' kind
Great pics!!

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

And a couple of pictures of the South African cakes just before harvest:

I'm aiming to get some straw pasteurized and spawned over the weekend, but depends on whether I find time.

[Hopefull Stoner]

nice show bloke thx.

i'll get around to the shrooms and very well might do my rookie grow with the infamous EZY grow kit . lol gotta start somewhere you dig. 2 steps is cool by me.

are the paneolus you grow stronger then the ones that grow on the lawn , gotta eat too many of those imho.