The jars are colonized - Cultivating mushrooms
It has been three months since I inoculated these jars with Pink oyster mycelium. Using a mushroom block I purchased from Amazon I broke it into small pieces and filled a few dozen jars with it along with wild bird seed to let the mushrooms feed on a new substrate. And now months later they are just about as good as they are going to get in the jars. And with these completely colonized jars I will add them to a larger 5 gallon bucket for their final stage of growth. From there they will grow throughout a hay substrate and fill out the buckets nicely. It will be my first time growing them in hay so I hope it goes well. But at least these jars really took off and I know I can go back to using this method of starting mushrooms to make more.
I started off this project using a still air box, cleaning chemicals and long rubber gloves. Having a completely clean environment is key to having a high success rate in growing mushrooms. Otherwise competing organisms will take over before these do.
Lol one of the containers did not have a lid. The mushroom noticed and started trying to grow around it.
Some jars look like snow balls now, others just have a light dusting throughout. Probably put more mycelium in some rather than others.
When I started to see a discoloration at the top, I knew the jars were near their end and the mycelium had to be moved once again. This coloration is caused by the mushroom drying out. If left bacteria will move in and start ruining the colony. So I have been moving all these jars into their hay substrate so they have all new food to feed on along with lots of moisture stored up in the buckets from the wet hay.
With many jars I can fill a few 5 gallon buckets, this was my plan all along so glad we are now at a point where I can move on.
When it comes time to start some new kinds of mushrooms I think I will use this technique again, it served me well. Maybe one addition would be adding some heating pads under them to help kick start the spawn run a little better, so it wont take 3 months again to colonize a full jar.
Kind of looks like cake in a jar, or some pink snow.. or maybe just a bunch of mushroom spawn.. haha
The fruiting bodies forming on the side of the jar is known as "pinning" and can tell me its ready to move on to bigger substrates.
The bottom of the jar is also fully colonized, a good sign the mushroom colony has formed throughout the jar.
Sometimes the fungi reaches for the tops of the jars, because of the gas exchange happening through the filters they want to get out that way. I double taped them so those worked well. The single taped lids seem to have some fungi escaping through the fabric.
After I scoop out the mycelium into my buckets, I can clean the jars and reuse them for another mushroom project. Great thing about mason jars they can be cleaned really well and reused many times again.
At this point I have already filled three buckets with this mycelium, and just have one more to do. Soon I will have four 5 gallon buckets filled with Pink oyster mushroom spawn. Once they colonize that and start pinning. It will be time to build them an enclosure and see about trapping co2 as planned.
Previous posts on this project:
https://peakd.com/hive-163521/@solominer/more-growth-in-the-jars-cultivating-mushrooms
https://peakd.com/hive-163521/@solominer/the-spawn-run-has-begun-cultivating-mushrooms
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Thanks for the update. Hope it goes smoothly.
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No problem, yeah me too.. its all a learning experience. So far so good though.. Just taking much longer than I expected for the spawn to run through the jars. But I think that has to do with how cold the jars were.
Once you figure out, it’ll be smooth sailing in future seasons.
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Interesting friend, I remember the purchase of amazon because I think it was one of your publications if I remember correctly, the evolution is going very well and really the process is very precise so that everything goes well, as always highlighting your good work of cultivation, I am struck by all the patience you have to have to see the results you expect, but that's all must be done the best you can friend, again I congratulate you.
Yep that is how I started these, just some mushroom blocks from Amazon. Pretty cool to see how far they have come.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed my post on my mushroom cultivation.
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Holy shit you are creating the kinda forest retreat I could get into! Solar, fruit trees, veggies Blue Dream and Shroooms!
Fuckin fantastic!
Yeah bud that is the plan, lots of projects going on.. haha
thanks
Do you sell the mushrooms or is mainly for fun ?
Just for fun, unless I do so well its worth selling.
I mostly want the co2 coming off the mushrooms for my cannabis plants.
I would never thought it could be used for that ! 😂😂😂 I would suggest to a friend who is growing indoor cannabis plants.
Very cool, I love growing mushrooms. Once upon a time when I wasn't traveling as much I had my own operation and would sell them at the farmers market on the weekends. They are fun to grow and taste great!
Oh cool, I have enjoyed growing them too. They are quite low maintenance compared to plants.. Just hard to get started.
We may give growing them in larger amounts a try if this bucket works out. That would be cool if we could sell at local farmer markets.
You can make great money on the side that way. I used to have a whole setup from lab to incubator and fruiting room. Was less than a thousand to get it all up and it was very little work and a lot of fun!
Awesome project, thanks for sharing all the details. Would love to do this. One day!
Ah no problem, well best of luck if you try it.. make sure to be very clean.. that is key.
Cheers! Yep, sterile as can be or you'll end up growing nasties instead
I believe, dear @solominer , that what has happened in three months has been successful, since he inoculated these jars with pink oyster mycelium, whose mushrooms he bought on Amazon, after breaking them into small pieces, he filled them with wild bird seeds, so that the fungi will feed on a new substrate. The good results in sight are evidence of how well the compost turned out. It will always be like this, because he puts a lot of effort into his research, giving excellent results. successes.
Thank you very much, I do think this is the way to do it and hopefully it will all work out. I will do an update post as I start seeing signs of life through the trash bags where the mushroom spawn is placed inside.
Yeah the wild bird seed really fed the mycelium well, hoping the hay will do just as well as the next step for growing these mushrooms.
Successes dear @solominer , surely I will see your achievements, when I comment on them in a new publication that you will do with beautiful results. Greetings, thank you for your continued visits to my publications. Greetings
This is so cool. You are gonna have an endless supply of tasty mushrooms soon.
Thanks bud, Hah yeah with four 5 gallon buckets I should have enough to feed many people.
Still really curious about the co2 levels they produce when they fruit.
Nice work man! They look really good!
I tried it once and sadly it was a massive failure. I’ll try again someday with the hope of your outcome. Excited to see the end product.
Ah thanks bud, indeed were are quite happy in those jars.
Oh damn.. well what happened? I hear cutting open the bag where the holes for the fruit are too early can cause them to dry out and die.
This is my first time of seeing that mushrooms are cultured in bottles. It's good that you used transparent bottle to see any changes that may occur.
Yeah there are many ways to do it, this is just one of them. It worked for me in the past so glad I could do the mason jar system again.
It sure is, watching them progress was really cool.
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After you harvest these shrooms. I want you to make a very fancy Mushroom dish. Similar to those cooking anime and hopefully Gordon ramsey will be in the room to shout
Beautiful. Also we grow alot of sugarcane in the Philippines. Sometimes its used as pallets for mushroom to grow on and be sweeter than usual.
Others mix in herbs and other stuff, usually a few weeks before harvesting.
UwU
Hah okay bud, lets see if we even get any good fruit to begin with. My first time growing in this bucket system.
Oh cool, did not know you could grow mushrooms in sugar cane. I should give that a try.. I used wild bird seed to start these, that stuff you can buy at markets to put in bird feeders. Now its going into hay, so it should be all new again.
So they add spices to the mushroom pallets made of sugarcane before harvest? I guess it can absorb it and change the flavor.
Good thing your not growing it in a artic zone simillar to @derangedvisions. Alot of mushroom growers would forget about the temperature and comeback to a stunted or worst yet failed attempt.
Since i live in a tropical area where the climate and temperature stays the same for eternity. Its EZ growing here ahhahaha.