How I Pre-condition the Environment for Profitable Mushroom Farming

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Mushroom growing and farming required the atmosphere to be at a correct level at all times. This means getting the correct humidity, co2 levels, temperature, and lighting to suit the growth of mushrooms. To achieve this I use a pre-conditioning room. This room is used to adjust the temperature and humidity levels prior to the air getting pumped through into the fruiting rooms.
Larger farms over seas use and Air Handling Unit, but I was unable to find one small enough for out farm, so I made my own pre-conditioning chamber. The chamber is made from an externam fridge/chiller unit, that had a commercial heap pump or air conditioning unit inside. It also features a humidifier, and a humidity probe to pre-humidify the atmosphere to around 70%. This ensures the air is warm and partially humid, and decreases the cooling effect that happens when the air enters the fruiting chambers and cools further.
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@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

Want to see how much we make selling mushrooms and grow kits? checkout this link 👉 www.oakandspore.com/farmforprofit 👈

@dickusmaxximun8126 Жыл бұрын

I love the two cows crashing your video at 4:37

@harmonymushroomco Жыл бұрын

Tom - Thank you! Another brilliant and informative video, truly a leader in the industry.

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

Cheers mate!

@ovic8737 Жыл бұрын

I love the way you explain everything man. Thank you so much! I also just signed up for your course. I cannot wait to explore your work.

@ddumday Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I've learned so much from your channel and can't wait to learn more

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that!

@zorg621 Жыл бұрын

Love seeing your progress Tom. Thank you for the videos!

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@finney436 Жыл бұрын

I’d love to hear more about how you managed your injury! A lot of us worry about what would happen to our business if we got hurt and it seems you made it through ok and I’m sure it taught you some lessons. Thanks for all you do!

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

I just didn't really use my left arm for 3 months. My dad helped a lot, and I got assistance from some friends on a few days I needed to do big tasks. People were more than happy to help out!

@toasty5546 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much for this video i never really understood the pre conditioning room a full 100% before ... now i do and i love it

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

@cullsans Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload!!! The information in your videos is so helpful!

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@sandeepsparks Жыл бұрын

Super helpful, Thanks man.

@GreenDragonMountain Жыл бұрын

Love your content Bro!

@gooblysgaming287 Жыл бұрын

This guy is awesome wish he did more video. He's a busy man though so I understand.

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

I'll try and do more!

@gooblysgaming287 Жыл бұрын

@@OakandSpore Dont stress yourself out. Videos are always better when you're happy and having fun with it. Think of your mental health first.

@seanhenderson1522 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video on the Pre-Con Room, question for you. with that heat pump you have how much temp fluctuation do you get from your set point and do you keep the pre-con room temperature the same as your grow rooms? my heat pumps seem to have a 3 degree fluctuation and Im wondering if there is a way to tighten this switching to a pre conditioning room. Thanks for posting all the great content, keep up the good work.

@nguyentra3861 Жыл бұрын

Hello. i am very happy to watch your video clip, good love your sayings i need tutorials like this one. can you tell me how the chiller, air humidifier and humidifier parameters with cooling of each stage when you grow silk and produce mushrooms. I borrowed to know how you let them work to achieve the highest mushroom yield. Thank you very much!

@mythicmushrooms 2 ай бұрын

Hello there from California! Thank you for the wonderful channel. How has the heat exchanger system been for you? I am looking to install one for the hot summers here. Do the spores/humidity cause issues for the fins?

@squarepegroundhole8211 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

No problem

@JarJoe92 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind information my dream to establish mushroom farm on Saudi Arabia soon. All requirement to grow mushroom here are challenging from spawn to room temperature >>>

@richardbrooking3123 Ай бұрын

Thanks for your videos, your an inspirational legend. How do you work out how much air flow if it is constant? Or is it controlled by temperature or humidity or a combo?

@vito7382 Ай бұрын

Love your videos! How did you calculate the size of your preconditioning room?

@juliansullivan102 5 ай бұрын

Hi Tom. Really enjoyed the video. The cows made me giggle. What would you say the total square meterage of your farm is. Including all areas?

@jordi7607 Жыл бұрын

Hello Tom, i'm learning a lot with your videos, thanks very much! I only have a question, the inatake air in precondioned room is pasive with the exhaust fan or is active with a tubular axial fan?thanks

@Ben-ww1zq 2 ай бұрын

What a gold mine. I've been challenged and feeling battered by this issue of too dry , or too cold md not enough moisture. Plus 20% electricity. What material do you use for walls, floors when you were broke?

@RastaZak Жыл бұрын

Hi First of I just want to say that I absolutely love your videos, they have been an invaluable source for someone like me who hopes to start a mushroom farm soon. I just have a few questions: 1) Are the filters you used HEPA or something else? And do you use the same type of filters on your intake and exhaust? 2) How much do the filters you use, reduce the flow rate of your fans? That's all for now :) Cheers!

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

No, the filters in the pre-conditioning are not hepa. They are used to get pollen and other dust out of the air. my fans are controlled by an automation controller, and speed up when the co2 gets too high. If the filters slow the air flow, the co2 will build up, and the fans will spin faster. It's not noticeable.

@dbr2802 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoying these videos, keep up the great work it’s really inspirational. Just had a couple of questions about your setup: 1) With the pre-conditioning room, is there anything preventing the warm humidified air from escaping from the outside air intake/heat exchanger instead of through the fruiting room duct? 2) Also regarding the heat exchanger, I imagine that the intention is to pre-warm the outside air before it reaches the AC. Just curious how this will eventually be set up? Is the plan to have the heat exchanger coil hooked up to a small boiler system? Or will you be somehow recycling excess heat from within the fruiting room or somewhere else?

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

1. No, there is constant suction from the fruiting rooms, which means air will only flow inwards through the heat exchanger. 2. I have a heat exchanger on the exhaust of the fruiting rooms. The plan is to capture energy from the fruiting room exhausts, and put it into the air going into the pre-conditioning room intake.

@dbr2802 Жыл бұрын

Ahh I see! It all makes sense to me now. Thanks for the reply.

@estebancoco9444 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for plenty of information, question: the humidifier you are using its diy? regards from another part of the south hemisphere: Patagonia

@zidaniux Жыл бұрын

Hi! I love your videos! I have one question, if I have a recuperator in fruiting room do I still need a ventilator? CO2 is measured and recouperator cleans air when certain amount is triggered. So do I need to move air if co2 in room is low..? I can't figure it out on my own so that's why I'm asking xD

@schillerj Жыл бұрын

great video! I am in the process of redesigning my preconditioning room and I definitely gained some clarity, cheers! What size ducting are you using? At the moment I believe that is my cooling bottleneck.

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

Ducting is 350mm i think!

@schillerj Жыл бұрын

@@OakandSpore cheers, I am moving upto 250mm for similar sized Fruiting room.. hopefully it is enough!

@motocaveman Жыл бұрын

Hey Tom! Love your videos! Your farm's success is quite inspiring. I wonder how you are doing with it all. Do you still enjoy the business or has scaling up started to cause burnout? Do you have any advice for someone looking to scale up in a similar fashion?

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

I don't really burn out. I get tired sometimes, and take an afternoon off here and there, spend some times with my children etc. I really enjoy what I do, I start work at 6am each day, and can easily work till 6pm. Working long hours is easier when you do it from home. I can go inside and have breakfast with the kids, lunch with the wife etc. I love business, and will run businesses for the rest of my life. If it wasn't mushrooms it would be something else. We have a lot more growth still to come. Scaling can be challenging, just remember to allocate capital correctly. Grow the market, ensure you have enough room (facility), get equipment to increase production, and get staff to do the daily tasks so you can focus on the more important aspects of the business. Thanks for the support, and take care.

@motocaveman Жыл бұрын

@@OakandSpore Thanks for the reply! Wishing you the best from Oklahoma.

@henlomatt Жыл бұрын

Hi Tom! Great video, it was something I had been pondering about as well. One question, is your pre-con room heatpump also on automatic for the temperature? I was wondering about how to control temperature differences between day and night as one would need to chance from cooling to heating in one day. Or do you just let it drop to lows during the nighttime? Thanks again for the info.

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

It is connected to my automation controller, but it not functioning thay was as the controller brand want me to do a course and pay more money. I just have it set to around 21, and it gets warm during the day, and cools off a couple degrees at night

@calvenwilliams3373 Жыл бұрын

I would very much like to know more about that heat exchanger. I'm building a mushroom shed in cold Canada and need to vent the chamber but I need an intake

@lanalee9294 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting and much appreciated! Q: Do you have additional humidifies - one for each fruiting room?

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

One in the high humidity fruiting room, none in the other room

@tomcatmeow69 Жыл бұрын

really good information as I plan my entry into the mushroom market here in Southern Ontario Canada, about an hour west of Toronto, over the next year or so. My intention is to build self contained mushroom grow farms for use in urban backyards so people can drop them in place and grow mushrooms. Similar climate here in southern Ontario. I have been wondering about the pre conditioning of air for the incubation and fruiting room. I'm just wondering the size of your preconditioning room as compared to the rooms that use this preconditioned air. and how often you cycle out the atmosphere of the fruiting and incubation room?

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

Preconditioning room is maybe 8m2, and the growing rooms are around 40m2.

@hawdcaw Жыл бұрын

Lol at the cow

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

Those my girls!

@imanderdumme8706 Жыл бұрын

Hi and long live the Australia 🇦🇺

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

Australia is awesome, but I live in New Zealand......

@imanderdumme8706 Жыл бұрын

@@OakandSpore my god new Zealand has a stunning nature i love it . But i know nothing about the peoples over there and the culture over there and the government over there . But i know oak spore mushroom farm and i love this attractive farmer god bless you and your family.

@andrewbarnett2761 Жыл бұрын

Do you think its better for humidty to rise like that found in nature or fall on the fruit. Im new but that question is puzzling me if it would have any effect.

@CMZneu Жыл бұрын

Great setup but honestly i would prefer not having the humidifier in the same room as the AC/heat exchanger, ideally i would like the AC to never be in contact with humid air, not saying put it in the fruiting room but in a smaller humidification chamber or big duct(plenum). It's not that big a deal though but i don't think it's good for the AC to run in such a humid environment, also same goes for the filter, there is no need for it to filter humid air, it promotes a bit of contamination growth on it, besides if it was before the AC it would help keep it's fins cleaner.

@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын

I think the AC should be fine, I only set the humidity for 70%. There are countries around the world that generally have very high humidities, and these places all use heat pumps.

@CMZneu Жыл бұрын

@@OakandSpore Yeah it will probably be fine it just won't last as long, i prefer to keep electronics away from moisture if possible especially when condensation could be an issue.