How to grow AMAZING mushrooms with one device!
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2 жыл бұрынMost people use Inkbird humidity controllers to grow mushrooms. But I think there is an alternative viable method. I believe you can grow good mushroom by using an Inkbird CO2 controller. The Inkbird ICC-500T had a CO2 brobe that connects to the controller and can control the co2 levels up and down providing you connect the correct equipment. When the CO2 levels rises in your mushroom fruiting chamber, the Inkbird detects this, and turns the extractor fan on to draw in fresh air. Fresh air exchange is important when growing mushrooms, and this device solves this problem.
I was able to grow a great flush of mushrooms using this sensor. The spores did clog the fan at the end, so maybe some improvements need to be done on that front.
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Substrate Preparation
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@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
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@thomasnelson3449 6 ай бұрын
The C02 controller you linked to cost $250 (CAD). You can build an entire Martha tent setup for that. There's no reason to fruit oyster mushrooms in a tub if you can't do it for cheap.
@torrencekrepps757 2 жыл бұрын
A little something to remember when drilling any plastic set the drill on reverse while drilling and it won't Crack the plastic
@ryanchase2873 2 жыл бұрын
Also really helps to put decent tape over the plastic where you are drilling and behind it; no more cracking
@naturefarmingfoodandtechno5586 2 жыл бұрын
Nice information sir 😊😊
@jesselangeland7933 2 жыл бұрын
Or just go really slow and don't push
@heflar 2 жыл бұрын
or blast it max speed with zero pressure
@justinphillips1761 Жыл бұрын
Also this device is not necessary if you drill holes right above the line of substrate or paralyte CO2 is heavier than most gases that will be in there so it will leak out the bottom holes due to gravity alone drill a couple holes save a bunch of money
@Ocean-blue 4 ай бұрын
Wow who would of thought that growing mushrooms was all about ‘fish ear exchange’
@sage1682 Ай бұрын
I just grew my first batch last week, ate several grams in total here and there. Went great! Had euphoria, nice visuals. I must have gotten cocky or taken it for granted because a day ago I decided to eat 7 grams. I got zero visuals, its like the mushroom decided not to entertain me and wanted to hammer me. I laid in my bed and was fighting it, it was telling me I'm a bad person and that everyone hates me. That I should self delete. I gave in to it and it still was hammering me, being mean as hell. I have no suicidal thoughts when sober, i want to stick around, grow old, and be here for my 3 little girls so it felt like it was the mushroom telling me those things or something. I now fear and respect the mushroom.
@johnlittle3410 8 ай бұрын
thank you for the great idea. i am a HVAC controls guy. you might want to blow the air into the chamber. filter it and your fan will last a very long time without getting it stopped up
@danielsigursson8512 2 жыл бұрын
Wow that is a lot of spores! Good vid as always. Thank you.
@martink9785 2 жыл бұрын
Ah I see. Cool controller. Amazing to see the spores, really didn't expect that
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
Nether did i!
@HannahBoggio 2 жыл бұрын
I'm shocked at how many spores were in that fan!! Thanks for sharing :)
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
You and me both!
@rhb30001 8 ай бұрын
Looks like that gadget won’t last long in that environment
@paranoidmmm 2 жыл бұрын
I use that CO2 Controller with the B01 sensor for over a year and it works great
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
The man! They do work well.
@mountainmelts5221 Жыл бұрын
great video. if you want to stop the cracking on the holes.. use a small block of wood on the backside as you drill through. ive also torched a butter knife red hot and made my holes this way.
@RenegadeMushrooms 2 жыл бұрын
Very cool experiment. Thanks 👍
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@crazyethanyeahyeah Жыл бұрын
Great video thanks! Would this CO2 sensor work in a mushroom grow tent style setup?
@panbronek 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, if you want the plastic not to crack when drilling holes, use less pressure on the drill. Let the plastic heat up a little and then when the drill starts to move, slow down a little more. It should be OK. Not one container broken, get to practice :)
@Simon-et5jk 8 ай бұрын
Nice info thanks dude! I take it you dont water / fan the shrooms during fruiting as this fan & perlite combo is it working auto? thanks
@jesselangeland7933 2 жыл бұрын
I wanted to see how you would use it in your new grow room still a good learning video
@MyTube4Utoo Жыл бұрын
A very cool video. Thanks.
@alanbrackett4230 2 жыл бұрын
Does the fruiting block have to rest between fruiting or do you just continue with misting block as usual.
@jacobjamar 2 жыл бұрын
Great video man! I always enjoy your content! Still using softwood for most of your grows?
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
Yea mate, team softwood all the way!
@danmaiers3451 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video as usual. I really do enjoy your videos when you experiment with new techniques. If not you, then who? If not now, then when? 😉
@Artem-rh4yz 2 жыл бұрын
Does blue oyster would grow with the same speed? Mine third day in fruiting room, and I don’t see pins yet
@Letmedomyshit Жыл бұрын
How to calibrate this device for extraction fan (WORK2)? I want that the fan turn ON when in the box it’s more than 5000ppm and it it’s below the fan should turn off Thanks 🙏🏼
@mattcl24 2 жыл бұрын
Nice New Zealand container. Glad to see some Aussie pearlite in there though 😀
@christopherlee2947 2 жыл бұрын
Wow. That you cannot complain about.
@berrybluex2501 2 жыл бұрын
Would this work w truffle?
@MrConfrontation 2 жыл бұрын
When drilling into plastic containers like that, brace the underside of where you are drilling with wood, drill in to the wood.
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
I like to live dangerously
@woollyneptune3812 2 жыл бұрын
Low drill speed in the key
@mrexz 11 ай бұрын
Love the background music 😎
@OakandSpore 11 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@bicicogito989 2 жыл бұрын
Niiiice... enjoy ALL your output! THANKS for sharing!! Would have like to see a control sistema container without active CO2 control, right next to the one here. Maybe simply air holes on each side. Keep it up!!!!
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
Great suggestion!
@flakey1228 2 жыл бұрын
That so cool! And the amount of spores is insane. A grocery store here sells sporeless oysters. Maybe I should clone them^^
@craigdawson7632 2 жыл бұрын
The setup is looking good dude. How many air changes/hour would you need in a fruiting room? Or even per a regular wire rack that everyone uses.
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
depends on the ratio of substrate:volume in the room. A large room with a small number of grow bags wont need as many air exchanges as a small room with a large number of grow bags. The common air exchange rate is considered around 6-8 i believe.
@craigdawson7632 2 жыл бұрын
@@OakandSpore Thanks. That's really moving some cubes. Have you found or see a way that could dump the CO² from a mushroom fruiting room into a green house without humidity being a problem. Recycle the CO² from mushrooms and oxygen from tomatoes with no more than the cost of running a fan
@petrovuch 5 ай бұрын
cool device, but you did not mentioned the temperature around, shrooms will not grow if its to hoot, so how you manage temperature?
@ekta7371 Жыл бұрын
Can we control 5% co2
@MrRgates23 4 ай бұрын
When drilling holes in tote with a hole saw, run the drill in reverse at low speed. Then the teeth of the saw will NOT catch on the tote edge and break the tote. The friction of the hole saw will melt and cut the hole. You will get a much cleaner hole in the tote. Also much safer and will NOT break the tote!
@johnlittle3410 8 ай бұрын
also when drilling the light plastic start with the drill and then switch the direction of the drill motor. it will take a bit longer but want break plastic
@ronlabe5487 Жыл бұрын
Put a board on the inside to drill into to avoid splitting.
@Andrew-cm8rp 8 ай бұрын
Does this unit auto shut off at night?
@ExaltedDuck 2 жыл бұрын
Big thumbs up for stressing the importance of respiratory protection. I work with urethane paints from time to time and things like that are an absolute must. Just one note, though - facial hair can significantly degrade the quality of the seal to your face. Some types exist that don't need a tight seal. They use a hood with a constant positive pressure air supply. Usually that's via a stupidly expensive belt mounted fan/filter unit (called a PAPR - around 1500-2000 USD) but the hoods and hoses are fairly inexpensive, long lasting, and can be fed by any fresh air source (often treated compressed air in paint shops but I'm sure it would be trivial to set something up with a fan and duct drawing from outside your chamber for very low cost)
@kingalf4828 5 ай бұрын
A heat gun applied to area you want to hole saw drill will prevent plastic from splitting less.
@dylanmonke1554 Жыл бұрын
ah dang that shirt is awesome
@cryptoponics 10 ай бұрын
Since the density of CO2 (1.842 kg/m3) is significantly higher than air (1.205 kg/m3) @NTP, and with the fruiting shrooms generating CO2, the inlet fresh air holes should have been located on the top of the container with the exhaust fan being located on the bottom. This would reduce the amount of fresh air required for interchange keeping the humidity higher as well. Just an observation from a chemical engineer, lolz.
@OakandSpore 10 ай бұрын
Do you think convection is low enough for the gasses to separate in any meaningful quantities?
@cryptoponics 10 ай бұрын
@@OakandSpore When the fan is off you 'effectively' have a closed container barring external air currents. As CO2 is generated it will fill the lower portion of the container first and the CO2 concentration gradient will increase as you rise in the box. This is similar to the temperature gradients that you have noticed and demonstrated in your fruiting rooms floor to ceiling. Hot air is less dense than cold air - hence it rises. Now, some CO2 will diffuse to the outside air through the multiple small holes at the bottom of the container when the fan is off via diffusion, but the fact that you set the CO2 monitor to 650 cycling down to 600 makes me wonder what the concentration was at the top and the bottom of the container. I have seen other videos where the CO2 concentration is 5000+ ppm. I wish we had a real life problem like this to solve when I was taking fluid dynamics many years ago. Love your channel and what you're doing and just want you to think about CO2 being more dense than fresh air the same way cold air is too hot. Air @ 20C is 1.204 kg/m3 & air @ 15C is 1.225 kg/m3. The relative difference in density is far more pronounced for CO2 to fresh air than it is for a 5C temperature difference. Just some food for thought.
@rhb30001 8 ай бұрын
Set him straight! 😅
@zeratul600 Жыл бұрын
From GordoTek, run the drill in reverse, also you could kinda of preheat it with heat gun (or a hair dryer). In my opinion (non tested yet) i think that you could use Adhesive Tape (the one you use in the office for papers or for packaging crates), and cover the part you are gonna drill... with all of that, I hope that you don't get another broken tub
@dylanminer3728 11 ай бұрын
Medical tape is the best for that , there is a brand and a product that is the best to do so (micropore tape )
@zeratul600 11 ай бұрын
@@dylanminer3728 you meant to keep the air exchange while keeping out any undesirebles? if that's the case then your totally right :). But What I meant was before the drilling was done, in order to avoid getting cracks in the plastic: Like you select the place where your're gonna drill, then you cover the whole area before drilling (it will probably take a like 6 or more strips of the wide packaging tape, and then you set your power drill to REVERSE and proceed to drill in a way the total circumference you're cutting is within the covered area by the tape, with some luck no cracks would appear or spread
@susannecameron454 2 жыл бұрын
I enjoy and learn a lot from your videos. Thank you for sharing. To minimise spore clog in the fan, would it work the other way around i.e. could the fan be used to blow air into the container and force the CO2 and spores out of the holes?
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
That's a great idea!! It would work great.
@soota6083 2 жыл бұрын
I would probably be concerned about blowing spores into the environment around the tent (depending on where it is). Spores are not healthy to inhale. Ideally, you'd want to exhaust it outdoors, such as a window, so the spores go outside your home.
@mcnowski 4 ай бұрын
Just curious if you could grow another set of mushrooms off the other side at the same time?
@jimathybindlenim6359 2 ай бұрын
I do that for the second flush. Some fruit bigger and healthier when you just give it one patch at a time
@DenisSalmon Жыл бұрын
That kiwi accent gives ne the cracks 😅 thanks fir sharing so much knowledge mate. It’s precious
@dantefuego Жыл бұрын
where can i get that t shirt
@knowyuhgrow420 Жыл бұрын
Nice 👍🏽
@krzywik13 9 ай бұрын
Dont u need out filters on the vent holes
@MatthewFarnell2009 Жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on how to program the Ink Bird?
@VincentS327 Жыл бұрын
Probably a lil late… but if you search “InkBird icc-500t” there’s actually a tutorial video on how to set it up…
@schandler68 Жыл бұрын
Why not cut both sides of the bag? Have you ever tried
@fatkorn Жыл бұрын
I understand having to much CO2 but I don't understand the controller. Wouldn't you just always vent? Is it to save on electricity? cause it would take a lot to balance out the purchase of the controller. I'm new to all this so excuse me not knowing stuff.
@VincentS327 Жыл бұрын
This is to have control of the CO2 in the room. He’s demonstrating with 1 box, but imagine a room full of boxes? That is where this controller would really shine…
@Yoggoth 8 ай бұрын
Because by changing air constantly you remove humidity constantly, so you also need to humidity constantly
@Artem-rh4yz 2 жыл бұрын
Another way to collect spore prints! )))
@aphexpin 2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps not super relevant to this video, but why did you move away from your percentage repeat cycle timer and back to inkbirds? And why did you go for the pricier Torkz timer over cheaper offerings? Thank you for your time/content. I bought it based off your recommendation and a few others (in the aeroponics community) who criticized cheaper timers as being failure prone.
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
I am not using this device for my main growing. I actually use it to monitor the co2 in my incubation room now. My primary growing is done with expensive and high quality sensors. That being said, cheaper co2 probes are fairly good. Its cheap humidity probes which is a problem.
@aphexpin 2 жыл бұрын
@@OakandSpore I had switched to cycle timers over futzing around with a humidity probe in high humidity environments. Is there any advantage to using a sensor over 'dialing in' a repeat cycle timer? I bought the Torkz model you recommended and it's been working great with my high pressure system and exhaust fan running 24/7 on a speed controller. I did see your newer video regarding your nice new controller - looks great! A bit overkill for me right now though, as a guy just growing in a tent in his garage.
@ah1864 2 жыл бұрын
I hav about 70 oyster mushroom fruiting blocks with softwood sawdust as substrate. (Not enriched ) but no fruiting even after full colonisation. Starw logs are fruiting ....all parameters are perfect. Can u help me?
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
You need to suppliment. Soft wood on it's own will be lacking in nitrogen.
@ah1864 2 жыл бұрын
@@OakandSpore Thank you
@flaparoundfpv8632 2 жыл бұрын
I went with the Skinkturd RH meter and it kinda sux. Had to rip out the alarm to be able to hit 99% humidity because there's no way to turn it off. Then I had to mess with the placement of the sensor to keep it away from any fog because the first thing it did was saturate and error out. I'll be moving to an Omega brand heated probe as soon as I can. I do a ton of Arduino-type stuff, so a total wireless solution isn't far down the road.
@MusicBeSweetYo Жыл бұрын
I think it'd be better to have the fan create positive pressure in the chamber vs your negative pressure setup. Little pc fans are really not made to get gunked up with spores and all that humidity - and worst case scenario, that can start a fire. Another benefit of positive pressure is you could potentially vent the spores outside.
@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын
That's actually a good idea. I have never thought about making it positive pressure!
@jacobmillen641 Жыл бұрын
@@OakandSpore Positive pressure will very quickly highlight any leaks or gaps in your room by venting spores and humidity out of them as opposed to passively drawing air into the room through said gaps while exhausting through the outtake vent - negative pressure is the sensible setup to avoid leakages and fluctuations. If the PC fan is the issue, simply upgrade the fan, don't change your pressure setup brother!
@darkcity925 Жыл бұрын
ahh didn't realize my problem was not enough fresh ear
@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын
Some people struggle with the English language, it's totally oaky.
@xxbambamxx7261 Жыл бұрын
What, me and my daughter smash mushrooms like that out in the forest, they usually grow in old rotten lumber on the ground, even on old trees around where we live... Didn't think they were any special or anything 🙈
@BoroBootBoy 2 жыл бұрын
CO2 controllers aren't cheap, Inkbird included.
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
They aren't! I must admit, I am a fan on co2 controlling... I have multiple sensors around my farm. This inkbird is not in my incubation room.
@BoroBootBoy 2 жыл бұрын
@@OakandSpore CO2 control is definitely needed in larger operations. I currently rely on regular air exchange to do the job but would love to add a CO2 controller so i could 'trim' the air exchange (and temp). I use Inkbird for temp and humidity, and they have proven reliable, so maybe one day....
@blackmoses706 8 ай бұрын
Not clear on how to set the device
@meandillar69 2 жыл бұрын
If you put some tape over the area you're drilling before you start you shouldn't get a split.
@alexvm8352 2 жыл бұрын
Dude I swear pearl oysters are never satisfied. They’re such a trap for beginners, since they are considered easy. Creating ideal FAE for them in a home environment is nigh impossible.
@OakandSpore 2 жыл бұрын
I've never grown pearls here in NZ, they aren't approved for import.
@curiositeconstante404 2 жыл бұрын
@@OakandSpore You did dodge a bullet, that was the government setting up a trap on you, well done !
@rickytorres9089 Жыл бұрын
Indeed, I am most likely gonna do those outdoors for that reason.
@naturefarmingfoodandtechno5586 2 жыл бұрын
He'll
@mallek1989 Жыл бұрын
That controller was trash. I returned it after a day. It couldn’t even keep up with my crappy $40 CO2 meter. Maybe they’re not meant to be in a grow tent with circulation fans running, but idk man. I’d hit over 2000ppm while that still read 1200. It’s not trustworthy for using with CO2 tanks or generators.
@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын
All co2 meters have a delay in reaction, mainly because most of the have a protective membrane to prevent damage to the sensor. The gas has to permeate the membrane. My expensive vaisala co2 monitors only gave a 60 second response time.
@thrillchaser9492 Жыл бұрын
ya got 100 dollars worth of electronics to grow 10 dollar worth of mushrooms.. it's not worth the cost at this scale...maybe a room would be much more worth it..but not a box
@rickytorres9089 Жыл бұрын
That is why I am looking at probably doing all of my grows outdoors among graden plants. Oysters apparently grow pretty reliably this way.
@brettharter143 5 ай бұрын
There isnt a chance he grew those pink oyster mushrooms in that tub even with a CO2 device....
@gangadharhiremath7306 2 жыл бұрын
Difficult for me to follow your English pronunciation.It is better if you add subtitle to your video.(speech in written form)
@georgefairweathermoonlight4 2 жыл бұрын
hehe,,, he spuks real kuwi!!
@bobliek1176 5 ай бұрын
Great entertainment but the devil is in the details. The controller AMZN link is for a cotroller with S01 sensor. That sensor is not for high humidity environments. I made the mistake of buying one and found out the hard way. Not good for my grow tent.
@My3elium 2 жыл бұрын
Orrrr if you have soo much power and intelect to have a readyyy fully colonized block of mycelium you can also just take that shittt outdoor and it will still growe and im sure more perfect than indoor z😂
@n64victor30 Жыл бұрын
Boooooooooooo
@girthworm6895 Жыл бұрын
I just wanna ask when District 10 is coming out? Lol jk dude looks just like the main guy lol
@OakandSpore Жыл бұрын
F**king prawns man
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