How To Grow Profitable Gourmet Mushrooms | Harvesting Tips For Oyster And Specialty Mushrooms

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In this video learn how to grow profitable oyster mushrooms plus other gourmet specialty varieties like lions mane, chestnut mushrooms, and king oysters. Learn simple basic mushroom harvesting tips and the strategies we have implemented to succeed.
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@planetmikusha5898 4 жыл бұрын

I've seen perhaps 50 videos on mushroom cultivation, and he's the first to speak of wearing a mask.

@TheOrcasRule 4 жыл бұрын

Same here. Maybe he has a respiratory condition or something?

@planetmikusha5898 4 жыл бұрын

@THA ARCHON ABOLISHER 88 Put down your soy for a moment and consider other KZfaq channels on mushroom cultivation aren't wearing masks. That was the point genius.

@totallynotdelinquent5933 4 жыл бұрын

You can develop an infection from certain species if you have a poor immune system, or just breathe in a shit ton of spores.

@seancostello26 3 жыл бұрын

mike from southwest mushrooms is another excellent source of information on mushroom cultivation, and he's also specifically mentioned the value of wearing a mask in several videos.. You should definitely check him out if you like this content

@lennystiggs7806 2 жыл бұрын

I've heard many mention masks and breathing to many spores can lead to flu like symptoms. "Spore lung" It usually only necessary if your gunna be there for around 30 minutes to a few hours harvesting and working.

@jinzo1171 4 жыл бұрын

It’s 3:05am here I am now interested in mushrooms

@battlingdadbod6516 4 жыл бұрын

The fact you help people for free is admirable. ❤️

@robertimmanuel577 4 жыл бұрын

It's

@jenniferaho1169 5 жыл бұрын

I'm really enjoying these videos. Inspiring and informative. Love the candor. Thanks for all your effort.

@NomadicMedhunter 5 жыл бұрын

Looking great. Good idea on the flip for top growing mushrooms

@tmjoutdoors9486 5 жыл бұрын

Thank for an awesome video ! Keep up the good work!

@Tricegames 4 жыл бұрын

And on this episode of how tf did I get here

@johnbrock6662 4 жыл бұрын

Im not mario ok boomer

@RagbagMcShag 4 жыл бұрын

@@johnbrock6662 im gonna virtually kick ur shin

@robertimmanuel577 4 жыл бұрын

Same. This quarantine has led me to be interested in growing mushrooms.

@maxwellclindsay 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah... can't even blame recommended for this sadly

@freddyvillegas4357 3 жыл бұрын

I've been spending time with the help of my son researching into how to grow mushrooms and found an awesome website at Gregs Mushroom Grower (check it out on google)

$@dreamfractures$

@dreamfractures 4 жыл бұрын

this video fulfilled some huntergatherer instinct in me

@AliasDrakes 4 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to try growing for personal use!

@pathwaylane4613 2 жыл бұрын

Nice Mushroom 🍄 Musical Beats to capture the journey of growing up to harvesting.

@indiareiss434 2 жыл бұрын

These are one of my favorite mushrooms! They look so good!

@stevet5596 5 жыл бұрын

Great advice about wearing a mask. I never really did now I have respritory issuses. Thanks for all the great videos!

@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrorr 3 жыл бұрын

What kinda issues? Can you tell me please?

@garytoca3989 4 жыл бұрын

Career : growing mushrooms Side hustle : making beats 7:44

@jennp3529 3 жыл бұрын

I read this comment right when the beat dropped.

@collegesynewave 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your help :)

@josephallan8791 5 жыл бұрын

Damn that looks like such a fun a rewarding hobby. I bet the chefs pay good money for that kind of quality. I love mushrooms. Damn those you harvested were gorgeous. I bet they taste like a dream. Garlic, butter, and fine chopped challots with your shrooms over steak. Mmmmmmm👍

@lathargik 5 жыл бұрын

hey man nice video, the music makes it very watchable. enjoy the wild mushroom hunt. just found over a 1/2 pound of bears head going to be giving cultivation a shot here soon. sourcing out materials now. Whats a good price for hardwood saw dust and soy hulls in your opinion?

@maniladawg 5 жыл бұрын

very helpful. thanx

@rosstemple7617 5 жыл бұрын

Love the video

@budbert69 5 жыл бұрын

Have you thought of investing in a trolley to wheel around where you are working.Your not working off the ground and you can have the scale and baskets at waste level and keep all your experiment together. Also you can have some storage under the trolley for picked mushrooms.

@davewygonowski984 5 жыл бұрын

Hope we see a lot of detailed vid of the foraging...

@interestandfun9190 5 жыл бұрын

You’re awesome dude

@Kevin-jb2pv 5 жыл бұрын

How often do you change that peroxide? Peroxide that's kept in clear bottles won't keep very long because light will degrade it into oxygen and water. This is why peroxide is always sold in brown, opaque bottles.

@donovanholm 4 жыл бұрын

I'd imagine keep it in a dark room with the bottle wrapped in tin foil.

@PugilistCactus 4 жыл бұрын

Clear bottles are fine if you store it in the dark.

@ZenoDiac 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent work. What temperature do you grow your Kings in?

@craigbee 4 жыл бұрын

Those mushrooms look delicious.

@Jupe367 4 жыл бұрын

They look delicious.

@sunmoon9574 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for mentioning how wearing a mask is a good idea when being around a lot of spores. I'll never forget hearing about a study that found all kinds of fungi in the respiratory systems of garbage collectors because of the many hours a day they spend being subjected to the spores from moldy trash (this is why it is important that we close our little garbage bags sufficiently before putting them out in the big container. It at least minimizes the exposure.)

@kellemarie7793 4 жыл бұрын

You should do asmr of you pulling the caps

@calacosp 5 жыл бұрын

Growing mushrooms for a living, you must be a fun-gi to be around.

@NorthtoHopeDesert_Hues 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂👍

@RagbagMcShag 4 жыл бұрын

and ur fun-gay ayyyy

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

@@RagbagMcShag this is truly a moronic comment

@MrEvanmartinez 4 жыл бұрын

2:38 wow that mushroom in the top left

@minwellitsanicknamebegrate2531 4 жыл бұрын

I haven’t tried any of theses mushrooms, and the only kind I have tried I hated I wonder if I would like these they look yummy 🤤

@frost8690 4 жыл бұрын

You make me want to learn more about mushrooms

@whatthefungus 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man

@jake4101 4 жыл бұрын

Look up Paul Stamets. Mycology is fascinating.

@genuinehearts8247 3 жыл бұрын

My picks

@seancostello26 3 жыл бұрын

do you put a casing layer on top of your king oysters when you top fruit them? i didnt, and i'm having SERIOUS trouble getting it to pin. It's been on the shelf for a week and literally nothing happens even when i put it in the fridge overnight to cold shock it.. wondering what im doing wrong as all my other fruiting blocks are taking off rapidly

@actionkey8042 5 жыл бұрын

WHAT THE FUNGUS cooooooOOOOLLLLL and AWESOMEONE

@Bigeyesdaw 5 жыл бұрын

Lĺlĺĺĺl

@jesseknox9322 5 жыл бұрын

This video is relaxing just watching mushrooms being harvested is awesome. So do you worry about not having enough yield/bag? Is it possible to get a 1# or 1.5# of lions mane per flush per bag? Or is this the reality? I've been getting nice flushes, but not like a pound of lions mane or 2# of oyster off of one flush which made me think i was doing it wrong, but maybe not??

@whatthefungus 5 жыл бұрын

We get about 1-1.2 lbs of Oysters on the first flush

@learningtolivewithhumans1859 4 жыл бұрын

bro the peroxide you use that hydrogen peroxide yeh??? wicked info pal and im taking it all in i stared growing last week man and i love it had our first yellow oysters yesterday and they taste like bacon!!!! loving all your guys vlogs they are so helpful and ill actually subscribe now dont know why i haven't already and do you sell the lions mane? i cant get that at all in the uk bro

@josmeijers2818 4 жыл бұрын

you ... YOU CAN GROW MUSHROOMS IN A BAG ?!?! why do i always find the really odd/awesome stuff while browsing YT at 3 in the morning ?

@boratsagdiyev1586 4 жыл бұрын

I used to grow shrooms in a aquarium-tank under a light. You just need some spores :)

@crsereda 4 жыл бұрын

You can grow mushrooms in a five gallon bucket from Home Depot too

@seancostello26 3 жыл бұрын

you can grow mushrooms in literally any container, but plastic bags/buckets/storage containers are the most common because they can be easily sterilized at very high temperature, which drastically increases your success rate

@tonyolen1381 4 жыл бұрын

Those Chestnut mushrooms look very similar to young Amanita Mascaria, or is that just another name for them?

@kossiakpalou8223 4 жыл бұрын

How do you prepare growing media?

@mehmetalpyel 11 ай бұрын

Have you ever experineced grow lions mane on pine fuel pellets ?

@jakuboprsal9782 3 жыл бұрын

What is average temperature in yours green houses? Thank you ;)

@lololollaughatlife1431 4 жыл бұрын

I really want to take a class from you. Are all your courses in Canada?

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

We do one course in Bulgaria every second tuesday of the 3rd week of the second month following the previous one.

@awjnck204 4 жыл бұрын

I have a mushroom farm about 2-3km away from my house and it stinks, does it stink to grow them for you?

@rockyrivermushrooms529 5 жыл бұрын

How often per week do you make new bags for incubating? I am considering doing once a week but I wont harvest as often that way I think.

@whatthefungus 5 жыл бұрын

We try to sterilize and inoculate 1000 bags per week

@esahutske 4 жыл бұрын

Making me *HUNGRY* New sub

@rvsc2277 4 жыл бұрын

very good thanks for sharing Bobby from Q.CITY PHILIPPINES.

@benjaminmiranda9422 4 жыл бұрын

Has estado mirando un poco de todo, no?

@ntaingyoutubecom 4 жыл бұрын

where can I by mushroom spon

@OinkFanMayne 4 жыл бұрын

This is awesome!! I want to grow shroomies! Can you shed some light on the music you used also?

@miguelnava7741 5 жыл бұрын

what substrate do you use for the eryngii? because it only grows once and does not grow back

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

He uses the special thing, he mentioned it before. It is called coom. Just message if you need some coom, I can send you a link so that you can get coom.

@jeremy87turbo87 5 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about Cortes island Canada do you know somebody that liives there I do my Joe and Mary Just asking because it is a very small island

@danialbrown4417 4 жыл бұрын

what is the song as 14:15

@tdcanam1 5 жыл бұрын

Hey mate, I'm playing around with oyster mushroom mycelium as a way to degrade juglone in my soil from black walnut trees. I am propagating my own, but I was wondering if you could tell me the easiest way to put a line of this mycelium across my property, between my veg and my walnut trees, just below the soil.

@chrisbartkowicz2759 5 жыл бұрын

He has a video about growing morrels... that tech in there should be a fast way to meet your goals

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

bunker spawn burlap sacks, if interested paul stamets has many books on the subject you can search some of his work on mycofiltration he was able to drop ppm of effluent run-off from his livestock this way

@kimuseni 4 жыл бұрын

🤘

@gregorybowman6851 Жыл бұрын

How long is your season? Is it spring summer due to the weather? What temperature should it be in your culture room and greenhouses. TIA

@mrs_Mccoy Жыл бұрын

I bought some mushrooms from a Drugstore online

@mrs_Mccoy Жыл бұрын

FROM TRIP_MYCOLOGIST

@mrs_Mccoy Жыл бұрын

in instagram

@rothar6501 5 жыл бұрын

What are some signs that the oyster mushrooms are ready to be harvest?

@ivanioshkas7504 4 жыл бұрын

First few question popping in my head after a clicked the video from recommended -What the fuck am I watching? -How did I get here? -Why this is so entertaining? -How do I grow these?

@sceplecture2382 3 жыл бұрын

And cheap :)

@miroksp1836 4 жыл бұрын

This feels like watching a weed grower but like without the weed

@gustavgnoettgen 4 жыл бұрын

10 a pound? What cost fresh champignons in your area?

@RagbagMcShag 4 жыл бұрын

Are those plastic bags recyclable or are they just waste?

@sunmoon9574 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 👍🏽 It irks me too.

@jimfurr81 5 жыл бұрын

You said you were going to give us Totals for that harvest! I'm thinking you get an average of $15 per lb for Kings and $10 for most others. Maybe $12 total average per lb. ? How many lbs this day?

@mikepadia4244 5 жыл бұрын

Where does he live that gives him this price? Denver maybe doing crazy things, oysters grow same as Psylocybe Cubensis? (then I'll bet, they land at $30/mycelial bag, ready to grow)....Still, love these vids. You're a bit high on pricing... oysters are like $3/lb at the Chinese supermarket, not worth the average mans time (I attempted to slurry up a liquid culture and tossed it around the Lake [Morels would be nice to throw on the wood trails but they're $40-lb on Craigslist {See if the oysters colonize, first?}] ), Lions Mane is crazy at whole foods i think $15/lb. Maybe worth sourcing out a liquid culture and growing indoors.

@kevincleary2863 5 жыл бұрын

It said 42 lbs total at the end of the video on the bottom of the screen

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

@@mikepadia4244 you cant tell by the accent that he is canadian? also oysters will not be the same price as psylocybe as that is considered a drug and is $20 dollars an eighth of an ounce dried.

@kaomungai2355 4 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me about your income? like how much did you gets per month? I just want to know thanks.

@reptileguy1124 4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't you get more production if you spawned to bulk in a huge tub?

@kalebdye4378 4 жыл бұрын

Not all species of mushrooms grow well in tubs.

@faithfultheology 4 жыл бұрын

There not phycidellics lol

@dostokachannel7966 4 жыл бұрын

Hello I am Ashu from India

@rosstemple7617 5 жыл бұрын

Okay I like mushroom. Now I really want to know how to prepare and flavor profiles. Would your chefs maybe like to comment

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

Hi I am a regular chef from the area. We often experiment in our restaraunt with these mushrooms using flavour profiles from the local area like deer skat and badger turf and most recently we used composting toilet reed bed spawn that had a really woody and earthy flavour and smelled exquisite.

@matthewmace3566 4 жыл бұрын

thank you for the video. i learned something. just for safety info. the respirator doesn't work if you have any facial hair. goodluck.

@pauloantunes8826 3 жыл бұрын

Friend rotate your shelves 90 degrees, is easier to work.

@ricofowl9542 4 жыл бұрын

Did he just wear sandals from outside in his greenhouse then stress sterilizing?

@RagbagMcShag 4 жыл бұрын

maybe he got a sterilization pad at the entrance or sprays em

@cumonshane 5 жыл бұрын

Question; are all of those bags recyclable or is it a one use type of thing?

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

You can use them for cooming indefinitely.

@antoniolarrondosalces1558 4 жыл бұрын

Alguien vino por un poco de todo

@sofie7403 4 жыл бұрын

Antonio Larrondo Salces io

@adorabletaco9736 4 жыл бұрын

hey whats the song at 12:30 please

@tonyolen1381 4 жыл бұрын

Darude Sandstorm

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

Fragma Toca's Miracle

@Hodja60 4 жыл бұрын

8:10 What's this song?

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

Darude Sandstorm

@jaybefaulky4902 4 жыл бұрын

now i understand why mushrooms can NEVER be cheap..because you cannot ever 'mass harvest' with out almost destroying the product.

@iRoXsOxAlOt 4 жыл бұрын

If you know what vertical farming is, you could probably rig a pipe system that allows for designated fruiting holes and automation by cutting the shrooms off the holes and refilling pipes with new mycellium. Never underestimate human ingenuity :D That was just an idea that came to me, someone who knows nothing about this, in 10 seconds of thought. I'm sure there are smart people that could figured out a way to industrialize this with future AI too!

@Hayley-gt6ft 4 жыл бұрын

What do you do with all those mushrooms?

@jaypazole4086 3 жыл бұрын

Sell them

@Hayley-gt6ft 3 жыл бұрын

@@jaypazole4086 why tho?

@jaypazole4086 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hayley-gt6ft for money to make a living like any other cash crop

@Hayley-gt6ft 3 жыл бұрын

@@jaypazole4086 just pulling your leg ^^

@jaypazole4086 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hayley-gt6ft and I totally fell for it lol

@WhiteRabbit. 4 жыл бұрын

Nootrops?! 2:45

@I_Shotgun_Beers 4 жыл бұрын

If the average price is about $10 a pound, and he harvested 42 pounds of mushrooms in a day, that's about $420. Probably significantly more than that, considering $10 was the price for his cheapest mushroom. How long does a harvest cycle like this take?

@deez3302 4 жыл бұрын

420 blaze it

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

Six years till harvest.

@asadbaig305 3 жыл бұрын

How profitable is the mushroom business

@hankanderson8633 4 жыл бұрын

This sounds silly but I’d love to just watch all kinds of harvesting videos on mushrooms. I don’t like the slimy taste and texture of cooked mushrooms... and they kind of freak me out. Idk why?

@jake4101 4 жыл бұрын

Micophobia. Look up Paul Stamets & Joe Rogan. Especially the one from 2 years ago.

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

@@jake4101 mycophobia!!

@Chocol8chan 4 жыл бұрын

Myco* not mico

@masterroshi5573 5 жыл бұрын

Why do you need to protect yourself from spores of edible mushrooms?

@Axelrun1994 5 жыл бұрын

I'd guess even edible mushroom spores have chance of clumping up your plumbing, so to speak. From other mushroom farm videos I've picked up that exhaust fans for grow rooms get notoriously clogged after a while. Working with fungi you also get a lot of contamination and you might not want to expose yourself to any of that if it screws up your grow. I don't know I'm just guessing, anyone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

@frankmueller2781 5 жыл бұрын

As far as they are a health issue, even "safe" fungi can be unpredictable. Remember, your lungs are warm and wet, the ideal medium for fungus to thrive in. Mushrooms are great, but you don't want them, or their relatives growing in your lungs.

@PugilistCactus 4 жыл бұрын

Although edible, spores are bad for the lungs. Mostly because your lungs are dark and damp, and long exposure can cause infection.

@nikkiquan3265 4 жыл бұрын

Hi I would like to buy wholesale spawn to open a mushroom farm. Where can I buy wholesale? Thanks you

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

www.themyceliumemporium.com/shop plenty of variety with many strains of each

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

@Red Jhon craig list... really? i cant find this list... do you mean craigs list?

@me.1475 4 жыл бұрын

why dirty newspaper?

@faithsrvtrip8768 4 жыл бұрын

Newspaper is nasty and newsprint inks are toxic. Why don't you use plain brown butcher paper, the kind that comes on a roll? Even the brown paper that movers use is cleaner than newspaper! Any movers supply / packaging place sells that moving paper by weight. Not that expensive. Wait, I hear the way you said, "we just pop them out" and by the way you pronounced "out" you are Canadian? Vancouver Island! Nailed it!

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

Shut the fuck up.

@katiehunter7313 4 жыл бұрын

nice head :)

@FeelingShred 4 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, around where I live mushrooms are not part of our common diet, so the first time I ever saw one in my face, when it was time to harvest it I found it so scary for some reason, I was afraid of touching it and it starts moving or such, it looked like some kind of alien creature that was alive xDDDDD anyone else ever had that impression at first sight?

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

i have never seen a mushroom move on its own... someone must have been playing tricks on you

@constablebentonfraser5014 4 жыл бұрын

It is because the mushrooms are made of coom.

@FeelingShred 4 жыл бұрын

hilarious

@kraghu8648 5 жыл бұрын

Please establish your farm in India sir..

@mikepadia4244 5 жыл бұрын

Idiot. Spain, New Zealand, Denver.... hes american and would probably grow profit, not food. look at his prices. You can figure it out based on his layouts and employee schedules

@mikepadia4244 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, also mushrooms are mainly addition to steak, not a very good dish.

@punchinello6537 5 жыл бұрын

@@mikepadia4244 ?? There is nothing wrong with making money by providing a good, and mushrooms are in way more dishes (look at almost any asian dish) other than steak, you should probably just shut your face, thanks.

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

@@mikepadia4244 i know many people that would disagree with you there

@williamblomberg7934 4 жыл бұрын

@@mikepadia4244 dummm da dummm dummmm ...this is your brain on drugs....

@dostokachannel7966 4 жыл бұрын

There is a different type of mashroorm in our India.

@aceprophet1783 5 жыл бұрын

Do you believe Thier is money in medicinal mushrooms such as reishi or. Cordyceps secondly Where would you sell these types of mushrooms

@AbhayAggarwal 4 жыл бұрын

Yyou could have easily plucked the chestnut mushrooms without cutting the bag!

@darkscorpion2808 4 жыл бұрын

Are those shrooms

@mud3455 3 жыл бұрын

boneless porkchops, 5 for 10 dollars.....good deal.

@karralouhab8286 5 жыл бұрын

ممكن بلدك صديقي

@Valtremors 4 жыл бұрын

My allergies are getting triggered just by watching this video. (My skin and lungs can't handle any kind of fungi spores, for some reason)

@howltuskyt2290 4 жыл бұрын

I have never even tasted mushrooms why am I watching this 🤨 they disgust me

@KittyBatSeth 4 жыл бұрын

If you're going to insist on respiratory protection might I suggest the future videos you voice over in post rather than removing your mask in the greenhouse and defeating the purpose.

@ReptilezDzn 4 жыл бұрын

he said being without a mask for a longer times is not good. so that little time he didnt have the mask is fine.

@PugilistCactus 4 жыл бұрын

He literally just said only for long exposure.

@Gromling 4 жыл бұрын

Well I mean constant small time exposure might be bad. Not sure so 🤷🏽‍♂️

@RealAndreGlegg 4 жыл бұрын

my god this is nasty

@mrvictorhs1654 4 жыл бұрын

Most boring

@dtroystopper2 5 жыл бұрын

Why do you need to protect yourself from spores of edible mushrooms?

@antmanmax1 5 жыл бұрын

Well one, you're protecting the mushrooms from contaminants in your breath, and two, a grow room like that can have billions of spores in the air at any one moment, so even if the spores aren't toxic, they can irritate your lungs and cause issues years down the line.

@dangray4322 5 жыл бұрын

@@antmanmax1 your breath is deadly..