Profitable mushroom husbandry was what we wanted to do best shroom movies when we started cultivating mushrooms in. But we weren't knowledgeable about the subject. I've eaten mushrooms but that was about it.

When we started our mushroom ranch, we began with oak logs but abandoned that civilization system,5 time after we started. How do you choose your civilization system? Each system comes with its pros and cons. In this blog I ’m going to take you through the most common civilization options you have when starting profitable mushroom husbandry.

We've experience with 4 of these 5 styles. The bone

we've zero experience with, we discarded from the morning, but we touch upon it because perhaps it's intriguing for you.

It was said that the Chinese were the first to cultivate shiitake mushrooms( Lentinula edodes) starting a many hundred times agone. also in Japan they developed a system of fitting rustic entrapments or dowel legs( analogous like the one’s Ikea are furnishing for assembling their cabinetwork) that are completely grown with mycelium from named kinds of shiitake into holes bored in oak logs. The system has hardly changed since also.

Shiitake civilization isn't delicate, the biggest challenge, we set up, is that your literacy wind is veritably long. That's a direct result of the civilization system which is divided in 6 way or civilization phases.

In the image above of this blogpost you can see Mark going through step 2 of this process. Drilling holes in the oak logs so the rustic entrapments could go by. After inoculation we had to lay the logs horizontally and make small piles of them. also we had to stay for,5 time(!) before we knew if our inoculation was successful. That was the moment you could prepare the log for a first flush by submerging it in water for 48 hours.

                                        

We set up that dealing the logs as a whole to guests, rather than gather the mushrooms and vend those, was, plutocrat wise, the smartest thing to do. We made a small leaflet in amateurs terms, to help our guests understand the process. See image below

So why did we abandon this civilization system? The three main reasons

* After inoculation the logs demanded to be stored outdoors for,5 time in a shady place. We did n’t have that place available in our ranch that was inside a swimming pool.

* The literacy wind was to long. It took nearly,5 times to figure out if inoculation was successful.

* We vended the entire log and had to transport those logs to every request we went. They're coming to insolvable to shoot by correspondence due to size and weight.

Next over in this list of options is the bottle ranch. The idea behind this conception is incompletely grounded on scientific exploration about what quantum of substrate gives the loftiest yield. Unfortunately, I ca n’t find this exploration presently, if you know where I can find it, please let me know. So, in this paper they looked into colorful quantum of substrate to determine how big your substrate bag or vessel should be to get the loftiest yield.

If I flash back rightly the result was nearly between 0. When you have a vessel between,5 and,5 liters, your yield( in of weight of your substrate) should be the loftiest.

That's one of the reasons behind the bottle ranch idea.

Another idea is that you can exercise the bottles and save on plastic. But the main disadvantage is the veritably high cost in ministry involved. In this videotape, you can get a good perspective on the massive robotization involved. The intriguing stuff starts around 115 in the videotape and o yeah, the music sucks and they've some kind of charm running around in the recording.

Grounded on all this ministry, we decided to not go this direction. It would be a huge investment and it looks to me that this kind of operation can only be profitable on a huge scale. Not commodity we aspire to. We wanted to close original circles and use waste aqueducts for substrate.
Buy phase 2 substrate

That all mushroom growers produced their own substrate. How wrong we were. utmost traditional mushroom growers in the Netherlands, buy their substrate from another mushroom planter or substrate patron. I suppose it’s analogous in the rest of Europe. What's phase 2 substrate?

When making straw substrate for growing oyster mushrooms, there are three specific phases the substrate goes through. Phase one is to wet down the straw and form a windrow. It looks like and is principally like windrow composting. Do a web hunt on “ windrow composting ” and choose images and you'll see what I mean. The image below is from a phase 1 pile at a big mushroom planter in the Netherlands.