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Field & Forest Products Mushrooms
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Приєднався 6 вер 2011
When we first started, Field and Forest Products was committed to raising ecological awareness about our woodlands by promoting timber stand improvement practices to generate the beginnings of a mushroom crop. Thirty-three years later we have the same goal, but along with our customers, we continue to look at new possibilities in the world of mushroom cultivation and fungal interactions that are compatible with our overall sustainability within the environment. With this sustainability comes a reliable and viable crop. Besides producing high quality organic spawn so others can achieve the same success we expect for our own mushroom production, we also feel strongly about offering sound, expert advice to anyone interested in mushroom cultivation. The instructional videos on this channel will hopefully provide some cultivation how-to, and maybe even spark a desire to cultivate delicious mushrooms like Shiitake, Oyster, Wine Cap, Maitake and Lion's Mane.
Are these Wine Cap? Looking at Wine Cap color.
Once the temperatures start warming up and the sun starts shining we see some variation in Wine Cap color as well as texture. While this can be alarming, all of the Wine Cap are certainly still good to eat! They difference is primarily when the caps start forming - there a big difference on whether the pins form on a nice cloudy humid day versus a warm sunny day.
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Mushroom Minute: Why Your Mushroom Mix Matters
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This mushroom minute is demonstrating why what you put into your substrate mix matters! Much like humans, mushrooms need certain nutrients to thrive. This video shows the difference between a supplemented and a non-supplemented sawdust block.
Tips for a Healthy Maitake Crop with Buried Blocks
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Over the past several years we've been working with ready-to-fruit blocks to create a fairly labor-free method to grow Hen of the Woods. These blocks are made with an outdoor-specific strain that takes advantage of the natural fruiting time for maitake. These buried blocks produce big clusters with the deeply flavorful woodsy signature you may be used to from foraged Hens. This video shares som...
Why are my oyster mushrooms shaped weird and/or discolored?
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Why are my oyster mushrooms shaped weird or malformed? Oyster mushrooms can have a different shape and color that expected when the growing conditions aren't quite right. Mushrooms release CO2, and when that Co2 is trapped, your oyster mushrooms might become wavy or cone shaped, as opposed to the shell shape we're used to seeing. Introducing more airflow will solve the problem! Oyster mushrooms...
Growing Mushrooms in a Greenhouse
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What kind of mushrooms can you grow in a greenhouse? And how do you grow mushrooms in a greenhouse? While we've tried many different varieties of fungi, the only two that seem to regularly produce well are Almond Agaricus and Reishi mushrooms. You can try your hand at others, but most varieties of mushrooms need more drastic temperature and humidity swings to stimulate a crop. This method is a ...
Growing Reishi Indoors: Getting Your Caps to Conch
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While growing reishi in antler form from ready-to-fruit blocks is straight-forward, getting the caps to "conch", or fan out, requires some more attention. In order to get the caps to conch you'll want to create a space that has temperatures between 70° and 80°F, a humidity level greater than 75%, and at least ten hours of light a day. You can either create this environment in a small setting (t...
Mushroom Minute: Why do I need to inoculate all the way around the log and not just the top half?
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From a gardener’s perspective it is easy to think that mushrooms will emerge from where you plant the mushroom spawn. While this can happen, typically mushrooms force their way out from weaknesses in the bark all the way around the log. But mushrooms won’t actually start growing until a log is fully colonized. Meaning the mycelium has worked its way through the entire log! Mycelium works it’s w...
A Quick Feature on Hericium americanum (aka Comb Tooth)
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A spotlight on Comb Tooth (Hericium americanum). This fungus, while less widely cultivated than its cousin Lion’s Mane, is better adapted to growing in our climate and considerably less picky about its wood type!
How much spawn do I need to plant a Wine Cap bed?
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We often get asked how much spawn you need to plant a wine cap bed. To answer this we planted 7 different Wine Cap plots each with different spawn rates to test the difference in time to initial fruiting. All 7 plots produced mushrooms within one year with the overarching conclusion being: if you want mushrooms faster, use more spawn. Find the Spawn: Wine Cap Sawdust Spawn: www.fieldforest.net/...
Mushroom Minute: Why Lion's Mane Grain Spawn Looks Different than Other Varieties
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Q: “I just received my lions mane grain spawn and it just looks like a bag of grain. Is there mycelium?” BOY OH BOY do we get this question a lot. And with good reason! Oftentimes what we send to you looks a bit different from what we pack vs what you open. In shipment, boxes get tossed around a good deal, causing the contents of grain spawn to jostle around. While moving around, superficial my...
Liquid Culture: What is Liquid Spawn and How to Use It
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Liquid spawn is mycelium expanded into an optimized nutrient solution and grown out, most commonly used in tandem with sterilized grain bags. Liquid culture is a great way to jump into your mycological journey as it is easy to use and doesn't require a traditional lab space. Just inject your culture into sterilized grain bags or jars and watch the mycelium grow. Find Liquid Culture here: www.fi...
Bulgaria inquinans: What is it and will it harm my mushrooms logs?
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What is it and will it hurt my mushrooms logs? This little fungus goes by the name of Bulgaria inquinans and is one of the most common mushroom log "contaminants". We get a lot of concerned calls and emails about this wondering if it will harm mushrooms logs. While it may look scary, this fungus is a different type of decay fungi, and will only feed off the easily available sugars in the bark, ...
"Shocking" Shiitake Logs: What it Means to "Force-Fruit" Mushrooms
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Oftentimes when you see a photo of shiitake logs LOADED with shiitake it's an indication that they were "shocked" or force-fruited. This is a great way to stimulate your mushrooms so you can receive a lot of mushrooms in a short period of time. However, you can't just do this with any mushroom log, so here are some guidelines as to when and how you would do it.
What are the yellow blobs growing on my Wine Cap bed?
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Dog Vomit Slime Mold, or Fuligo septica, is a common slime mold that is found in the spring of the year. It can be a little alarming when it shows up on your wine cap bed or an older shiitake log but, despite it's appearance, it's quite harmless.
How to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms WITHOUT using the "Drill & Fill" Method
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How to Grow Shiitake Mushrooms WITHOUT using the "Drill & Fill" Method
Wine Cap Stropharia Mushroom Research | SARE Grant Series: Part 1
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Wine Cap Stropharia Mushroom Research | SARE Grant Series: Part 1
How to Make your own Oyster Mushroom Grow Blocks WITHOUT Sterilization
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How to Make your own Oyster Mushroom Grow Blocks WITHOUT Sterilization
Mushroom Minute: How to Make a Reishi Mushroom Wreath!
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Mushroom Minute: How to Make a Reishi Mushroom Wreath!
How to Rebuild Soil with Wine Cap Mushrooms: Part 2
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How to Rebuild Soil with Wine Cap Mushrooms: Part 2
How to Make Mushroom Spawn from Wild Fungi
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How to Make Mushroom Spawn from Wild Fungi
Why Are My Oak Trees Dying? | Oak Wilt: What is it and How to Manage its Spread
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Why Are My Oak Trees Dying? | Oak Wilt: What is it and How to Manage its Spread
Reasons Why to Start Growing Mushrooms on Logs in Fall
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Reasons Why to Start Growing Mushrooms on Logs in Fall
Mushroom Minute: An Introduction to Chicken of the Woods
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Mushroom Minute: An Introduction to Chicken of the Woods
Growing Turkey Tail Mushrooms on Logs
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Growing Turkey Tail Mushrooms on Logs
Growing Mushrooms in a Small Farm Setting: Field & Forest Products Field Day Recap
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Growing Mushrooms in a Small Farm Setting: Field & Forest Products Field Day Recap
How to Rebuild Soil with Wine Cap Mushrooms
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How to Rebuild Soil with Wine Cap Mushrooms
When to Harvest and How Long to Store Mushrooms for Maximum Freshness
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When to Harvest and How Long to Store Mushrooms for Maximum Freshness
SARE Grant Series Part 5: Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Measure Soil & Plant Health
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SARE Grant Series Part 5: Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Measure Soil & Plant Health
Beautiful!! Thorough, informative, simple yet specific directions. Much appreciated. Thanks.
do you think this would work with wild Reshi mushrooms?
It's worth a shot, but since it's not as aggressive as oyster mushrooms it'll probably prove more difficult.
Why not higher temp than 180?
Over 180 the sugars in the straw will start to caramelize, leading to contamination
Not a worry here in Tampa !!
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I just used your spawn (Golden Oyster) in my first batch. Wish me luck.
Thank you for this! I was just watering my winecap bed today looking for "little peekers" in the straw. None yet, but this is year one.
Another thing is that you may see small worms inside your wine caps, despite the mushroom not being old. These are sciarid fly larvae, and they're a common agricultural pest for mushroom growers. You can still salvage the mushrooms by soaking them in a salt brine to kill the worms, then wash and cook them thoroughly. This is what mushroom foragers do with morels. It's not necessary to throw them out.
Awesome tip!
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What if I already inoculated a whole hay bale? It is what was available to me. Also, I have a sprinkler that waters it once a day. Will this reduced the amount of heat being generated?
I was wondering what type and size is your pressure cooker.
Is this a one year harvest only.
Typically they fruit 2-3 times. Depending on when you plant them it can all be one year, or the fall of one year and spring of the next.
I tried this method with Shimeji mushroom and it worked❤😊
Im growing lions maine on beech totem logs, some i used plugs on. The mycelium from the plugs was white and is now yellow, is this normal or is the mycelium failing? So far all the logs i inoculated with saw dust spawn are white and spreading. This is my first attempt so any info on this matter would be much appreciated.
I only add supplements in the winter when the colonization temps are cooler to avoid contamination, and I have a really nasty gluten allergy and I get realllly sick when exposed to gluten in the ppm range so I only use gluten free supplements, like the soy hulls. I think I got sick from handling grainspawn made from rye. I prefer the millet spawn best.
Got it, I have to wait until the cold 🥶 frigid winter to prune the dead branches.
Thank you for the video! Any idea if wine cap will propagate on cardboard covered in pine flakes?
Very nice video, I dont say that often! Very succint, not full of "um"s" and "Uh" and no excess info.
A new and inventive approach, I really like it 🤓
The part about soaking the straw 24-72 hours before putting it in the bed should come up front if it's crucial to success. I soaked the straw for about an hour, then put everything together and covered the completed bed with a tarp for a couple of days to hopefully let the straw soak in water.
You're rockin it Phoebe! 😘
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Would you recommend epoxy coated deck screws to help keep them intact?
Will these repeat in subsequent years after they have fruited once? WIll they work with maple wood chips?
They typically fruit for two seasons, but it's dependent on how large the first fruiting is. And the type of chips does not matter as the food for the fungi is all located within the sawdust block!
Very limited basis... already sold out 😢
Check again! It should be back up. :) www.fieldforest.net/product/maitake-8-block-outdoor-bed-set/outdoor-block-sets
@@FieldandForestProducts Thank you! I just put in my order!
What is that white powder?
What is spawn?
www.fieldforest.net/category/what-is-spawn
Why would summer be a bad time? I would think that the tree has the most nutrient density in summer. It's it mostly for bark retention?
Bark retention is big part of it, but also because the wood is actually fairly nutrient depleted as all of the nutrients stored in the wood go into making new leaves and twigs in the spring so the tree needs the summer to restock nutrients from photosynthesis.
@@FieldandForestProducts I guess that makes sense. In the fall the trees draw everything back in to send to the roots so I can see that. The reason I was interested is because I travel for work and it seems I'm always gone during the spring and fall. I'm headed home in a couple weeks and will be there for about a month and I've got an entire fence row of trees up to 20" that I have to take down and didn't want them to go to waste.
Where to get shiitake spawn?
www.fieldforest.net
Can u reply about how to make spllit gills mushroom spawn, and how to cultivate
Unfortunately I do not have any information on that subject
@@FieldandForestProducts thanks
this is an incredible share, thanks so much. I came upon a naked dead oak last year that gave me 35 + pounds of Chicken of the woods. I found a few Hens that were already eaten by bugs. Yeah this is awesome, thanks again.
Thanks for teaching! I have enjoyed your lions mane block. Now I know how it’s made!
Nice work guys, the blocks look great. 👍
Mine look like ocean coral. 😢
Introduce some more airflow! The coral shape is typical when there is too much CO2 trapped in the growing area.
Thank you🌞
Lol....recap
nice dog
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! 🏆
Can you use spent grain for substrate?
Another great video! All of your video’s are very informative and concise. Thank you.
So small
Thank you so much for this . I enjoyed watching and learning. Awesome cute Doggie too.
Thank you! This was the perfect video for lionsmane harvest time 😊
Can you do this with mycelium from a spent kit? If I have a Back-to-the-Roots kit that is done flushing, can I just break it up and use it to inoculate some new straw?
Concentrated knowledge, no water. Like it.
Very thankful for this video. Accidently froze my shiitake blocks when cold shocking and was pretty dissapointed. But this brightened up my day.
Does this product exist anymore? I couldn't find it on your website.
It does! Here: www.fieldforest.net/product/Okuda-Wax-Applicator/okuda-precision-tools
Is there a difference in taste between the two oyster mushrooms? Are there any nutrient deficiencies in the mushroom deprived of O2?
This video doesn't provide enough information at the end. That photo is chicken of the woods naturally growing into the woods!
It's a three part series- if you're looking for results check here: ua-cam.com/video/5cGDijfOoBg/v-deo.html
To speed up fruiting - kick the bucket :) I really mean it - japanese people discovered a method to quickly swiotch into fruiting phase - they hit logs using big sticks, to break mycelium inside then after a few days it starts fruiting. Kick the bucket! 😂
But?? ... when did you put the mycelium in the holes,? Before the pluggs or after or did you do it at all?
The mycelium is on the plugs- think of the plugs as a vehicle for the mycelium to enter into the log.
So I have never grown mushrooms in my life... After picking/harvesting these do you just dump the contents of the bucket? Or will they just continue to produce indefinitely?
Eventually the mushrooms will run through all the edible material in in the bucket at which point you compost the aspen shavings and start anew. This typically takes 2 to 3 months.