How To Grow Mushrooms At Home in 14 Days

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Mushrooms can be pricey, especially decent  ones like these! But by growing them yourself,   you can be sure of picking 'shrooms at the peak  of perfection - and all for a lot less than the   grocery store! They're also real powerhouses  of goodness, great for the immune system and   for fighting off diseases. Hi I'm Ben and if  you're a fungi fanatic like me, you're going   to absolutely love today's video! Ladies and  gentlemen, make some 'shroom for the mushroom! So in front of me here I've got two mushroom  growing kits for growing oyster mushrooms.   And oyster mushrooms are great for beginners and  that's because they grow so fast: in as little as   two weeks from preparation to picking! Now many  of them will happily grow indoors, (which is what   we're going to do today) but others can be grown  in logs and stumps to create an edible feast.   They're very easy to grow and will grow on pretty  much any growing medium, including old books!   This kit here uses straw as the growing medium  and this box kit here uses coffee grounds.   Fungi after all are nature's original recyclers!   Great, so let's get on with our first kit; the  oyster mushroom kit. And we're using 10 liter   (or two and a half US gallon) pots for this. You  can actually use two parts of half the volume   if you like. This one I've already used before,  hence the holes and I'll show you more about that   in a moment. Then the growing medium: what are  the mushrooms going to grow in? Well, straw! And   these are straw pellets. They're nice and sterile,  dehydrated and we've got to rehydrate those first   ready for the mushrooms to grow into. And then  there's the spawn itself, (the seeds if you like)   of the mushrooms. These are on barley pellets  here, barley grains. And they're all inoculated,   hence it's white. So they're primed and ready to  go. The first job though is to sterilize our pot   so it's nice and clean. Just use a dilute solution  of household bleach for this and wipe it around   the clean pot just to remove any germs. And then  just let it dry. Different mushroom-growing kits   will have different instructions. This one calls  for holes to be made into the side of the pot   so that the fruiting bodies (the bits you'll  actually eat) can come out. And the easiest way   to do that is to get a sharp pair of scissors and  insert it through the thin walls of the plastic   pot and then twist it to cut a round of about  one and a half centimeters (or half an inch).   You'll want to make sure that the straw doesn't  escape from the drainage holes in the bottom,   so for that we just pop in a cut-to-size piece  of cardboard. And just pop that straight into the   bottom. Now we need to fill the pot with our straw  and our spawn. First thing though is to break   up all the bits of grain here to make it nice  and loose so they're all in individual pieces.   This makes it easier to mix the spawn  with the straw pellets. And in they go! And then in go our spawn grains. And then they  just need a really good thorough mix up. Make   sure you've got perfectly clean hands for this  because you don't want to introduce any germs of   course! And then to rehydrate the straw pellets,  I'm adding four and a half liters (or roughly a   gallon) of water; half now and half shortly. And  it's got to be trickled on really slowly to give   the straw a chance to absorb it. If you fill  the pot up while it's in a sterilized tray,   this will allow the excess water to be  absorbed up through the drainage holes as well.   And then after about half an hour, you can add  your second lot of water; again very slowly to   help it all sink in. Once the straw pellets  have fully rehydrated, make yourself a lid.   The easiest way to do this is to cut out a piece  of cardboard to fit and wrap it in some sort of   food wrap like cling film. Once you've done that,  pop it over the top. That will help to retain the   moisture and keep the straw nice and damp. The  other thing to do is, where you've got a hole,   just push the straw in to create a sort of cavity.  That creates a moisture environment at that entry   point there, keeping the conditions perfectly damp  for your mushrooms. It slows evaporation as well.   Now it's prepared, we just need to offer warm  conditions for the mycelium (or the mushroom roots   if you like) to grow. Room temperature is ideal  but keep the pot away from direct sources of heat.   To keep things going, simply mist-spray the  holes a couple of times a day. This will   stop the straw from getting too dry, offering  that moist environment that mushrooms need.   And here's the kit just two weeks after starting  it off. You can already see that the straw is   completely white with mycelium. This is now  poised to produce those delicious mushrooms!   Continue to mist the holes twice daily and within  a week or two you should notice small clusters of   primordia (the beginnings of the fruiting bodies  the mushrooms that we'll be picking). They'll soon   swell into full-sized mushrooms and this shouldn't  take more than about a week to 10 days after   spotting the primordia. The best time to harvest  oyster mushrooms is before the caps have fully   flattened out, (when they dump lots of spores  everywhere!) Twist free the whole cluster at once.   The mushrooms will be different sizes and that's  fine. Trim any stump out with a sharp knife right   back to fresh straw. Continue misting and you can  expect new mushrooms to sprout from the harvested   hole in due course. They should keep cropping  every few weeks for up to around 10 weeks.   I hate waste! And our morning cup of Joe  creates plenty of it, in the form of these:   coffee grounds. But what if you could turn them  into these?! This is what this kit does here;   it uses coffee grounds mixed with a little bit  of straw to create the perfect growing medium   for our mushrooms! Let's get it started.  The first job for this kit is simply to   remove the perforated front here to access the  bag with the growing medium in. It just comes off   nicely, like that. Now you'll find many different  types of mushroom kits and do use a proper   mushroom kit from an approved supplier because  you don't want to inadvertently get poisoned or   anything like that! They come with all sorts of  growing mediums. We've looked at the straw one;   this one uses coffee grounds and straw but just  use what is available in your area. I'll pop a   link to a few suppliers in the video description  down below. Right so we've opened it out and the   next job is to just cut open the front here,  by simply cutting an X into the bag like this.   And now we just need to remove the bag from the  box and soak it overnight in water. Just pop the   bag in the water. And because it's quite light,  at this stage you'll need to weigh it down with   something heavy, like that. And look at this!  This is the same kit just one week after starting   it off and if you look closely you can already  see that the primordia have started to grow.   These will grow really really fast, doubling  in size pretty much every day! I only noticed   them as tiny pin pricks this morning and now  just a few hours on they're very much visible. And here's the kit just three days on. Yes,  really! And here it is five days on! And   look how much it's grown! I reckon it's almost  ready to harvest. I'll give it one more day.   Hey look! And here they are another day on. Let's  get on and harvest! And to harvest all I'm simply   doing is gripping them firmly where they come out  of the kit and then just twisting and pulling,   like that. Get the whole clump off like that.  Gosh, there's an awful lot here! This is going   to be a fantastically delicious and extravagant  dinner! Right, oh yes! What absolute beauties!   There we go, that's not a bad harvest is it  for my first cut?! Now I've harvested them,   while they're still slightly curled over (because  when they're flat they do dump their spores - so   at this point is just perfect) what about  the kit that's left here? Well I'll trim   off any old bits here. Then I'm going to take  it out of the box, re-soak the bag overnight,   pop it back in and then mist spray regularly as  before to expect to harvest within another couple   of weeks or so. And I may even get a third and  even a fourth cut if I'm lucky, by just repeating   the process! All I've got to think about now  is how I'm going to cook these for my tea.... There are of course plenty of other  mushrooms you can grow at home.   They're all delicious that's the 'morel'  of the story! [Daughter:] Oh daddy! Really I should button it... In our next episode, we'll be looking at tools and  how to take care of them ready for next growing   season. Don't miss it! Subscribe and turn on  notifications to be sure. In the meantime,   why not check out this video?! Have fun  guys! And I will catch you next time.
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Length: 9min 38sec (578 seconds)
Published: Sat Dec 11 2021
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