I HAVE SHRRRRRROOOOMMMSSSS!!!! 🍄🍄🍄

riverflows in #hive-166168 • 3 years ago

Mushrooms are sooo underrated by us all, and so little understood. These fruits of the earth are utter miracles, and with science and medicine finding more about them all the time, I think we should all make an effort to get to know them! I'm certainly glad I started this journey to grow my own mushrooms - and I feel my journey is just beginning!

If you have been following my last few posts on growing mushrooms in buckets, you'll know I chose to go down the path of a fruiting chamber made of a small hobby greenhouse. It's taken a while to put it together and it's not quite done, because I'm waiting on 12V fans for proper air distrubution, but going in there as often as I can to open the door and allow some fresh air in seems to have worked super well.

The weather has been quite warm and humid of late so that's helped them on a bit - but these tan oyster mushrooms have a temperature range of 10 to 26 degrees and my wifi thermometer tells me it's averaged 20 degrees inside the chamber (the humidifier cools it down a little).

I'll have to figure out what mushrooms to grow over Easter as the temperature will drop considerably here, and I guess I"ll have to look into maybe a heating mat or something as it gets quite cold in the spare room.

But gosh, I did it! I grew mushrooms! And I've learnt so much about mycellium and how it all works, and it's so amazing. Did you know mushrooms eat their way through all kinds of things, and that mushrooms were the first thing to appear in the radioactive soil of Chernobyl, eating their way through waste? Mushrooms have the potential not only to feed us, but to clean the earth that we screw over. How amazing is that?

I have soooo many plans for growing lots of mushrooms and making mushrooms salt, pickled mushrooms, dried mushrooms, mushroom jerky, mushroom ferments - I'm only jsut getting started, baby!

I'm super proud of myself for achieving this grow. It may have seemed a complicated process but I think now I'm through the hurdle of understanding how mushrooms grow and what they need, and the complication of the fruiting chamber set up, now it should be a lot easier and simpler.

Do you grow mushrooms or have you ever grown them?

`With Love,`

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3 years ago in #hive-166168 by riverflows

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almightymelon 3 years ago

That's really neat. I have seen a few really interesting 'moss and myc' mini gardens under glass and I badly want to try it.

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riverflows 3 years ago

Oh definitely do it! I'm a big believer in making projects you want to happen, happen! And tag me if you write about it.

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consciouscat 3 years ago

OMG woman, I loved this post! And your excitement. Just the positive "news story" I needed to read right now. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊 🍄🍄🍄

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riverflows 3 years ago

Positive news is soooo needed right now. There's lots of good in the world, right? Mushrooms are definitely good. Hugs!

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consciouscat 3 years ago

😃🤗

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buckaroobaby 3 years ago

YEAH!!!! That is amazing! Did you do a happy dance? I heard the screams of delight all the way over here. Well done. That really is impressive. Now I want to know WHAT ferment do you make with mushrooms?

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riverflows 3 years ago

Haha yes I did squeal!!! And yes did you know you can lacto ferment them? I have to wait for next batch and I need to do a cool season variety coming to winter but I hope to do lots of cool shroom things and get this working even more productive!

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buckaroobaby 3 years ago

They say you learn something new every day. Would it be a basic ferment? With salt and water or is it more fancy than that? I'd love to taste them fermented. I love fermented everything!

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goldenoakfarm 3 years ago

Way to go! You did it! Now you've done all the hard work of learning the process and getting set up, the rest of it will seem like a breeze, though still too complicated for me to do...

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riverflows 3 years ago

It's definitely complicated!!! I bet you could have done it in your younger years when you didn't have so much on your plate or Lyme's to contend with. Hell, you are such a superstar I bet you could anyway.

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goldenoakfarm 3 years ago

Well, I've had the Lyme disease since childhood. But maybe back in my 20's I could have done it, before the cognitive stuff got so bad...

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bingbongy 3 years ago

Nice! I love shrooms, especially the magic ones.

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riverflows 3 years ago

He he no more magic ones for me.. last time I got so anxious I spent hours stroking a possum skin.

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andrastia 3 years ago

Woohoo that is so cool River! This post made me happy. You should be super proud and stoked! What a cool process to have done it from start to finish and now it's showing the shrooms of your labour. Awesome and inspiring!

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riverflows 3 years ago

Thanks honey!!! I do feel super proud and I appreciate you FEELING that and being excited for me xxx Hive is awesome for sharing joy x

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vincentnijman 3 years ago

Hurray! Great job!

Growing mushrooms is definitely on my list.

These look amazing and they are indeed incredible beings :^)

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riverflows 3 years ago

Oh now you have done a book you can do anything!!

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vincentnijman 3 years ago

Thanks for the encouragement! That's a nice way of looking at things :<)
♥️

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skylinebuds 3 years ago

Well, not quite the shroooms I was thinking hahaha, But these are some of the best mushrooms IMO, It is the one thing I still fry up with some breading like panko after they soak in vegan yogurt, almond milk, and lemon juice, and it makes a bomb sandwich.

Now i am hungry haha

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riverflows 3 years ago

That sounds DIVINE!!!! HAHA I can't even imagine growing the other shrooms. I think they must be plucked from nature and the wild! I know they can be grown but that seems strange to me.

I still want to try microdosing one day though.. so maybe I'll go a hunting this Autumn.

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carolynstahl 3 years ago

I would love to be a shroom farmer. I would love to know every edible one in the world but I'll have to live more lives here and I don't want that. Enjoy your beauties!!!!

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riverflows 3 years ago

I'd love to have more lives! Although the way the world is going I guess it may not be teh best idea to come back.. :)

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rukeros 3 years ago

Aww this is amazing, very glad for you!!

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riverflows 3 years ago

thanks! They fruit so fast... Seems I have to work now at getting substrate right and air flow which might increase my yield..

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nikv 3 years ago

Congratulations! That's something I'd like to try someday

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riverflows 3 years ago

It's super rewarding! A bit of effort to set up but once you're away, it's easy!

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traisto 3 years ago

Oh yes, you certainly did it! And they are beautiful!
You share some very interesting info here, great!

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trucklife-family 3 years ago

Yes you did. They look amazing, I am n the waiting list for that mushroom course. So excited for you, mushrooms are bloody amazing and continue to blow me away xxxx

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artemislives 3 years ago

Oh yes!!! We have bamboo mushroom houses on our BUSINESS game plan - for organic shitake, lions mane and reishi - as part of our social enterprise. It's usually warm enough and mushroom houses here are mostly built from bamboo with a small solar powered misting system.

VERY cool project you've started there, lady!! What about a solar pool blanket draped over a structure??

I look forward to 'shroom RECIPES and SHROOMPORN. 🍄

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riverflows 3 years ago

I just made some mushroom salt today! Definitely getting my shroom on!

Bamboo fruiting chambers sound AWESOME - would LOVE a photo!

Solar pool blanket - for insulative factor?? I'm looking into the heating part of it for winter - it's cold in that room. I think the white pearl oysters do well in winter. It's all so fascinating and I'm loving hte baby steps.

I think I can do lions mane this way but I'm not sure. Reishi will have to wait for summer now but I did grow some in a box grow, nto as many as I would have liked but i'm slowly figuring out how to get the best out of the grow.

Revelation - shrooms in garlic honey and butter - omg.

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