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OfflineMushRon
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Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK)
    #26346654 - 11/26/19 12:21 PM (4 years, 2 months ago)

Hi all, New member here.

I'm just wondering what the best mushrooms are for growing low budget in the UK?

This is my first time so I'm planning to purchase a grow bag and colonise in there before turning over and fruiting it sideways, which i have heard is a good way to grow them.

What would be the best variety for this climate and would I need a heat mat?

Thanks in advance!


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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: MushRon]
    #26346714 - 11/26/19 12:56 PM (4 years, 2 months ago)

If you are growing cubensis...

They just need to be kept in the 70F's.  Heat mats are terrible.  It heats the hell out of the bottom and doesn't heat the top.  What you need for incubation is a warm room. 

A swell growbox can be fashioned together with rigid foam insulation if need be.  You get yourself a little space heater and you're good.


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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: JohnRainy]
    #26346801 - 11/26/19 01:36 PM (4 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks for the response,

So some form of insulated box? maybe like a cooler box?



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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: MushRon]
    #26346822 - 11/26/19 01:42 PM (4 years, 2 months ago)



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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: MushRon]
    #26346955 - 11/26/19 03:07 PM (4 years, 2 months ago)

I’ve heard of people using coolers with jars of really hot water inside to keep the heat going. My room gets cold, like 40f at night but I just have my jars in a cardboard box and before I go to bed I put a space heater right in front of the open box for like 20 seconds and fill it with hot air then close the box and keep the heater aimed at it a few feet away. It’s usually still mid 70s when I check in the morning.


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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: A.k.a]
    #26347196 - 11/26/19 05:27 PM (4 years, 2 months ago)

Grow with a monotub or shoebox, invest in a small space heater if your area gets cold. Mycelium makes it's own heat so it can sometimes be okay around 65 chances are if you are comfortable in the temps the mushrooms will grow fine.


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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: Shroomhunts]
    #26347766 - 11/27/19 12:31 AM (4 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks for the responses! I'm going to try using insulated box as a warm environment!


Does anyone know of a type of shroom that grows best in the UK winter?


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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: MushRon]
    #26347849 - 11/27/19 03:44 AM (4 years, 2 months ago)

Im in the UK and have no issues growing cubensis. Not sure what temp my house is but the heating only comes on in the morning and evening. As long as its warmer than outside you should be fine. The upstairs rooms of my house tend to be warmer than downstairs, so find out where in your house is warmest.

Also grow kits and mycobags tend to be way more expensive and likely to fail than gathering the supplies for BRF cakes. Honestly they're easy if you just follow the teks, and youll have supplies for multiple batches.

The insulated box I'd worry would not let enough light in. Might as well grow in your hotpress if you have one. I did that the first time but it turns out shrooms like some light. You could probably wrap a thick fleece blanket around a plastic tub to help with warmth if you really have to, but if you are comfortable in a t-shirt in your home the mushies should be fine too!


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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: Tattersail]
    #26348202 - 11/27/19 09:38 AM (4 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks for all the responses!

I have set up an insulated grow box. I'm utilising the above mentioned technique of using hot water to warm the box.
Note: the temp on display was taken right after settting up the box so is colder than it is currently.


Unfortunately I live in a small house with limited facilities, I'm hoping this set up works for all in one grow bags.

Thanks for the advice around the making of my own substrate. Unfortunately I don't have the time or equipment to do this properly and so rather than rush and bodge it only to realise that it doesn't work a few weeks later, I felt I would leave it to the pro's who make substrate bags and try out the process. Later on once I have a bit more stability, I will probably look into bulk growing.

With regards to light, I think when it comes to fruiting I will try to leave the lid slightly open or set up an internal light which may also help with the heat production..

I appreciate all the help! any more beginner UK shroom growing info would be great.

The pics are my current set up (hoping to add a couple more bags later to have several different stages on the go...?)


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Re: Best Mushrooms to grow during the winter (UK) [Re: MushRon]
    #26348377 - 11/27/19 11:40 AM (4 years, 2 months ago)

I've been using hot water bottles (six 2-liters) to help heat an unused side-by-side rerigerator I use for colonization and shoeboxes.  When it gets down near zero outside, my indoor temps go down to 45 or so since I stopped wanting to pay for space heaters and extra propane to keep it above 60 during those nights (I try to get up super early and re-tock my woodstove).  The bottles work pretty well (they keep it around 70, surprisingly, over a 5-6hr sleep/night).  The temps inside can get as high as 75 (o5 80+ for my sgfc/mono on the top) but regularly are between 65-75 and I have zero issues from colonization - fruiting.  Even my sgfc/mono hybrid on the top of the fridge seems to plug along just fine (although I have to pay mroe attention to the cakes than with a room athat stays at a constant temp).  But yeah... hot water is a great trick for temps.  I like being able to heat the water up for free on the woodstove and it comes from the creek in a bucket.  Free is good.


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