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Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box
    #27096288 - 12/18/20 05:49 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

:chief:Mushrooms on the Mountain:chief:


Hello all! This will be part of my ongoing series of threads called Mushrooms on the mointain, where I will be detailing my projects, grows, trials and tribulations of cultivating, both edible and psychoactive mushrooms, here on my off-grid mountain property in the rockies of colorado!


This installment, symbiotic winter hot box, will detail my attempt to create a mini greenhouse that will house mushroom substrate and garden greens in an attempt to use the heat from colonizing substrate to heat the box and help sustain vegetable growth.

I'm also hoping since mushrooms release co2 and intake oxygen, while plants release oxygen and intake co2, that they will be able to assist eachother symbiotically there as well.


Ok so I started by building an in the ground greenhouse with a 30 degree tilt for sun exposure. This thing stays much warmer than the outside with nothing in it at all, but not warm enough at night sadly.

As you can see there is snow on the ground and there will likely be snow the rest of winter.

The inside of the box is separated in the middle by a partition as shown

On the left I'll spawn the mushroom substrate and on the right I'll plant the greens.

The spawn being used this round is some old pe/b+ bags I had lying around.


As you can see the bags are super overcolonized and blobbing. They were made in september! Damn pretty old haha. This is what they look like


Ok so I laid down a liner in the hot box, not for side pin management, but to make cleaning it out easier, and threw in a 5kg bricks worth of coir



Mixed it all up and applied a rather thick top layer


After applying the top layer I shut the box. I mixed the coir while it was still fairly warm so it will retain heat tonight while the myc bounces back.

If this works, this can be a way for us to constantly grow veggies all winter for our bunnies and selves, and if it fails, well no biggie! I will plant the veggies once I see myc popping through the top layer.

I'll update as we go and hopefully this works! Keep a look out for the other installments of mushrooms on the mountain!


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: natedawgnow]
    #27096811 - 12/18/20 10:38 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: Sir Pentinite]
    #27096829 - 12/18/20 10:45 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Finally some outdoor shenanigans!  :excuseme:

Curious: what is your low low in January anyway? 


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: alaskappalachian]
    #27096858 - 12/18/20 11:07 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

:pipesmoke: looks interesting


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: alaskappalachian]
    #27096859 - 12/18/20 11:07 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

:dogpipe:


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: alaskappalachian]
    #27097392 - 12/19/20 09:58 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

alaskappalachian said:
Finally some outdoor shenanigans!  :excuseme:

Curious: what is your low low in January anyway? 



Very cold. It was 7f this morning haha. Future endeavours will be using colder weather species,
I just had the cube spawn already lying around.

So the top 1/8" had a bit of ice crystal formation and when I poked it a little steam
came out and it was still warm under it. Gonna put some mulch on it today and try to lock in more heat.


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: natedawgnow]
    #27097396 - 12/19/20 09:59 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

This is gonna be dope to follow


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: Wall.E]
    #27097412 - 12/19/20 10:09 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

:notsureif:
Cubes in snow?

At-least you don't have to worry about slugs this time of year.
It would be funny if it didn't fruit until summer.


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: bw86]
    #27097439 - 12/19/20 10:27 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Thats what I'm hoping haha. Not super likely but if it manages to colonize at all I'll be happy.

I've seen some dope in ground hot boxes with veggies in winter. My hopes arent super
high but hopes are there


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: bw86]
    #27097443 - 12/19/20 10:28 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Cool idea!


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: Just_A_Noob]
    #27097542 - 12/19/20 11:25 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

I bet it works like a charm :vineclimb:


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: Nobler Hino]
    #27098097 - 12/19/20 04:57 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Pretty warm in there today, lots of condensation on the lid. Topped with a bag
of scotts black mulch and closed er up again. Fingers crossed


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: natedawgnow]
    #27098756 - 12/20/20 04:45 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

:popcorn:


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: fahtster]
    #27103224 - 12/22/20 10:24 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

So I didnt want to open it and let all the heat out, but here is the box from
yesterday morning. It was about 15 degrees outside and the condensation on the inside of the lid didnt freeze so I feel confident now!


Left town for a few days, when I get back Ill try to get some colonizing shots if it hasnt shit the bed by then :lol:


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: natedawgnow]
    #27103239 - 12/22/20 10:32 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

:threadmonitor::popcorn::excited: and all the other things because this is something I have got to see!!
Love it man. Work out the kinks so that we don't have to. :salute:


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: GypsyBastard]
    #27103457 - 12/23/20 03:13 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Pretty cool project Nate :rockon:


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #27103806 - 12/23/20 09:38 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

:popcorn:

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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: tiptrippy]
    #27103859 - 12/23/20 10:09 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: Mycolorado]
    #27118205 - 12/31/20 12:05 PM (3 years, 28 days ago)

So I tried to get a good pic but it was hard.


Colonization is happening! Moving really really slow, hasnt poked through the top layer
at all, but it is recolonizing so unless we get some crazy cold snap it may work!

Box is very warm even though it's a tad less than 20f here right now


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Re: Mushrooms on the mountain: symbiotic winter hot box [Re: natedawgnow]
    #27118219 - 12/31/20 12:11 PM (3 years, 28 days ago)

You, sir, are a mad genius and I love you


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