taku said:

Yes FC means fruiting chamber. Cool

So far very very small. I had regular excess from 4 blocks a week, so like 4-6lbs a week. Moving that up closer to 20 right now. Have my local grocery here in rural Canada buying whatever I can supply and a health food store down the road wanting dried lion's mane. So there's a demand I'm growing to fill. But there are only 3 people in my province selling mushrooms and I am one of them.

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Hikeadellic said:

Sounds like a nice niche!

If you are expanding the grow keep an eye on stuff like cross contam and pests

The earlier you get great genetics the better

Winter is cold and may cause power outage, generators are a wise investment

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Bsdgaou said:

Can you also share weekly plan of what will you be doing? Like sterilising 2x per week YZ bags, spawn making 1x per week XY bags, incubating XYZ bags...

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TravelAgency said:

Good luck mate! A good flowhood will do you right for years congrats on getting one built. If you have any questions hit me up! I had a business going for about 10 months. It worked well- my investor did not lol. I will recommend dialing in your FC to fluctuate between 89-96% rH (humidity) for best results on most species of gourmet.

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Sorry to here about the investor not working out! I appreciate the helping hand too!

GrowRoom Update:
So as everyone knows the price of lumber is insane right now and like many of us, I am on a tight budget. Luckily for me I have a source of free lumber from my job, so I took full advantage of that. So far i have around 100$ invested in the grow room not including the fogging system which was around 150$ to build.

I am going to test out a theory I have for the exhaust of the grow room. Since the room is completely sealed and there is constant fresh air being pumped in I want to see if i can get away with not using a fan to suck out the c02/spores etc. Of course if this doesn't work ill just add the exhaust fan, just want to test it out.

I do have a question for the great people of this forum. I am torn between using a humidity controller (which i have built) or using a timed system using an Arduino and some relays to have the fogger run for X amount of time on then off for X amount of time. Would love to hear some feed back on that from you all!

Free Lumber!


Finished Breaking Down And Removing Nails


Cutting Time


Drilling Holes For The Supports



Framed Out






Door Added




Paint


PVC Supports Added




Sealed It




Next update to come is the fogger system, waiting for parts to come in the mail.

SHROOMSISAY01 said:

I got a high pressure mist system kit you build with a pressure washer let me know if you are interested!!

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Farm3r said:

So how many bags do you grow regularly atmm?

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SHROOMSISAY01 said:

It is really not over kill at all I have a 10 x 4 x 7 (L x W X H) room. I bought 2 of the 9 disk fogger from house of hydro in 6 months. Both of them lasted just over 3 months(just passed the warranty. coincidence? I think not!!) and they were $250 each. I am going on 4 years with the system I built. The best part is I have done no cleaning at all of tubs. I change my filters every couple of years. My system runs for 10 seconds every ten minutes and I have my exhaust on full blast 24/7.

But anyway, I just thought I would let you know. To everyone there own. PM me if you decide you would like the best humidification system out there that is reasonably priced. Actually it pays for its self in less than a year and that is if you only count your time as worth $10 an hour. An hour a week for cleaning tubs for the ultrasonic is $520. The system is much cheaper than $520.

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Stromrider said:

Well congrats. It's an exciting journey

First off I thought I'd let you know you installed the heating element incorrectly on that barrel. It will work but it's actually meant to work with a compression fitting and tri clamp. You'll have to look at your element and see if it's a 1.5" or 2"and order the right ones. You'll be much happier with the install. This is what you need

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VTTWMDV?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RPMK4FG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_34RTTY57KB9R98059MKG?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1



Also you'll regret not going bigger to start with. Especially on stuff like flow hood and grow room. I built a room a little bigger than yours to start with and hated it immediately and no matter how big you build your flow hood it will never be big enough. You're going to hate that 2x2 when you have a pile of bags sitting there. Bag to bag transfers are hard to do in that kind of space. It's going to be very tedious

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