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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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OK that doesn't look like the element I see in the barrel picture that is in clearest view. Did you start with a different one?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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I agree with Stromrider bigger is better if for nothing else than room to move around the fruiting chamber. I can get about 200 lbs from my 10 x 4 x 7 room a week. So if you can sell 200 lbs a week go bigger if you can. at $10 an lb thats $2000. The one thing I don't like about your set up rizhomushroom is it looks like your bags are to close to the walls, You will have no air flow and if you are top fruiting you will have deformed mushrooms toward the wall because they will press against the wall. Either way make sure you get the bag tight against the sub and slice the bottom of the bag across the seam from corner to corner. Do not lift the bag when you slice. Doing it this way will cause fruits only where the slice is and you will get very few pins under the bag.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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Stromrider said:
OK that doesn't look like the element I see in the barrel picture that is in clearest view. Did you start with a different one?


Yeah I built four of them, the final one is the stainless steel barrel.

SHROOMSISAY01 said:
I agree with Stromrider bigger is better if for nothing else than room to move around the fruiting chamber. I can get about 200 lbs from my 10 x 4 x 7 room a week. So if you can sell 200 lbs a week go bigger if you can. at $10 an lb thats $2000. The one thing I don't like about your set up rizhomushroom is it looks like your bags are to close to the walls, You will have no air flow and if you are top fruiting you will have deformed mushrooms toward the wall because they will press against the wall. Either way make sure you get the bag tight against the sub and slice the bottom of the bag across the seam from corner to corner. Do not lift the bag when you slice. Doing it this way will cause fruits only where the slice is and you will get very few pins under the bag.


Cool, i will keep this in mind. Unfortunately I am as big as i can go with the room that i have. Once I am established and start building a customer base i do have another location i can move to, but need cash flow first.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom] * 1
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Well here's a valuable tip that took me a bit to figure out.
When you go after a restaurant account just show up with mushrooms and walk in the backdoor unannounced straight into tbe kitchen with mushrooms for sale and ask for the chef. Don't call ahead or try to go through the front. It doesn't work. You'll never get a call back and the girls in the front will tell you they're busy and turn you away. Every restaurant account I have was obtained this way (besides word of mouth which will happen later because chefs talk)
Show up between 2pm and 330pm and make sure you have some invoices and a pen. You can get generic invoices at office depot. They'll also make you custom ones if you order them


It almost always has to be a privately owned restaurant. The chain restaurants chef's have no control and can't just decide to incorporate local mushrooms

Edited by Stromrider (05/14/21 07:41 PM)

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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Great info strom! Were looking into co ops and stuff like that noe!


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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Farm3r]
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Noticing your shelving positioning and spacing I am curious if you are side fruiting?


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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: seagu]
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Stromrider said:
Well here's a valuable tip that took me a bit to figure out.
When you go after a restaurant account just show up with mushrooms and walk in the backdoor unannounced straight into tbe kitchen with mushrooms for sale and ask for the chef. Don't call ahead or try to go through the front. It doesn't work. You'll never get a call back and the girls in the front will tell you they're busy and turn you away. Every restaurant account I have was obtained this way (besides word of mouth which will happen later because chefs talk)
Show up between 2pm and 330pm and make sure you have some invoices and a pen. You can get generic invoices at office depot. They'll also make you custom ones if you order them


It almost always has to be a privately owned restaurant. The chain restaurants chef's have no control and can't just decide to incorporate local mushrooms


Awesome information to know! Thank you for sharing this!

Farm3r said:
Great info strom! Were looking into co ops and stuff like that noe!


I have a co op by me as well, i checked out the mushrooms section they have and they look terrible. Im hoping i can convince them to go with a more local product.


seagu said:
Noticing your shelving positioning and spacing I am curious if you are side fruiting?


Yes things are tight in the grow room, for the fruiting aspect, that is still to be determined. All depends if i want to do 5 LBS bags or 10, variety im growing etc. I still gave a ways to go before i figure out the pinpoint details.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Fogger Update & Humidity Controller:


Have the fogging system just about done, everything looks good have a few leaks on the storage tote that need to be addressed, and waiting on some 20ga wire to come in so i can run the humidity controller into the grow room. Im going to try running a 4in pvc pipe down the center ceiling of the grow room with holes cut out to see how that works. Everything here is trial and error so we will see how it turns out and as always will keep on updating. Also ran pex for water supplies.

Main PVC Pipe Cut To Length:



PVC Hung With Old Wire Hangers Bent To Shape:



Holes Drilled Out:



Running The Pex:









12 Head Ultrasonic Fogger 400w:



Power Supply:




Float Valve For Tote:



Installing Float In Tote:





Assembled:







Humidity Controller:





Quick Test Run:




Things are coming along nicely, again slower than i would like but day by day im getting there.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Dude looks great. I only have one piece of constructive criticism. And Im sure you already know this but were just limited by something that made it difficult but you def want the bags to be able to have airflow all around them. Looks like the shelves leave the bags flush with the wall. Im sure youre still going to get awesome grows but airflow around the bag is super important Id hate to see some bags abort on your after so much awesome work! Everything else looks great though! Nice work!


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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: sendmehummus]
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I always appreciate constructive criticism, another member has made mention of this air flow issue i may have. Not sure what the outcome will be but this will be one of many issues that will arise I'm sure of it. thank you for the input!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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I mentioned that a while ago but no one builds their 1st room perfect. You are off to a good start and you will work through it I am sure. I hope you have better luck with the mist makers than I did and I hope you have an extra one for when that one burns out. It would be rough to lose $2000 worth of fruit over a $100 part. Trust Me I've been there done that!!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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SHROOMSISAY01 said:
I mentioned that a while ago but no one builds their 1st room perfect. You are off to a good start and you will work through it I am sure. I hope you have better luck with the mist makers than I did and I hope you have an extra one for when that one burns out. It would be rough to lose $2000 worth of fruit over a $100 part. Trust Me I've been there done that!!


It cost me quite a bit of money to do this but I have a backup everything. I've found it to be the only way to not get caught with my pants down.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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SHROOMSISAY01 said:
I mentioned that a while ago but no one builds their 1st room perfect. You are off to a good start and you will work through it I am sure. I hope you have better luck with the mist makers than I did and I hope you have an extra one for when that one burns out. It would be rough to lose $2000 worth of fruit over a $100 part. Trust Me I've been there done that!!


no back up here, well i have replacement disc's thats all, you have me sold on the idea of a high pressure mister system. Once i get things running, i will start chipping away at that project. I was totally planned for a possibility of a complete failure of a grow room, I will learn alot from this built and improve on the next! then i will have double of every part!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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I think you have a good setup it is definitely not a complete failure. the pond foggers just worry me but if I didn't have such a bad experience I never would have made my high-pressure kit. Hopefully, you have a better experience than I did with the pond foggers. I wouldn't trade one of my systems for 10 pond foggers. But I could be a little bias. I have sold about 10 systems and everyone was supposed to write a review of the system. No one is taking the time to do so but I am sure if they were having a bad time with it I would have everyone writing a review!!

Anyone needing a kit PM me they hook up with a water hose and you receive everything you will need to get your humidity where it needs to be. Any other 1000 psi system will cost you an arm and a leg and maybe a few toes

Edited by SHROOMSISAY01 (05/25/21 07:50 PM)

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: sendmehummus]
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Really cool buildout. You will do great!

Where did you get the 12 head fogger and how much was it?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: fungilove]
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SHROOMSISAY01 said:
I think you have a good setup it is definitely not a complete failure. the pond foggers just worry me but if I didn't have such a bad experience I never would have made my high-pressure kit. Hopefully, you have a better experience than I did with the pond foggers. I wouldn't trade one of my systems for 10 pond foggers. But I could be a little bias. I have sold about 10 systems and everyone was supposed to write a review of the system. No one is taking the time to do so but I am sure if they were having a bad time with it I would have everyone writing a review!!

Anyone needing a kit PM me they hook up with a water hose and you receive everything you will need to get your humidity where it needs to be. Any other 1000 psi system will cost you an arm and a leg and maybe a few toes


Im sure it will crap out at the worst time lol, but like i said earlier once i get rolling i will start with the high pressure set up. Until then fingered crossed it holds out.





fungilove said:
Really cool buildout. You will do great!

Where did you get the 12 head fogger and how much was it?


122$

https://www.ebay.com/itm/373129117255

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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I wish you the best of luck with it. Keep your water clean and make sure you have an air stone in the bucket or your water will get slimy and it will not last. Humidity is the biggest problem for most of us. I haven't even thought about my humidity in 4 or 5 years I just change a filter.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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Maybe a UV lamp such as This would be good way to keep water contemn free

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Great price. House of Hydro wants like double for a 12 head. Please up with photos when you get this going.
What city are you located?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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SHROOMSISAY01 said:
I wish you the best of luck with it. Keep your water clean and make sure you have an air stone in the bucket or your water will get slimy and it will not last. Humidity is the biggest problem for most of us. I haven't even thought about my humidity in 4 or 5 years I just change a filter.


Thank you! I appreciate everyone's input!



fungilove said:
Maybe a UV lamp such as This would be good way to keep water contemn free.
Great price. House of Hydro wants like double for a 12 head. Please up with photos when you get this going.
What city are you located?


Yeah i was looking at alibaba, and they have house of hydro style foggers for about half price but i don't really trust buying from that site so i just went with an ebay one for now(even though that's where they are coming from). That UV light is a good idea and ill keep that in mind if i end up having issues with my water going stagnant, but for now im more focused on getting things running, then ill worry about all the issues that will arise once its been running for a bit. Hopefully ill have more photos later today just finished up soldering up some extensions on my humidity controller, so im going to be installing that today. Im located outside of Philadelphia

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