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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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My dad has one of those heaters in his shop. It has a built in thermostat. Knob on top

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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Stromrider said:
My dad has one of those heaters in his shop. It has a built in thermostat. Knob on top



i realized that when sat there and looked at it. its been a long day so i was thinking that it would just continuously get hotter and hotter. lol

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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so I've been thinking about this setup and im worried about co2 buildup. its small garage that's slightly drafty, im thinking i should pump air from out side the garage, but another issue is that's where my boiler and hot water heater are, would that contribute to more c02 in the air? maybe ill go out and buy a c02 tester and see what things read while running. and yes im going to move the fogger to the other end of the grow room so its not right above the heater.

love to hear your guys input!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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welp i was setting up the natural gas heater and was about one foot too short on the flex pipe, it always something. ill run to home depot and pick up some nipples and so 90's should do the trick, damn man i was excited to see this thing in action!





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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Have you considered making an enclosed environment for your flow hood?
Will provide longevity and a cleaner working environment and you can also place all your cultures there etc.
I recently watched a youtuber who built one and has an air filter pumping air in to his DIY 'lab' and he explained that the air pressure forces air to push/leak out so when he walks into his work place he's not creating an air current bringing in unwanted nasties with him.
Great job scoring those drums and best of like with your business!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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rizhomushroom said:
so I've been thinking about this setup and im worried about co2 buildup. its small garage that's slightly drafty, im thinking i should pump air from out side the garage, but another issue is that's where my boiler and hot water heater are, would that contribute to more c02 in the air? maybe ill go out and buy a c02 tester and see what things read while running. and yes im going to move the fogger to the other end of the grow room so its not right above the heater.

love to hear your guys input!


  I'd say there's no need making assumptions and guessing. I got a solid CO2 meter for $100 and it runs 24/7 in the grow room. I'd start there before digging much further.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: sevenfourfour]
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sevenfourfour said:
Have you considered making an enclosed environment for your flow hood?
Will provide longevity and a cleaner working environment and you can also place all your cultures there etc.
I recently watched a youtuber who built one and has an air filter pumping air in to his DIY 'lab' and he explained that the air pressure forces air to push/leak out so when he walks into his work place he's not creating an air current bringing in unwanted nasties with him.
Great job scoring those drums and best of like with your business!


This is called a positive pressure lab and is pretty much the industry standard for any legit lab operation. In other words... This is de way

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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Eventually I will build a actual lab, if things start taking off then ill build a postive pressure lab enough sooner until then I need to focus getting everything running
thanks for the support!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Im back from a vacation and ready to start grinding again. but of course pretty sure we picked up covid while we were out, waiting for the results to come back. before I left I put the new transfers in the fridge, I didn't want them over growing the petri dishes so I put them in the fridge while i was gone. I also made some LC from the commercial grade culture i bought and i let that those sit out and they are looking great!



Just some petri updates and LC's





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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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My daughter actually has covid for the 2nd time. I gave her ivermectin when she had it the 1st time but she wasn't sure it helped. But this time she took it as soon as she found out she had it and all the symptoms were gone in 24 hours...

https://www.amazon.com/Duramectin-Ivermectin-Paste-1-87-Wormer/dp/B01EP4TPPW/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=ivermectin&qid=1641752837&sr=8-11

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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glad to hear she is doing fine man

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: dyel] * 1
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yup tested positive for covid, only mild symptoms thankfully but have to quarantine in the time being. got some work done today things are looking good, but ran out of steam fast.
Tested everything, moved the fogger setup(worried about the clear tote with algae,also need a in line water filter), ran the gas line to the heater, just have to seal some things up, tighty up some wiring and other lose ends, run exhaust from grow room and found a way to pump fresh air in from outside the garage, just have to build/find a fan set up that will work.

I do have one concern, hopefully someone here will know, I'm a little iffy on running that Mr. heater 24/7. I emailed the company to see if its okay to do that but haven't heard back yet.

anyways here's some pictures for ya.














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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Awesome mate, I'll be following along.

Whats your intial goals? How much are you lookikng to produce and are you going farmers markets first?


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Be like fungus, my friend.
Empty your mind.
Be formless, shapeless, like mycelium.
You put mycelium into a jar of broth, the mycelium becomes the liquid.
You put liquid culture into a bag of grain, it becomes the grain.
You put mycelium covered grain into some coir, it becomes the coir.
Be mycelium. -Mr hyde

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: ShroomKnight]
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:whathesaid:


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All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.
Whatever you decide won’t really impact our survival
Close your eyes, and do the best that you can

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: ShroomKnight] * 1
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ShroomKnight said:
Awesome mate, I'll be following along.

Whats your intial goals? How much are you lookikng to produce and are you going farmers markets first?


Yeah I'll start at those places, but we started a sticky for people trying to start up their businesses (its still a working progress) and one of the resources i added was this organization called score, i just had a zoom meeting with them and my god, the wealth of knowledge from these people is amazing and priceless, i highly recommend them. They gave me alot of things to do while I'm in the start up stage, too much to write here aka i dont feel like writing it all down. lol. as for how much I'm looking to produce is a tricky question, one i haven't figured out yet. i have some meetings with some chiefs coming up and ill see what there input is and go from there.


Update: And Now We Wait





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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Are you sterlizing grain in that barrel?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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yes, why do you ask?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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A few of us have been down that road already. A buddy of mine put a lot of effort into making it work. Even doing 36 hour cycles and trying different fractional sterilization methods. It works sometimes but it's not dependable. You'll have a lot of contamination issues. Mostly bacteria issues. You have to sterilize grain in a pressure cooker or autoclave for dependable results

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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:whathesaid:

I would suggest using a spoodle it will cut down on how much spawn you use I use 8 oz or one spoodle full per 5 lb bag but you can get away with as little as 4 oz per 5 lb bag. It makes putting spawn in your sub bags easy as pie and much faster. In this business time is money...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/194562554152?hash=item2d4cd4f928:g:~TYAAOSwZqZZ~NJS

You want the solid one, not the perforated one. You also want it to have the portion cup and the handle to be one piece. I just place the spoodle in a spawn bag and sterilize it with my sub or my grain. I never had a problem with contamination using it.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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well shit, i was not aware of that, for some reason i thought it was common practice to sterilize both grain and substrate in barrels. welp nothing to to do now but wait and see what happens.
SHROOMSISAY01, thanks for the link I'll be ordering that now

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