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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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rizhomushroom said:



could you put a chest freezer along the wall of the fruiting chamber that's facing your camera in the pic above?

my wife's family runs a u-pick and they keep their produce refrigerated in a chest freezer that's dialed to it's lowest setting ~ 2-5C.  That way you don't need vertical space, and more horizontal space.  it's more of a pain in terms of bending into the freezer, but beats not having any refrigeration.


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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: taku]
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Yeah your right, and i think that's where ill put one! though i looked up Freezerless Refrigerators and god damn are they expensive, and i cant find them used anywhere. also having a hard time finding a used chest freezer at the moment, but once i find one ill probably modify it with a PID controller if the temp setting cant go to the desired temperature. thanks for calming me down!

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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no worries man, where are you at in the world, i can help search if needed. don't have to be super specific, state or province or whatever

alternatively, we got one from Costco (in Canada) for under $200. it's maybe 4' wide, but it would be a start. check appliance stores cause they only get really expensive when they reach that 6-8' mark.


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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: taku]
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The chest freezers at the big box hardware store were the cheapest of the freezers when I was looking for something.

What I did was upgrade my kitchen fridge and used the old guy for shrooms. Will need to upgrade to a large commercial fridge at some point. The most economical would've been going straight to the big nice fridge, but now the kitchen has something nice anyways.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: deadmandave]
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Check used restaurant equipment stores as well. I was able to get a monstrous 3 door traulsen for $1500. He had used single door commercial refrigerators for 4 to 8 hundred too. I've seen commercial refrigerators super cheap on Craigslist too

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: Stromrider]
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Look for a double-door restaurant refrigerator. I just saw one the other day for $160 with a blown compressor then use an air conditioner to keep it cold there are techs on youtube to show you how to do it.

or just have your harvest scheduled for the days the restaurant wants the mushroom and harvest then drop them off.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: SHROOMSISAY01]
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taku, thank you for that! but ill be okay i think i just got super overwhelmed yesterday, i found a few freezer-less refrigerators already just waiting to hear back from them.


Also found this for 250$, it needs some kind of work done to it they didn't list what was wrong so i just sent them message about it.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/286682652908157/

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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nice find! they'll even haul it, score.


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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: taku]
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luckily for me they are two minutes from my house! just waiting for a response to see what the issue of it is.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Update:


My Italian oysters are fruiting but im not happy with the size of the clusters, im not familiar with this strain so im not sure if this is normal. also i put them into fruiting conditions way past the point i should have so maybe those are all factors. i have a nice pin set coming in on my chimerical strain, the next week or so should be interesting!

So new issues are arising, the wood door i have on the growroom is starting to disintegrate at the base, i must of missed that part when i was sealing everything with paint, will have to address that, maybe some kind of zipper door? not sure could use some input.

Thankfully i was making a second batch of substrate when i noticed my humidity was dropping and air was flowing back out of the intake. lucky that was and easy fix, the flex pipe going from the fogger to the grow room has a low point (see photo) and it was backed up with water, drained it and all was good again. I will have to raise that pipe up to keep that from happening again.

another issue, when building the growroom i left the ground bare which is causing water to leak out, once this first grow is done, ill have to lay down more of that heavy duty plastic to keep it from leaking and causing mold and mildew from growing since i have the grow room tucked in the corner of the room i cant get be hide it to clean it up. you can see the leaking in the photo of the substrate on the rack, on the bottom right of the photo. now that i have climate control in there i decided to put that rack down there instead up hauling bags up stairs to my office.

that table extension is working great! im glad i did that makes me life easily and speeds up working time.

I would appreciate if you guys took a look at the photo and gave me some input, Thank You!










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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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You might get bigger shrooms if less of the substrate is exposed, regardless they look great.

Try dialing your humidity down a bit. Some water on the floor is normal and expected but if it's oversaturated and pooling on the bottom it's a waste of energy and time spent soaking it up. With a floor drain it's less of an issue but you can get really decent humidity without a lot of standing water. Don't obsess over a hygrometer reading 100%

Maybe you could use some foam board for a door.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: deadmandave]
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deadmandave said:
You might get bigger shrooms if less of the substrate is exposed, regardless they look great.

Try dialing your humidity down a bit. Some water on the floor is normal and expected but if it's oversaturated and pooling on the bottom it's a waste of energy and time spent soaking it up. With a floor drain it's less of an issue but you can get really decent humidity without a lot of standing water. Don't obsess over a hygrometer reading 100%

Maybe you could use some foam board for a door.


cool, noted, turned down the humidity and yeah I'm seeing what you mean about the less exposed substrate producing better/bigger mushrooms. I got my first harvest today maybe should have picked it yesterday but still look okay, not chiefs standards in my option, but these were the Italian strain that went into the grow room way too late, they were starting to fruit in the bag before i could get them in there so i just let the whole top of the bag open, and pulled about 1.2LBS for the first flush on a 5LBS block, also this is a strain given to me so its most likely not a commercial strain.

Foam door maybe the way!

as always thank you for the input!


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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Things are starting to look good!!









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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Man i love these mushrooms! the door is a major issue now though I'll be surprised if it makes it to the end of the week. deadmandave, Im going to go with your suggestion and run out and get 2in foam board and try to make a door out of that.







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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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I use foam doors and magnetic tape to hold them in place.

Mushrooms look good. Look ready to pick. Those the Italian oyster?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: deadmandave]
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noted thank you, and good eye, the first set of mushrooms are Italian and the second set of pictures are Harbor Blue Pleurotus ostreatus NSPO1.
also sent out my first free sample pack to a restaurant yesterday! still have a shit ton of calls to make to try and get into more restaurants.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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I stand corrected they were all Italian oysters

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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rizhomushroom said:
I stand corrected they were all Italian oysters


They're gorgeous, very nice work. Are these a commercial strain?

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: AphexPin]
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Thank you! the only commercial strain i have on hand is the harbor blue and couple i received from a generous user here, all other strains im growing are from another user here so they're origins are unknown so im just using them to dial in the grow room.

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Re: Starting my mushroom buisness [Re: rizhomushroom]
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Aren't Italian oysters and Phoenix oysters the same strain from a different name? I feel like that's true but can't remember.

Yours look awesome. Looks like you got her dialed in

I've grown the Italian oysters from North spore some. They did really well for me

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