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vm711
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Getting started growing in Rhode Island
#7570648 - 10/28/07 06:45 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey all, I'm interested in growing either shiitake or oyster or both mushrooms in my yard or indoors if more productive. I live in Rhode Island, I was wondering if the climate was ideal or even suitable here. If I planned on making money off of this eventually, would I need to invest alot of money into it initially? Or is it possible to put a little work into it, spend a few hundred bucks and make my money back? It's more of a hobby, I was just wondering if it's reasonable to think that I can make my cash back and maybe a little extra by investing only a few hundred into it. I would like to test the market in this way, and if there's fair amount of demand in the area then possibly invest more into the cultivation. What would be the cheapest way to start, indoor or outdoor? Shiitake, oyster, or other? My very limited experience so far includes only PFtek with the psilocybe strains, so I'd like to start simple. Anyone else out there grow in RI?
Edited by vm711 (10/28/07 06:46 PM)
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Cryogenicz
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Re: Getting started growing in Rhode Island [Re: vm711]
#7571505 - 10/28/07 11:35 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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its tough, don't expect to make anything for the first few years...
-Graham
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vm711
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Re: Getting started growing in Rhode Island [Re: Cryogenicz]
#7571960 - 10/29/07 06:14 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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ahh, thats discouraging. somehow expected that though. Alright, how about growing them for my own food use? I already have a bunch of pint and half pint jars, a tub in tub incubator and a fruiting chamber and all that jazz from the cubes, can any of this be used as an efficient setup?
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Re: Getting started growing in Rhode Island [Re: vm711]
#7572527 - 10/29/07 10:42 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't know any successful growers that haven't had to invest 100's of hours, and at least a grand on the low side of the spectrum. May sound discouraging, but if you love it like a hobby you got to have it growing in your blood.
You need a big pressure cooker, you need quart,half gallon jars or bags and bulk enough spawn material.
You need a bulk substrate, like sawdust or straw to start. Bags of wood stove pellets a pallet for 100 bucks in the summer, now it's more. Straw costs 3 to 5 a bale.
What ever you want to grow them in. Outdoors is different then indoors.
Start reading, if you don't start searching and reading and buying books as reference, you will have a hard time evolving.
at the start you can get away with maybe 700
50 for the jars 200 for a PC 50 for substrates/spawn 100 for books the rest on etc.
pf jars won't fill the demand in the market. The market isn't the same either. Couple bucks a pound vs what ever it is. To make any money with shitake or oysters you need some real space.
You on the coast or inland? Coastal RI is probably tits for outdoors. You can grow any where if you do it right though...
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Re: Getting started growing in Rhode Island [Re: Cheezit]
#7572618 - 10/29/07 11:02 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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An actually profitable operation would cost tens of thousands of dollars...
You can save some money by knowing how to weld and know how to fabricate steel structures.
Yes, you can use some of that equipment to produce some personal amounts of edibles.
-Graham
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Cheezit
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Re: Getting started growing in Rhode Island [Re: Cryogenicz]
#7572773 - 10/29/07 11:59 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, I know, I'm just trying to get his feet wet. Didn't want him to
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Re: Getting started growing in Rhode Island [Re: Cheezit]
#7573341 - 10/29/07 03:22 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thanks for all the discouragement guys (I know that sounds sarcastic but im serious). I wouldn't want to invest the little money I have and not end up with a potentially profitable situation. I'm 19, work 30 hours a week, go to school full time and play in 2 bands, so I certainly don't have hundreds of hours to invest in this hobby. I've just been so fascinated with my cube adventures and experience growing that I want to be open about it and try and get somewhere with it rather than being in a state of constant concealing. I've really learned alot so far, mostly thanks to you guys. For now, while i've got so much going on in my life and still am unsure of what I want to do, It will remain nothing more than a fun hobby. Maybe I'll spend a couple hundred, start a personal culture of edibles and make use of some of the delicious recipes I see on this site and elsewhere online.
thanks again for the reponses, Vic
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Re: Getting started growing in Rhode Island [Re: vm711]
#7573368 - 10/29/07 03:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah man grow for yourself. It's most fun that way!
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