
Locate a grow chamber with sufficient area and electricity near an ultrasonic cleaner. Provide ambient light from a window or 50–75 watt incandescent, and use a 1h on/3h off cycle.
Purchase an indoor greenhouse kit to create a humidity grow chamber for mushrooms. Use an ultrasonic humidifier to maintain near 100% humidity, refilling every few days depending on tank size.
Store grain spawn in the mycelium colonization area, no light required, in a separate container with holes to protect it from mice, cats, and accidents as you prepare grow bags.
Choose hardwood pellets—apple, hickory, maple, cherry, oak—and avoid softwood to ensure mushroom growth. Source soyhull pellets, wheat bran, and birdseed (millet-rich, low sunflowers) from stores or online, with proper sterilization.
discover the sterilization process for grow bags with a pressure cooker, including sealing options and folding techniques, and learn safety measures and 50 psi for 2.5–3 hours to prevent contamination.
Incomplete sterilization allows mold spores to overwhelm grow mix, producing green or black mold within one to two weeks; contaminated bags must not be opened and should be disposed of.
Understand shiitake colonization timelines, from white mycelium spreading to barking (popcorning) and browning, with 6 to 16 weeks depending on the strain before shiitake growth.
Learn how shiitake mushrooms produce second and subsequent flushes, with three cycles; rest the block two weeks, soak 12 hours, apply weight, and promote pinning of the next flush.
Lions mane rapidly colonizes grow bags, though not uniformly, and after eight to ten days begins fruiting, with large clusters appearing by day thirteen whether inside or outside the bag.
Prepare the grow bag for the chamber by cutting the top above the block, making four side cuts, and taping the top tightly for Black King to pin and grow.
In this course, you will learn all of the steps required to grow edible mushrooms at home indoors. Detailed specific step by step instructions will be provided and shown in videos. This is an intermediate level class but no previous experience or prior knowledge in growing mushrooms is needed.
While there is a myriad of methods to grow mushrooms indoors, many of these are not very productive and information which can be obtained on-line or from other sources is often contradictory or confusing. In this class, one specific method will be taught which has been optimized over many years to enable you to grow a wide variety of mushroom types using one grow chamber. All equipment and supplies needed can be obtained locally and/or shipped directly into your residence and instructions on what to obtain is clearly specified. Growing mushrooms indoors at home can be done year-round and is a great activity for an individual or family during a lock-down such as when travel is restricted during a pandemic.
In this course, growing mushrooms successfully at home is focused on exclusively with clear concise instructions with the goal to produce abundant numbers of mushrooms concurrently from many grow bags. This course teaches you how to make your own custom grow mixes for a wide variety of mushroom types. Additionally, how to multiply mushroom grain spawn after initially purchasing from a vendor. Furthermore, this course is focused on how to grow four different mushroom varieties including all of the needed parameters for Shiitake, Lions Mane, Black King, and Chestnut mushrooms. These varieties were chosen based on their productivity, taste, and applicability to the specific growing method taught and are delicious and nutritious and a great addition to your delectable cooking dishes. From the information learned and specific method taught many other varieties of mushrooms can be easily grown including Shimeji, Blue Oyster, Italian Oyster, and King Trumpet.