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- when preparing substrate add some sugar or molasses when on boiling, i think use one or two hole mushroom in your substrate to start the mycelium off like you would use grain spores let the mushroom eat it self in the substrate if done right the mycelium in the mushroom will work wast coffee is a very good thing to use, it can cost a lot of cash for spores or mushroom starter kits but this way can be a very low cost and easy & natural, i like this video on you-tube i have to say thank you it has been very help-full and informative there was some things i did not know very cool information.
- I think what may have happened to your mushroom growth is in the previous video when you boiled your substrate you didn't allow it to cool. I believe you killed the fungus with not allowing it to completely cool before adding your spores, this is my opinion. Hopefully your next experiment has more success.
- Just to add some info about the spores... I'm not gonna go into details since english is not my first language and I might translate some words wrong but.. basically, some types of mushrooms can grow both sexual and non-sexual spores.

Sexual spores come from the fruits ( the ones you made your spore prints with). Those spores were formed by the sexual combination of two different mycelium.

Non-sexual spores though come from the mycelium itself underground. They do not come from a sexual combination of two different individuals but are instead a way for a mushroom to reproduce via clones (the genetic material is the same as the mushroom the spores come from).

So maybe the grain was a medium for mycelium that was harvested and dried and can be used as something to inoculate a new grow medium with, since it has non-sexual spores (potential clones) in it.

You can read more on that fantastic subject of spores an mushrooms it is very interesting

Did you hear about micorhizea? Around 85% of the plants are associated with beneficial mushrooms that colonize their roots. The plants provide sugars for the mushroom growth and the mushroom can cover a high volume of soil and collect nutrients and transfer them to the plants.

New researches are pointing out that plants in a forest are actually interconnected through the mushroom network and can transfer nutrients from PLANT to PLANT using that network. It's a whole new understanding and view of the subject since the plants seem to be cooperating more than we though before. It's not just competition. The plants can even send signals to other plants through that mushroom network, warning of diseases, pests, herbivores, so that the other plants elevate their chemical protection and be less threatened by the "enemy". Very interesting subject those mushrooms :)
- from what I've learned dirt/ compost are for button mushrooms. straw is for oysters.
- Great vid, best on youtube I've seen so far for this sort of thing. Going to start growing them myself soon. Just one thing hay or straw? I think they are different things, maybe? thanks
- 5:45 Was that glove thing a joke? It was hilarious. I had to stop and go back. So good. Also great information. You're an encyclopedia.
- I have a video going up tonight on my channel where I will try to start King Trumpet Oyster mycelium on cardboard. Very low tech and very unsterile, but hopefully successful.
- Update?
- so....where is part 3, 4, 5 and 6 of 6? Kinda silly to split a series into 6 parts if you don't have 6 parts.
- Any mushrooms yet? I have a property that has a small stand of trees and just this year I discovered a good number of oyster mushrooms growing there. I love them sauteed in a little butter and garlic! I made a video of a walk through these woods and put it on my channel, but the mushrooms were out of season and didn't look very good now. This spring I should have a feast though!
- Love the video's! I started experimenting last year. Then started a new job and that went out the window. You have renewed my desire to grow mushrooms. Good video's! I'm a little concerned about the temperature of your substrate. I used cardboard and ended up with a killer fungus attacking my Mycelium. I'm ready to try again! Keep up the good work!
- Aunt and Uncle live in Ohio. He bought a kit. Totally unsuccessful. Disgusted he took it out in the woods and threw it away. Went to change location for hunting perch for deer season. Mushrooms were everywhere. Took bushel baskets full to Church on Sundays. Glad to see you just wash your hands.
- thx
- They do synthesize vitamin D from being exposed to light the way we do. Pick up a copy of Mycelium Running, it's a wonderful wonderful read.
- I've found that hay as a medium makes the mushrooms taste like.... well, hay. Might want to toss some mature (heat/oven sterilized) cold compost or leaf mold in the mix to lend a more earthy flavor unless you prefer lighter tasting fungi.
- Oh man I was wondering how you were going to use the spore print to grow the mushrooms :(
 
- "How am I going to talk when I have a glove on my hand "@5:45 LOL, yeah, that's pretty hard :o)
Cheers Gary, have a great 1 :o)
- Can i use this kind of mycelium as an additive to soil? If it start grow in sterille case can i take half of substrate with mycelium and put under tomato seedling?
- This is such a wonderful video +Gary Pilarchik ... You're allowing us to watch your progress as you venture into the "unknown" realm of edible fungi ... Can't wait to see your next update.. thanks again for sharing! 

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