If you keep a underwater fish tank uv-light inside the humidifier bin it will keep it amazingly clean for quite some time longer. Thank you for all of your information
You've done such a great job on your videos that it made me subscribe. I like how you go into the nitty gritty with your experiments and analyze what went wrong and how you improved it. I have learned a lot and is helping me on my mycology endeavors. I also enjoy your sense of humor. Keep up the good work mate!
Yea, stryke dead asked the question, I am in Perth WA, how can i maintain temps in the heat of summer without the expense of aircon, btw..love your vids, you are a real character 👍
love your work man... as a kiwi living in aussie just starting my mushroom farm you have been really helpful don't stop your videos as I make all my own stuff as well "kiwi ingenuity" cheap and effective is the way to go. stay covid safe man!!! once again....legend
Also my plan as I grow out is to maybe have multiple humidifiers input to different locations also high inside the chamber to keep humidity high and wetness down along with having time to replace one if it goes down. Thanks for sharing your experience it is very helpful 😁
You need to run community polls. It brakes youtube and will give you way more viewership. Love your work sir! P.S What happened with your Morel Experiment?
I use a fogging nozzles that uses compressed air(2.6bar) and water(3bar) and it works beautifully, especially since where i live the water has a lot of minerals that would eventually destroy ultrasonic disk humidifiers.
I know a few people that used compressed air! The problem here is having a compressor kick on at all times of the day will caused the neighbors to lose sleep!
@@OakandSpore @Oak and Spore Mushroom Farm You have to get the ones that are oil less and "silent"(kinda like the ones dentists use) which are bit quieter than a vacuum cleaner and if placed in a separate room you can kinda hear it but not nearly enough to be a bother, also the fact that they are oil less means that the mushrooms won't suffer and aside from draining the tank once in awhile they require zero maintenance. Quick question, i have been wondering about the ones that use oil, does it really affect the mushrooms or their editability? The people you know what type of compressor do they use, are they oil less? I want to know because the ones that use oil are way cheaper.
Hey, I stumbled upon on your channel completely by chance and I'm loving your videos. These are really informative and I don't even have plans of making a mushroom farm! Looking at the humidity graphs you seem to have a bit of variation. I don't know your background or what your humidity controller implementation looks like, but since your are dabbling in automation, have you heard of PID controllers (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller)? With a properly tuned controller, your humidifier can be more responsive because it is acting not only in response to the current value of the graph, but also its slope. It may also help with the durability of your system because the corrections, although more frequent, should be smaller. Hope this is of some use. Keep up the good work, and hope you have a lot of success!
hello . 3 weeks ago i followed your advice and used pinewood pellets for my oyster mushrooms blocks, i used 100% only pinewood pellets, No suplements. and today after 3 weeks incubation small mushrooms caps started to grow. so i can confirm pinewood pellets work. i guess with some suplements would work better. thx again
I haven't been doing this too long but everything I've seen shows that mushrooms don't like to be wet and when I have my fogger turned on to where it looks like a a cloud flowing out it makes the floor wet so I noticed that with a rheostat on my piezo I can turn down the power and get a light fog a very light fog coming out as long as my humidity sensor is up high I can still get into the 90s real easy without any water buildup at all just putting that out there for anybody I wish some other people would look at it and see what they think as I said I haven't been doing this that long.
I am having exact problem: too humid that a layer of water build up on the floor, which caused mushroom only grow stems no caps or tiny caps. Have you seen these kind of deformed mushrooms when your floor was wet? Thanks.
Hey my man. I really like your setup here and I'm thinking of implementing this in my grow tent. I have a concern though, the moisture build up in the pipes are you concerned about mold getting in the pipes and may have mold spores in from the humidifier holes and FAE?
Depending on if u have an uv light, u cud have up to 3 electrical chords coming from ur humidifier…if u connect to a controller, do u combine all plugs into one or just the fan into the controller & have the other chords plugged into another outlet, leaving them to run all the time?
Been waiting on a video to drop, felt like its been forever. Thanks 👌. Can you please do a video on Air circulation. Because you're moving outside air into the FC (via humidifier) don't you worry about contamination?? No filters?? 🤔
Looking into building one of these as I have now pissed through two mid-sized room humidifiers (they just stop fucking working randomly) and my tent struggles to get past 70% humidity in the winter unless i run two at once
Hope you're able to see this, need some expertise advice. I ordered a 24in x 24in x 36in tent to be able to grow better and more bags at once since the shotgun fruiting chamber is not really helping out. My question is, is it better to have a filtered positive air or have the vent sucking the air out. If having a negative air is better, should I put the vent towards the bottom or top of the grow tent??
How long did this thing last? I'm just putting a grow tent together soon for my vanilla orchids and pitcher plants and was going to build a fogger using something like this or just a one cell one. These 10 cell ones are pretty expensive to say I see many saying the fail quite often.
Great video thanks! I'm just about to build a 4 tier greenhouse martha which will be located in a shady spot outdoors. Still going to get warm but good to know I can try to regulate this a little bit. May I ask what size fans you would recommend and how many head fogger? I was thinking of an 80mm fans and a 3 head fogger but perhaps I need to get a 1 head to ensure it will come on more often?
Thanks for this valuable information! Great job! I have two questions: - What is the volume of your grow room (m^3 ?) and what's the air flow that little fan has. This is quite some tubing length it covers. - have you considered centrifugal humidifiers hung from the ceiling spreading fog/humidity 360° ?
Hey mate, wouldn't running your 6 plate for longer mean you're going to be replacing disks a lot more often? I feel so stupid, never even thought to move the intake fan away from the mushrooms to keep it from getting gnarly fffffff
Hey mate great channel very entertaining and some great info. Just wanted to ask how the pressure cooker is going? I noticed you have a Tianxi pressure cooler in one of the videos. Does it work okay?
They are H4 treated. - "H4 The minimum level of preservative treatment required to protect the timber from attack by insects, including termites, and severe decay. H4 treatments are suitable for use in situations where the timber is in contact with the ground or is continually damp"
You can use wheat bran as a supplement, 10% for shiitake and 20% for most other species. I do think you should be able to find soy hulls in germany however, have you tried horse stores? My soy bean hulls are in pelletised form from a feed store.
I know house of hydro coats their foggers with a tuff coat (Corrosion Inhibiting compounds) (CIC's) and extends the warranty. Something I thought about doing for my fogponic towers after blowing through many misters in a short period of time.
@@OakandSpore i heard from a german grower, that she´s storing them at 0.5°C and they´re good for at least 2 weeks. i saw in one of your videos your fridge is on 1.5°C. Maybe this is the reason why? She also uses waxpaper in between the mushrooms. I also wanna thank you, you are the reason why i´m starting a bussiness in germany!!
Want to see how much revenue we make from selling mushrooms? checkout this link
👉 www.oakandspore.com/farmforprofit 👈
If you keep a underwater fish tank uv-light inside the humidifier bin it will keep it amazingly clean for quite some time longer. Thank you for all of your information
Absolutely brilliant insight once again. I had no idea the fog / must would cool that much - wow!
Keep up the great work 🙌
Glad you liked it!
Dude was just wondering how I was going to prepare my tent for the ghastly AZ summer, thanks!
You've done such a great job on your videos that it made me subscribe. I like how you go into the nitty gritty with your experiments and analyze what went wrong and how you improved it. I have learned a lot and is helping me on my mycology endeavors. I also enjoy your sense of humor. Keep up the good work mate!
Yea, stryke dead asked the question, I am in Perth WA, how can i maintain temps in the heat of summer without the expense of aircon, btw..love your vids, you are a real character 👍
Thanks mate!
love your work man... as a kiwi living in aussie just starting my mushroom farm you have been really helpful don't stop your videos as I make all my own stuff as well "kiwi ingenuity" cheap and effective is the way to go. stay covid safe man!!! once again....legend
Two years of service is impressive actually for its price. That thing has already paid off
I really did the hard yards...
Also my plan as I grow out is to maybe have multiple humidifiers input to different locations also high inside the chamber to keep humidity high and wetness down along with having time to replace one if it goes down. Thanks for sharing your experience it is very helpful 😁
You need to run community polls. It brakes youtube and will give you way more viewership. Love your work sir! P.S What happened with your Morel Experiment?
I found a bunch of stuff on how to cultivate Morels since this comment. The Sclrosha is like a seed. You can grow clusters of Morels from them.
Keep going Mate, the Engineer in you will grab the Problems at the Roots and fix them 😉
Cheers mate! Love a good bit of garage engineering!
I’ve just built a new fruiting room and have been struggling with how to setup the ventilation and humidity. I definitely know what to do now.
I use a fogging nozzles that uses compressed air(2.6bar) and water(3bar) and it works beautifully, especially since where i live the water has a lot of minerals that would eventually destroy ultrasonic disk humidifiers.
I know a few people that used compressed air! The problem here is having a compressor kick on at all times of the day will caused the neighbors to lose sleep!
@@OakandSpore @Oak and Spore Mushroom Farm You have to get the ones that are oil less and "silent"(kinda like the ones dentists use) which are bit quieter than a vacuum cleaner and if placed in a separate room you can kinda hear it but not nearly enough to be a bother, also the fact that they are oil less means that the mushrooms won't suffer and aside from draining the tank once in awhile they require zero maintenance.
Quick question, i have been wondering about the ones that use oil, does it really affect the mushrooms or their editability? The people you know what type of compressor do they use, are they oil less? I want to know because the ones that use oil are way cheaper.
@@OakandSpore 🤔...So, may you can use compressed Air in Bottles ?!
Maybe an inline water filter like ice machines use.
@@ilovethemonkeyhead8523 What do you mean?
I can't believe you completed this investigation without your safety crocs
OMG I DID! Don't tell the health and safety commission...
Hey, I stumbled upon on your channel completely by chance and I'm loving your videos. These are really informative and I don't even have plans of making a mushroom farm! Looking at the humidity graphs you seem to have a bit of variation. I don't know your background or what your humidity controller implementation looks like, but since your are dabbling in automation, have you heard of PID controllers (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller)? With a properly tuned controller, your humidifier can be more responsive because it is acting not only in response to the current value of the graph, but also its slope. It may also help with the durability of your system because the corrections, although more frequent, should be smaller. Hope this is of some use. Keep up the good work, and hope you have a lot of success!
I use PID controllers for my sterilizer. Unfortunately I think connecting one into the automation software might just be out of my depth....
@@OakandSpore No worries, it's more of an optimisation rather than a real necessity. Keep it up!
Completely informative and nice project. I am thinking if it's right to put few blocks of ice in the chamber to produce a cooler humidity.
hello . 3 weeks ago i followed your advice and used pinewood pellets for my oyster mushrooms blocks, i used 100% only pinewood pellets, No suplements. and today after 3 weeks incubation small mushrooms caps started to grow. so i can confirm pinewood pellets work. i guess with some suplements would work better. thx again
You need supplementation, pine in its own doesn't work good at all. Try soy hulls or food bran.
@@OakandSpore yes i will add bran in my next blocks. Did not had any at that time
Check animal feed stores for bulk amounts. Horse food stores usually stock soy hull and bran.
What would you suggest for warming the fruiting room? In cool dry climate. Thank you!!! so helpful
Warm the air going through the intake, the easiest way to do this is with a fan heater. Its heavy on power, but works.
THX!!!I love all your vidios keep doing it!!!! PLSSSS!!!!!
YOU ARE THE MAN!
Thanks mate!!
I haven't been doing this too long but everything I've seen shows that mushrooms don't like to be wet and when I have my fogger turned on to where it looks like a a cloud flowing out it makes the floor wet so I noticed that with a rheostat on my piezo I can turn down the power and get a light fog a very light fog coming out as long as my humidity sensor is up high I can still get into the 90s real easy without any water buildup at all just putting that out there for anybody I wish some other people would look at it and see what they think as I said I haven't been doing this that long.
I am having exact problem: too humid that a layer of water build up on the floor, which caused mushroom only grow stems no caps or tiny caps. Have you seen these kind of deformed mushrooms when your floor was wet? Thanks.
Hey my man. I really like your setup here and I'm thinking of implementing this in my grow tent. I have a concern though, the moisture build up in the pipes are you concerned about mold getting in the pipes and may have mold spores in from the humidifier holes and FAE?
All my piping disconnects so I can clean it. I use something which resembles the thing they used to use to scrub out cannons with.
I love it you try that way👍
Great video. I got an idea now. 😀😀
Great!
Depending on if u have an uv light, u cud have up to 3 electrical chords coming from ur humidifier…if u connect to a controller, do u combine all plugs into one or just the fan into the controller & have the other chords plugged into another outlet, leaving them to run all the time?
Been waiting on a video to drop, felt like its been forever. Thanks 👌.
Can you please do a video on Air circulation. Because you're moving outside air into the FC (via humidifier) don't you worry about contamination?? No filters?? 🤔
Nah, contam isn't really as issue with the oysters, they grow so fast and the bags are only in the room for a short period.
Looking into building one of these as I have now pissed through two mid-sized room humidifiers (they just stop fucking working randomly) and my tent struggles to get past 70% humidity in the winter unless i run two at once
Quick edit..."so I've broken into this"... lol
Smart
Love this dude .
Thanks!
Do you run the fan on the humidifier 24/7?
Hope you're able to see this, need some expertise advice. I ordered a 24in x 24in x 36in tent to be able to grow better and more bags at once since the shotgun fruiting chamber is not really helping out. My question is, is it better to have a filtered positive air or have the vent sucking the air out. If having a negative air is better, should I put the vent towards the bottom or top of the grow tent??
How long did this thing last? I'm just putting a grow tent together soon for my vanilla orchids and pitcher plants and was going to build a fogger using something like this or just a one cell one. These 10 cell ones are pretty expensive to say I see many saying the fail quite often.
The foggers last a long time. I have had 1 fail in about 2.5 years. They are Chinese made but pretty robust.
Great video thanks! I'm just about to build a 4 tier greenhouse martha which will be located in a shady spot outdoors. Still going to get warm but good to know I can try to regulate this a little bit. May I ask what size fans you would recommend and how many head fogger? I was thinking of an 80mm fans and a 3 head fogger but perhaps I need to get a 1 head to ensure it will come on more often?
Thanks for this valuable information! Great job! I have two questions:
- What is the volume of your grow room (m^3 ?) and what's the air flow that little fan has. This is quite some tubing length it covers.
- have you considered centrifugal humidifiers hung from the ceiling spreading fog/humidity 360° ?
about 24m3. Centrifugal humidifiers are a possibility, but the method I use is cheap and easy.
Hey mate, wouldn't running your 6 plate for longer mean you're going to be replacing disks a lot more often? I feel so stupid, never even thought to move the intake fan away from the mushrooms to keep it from getting gnarly fffffff
thanks forthe update.
No worries!
Why don't you use automatic controller ?
So awesome info. Thanks mate! Is there any chance you could explain me how you get the data (humidity temperature) from the actuall process?
I have a home made automation box which feeds the data back to my PC. I have some videos about the build.
@@OakandSpore Ok I check them out! thanks!
Hey mate great channel very entertaining and some great info. Just wanted to ask how the pressure cooker is going? I noticed you have a Tianxi pressure cooler in one of the videos. Does it work okay?
I use an all American autoclave now. Pressure cookers can be tricky to use.
@@OakandSpore okay no problem. Thanks for the reply appreciate it.
No worries mate! Stay healthy :)
And why the longer the hours that the humidifier working...it makes hoter ...the water turns into hot. .its because of the humidifier machine
What system and software are you using to monitor the humidity and temperature?
my humidifier head have a crack on it surface. and the 2 heads doesnt work. please someone help me what is the cause?
How many watts the 6head fogger use ?
90% humidity inside, do not wooden shelves rot? Doesn't the risk of contamination increase?
They are H4 treated. - "H4 The minimum level of preservative treatment required to protect the timber from attack by insects, including termites, and severe decay. H4 treatments are suitable for use in situations where the timber is in contact with the ground or is continually damp"
@@OakandSpore Ohh, good to learn that. thank you.
i really want to drop university and start my own small scale but my parents don’t love the idea :(
Why don't you start on the side? Or start after you finished your education.
How many years are left for you to finish your bachelor?
Great ideas. I am planning to do mushroom farming in Baguio phillippines. My dream is portobello mushrooms.
The Philippines is a nice country! I visited a few years ago.. Good luck my friend.
What the plastic wall wrap call???
Panda film
i can´t get soy bean hulls in germany. my dear friend, what can i use instead? thanks for the help :)
You can use wheat bran as a supplement, 10% for shiitake and 20% for most other species. I do think you should be able to find soy hulls in germany however, have you tried horse stores? My soy bean hulls are in pelletised form from a feed store.
@@nickdurrant4283 I can get them but only in September. I found a vendor in netherlands. But they havent answered yet.
cool 😍
brother what you cover ur friuting champer?
Panda film!
You should encase those in silicone or some other shield to keep out water.
You could try, but you wouldn't want to impeded the fogging disk, which is where the leak might appear in the first place.
I know house of hydro coats their foggers with a tuff coat (Corrosion Inhibiting compounds) (CIC's) and extends the warranty. Something I thought about doing for my fogponic towers after blowing through many misters in a short period of time.
How long you can let the shrooms in the fridge till you cant sell them anymore?
I aim for no longer than 2 days, but 3 days is ok, they just start to look slightly dry.
@@OakandSpore i heard from a german grower, that she´s storing them at 0.5°C and they´re good for at least 2 weeks. i saw in one of your videos your fridge is on 1.5°C. Maybe this is the reason why? She also uses waxpaper in between the mushrooms. I also wanna thank you, you are the reason why i´m starting a bussiness in germany!!
Poor little hydro fogger . Got sacked😭😭😭
It does the job intended, I just needs more air circulation to function really well.