Growing Mushrooms in a Bucket! (Super Easy Method) | GroCycle
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- Growing mushrooms isn’t always difficult! In this video, we look at one of the easiest ways of growing oyster mushrooms at home in a bucket.
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All you need for this is:
- 20L food grade bucket (5 gallon)
- 0.5kg Oyster Mushroom Grain Spawn (1lb)
- 2.5kg Chopped Straw or Hard Wood Chips (5.5 lbs)
We run you through the process step-by-step, and at the end of this you’ll have a wonderful crop of delicious oyster mushrooms… It's so much fun too!
Chapters:
00:14 Introduction
00:58 Preparing your bucket
01:58 Pasteurising and hydrating your substrate
04:37 Inoculating and incubating
05:49 Fruiting your mushrooms
07:54 Harvesting
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Hi Grow cycle , what are the different types of mushrooms that can be grow in Buckets or are you limited to Oyster mushrooms, thanks for the informative video
Thank you! I tried oyster mushrooms in a bucket two years ago and I did manage to grow a bunch of them. But I didn't know to sterilize my straw substrate beforehand and it eventually turned black inside the bucket.
Thanks for the video and I'll try again. 🙂🙂
I am so excited. I want to learn this so bad.
So excited to try this! Will it work for cauliflower mushrooms?
You can place the bucket with holes into a bucket without holes for the colonization. Blocks light and minimizes O2. Once it's ready to fruit, pull the bucket with holes out of the other bucket and set it in the fruiting environment.
Thanks for all the helpful info!!!
Great tip, thanks! 😃
20l bucket inside of a 30 l bucket ......30 L hot water pasteurisation is also possible..... Much simpler
@@13thbiosphere I wonder if you sell em if it will cover the costs of hot water
You need air during colonization.
How does the generated CO2 get out and fresh air get in. Isn't this needed during colonization? In one video by grocycle i saw they put micropore tape over the holes. I was planning on doing what you mentioned but with theouter bucket having holes that align to the inner bucket (but fewer), then cover those holes in the "shield" bucket with 5 micron stick-on filter patches. Thoughts?
Cover the holes with micropore tape to keep the humidity in and contamination out. Remove it when colonisation is done.
The humidity depends on the environment where the bucket is. In summer, I don't need to cover the holes as it's VERY humid here, but in winter it's much dryer.
@@celticlass8573 micro pore is to prevente contamination and bugs to lay eggs in the substrate. Trust me, that will happen!
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I have grown mushrooms in bucket like this and it works flawlessly.
Thank you for sharing this
Glad it works for you too!!
Thank you for this video!! I am excited to start this adventure!
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Thanks for this video! I just had my first harvest with this technique and they were delicious!
Can't wait to give this a try.
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wow, relly simple and looks easy, thank you :)
Many thanks guys for information and explanation, I love it👍. God bless you.
You want the water to be 70°C AFTER you put the substrate in, otherwise the contaminants aren't really seeing much less soaking in that temp.
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Hi, loving the videos, I'm looking forward to trying this! I'm hoping to start growing my first oyster mushrooms this way very soon but I'm a little unsure of how much spawn I would need for this exact method (20 litre bucket). A lot of sources say I should use 1 - 2.3 kilograms of grain spawn per 20 litre bucket but often sellers will sell in much lower quantities (e.g. 50 g of Mushroom Spawn Seeds). Do you have any recommendations of where I can go to get the right amount? Cheers :)
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To me it seams for a small hobby single household level, hardwood or straw pellets seam to be the most convenient substrate to get. But you mention issues with compaction and air exchange with fine materials.
Do you think using smaller buckets would help with the air exchange?
What would you say is the smallest reasonable bucket to grow oyster mushrooms?
Great video! I recently set up a 20L bucket of oysters using these instructions and had pinning at every hole but then a lot stopped growing (aborted?) and started to brown/yellow. About 1/4 continued to fruit... Do you have thoughts on the main cause of aborts with this method? Drops in temp, humidity, overpinning, not enough oxygen... I can't seem to find answers on this... Love your thoughts!
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@GroCycleTV I have some blue Oyster and black Oyster sawdust spawn on route and will be attempting this method. I have a bale of steralised Rape straw which I am going to experiment with, having just watched your other video ( A Guide To Mushroom Substrates ) would you suggest adding any supplements in with it all when layering the straw with the sawdust spawn, or will there be sufficient amounts already in it?
would it be recommended to tape the side holes with micropore tape during incubation? or is it overkill? i mainly worked with sterilised woodchips or sawdust so far
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Brilliant video. Thank you. Where can you buy big quantiles of the mushroom stuff from
It’s so expensive on Amazon etc x
What are you after? Let us know and we can try and help!!
im growing them in deep multch woodchips this year, i have never grown them outside before. Growing blue oyster mushrooms and wine caps
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What size poly tubes do you use for your straw logs? I purchased 8" and it's quite small. Thanks 🙏🙏
Can you use that used straw (the one that has finished fruiting) to colonize new buckets?
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No. If the straw is spent (used), there will be very little for any new fungi to eat
I am planning on doing this soon and was wondering if can you use the spent substrate to inoculate a new bucket instead of having to keep buying grain spawn? It seems like this should be possible as long as the mycelium in the old substrate is still active. My plan is to harvest the mushrooms from the first bucket once or twice and use the substrate just like I would grain spawn for the next buckets.
I'd also like to know more regarding this so if you found any information on it and are willing to share that'd be great
Look at the Gro Cycle channel. They actually have a video about the topic
Logically... if one type of mushy eats one nutrient and another eats one that is untouched? Should work so long there's no mold etc?
@@johnhedge9328yes, you can. But you need to resterilize your substrate. Molds is always there, but undeveloped for some time.
From Paul Stamets book:
Species succession can be accomplished indoors. Here is one example. After Shiitake stops producing on logs or sawdust, the substrate can be broken apart, remoistened, resterilized, and reinoculated with another gourmet mushroom; in this case, I recommend Oyster mushrooms. Once the Oyster mushroom life cycle is completed, the substrate can be again sterilized, and inoculated with the next species. Shiitake, Oyster, King Stropharia, and finally Shaggy Manes can all be grown on the same substrate, increasingly reducing the substrate mass, without the addition of new materials. The majority of the substrate mass that does not evolve into gases, is regenerated into mushrooms. The conversion of substrate mass-to-mushroom mass is mind boggling. These concepts are further developed in Chapter 22.
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Is it important to have holes? I will try to make one in a 4L transparent bucket. Can i just open the lid when it needs to fruit ?😁thank you. Hope you can answer.
Can leaves work as substrate? I live in a temperate forest and that's what's around ... like could pasteurized / sterilized leaves be used for any species? Whether oyster or what... or nah?
How do you dispose of the used lime water?
I live near salmon habitats,
A couple questions. First, can you grow Lions Mane mushrooms like this in a bucket? Next, where do you get your mushroom spawn?
I'm going to try to grow lions mane in buckets since it's too hard to get the trunk sections in stacked in place
Great content!! One quick question for the mushroom lover: I'm placing micropore tape on the holes, anyone knows if I need to manually remove them after full colinization, or the pins have enough strengh to remove it by itself?
I'm in Thailand can I get them here or shipped here?
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How much the result of total harvesting for each bucket from first fruiting to last ? Thank you
Hi grocycle I love your videos! I have a question, if I want to upscale my farm and produce 500kg per week, does this mean that this will take around 500 hours of labour?
Hi Benjamin - not at all - if you run it as a production line, or do batch production, you get economies of scale - so it's not a direct translation! The time involved to fruit that much depends on the space available, your processes, minimising losses through contamination and the like... how much do you currently farm? Might be worth you heading to our channel and looking up our free 1 hr workshop - link is in the description above (last link). Thanks for watching!
@@GroCycleTV thank you so much for replying! I will definitely check out your course. I actually haven't started mushroom farming just yet, but I'm hoping to start soon.
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I am starting indoors so what can the low temperature outside be being it’s winter
What mushroom does the spawn spawn and where do you get it? I need to know so that I can do this for science.
A lot of sites say they recommend 5 pounds of spawn per 5 gallon bucket, and wanted to know your thoughts on that? My first go at it, I used roughly 1 pound of spawn and I got a beautiful first flush, but things have seemed to slow down since then. Using 1 pound of spawn if far more cost effective, and I would like to continue using that ratio. Thank you!
Go to their website forum to get answers
Do you get a better second flush if you hydrate the substrate again? (by misting the holes for example)
Yes - soak again after the first harvest and mist regularly!
I did cold pasterisation and i put staw into some transparent pvc bags, but now i see some seeds have sprout...What should i do?
I haven't noticed in the videos that you talked about where you put the remaining "waste?" that remains after cultivation and collection? If you just can't dump it in your compost/backyard? I am interested in what will be done with it? If you start cultivation in bigger, this can come as a real surprise.
I also watch this Vidio and follow all the process and its explanation. Some of the explanation are really needed but not for the rest after all the mushroom stop producing . But. Maybe it can be use as partilizer
What about using straw pellets?
Do you rinse your bulk sub after lime baths? Or is it safe to add spawn directly after?
no need, oyster dont mind high ph
Can you flush the bucket by rehydrating? If so, how?
I did this similar with same size holes.
I would suggest smaller holes so the chance removing subszrate when harvesting is smaller
We've found this size hole works well for us, if you put your hand behind and twist before pulling, hardly any substrate comes out - I think any bigger and it might be a problem... how was your crop? Good luck!!
@@GroCycleTV I assume you're usig straw then the hole size should be ok I'm using sawdust and straw like stuff because I get it for free (wheat hulls straw rests etc. ) because thats smaller it would break loose easier.
At the moment I did just a test with cold pasteurization in bahs which worked pretty well but the strain of oyster that Icloned from the wild because it seemed so strong didn't fruit in all tries before (sterilized and other mediums).
Now after 10 or so attempts I found how to make it fruit finally, but it grows strange as if it got way to high CO2.
Looks more looks like a Trumpet than an oyster mushroom. Many stems wit just a tiny cap that is white in the middle....
Very strange....
And no its not because high CO2 I tried mor air exchange, different humidity and different temperature.
Maybe my culture is just to old.
Tried for 3 years to get it fruiting at all.
Now I found the reason why it didn't fruit but now it doesn't grow as its supposed to do....
Will probably dismiss this strain even its growing exceptionally strong and quickly mycelium but getting it to fruit and then fruit correctly is pretty hard to do.
@@Gorkilein Did you used the cold pasteurization on sawdust substrat? Or was it straw?
@@ale.ktheo.g4394 Idid use a mixture of sawdust spelt and wheat-bran
But I was just testing the coldnpasterisation method
I had a bit mold in rhe tests bit it was overtaken by the oyster mycelium lateron.
Before I always used sterilized sawdust.
@@Gorkilein Thanks for the answer ;} Do you think you will continue to use cold pasteurization on sawdust? I'm thinking in using Wood chips. I'm also thinking in doing hot watter pasteurization for this substrate
Hi ! Thanks a lot for this video, this is really interesting and I really want to try it out ! I have some questions though : 1. What can you do with the spawn if you don't use it entirely ? do you store it in the fridge ? 2. Does this method work with any other type of mushroom ? Thanks !
1) yes, you can re-seal the spawn and store in the fridge for a couple of weeks, then clean bags well with alcohol before using 2) this method works best with Oysters, but we have seen some folks growing Shiitake like this and knocking the colonised substrate out of the bucket to fruit
@@GroCycleTV Thanks so much for the answer :)
Would another type of mushroom work?
Hi I’m new to this, so stupid question… Will clear buckets work just as well, or should they rather be opaque/white? Thank you for a wonderful informative video.
I think clear should work ... Especially if you're going to place it within a second bucket as some comments suggest. Many folks grow in clear plastic bags and it actually helps monitor the progress of the mycellium growth plus also helps spot any possible contaminant growth (black patches)
So at the end, you dumped the bucket into the compost pile. I'm wondering, if you broke up the old substrate into a new batch of chopped straw, would it come back to life?
They basically made a video doing experiments on this idea, "using mushroom substrate as spawn" czcams.com/video/7ZFHpCnGdO0/video.html. Basically he says you can reuse substrate like you suggest, but the yields vs your fresh substrate inputs get worse and the mycelium starts to get sick/lose energy, and you should at most reuse substrate like once, maybe twice. Its an interesting video.
My 5 gallon bucket has been fruiting very well for its first flush. Is it possible for me to “repackage” some of this into a smaller container for a gift then fill the gap in mine with more chips and get them to spawn in the new stuff?
Don’t see why not. It’s mushroom spawn. Key is substrate needs to be clean
Does anyone have an opinion or data on the yield of this method vs the yield of grow bags methods (either sawdust or sawdust+soy hulls)?
IMO the benefit to doing the bucket method is that it's much lower waste, because the bucket is reusable and the bags are not, and the secondary is that over time, because you won't be purchasing the bags anymore, you save money. I like the bucket method because of this, though I have grown many in blocks as well. The ones I've grown in bags, if the blocks have had a few flushes I like to revitalize them by putting them in a bucket with either straw or chips, and they will recolonize and I get a decent yield from the "spent" blocks. 😊 I also reached out to one of my local businesses, and they gave me the buckets that bulk nut butter comes in, for free. I also combine that with colonizing grain in jars rather than grain bags, so that cost is nominal as well.
@@celticlass8573 thank you for the reply. Did you find any differences in the yield per space utilised when growing in buckets vs bags?
I am considering the different methods, and lower costs and waste are definitely an advantage, I agree.
I want to know the trade off. Why are bags still popular in this case? Yield must be different...
@@anirshadchowdhury9653 The yield is quite similar by volume of substrate. It shouldn't be any different, when you think about it, a block is a block, if all the prep is the same.
As for why people still use bags to grow mushrooms, I believe it's because it's convenient, and they don't want to bother with washing the buckets. The buckets take up more space than bags do, but the buckets have the capacity of producing more than one mushroom at a time. Definitely experiment and see what works best for you. 😊
have you made any mycelium bricks? those buckets could make some good paver stones
Good idea!
Hello,can we chop straw into powder and use it instead of sawdust then sterilize it in a pressure cooker?
Yes you can do this to create your substrate to grow in bags, but we wouldn't recommend using small particle size substrate like this in buckets as you tend to get issues with poor air exchange to the middle of the substrate
Hi dear. I am using a bucket to grow oyster mushroom. After a month the bucket seems light. Do I soak again the straW? And how do I soak it with the bucket? Do I open the lid and put water in? Looking forward for you answer. Thanks
Have you been spraying it? If you spray with a spritzer or hose it should be able to take on enough water to keep it hydrated - also, keep in the shade, if it's in direct sunlight it may dry out too quickly and become light, and mushrooms will struggle to grow... hope that helps, of not, feel free to post another comment here!
If using the same quantities but spread in 4 smaller 5 litters buckets, will the total crop be the same as you get in one of 20 litters?many thanks
Hi - it should be similar, yes, but the nutrients will tend to be used up faster and subsequent yields may be smaller, but work with the buckets that are a) available to you and b) fit in with your production process - just make sure that they are food grade plastic. Good luck!
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Is there any reason this wouldn't work with smaller buckets? I have A LOT of small buckets to use so would rather not buy any more
I am in a cold part of Australia where in winter temperature can drop to 4 degrees at night time and then up to 16 degrees during the day. Will these cold temperatures kill the mushrooms. I am interested in growing oyster and lion’s mane
You can get cold weather strains of oyster, particularly blue and brown winter oyster - lions mane are more picky with swings and extremes of temperature though... have you tried growing either one yet where you live?
Can I use coconut coir by soaking it to remove the tannin b4 sterilizing it with hot water?
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Where do you get the mushroom spawn???
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When Fruiting in a bucket or a bag, which method produces the best clusters if the bag and/or bucket capacity is comparable?
In my experience, if the volume of the bucket is the same as that of a bag, the amount of mushrooms is comparable. Of course it will depend on the mushroom, your climate etc.
@@celticlass8573 yes, if bag and bucket are comparable, the Fruiting on the side of the bucket, is this comparable Top Fruiting out the top/side of bag, is there a difference in the Clusters , if so , which ?... ?
@@wande.r I can't imagine there would be less, since the surface is more than the typical bag opening. I think I'd be careful to make sure that it doesn't get too dry.
How we know if substrate get contaminated inside bucket?
Watching this video after I used wooded pellets... Waited about 3 weeks now and still not nearly colonized.
Hey guys, what to do if got pinning on some of the bucket holes,but it jut stays the same,not growing any more, for last week? The bucket is half cofee grounds and half alfa-alfa straws.
Are you keeping the substrate hydrated? Lack of water will stop the growth, or of it's become too hot or cold, that can also have an affect...
Can you use hay as a substrate? Thanks
I don't wanna buy any of that. Im just asking a simple question to grow oyster mushrooms.
Don't you have contamination problems with this low time/temperature sterilisation/pasteurisation of the wheat straws? it's because you don't use any supplement? Did you stopped using coffee ground? thank you :)
Very low contamination rate growing like this. Oysters grow very happily on 100% straw substrate, which contains much higher Nitrogen and mineral levels than sawdust, meaning supplementation is not necessary to get good yields.
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Can you put it in a green house to not mist it everyday
I'm not able to get the free guide, it keeps loading but never really get to it, can anyone help me?
Aside from the pasteurisation moment, this method seems to have none of the focus on sterile handling that the other methods have. Letting the pasteurised back drip out outdoors, just hosing the bucket down with gardenhose water etc. Is it because oyster mushrooms are just tougher against contamination?
Really, yes! Oysters are some of the hardiest mushrooms against contaminants and we've tried growing them in this was many times with a good success rate - one reason we love to grow oysters in the Low Tech way!
I’m looking to grow my own mushrooms. I imagine I can copy your exact same method, but tote instead of bucket? Would that work?
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In the incubatoin stage, should we seal the holes with micropore?
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Why doesn't any design a buck to grow mushrooms like the Japanese bottom style growing. If growers could reuse buckets instead of plastic bags it would be amazing
Anyone got any tips where I can get straw without paying an arm and a leg? I live in a city.
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Can it be done in a garage
Yes, just ensure there is some light and fresh air for the fruiting phase
Im not sure but i thought somewhere i saw that you could pasteurize straw in cold water with hydrogen peroxide. Is it possible or am i dreamin??
You can indeed, have a watch here: czcams.com/video/fVlJ3zND3PQ/video.htmlsi=n7L7t58Q7cUvsley
@@GroCycleTV Thank you, yes I already watched that video and just watched it again....I must have missed it because video you are referencing shows 5 easy ways to cold water pasteurize. Hydrated Lime, Ash, Soap, Chlorine and Vinegar....no peroxide.
Is this method appliable with softwood fuelpellets or poresize is a peoblem?
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Can you "reseed" the mushrooms?
Grocycle made a video where they talk about the question you're asking, I think: czcams.com/video/7ZFHpCnGdO0/video.html
what about an infinitely fruiting mushroom bucket
You'd have to add something to give it nutrients but yeah
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You can get three flushes from a bucket usually as long as mould doesn't set in - the mycelium does weaken after that too much to get many more fruits - but not unheard of for a fourth!
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Google "mushroom spawn" or "mushroom grain spawn" and you will be able to find a supplier in your local area - hope that helps!
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Can you do this for Lion's Mane mushroooms?
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It is possible in india
In theory yes, humidity should be easy for you - but maybe keep shaded to keep the temperature down - you might have the opposite problem in that respect to us in the UK! Give it a go and let us know how you get on, we'd be interested to hear how it goes!!!
Im not a fan of plastic..am i wrong...are those buckets food grade ?? Am i the only one that wonders ..
Food grade yes. If you wanted a plastic free option, we use these: www.polybags.co.uk/shop/compostable-bags_c1854.htm
You can see these in action here: czcams.com/video/5VDXkGGzBFg/video.htmlsi=B02P4bDsWpvCIUK2
why this mushroom look like to much black ?