Easiest Tek for Quantities of Mushrooms

Topic says it all -- what's the easiest tek to grow mass amounts of mushrooms? How about to grow 1000 lbs a year? (I know, but come on, indulge me!). More so, what equipment would you need? How would you design your room?

researchkitty said:

Topic says it all -- what's the easiest tek to grow mass amounts of mushrooms? How about to grow 1000 lbs a year? (I know, but come on, indulge me!). More so, what equipment would you need? How would you design your room?

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is this even possible? good question mark

Easily! You can grow that many in a 12 x 12 room. Question is -- HOW?

Rice cakes, pressure cooker, spores, jars.

Any method can get you lots of shrooms from what I see. Its just how well you can follow a method and perfect it. I am trying BRF CAKES, they are simple when using a subtrate like pearlite or verm. Very minimal work.

Monotubs. If you can yeild 1000lbsa year then please make a fucking tek!!

I was thinking about outfitting a room that's 12 x 12 and fully plastic it off for sterilization. In the room, fill it with tons of tubs fruiting cakes. With regular chrome style shelving, the harvests should be near never ending. The real question is what tek. I'm leaning towards PF right now because of simplicity, lack of having to deal with horse poop, and really pretty easy to do............

Kiddie Swimming Pool grow! just colonize a few dozen jars of grain. pasturize a few dozen bricks of coconut coir, and mix! moisten, and throw a tarp over it!

or get tubs, stackable totes. and stack them to the celing! you could have walls of mushroom growing


in all honesty, that would take A LOT of maintnence, daily misting, and fanning 24/7 harvesting, and drying holy shit drying that much would be a pain.
and be hard to keep compleately sanitized.
one small introduction of a contaminant could run rampent in your grow room. green and Cobweb molds everywhere!

i got so good at growing, i could grow 10g dried inside a 2-liter bottle. check it out!

zer0ed said:

Kiddie Swimming Pool grow! just colonize a few dozen jars of grain. pasturize a few dozen bricks of coconut coir, and mix! moisten, and throw a tarp over it!

or get tubs, stackable totes. and stack them to the celing! you could have walls of mushroom growing


in all honesty, that would take A LOT of maintnence, daily misting, and fanning 24/7 harvesting, and drying holy shit drying that much would be a pain.
and be hard to keep compleately sanitized.
one small introduction of a contaminant could run rampent in your grow room. green and Cobweb molds everywhere!

i got so good at growing, i could grow 10g dried inside a 2-liter bottle. check it out!

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Dude that is really cool, my BRF cakes yielded about that, urs look like they are on barely any substrate!? or am i just really sonted

Growing difficulty aside, it seems the best choice is:

--> BRF Cakes in a Monotub style setup -- 8-10 cakes per tub
--> 16 tubs per chrome shelving unit
--> 8 shelving units
--> Automated air pump to ventilate each tub a few times a day
--> That's over 1,000 cakes total for a 2-4 week period of fruiting

Separate area in complete darkness at 86(f) till the cakes are ready, dunk & roll and then in the tubs they go! Continually re-spawn substrate jars with existing jars for free spores forever.

researchkitty said:

Growing difficulty aside, it seems the best choice is:

--> BRF Cakes in a Monotub style setup -- 8-10 cakes per tub
--> 16 tubs per chrome shelving unit
--> 8 shelving units
--> Automated air pump to ventilate each tub a few times a day
--> That's over 1,000 cakes total for a 2-4 week period of fruiting

Separate area in complete darkness at 86(f) till the cakes are ready, dunk & roll and then in the tubs they go! Continually re-spawn substrate jars with existing jars for free spores forever.

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u dont need a seperate area, u could just get a big heavy duty tote that has solid plastic. and stack your jars in there, no light will get in.

You do need a separate area, as the jars need to be 86(f) when they are cake-making, and 76(f) when they are fruiting. In a production environment, wrapping a tote with a trash bag and hoping it stays warm "enough" is too risky -- separate room with separate climate control for all the jars is best!

I've gotten pretty tired of collecting and dealing with horse shit myself, so I've recently switched to Coco Coir & Verm for my substrate. I use white popcorn for my spawn, which colonizes very rapidly. Running 8 monotubs setup to be fully automated. Wouldn't be too smart of me to say a number on here, but I am pumping out alot more now than I am able to do anything with, and alot of the time I end up giving them away to people by the handfuls at parties. Need to downsize, or find a larger crowd of trippers somewhere.

no way, u dont need another room at all.

build an incubator. thats what i did. and u dont want 86* thats way too hot. u want closer to 80* 82* is perfect. u have to remember that fungi do generate some heat. so if the container is 82* then its 84* inside the jar. and temps that high will make your chance of growing contaminate increase. jars can colonize no problem at room temperature 75* i guarantee it leave one jar and see for yourself.

the incubator that i built was simple. first get a large heavy duty tote.
and a cabinet organizer shelf. like this one *click here* u can also find it at lowes

then get a reptile heating pad and a reptile thermostat
stick the under the undertank heating pad onto a cookie sheet. and put it in the bottom of the tote pad up, cookie sheet down.
then place the shelf, so that the jars aren't directly on the pad.
place the temp sensor on the shelf, and then your jars on the shelf.

set the thermostat to 80*-82* (86* if you really must but i dont recommend it)
also as a bonus. buy one of those indoor outdoor wireless thermometer
and place the "outdoor" wireless sensor inside the tote. this way you can double check the accuracy of the thermostat, and u can also then monitor your incubator temps from anywhere in ur house. i put mine on top of the fridge, that way i can see it from almost anywhere. i feel this also helps satisfy the need to constantly check them to see if they are alright. i just check the temp instead. and if its right at 82* i feel better.

good luck! and ive been growing for awhile, and have grown on just about everything. so PM me if u have any questions, or need any advice.

Great advice, thanks everyone! Yield seems to be the hardest thing to account for, I've still no clue what a Monotub would actually produce. If I filled it with 8-10 1/2 pint cakes, I think after 2 flushes it should yield around 8-10oz dry? That sound about right?

Dont listen to these people.

You want 76f room temp because jars are 3degrees hotter inside.
When you fruit you want 70f

Anyother questions feel free to ask. I answer all

This is my best jar at 17 days. two sides really took off. There are the pics. let me know what you guys think. There is a bit of gold stuff from the verm coming out with the myc i think. Maybe you guys will recognize something, its my first time. Also , I see a bit of discolouration near the top on one side, is this metabolites or maybe just verm? can anyone tell?

To kronic looks like its a contam

FUck man, im gonna let it sit and see how it looks in a week. If its contamed it'll definatly get alot worse. I can always post more pictures again, not gonnna ditch it yet.

hey cronic, the foil is just supposed to be on top, like a cap. just for pressure cooking, so that excess moisture dosnt get into the jar and mess up your moisture content. once u innoculate, u should remove the foil completely.

also i dont think that in necessarily contam. one of the ways to help narrow it down, is draw around any odd colored growth (grey or green anything but white) with a permanent marker. then if you see a lot of growth in that area in a short time (1 to 2 days) then its likely contam. contam grows much faster then good fungi. if your jars fully colonize over night, u know u got problems.

The gold flakes are normal in verm.

Also a fool proof way i found to make cake jars. is make your brf mix (2cups verm 1cup water 1 cup BRF) fill the mix in the jar all the way to the top. then tap it a couple of times. this should leave a perfect quarter inch space at the top. then fill that space with dry verm. the get yourself a tyvek envelope. they are free at the post office, if u live in the U.S.(you know its tyvek, if you cant tear it with your hands. the envelope say priority or express on the side) place the entire envelope on the jar, then press the jar ring down on the envelope and screw it down. then cut the jar off the envelope. this should give you a double layer of tyvek. you dont need the jar lids at all, set them aside. you can use them as little trays to sit you cake on later. dont need to make holes or anything. next cap your jars with foil. and pressure cook them for 90 min at 15 psi. time dosnt start till the pot makes its first hiss. when u innoculate them after they have cooled off, make sure you shake your syringe, and flame and wipe the needle with alcohol. inject 1/4th a cc into the 4 sides for 1cc total for each jar. then place a small piece of tape on each needle hole of the jar. and your done! i have had 100% success with this method. its very hard for contams to get though the double tyvek layer, and then the dry verm layer.