🍄 How to Grow Mushrooms at Home in Buckets — Step by Step

Here where we mark another where we made the knot then where we have the other mark and here so that in this way we have everything evenly distributed around the entire bucket I will make the first hole from the base at 6 centimeters and mark where it was in black here also 6 centimeters another 6 centimeters over here and where the knot was which is the main one there we have it And then the next drilling will be done from the base between the two we did before approximately for this kind of bucket at about 10 centimeters And here's what we do is we put the mark between these other two we made and now we're going to measure 10 centimeters And thus we will form this kind of triangle where the holes will be well interleaved so that we can have better fruiting And the hole I'm going to make here will be about 1 centimeter wide because this will be more than enough for all the mushrooms to come out And this is how it will look inside and these holes will not only allow the mushrooms to emerge but in the first phase of cultivation which we are going to do now It will allow gas exchange primarily so that this fungus we are going to cultivate here can breathe until we reach the fruiting stage Another major advantage is that once you finish growing the mushroom you can wash it and reuse it unlike for example growing bags And before using it fill the bucket with 70% alcohol especially in the inner part of the bucket This is to try to avoid contaminants that might remain so that when we plant the mushroom it can grow much faster and have no competitors The entire work area as well as the hands And now we have to cover these holes because in the first stage of cultivation we will need a slight gas exchange to allow oxygen in and carbon dioxide out But we have to make sure no contaminants enter through these holes we made Here I am using this micropore tape which is the one you can buy directly at pharmacies The most economical one you can get because this will allow air to pass through but it will reduce the entry of possible pathogens such as for example spores from another fungus We will do it the same way with all of them We can also use gauze by folding it and placing the tape on top Here the most important thing is that all the holes are covered but it should allow for gas exchange We will start with the planting part which is one of the most beautiful parts after the mushroom harvest This is the mycelium I made from the oyster mushroom I bought at the market where we took a small portion and planted it on sterilized corn grains This entire process is to isolate a fungus from the market and cultivate it in jars to have it at home I'll leave all the step-by-step instructions here above and if not below in the description so you can do it at home Because in this way you will always be able to have your own mycelium at home to grow your mushrooms And now I am going to plant two types of oyster mushroom On one hand I have the one that is pink and on the other hand I am going to plant the yellow oyster mushroom This is important: if we have the mycelium stored inside the refrigerator we should take it out a day in advance so it can reach room temperature and thus achieve better colonization When we sow it on the substrate that we already have well pasteurized so that it can start colonizing The proportions I use to prepare this mixture are for every kilogram of dry wheat straw I have I add approximately 100 grams of wheat bran And the treatment I do is to soak all this wheat straw for a minimum of 12 hours and then put it in a pot with a little water I sprinkle the bran on top and place it over the fire until it reaches about 80 degrees and then I leave it for an hour After this time I turn off the fire let everything cool down to room temperature and then I remove all the excess water Before starting I clean my hands and all the materials we are going to use a spoon and a container where I will put the infested corn kernels to plant them more easily inside the bucket And what I do before planting is to remove all this weed that is often very compact Notice how the corn kernel is completely white and this will help us achieve better colonization when we plant the fungus That's why this mycelium production stage is best done with large seeds so that during sowing we can distribute them much better If we end up with parts that stick together too much we break them apart by hand after applying alcohol and then we are ready to start the entire planting process We will put the substrate in the bucket It is important that when we press it water does not drip out because excess water can prevent the mycelium from growing properly which will make it very difficult for us to harvest mushrooms We will apply a first layer of about 3 to 4 centimeters at the bottom and then place these seeds trying to cover the entire surface We apply another layer of about 3 to 4 centimeters of the prepared substrate and add more seeds with the mycelium we are cultivating We will do it this way all the way up and applying just a little pressure to ensure the substrate makes good contact with the mycelium we are planting And before reaching the top I'm going to do a small tamping by gently pressing down all this substrate And to finish this planting I put on the lid but I also made a hole in it and put a strip of tape so that the entire top part can breathe well We cover the bucket and take it to a room that is approximately between 22 and 25 degrees and it is always important that it is in a completely dark place until reaching the next stage which is defrutification After 15 days of cultivation this is the yellow oyster mushroom and look how the entire growth is progressing upwards These mushrooms are growing in a circular pattern towards the sides which is giving us a good sign that the mushroom is growing with the right temperature and humidity so that tomorrow we can harvest much better One of the disadvantages of the buckets is that we have to remove the lid to check the growth because they are not transparent which makes it more difficult to know especially when to take out the tape This is the oyster mushroom which is pink in color I left some seeds on top here to see if growth would start and it's growing very well Unlike this other one we just saw that had more seeds on top but I will always recommend that you leave some seeds on top so we can analyze how it's growing and if there are no contaminations And here at the back is the oyster mushroom the common one We already have a full invasion When everything is nice and white and we see that the holes are no longer darker that's when we'll move it to the fruiting stage And in this stage we are going to lower the temperature a bit so that the mushrooms start to appear Two of the major advantages of the buckets are that we can stack them one on top of the other This will help us make better use of the space where we do the cultivation And the second important advantage is that because they are grown in a nearly completely closed environment and are made of plastic we will not have much water evaporation which will allow the mycelium to grow much faster As time goes on approximately on the tenth day and onwards we will begin to review these small tapes that we put on And when we start seeing the tape begin to lift we'll remove it because through these perforations is where the mushrooms we are growing will start to emerge Therefore we will have to increase the ambient humidity to promote the growth of our mushrooms that we are cultivating in buckets And if we are in more humid environments we will go around spraying everything around these buckets two to three times a day And once the mushrooms start to fruit we will have primarily three stages of mushroom development On one hand when they are very young when they are small this is very important that in this stage the moisture is always maintained until the fungus develops Although we could harvest it here the problem is that since they are so small we won't have much of the mushroom to harvest On the other hand we will have an intermediate stage where we will start to see that in the mushroom the entire part of the cap is already fully open But if we look at it from below we still don't have any spores hanging and this is the ideal time to harvest before we start seeing them begin to emerge Because once the fungus starts releasing spores it can begin to change the flavor and from that point on the fungus significantly decreases in quality And on the other hand when we have this intermediate stage here the mushrooms have just started to produce spores this would be the ideal time to harvest them And on this other side I left others that have passed When we see this white substance here these are the spores and it is indicating that this fungus is mature And the important recommendation would be to harvest it as soon as possible now because if we leave it longer and it continues to release spores it will ripen very quickly and it's very likely to end up changing the flavor The ideal stage would be this when we first start to see the spores emerge To harvest we will sterilize a sharp knife and from the place where the mushrooms emerged which in this case would be the holes we made we will make a cut flush with the hole And thus we would have the mushroom harvest when we cultivate them directly in buckets In this part the drilling theme is clearly noticeable We were trying to do one here below and above This is mainly so that when they are fruiting having a hole from below one above and one below we can have a higher mushroom production in the same bucket And here we go we're going to harvest the other one And all the holes that remained after we harvested what I'm going to recommend is that you spray them with water to moisten the inside And here's another one And now we're going to cover them with micropore tape This is mainly to prevent any pathogens from entering And these buckets once we have harvested we will put them back in the same warm environment between 20 to 25 degrees Because now the mycelium we have here inside is going to rest to recover from the harvest we collected And over time we will begin to see that again mushrooms will emerge through the holes This is called flushes in mushroom cultivation And thus we will be able to harvest once twice even three times keeping in mind that the largest production will be in the first harvest I send you a big greeting Bye