Kevin Hoover Posted December 3, 2021 Report Share Posted December 3, 2021 I started six bags of poppino earlier. Pressure cooker seal failed on the last two bags(I get 2 bags at a time into it). They didn’t get cooked. One of those is showing signs of infection but the others five are colonizing well. First time growing them. On the day after Thanksgiving, I started 8 buckets of blue oysters on barley straw. My plan is to start 6 to 8 buckets each month, about the same time each month, with the goal of being able to harvest oysters all year long. Figure they should start producing right after New Years. Today I’m pressure cooking eight bags of masters mix. Six done, last two in pressure cooker. Will inoculate them tomorrow with chestnut mushrooms. Sometime before Christmas, I want to do eight bags of Lions Mane, and about February I need to get some oak logs to use up the bag of Shiitake that I have in the basement fridge. Will do other bags of both lions mane and chestnut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bprzyw Posted December 21, 2021 Report Share Posted December 21, 2021 Sounds great Kevin. Hope they turn out well. What kind of pressure cooker do you use? I was thinking of my wife’s instant pot, it’s a 8 quart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted December 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2021 Mine’s a older standard pressure cooker. From what I’m seeing the instapots don’t get hot enough or up to a high enough pressure to cook grow bags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted January 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 First flush from the first two buckets so far has been over a pound of oysters per bucket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Daniele Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Our oysters produced a small flush, which died very small. They have now taken off…maybe 8oz at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted January 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 I’ve picked over 5 pounds of oysters in the last two weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Daniele Posted January 24, 2022 Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 17 hours ago, Kevin Hoover said: I’ve picked over 5 pounds of oysters in the last two weeks. Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted January 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 On the off chance you’re wondering about the pipes and gauges in the background, those are the feeds and returns from our geothermal wells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted January 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 Chestnut mushrooms are starting to grow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bprzyw Posted January 29, 2022 Report Share Posted January 29, 2022 Kevin, you’re supplying the entire northeast of the state! 🤣🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted February 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted February 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 Over seven pounds of oysters so far. Should have a couple more bunches to pick over the weekend. Will see what develops out of the pins after that. All seven of my chestnut bags produced nicely. The poppinos, not so well, will not grow those again. I never did get the lions mane started. Cooking 8 bags for that today. Raining steadily here, so I thought it would be a good day for that. One note, the hardwood sawdust I use is just what is generated from someone’s firewood cutting. A friend rakes it up and gives it to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted March 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2022 Chestnut mushrooms are finished and I got rid of those bags. They produced two heavy flushes for me. A nice crisp mushroom that stands up well in stir fries. Oyster buckets continue to produce. Well over ten pounds so far. Cooking and freezing or giving to friends those that I can’t eat for breakfast in omelets. The eight bags of lions mane are now in the grow tent. Fruiting has started on three of the bags so far. Will watch how fast they develop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted April 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2022 Lions manes are really growing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted April 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2022 First ones I harvested, four clusters, about 3.5 lbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bprzyw Posted April 6, 2022 Report Share Posted April 6, 2022 Kevin you are truly the mushroom whisperer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted April 7, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2022 Harvested the rest of the first flush today. Gave two large clumps and two small clumps totaling about a pound to a friend this morning. This is what was left that I harvested this afternoon. Total on the flush was 8.7 pounds, about 1.1 pounds per bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted April 10, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2022 Cooking 16 grow bags today filled with masters mix. Will do eight chestnut and eight more lions mane. If it warms up this week, I want to do a bunch of oyster buckets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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