John's Thoughts
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Five mushroom substrates and why we chose hardwood pellets
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Growing mushrooms indoors requires safety, efficiency, and quality. The ideal substrate – the fungi’s food source – should meet those criteria to better the chances of harvesting a large cluster of healthy gourmet mushrooms.
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Oyster mushrooms shrink, paralyze nematode heads in the wild
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Oyster mushrooms normally feed on dead wood and organisms. But sometimes, they immobilize and eat nematodes on the side. -
Humidity and cold shocking prolong mushroom grow kits
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You can have as many as five harvests of mushrooms in your own grow kit by maintaining the humidity and trying an extra trick. -
Growing mushrooms indoors: Adding spawn
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In the second article of this series, the mushroom substrate goes from inside the sterilizer to in front of the laminar flow hood, awaiting the precious mushroom spawn. -
JCB Gourmet Mushrooms, Deep Roots save van-loads of growing fungi
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Moving growing blocks to an insulated root cellar prevented the fungi from spoiling in an overheated incubation room. Each block can grow about one to two pounds of mushrooms. -
Growing mushrooms indoors: The grow mix
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The types of mushrooms we grow mostly decompose hardwood trees in the wilderness, such as oak, maple, and beech trees for example. We try to replicate that environment indoors with our grow mixes, known as substrate. -
Choose your chestnut: Popularity of "Chestnut" shows importance of scientific names
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At JCB Gourmet Mushrooms, we grow the Chestnut mushroom and the Chestnut mushroom. The scientific names should clarify any confusion around the popularity of the chestnut in common mushroom names. -
Journey through the mushroom life cycle
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Let’s take a journey through the mushroom’s life cycle, shall we? -
Mushroom grow kits engage children in a fun learning opportunity
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Mushroom grow kits can be more than a way to grow healthy food for meals. They can also be a fun way to help children learn more about topics in school, such as decomposers.
