Is this the perfect climate for cultivating shitake on logs?

Buenos dias. I have the chance of living on and using a 90ha cloud-forest area in Peru with my wife and our soon to be born son. It's a very fruitful land and there are probably as many options what to do with it as there are trees growing. One option that is high up on our list is to grow shiitake (and other mushrooms) on logs to make a living. I tried growing oyster mushrooms on logs as an experiment in Switzerland with good success but have no experience in other climates.

After checking the climate chart (see attachment) of our place in Peru I thought it seems like a great combination of temperature and humidity (between 60-80%) to grow mushrooms on logs year round. What is your opinion about it? Is there a major down part to this climate for starting a mushroom farm on logs, i.e. are the night time temperatures too low?

A big cheers for sharing your thoughts and experience!

ps: are there permies or fungi-enthusiasts around here from peru?

Marc,

Welcome to Permies!  Personally I love the thought of growing mushrooms.  I am one of those persons who can't tolerate a shiitake mushroom, but I love growing Wine Caps.  Actually, I grow Wind Caps for two reasons--1)  for the mushroom compost, 2)  the mushrooms themselves.  I like to stack my functions so I grow mushrooms in the garden beds on wood chips.

Sorry I can't be more specific about shiitake mushrooms, but if I were just guessing (and I am guessing) I would think that you have a great climate for growing most mushrooms.  And 90 ha on which to grow them!  I would think you would have a bountiful mushroom harvest.

Great idea, and again, welcome to Permies,

Eric

hi eric, thanks for the answer. nice idea to grow the wine caps for the compost / compost tea. gonna look into that as well...

Marc,

If you like growing shiitake mushrooms then I think you will also like growing Wine Caps.  They are very easy to grow.  They do have a couple of differences from shiitake, namely that they really need some ground contact and they actually like having a bit of sunlight.  Actually, Wine Caps are pretty bulletproof and therefore a great starter mushroom--but you are past the starter stage.

I have a couple of threads I keep running and updated Here:
https://permies.com/t/82798/composting-wood-chips-chicken-litter

And HERE:
https://permies.com/t/130092/mushroom-newbie

The first documents my journey from being a complete novice to having a degree of competence.  I usually include this link for people who have never grown mushrooms before so this may or may not be helpful to you.

The second includes step-by-step instruction for a person who was growing under some pine trees.  If you leave out the pine tree part, it is a pretty good resource for growing Wine Caps.

Everything I have mentioned is specific to Wine Caps, but Blue Oysters are just as good at breaking down wood (maybe better?), so they may be a fine choice as well.  But Wine Caps are just not all that picky and therefore are a great all-around mushroom, especially for making compost (which is magically fertile BTW).

Welcome to the Wine Cap bandwagon!

Eric