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Designing a Mushroom Cultivation Diagram

 
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I've been asked to write an article for homesteaders who wanna get started growing mushrooms at home.  

Since there are so many ways one could go about it, I thought a fun part of this might be to diagram the different choices you can make and options you have.

Anyone wanna provide input as I work on this diagram?
 
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Ideas:

So you want to grow mushrooms!

I have a budget   < ———— >   I have no budget

I wanna grow inside  < ———— >   I wanna grow outside

Culinary   < ———— >   Medicinal


 
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Big starting categories, each of which will fractal off as you choose your own adventure:

Indoors                                                                                                        
on Straw     on Sawdust      on Purchased Substrate                    

Outdoors
on Logs      on Mulch    




What am I missing?
 
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Indoors branch

lime pasteurize       heat pasteurize

plastic bags     jars     tub    bucket

liquid culture vs spore (thinking I'll skip culturing your own culture)

 
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If possible, you might want a few of those to have a middle option instead of just yes/no. Budget would be one. I have *some* budget!

Another big category/point of divergence would be how much they want to do. "I have a few logs", I have one small tree", "I cut down several old maples and *Wow!*, is that a lot of wood!!"

How much space they have to work with along with amounts of work they are willing/able to do, both short and long term could be other points.
 
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Cheap path:                                                 vs              Spendy path:
upside-down clear tub, sneeze-guard style      vs           laminar flow hood
your own substrate                                              vs               purchased substrate
clone your liquid culture                                   vs              buy all your stuff
reusable, second-hand buckets                       vs           single-use plastic bags with vents and injection ports

 
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Dian Green wrote:If possible, you might want a few of those to have a middle option instead of just yes/no. Budget would be one. I have *some* budget!

Another big category/point of divergence would be how much they want to do. "I have a few logs", I have one small tree", "I cut down several old maples and *Wow!*, is that a lot of wood!!"

How much space they have to work with along with amounts of work they are willing/able to do, both short and long term could be other points.






Right you are.  I was thinking some of these are on a continuum, or a spectrum vs binary yest/no.
 
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I'm thinking perhaps this sort of a layout.

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source: https://naturalbuildingblog.com/natural-building-materials-and-methods/
 
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Dian Green wrote:

How much space they have to work with along with amounts of work they are willing/able to do, both short and long term could be other points.



I think these are excellent inclusions.
 
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Perhaps a continuum:

set-it-and-forget-it      vs       I love to tinker and obsess over every moment and detail
 
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Someone suggested I consider laying it out in Figma.  Any other suggestions for things to look at?
 
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I am in process of growing mushrooms...


Branches you have are based on media used.


May want to have another chart for tools used,

Pressure canner

Mason Jars

5 gal buckets

Plastic bags


Etc.

Another chart for desired used,   medical,    food,    building material  etc.
 
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Should perhaps cover climate-specific species, as well as medicinal, culinary, or industrial applications.
 
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Mart Hale wrote:I am in process of growing mushrooms...


Branches you have are based on media used.


May want to have another chart for tools used,

Pressure canner

Mason Jars

5 gal buckets

Plastic bags


Etc.

Another chart for desired used,   medical,    food,    building material  etc.



A true choose-your-own adventure, each page a graph.  An interesting proposal.
 
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Let me think about this a little. I might start with what species you want to grow as the first step and branch from there.  Several like lions mane, chestnut, poppino, etc.  can be the same starting point, as they can be grown the same ways.
 
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Let me think about this a little. I might start with what species you want to grow as the first step and branch from there.  Several like lions mane, chestnut, poppino, etc.  can be the same starting point, as they can be grown the same ways.

Some of the medicinal mushrooms are quite complicated to grow.
 
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Hi, Kevin,
Are you still working on this chart, progression, etc. It is quite interesting and looks like it would be of interest to newbies, too.
Thank you.
 
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