Mushrooms do not grow well at all on softwood.
Best hardwood pellets for growing mushrooms.
Growing mushrooms on wood pellets.
As you can see in our guide to growing mushrooms with hardwood pellets.
How to prepare wood pellets for growing mushrooms.
The basic recipe we use to grow all our gourmet mushrooms uses hardwood sawdust pellets wheat bran and water.
This would need to be sterilized in a pressure cooker.
These are essentially hardwood fuel pellets scaled up 300 times.
Check out our article on growing mushrooms on supplemented sawdust fruiting blocks for more information.
If you are growing mushrooms using sawdust pellets the following substrate recipe works well for many types of gourmet mushrooms.
Thus increasing the yields of your harvested mushrooms.
1 supplemented hardwood sawdust 5 pound block 5 cups hardwood pellets 1 4 liters water 1 1 4 cups bran wheat or oat.
They come in logs about the size of your average fireplace log and are made of compressed sawdust and shavings that have been shaped into discs and forced together to form a log.
The reason that our 100 hardwood pellets are ideal for your mushroom growth is that it makes your substrate the worlds best.
After i became aware of the benefits of wood pellets as a growing medium for mushrooms i wanted to look more into the process.
They are from hardwood trees but are softer and lose as the tree has decade over time.
In the hunt for a hardwood alternative i came across briquets.
Part of the process is to sterilize the substrate before you inoculate it with your mushroom spores.
This sawdust can be easily pasteurized using inexpensive equipment and later mixed with spawn after it is processed.
This video demonstrates the inoculation method i use to grow a variety of mushrooms including lions mane tree oyster golden reishi bears head tooth turk.
Growing mushrooms on the ground wine cap stropharia blewits clitocybe nuda prefers hardwood mulch use mushroom inoculated wood chips as mulch growing mushrooms on the ground buy spawn locally or over the internet.
Crumble your colonized.
Make sure to get hardwood pellets and not softwood pellets.
Wood pellets are an inexpensive source of hardwood sawdust that can be used as our bulk substrate.
Bbq pellets are only made from hardwoods therefore they could be a good source as a growing medium for mushrooms.
For every 5 lb fruiting block.
Add amendments ashes etc.
Hardwood pellets are used because they are readily available at local retail stores or online and store easily.
Layer wood chips or mulch on the ground in a shady location.
In nature mushrooms grow best on the dead portions of logs that have already started to break down.
You can grow mushroom on whole logs but it is hard.
