I have been thinking of using cargo containers as makeshift mushroom farms by installing a solar powered HVAC system and hydronics
Just something basic like oyster mushrooms.
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Anonymous06/05/26(Fri)11:36:57
>>2994330 Would be a pretty good time. Just gotta have really good circulation.
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Anonymous06/05/26(Fri)15:06:47
>>2994330 You will almost never regret buying a shipping container if its cheap. I got one for like 4 grand and it is one of my top all time purchases. I would live in a fortress made of shipping containers if I had my way.
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Anonymous06/06/26(Sat)09:41:00
How do you guys deal with energy loss in the system? They need fresh air so obviously you vent to the outside and then replace the lost air by sucking in new air. However if there is a large temperature difference you need to heat/cool the fresh air. As an added problem there will be a huge dampness loss and you have to rehumidify the new air.
So what can i do to avoid this energy trap? Obv a heat exchanger would be viable but imo they are only viable after a certain size of growroom. And venting towards the inside is also possible but i would like to avoid that for health and smell reasons.
Thaughts?
Lions mane is my fav but i also like oyster for mass and would like to forage and cultivate some "exotic" ones for variety.
It's been years since my last monotub grow. I've been successful with some beginner varieties, while not so much with the expert sorts. Growing mushrooms is tricky.
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Anonymous06/06/26(Sat)21:03:35
>>2994352 it sounds too good to be true, doesn't it rust or something?
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Anonymous06/07/26(Sun)08:08:56
>>2994463 looks good. theyre complicated all the way up until you find yourself suddenly overflowing with too many of them.
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Anonymous06/07/26(Sun)14:59:25
Is plugging logs in a shady part of my lawn sufficient to get started with this? Wondering what to do with all the dead trees.
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Anonymous06/08/26(Mon)11:32:07
>>2994302(OP) I get loads of coffee grounds are they any use? I’d kinda like to grow mushrooms, but like as in not getting a full now hobby and investing lots of hours and money but as in ‘put the coffee grounds in x and add y’
Is that possible or should I not bother?
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)11:12:12
>>2994719 Button mushrooms absolutely fucking love coffee grounds. Definitely would recommend. >>2994634 Yes that's possible.
>>2994462 Shotgun Fruiting Chambers allow the fungus to respirate while retaining moisture. Unmodified monotub Tek is even simpler by simply flipping the lid upside down. The moisture differential is enough to force air currents.
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Anonymous06/11/26(Thu)12:38:24
>>2994634 I'm new to mushroom griwing, but everything I've read says you don't want to use a tree that's been down for more than 4 weeks or so otherwise it's probably already infected with some other fungus. (Also want to wait 2 weeks from it going down before inoculation, so that the tree's own defenses don't prevent inoculation.)
>>2994302(OP) Logs are a very slow method of cultivation, so I haven't gotten a chance to see results yet. Really hoping my logs really will fruit for ~5 years like the guides say. I've got a few acres of maples trees. Mushroom cultivation is my new use for branches/trees brought down by storms.