Bringing mushroom mycelium by Mushroom Chocolates maritime groupage without refrigeration isn't commodity suitable for the faint of heart.The mycelium of the fungus is a living organism that supports temperatures within a range.In general, it can repel temperatures between 3ºC and 33ºC.
This can be a problem for shipping holders that are outside.
In the nights of January or February you can have temperatures close to 0ºC in the anchorages of northern Spain.
And in summer or indeed in spring or afterlife it can be worse.
It can exceed 40ºC outside, If you're unlucky enough that your vessel is exposed to the sun.
Indeed if you have mild temperatures outdoors.
By the time the pallet arrives in the Canary islets, you may have bags with a doughy thickness and a putrefactive smell that looks like you're hiding a cadaver.
Still I took the threat.
I brought a pallet with 60 bags of Shiitake mycelium.
It was spring so, if the vessel wasn't exposed to the sun, I could start my civilization with certain guarantees of success.
The idea was to put a many bags in the fridge, and take them out as he wanted to put them into product.
Flash back what I told you about temperature changes?
The phytosanitary examination wasn't necessary( although it did).
Although the vessel temperature was within the survival range of the mycelium, there were oscillations between day and night temperatures.
By the time the mycelium reached my grow racks, all the blocks proliferated at formerly.
At home we come to hate mushrooms.
We ate grilled mushrooms, garlic, with bechamel, soy sauce, in tortillas, with prawns, with ham.
We only demanded to try breakfast and goodies.
My cousins, my musketeers, my tykes and indeed my cravens ate mushrooms.
And that brings me to the vocation.
anyone who wanted to grow mushrooms could have them too, If I had those problems.
And that, far from being an vexation, can be an occasion.
The business idea went from growing mushrooms to producing mycelium for others to grow.
I did some work in the basement of my house and set up a mini laboratory to cultivate and invest mycelium.
I'm embarrassed to call it a laboratory if you take into account the outfit of a ultramodern laboratory.
But although modest, it has the essential rudiments to produce pure mycelia in a sterile terrain.
I experimented with mycelium samples imported from Canada and Great Britain( in liquid societies, by courier).
I also set up it amusing to pair hyphae( so the nearly unnoticeable vestments that form the mycelium are called) attained from spores to get mycelia able of producing mushrooms.
This is an interesting aspect, since the sexual life of fungi is kindly.more complicated than ours.
In an ideal world we should all devote ourselves to doing what we believe in.
And I suppose that producing mycelium for others to grow is a way to help a lot of people so they can have some redundant income.
Growing mushrooms isn't delicate.
It's enough to produce certain conditions of temperature and moisture.
Easy conditions to get in the Canary islets.
And, most importantly, you don't have to have large granges or storages.
Nor be a graduate in biology or an agrarian expert.
With a minimal investment and a small space, anyone can devote themselves to an exertion different from conventional husbandry.
That it can also report further income than with any other crop and on top of that it's legal.
In short, three decades latterly I've returned to the enthusiasm of the first work in a laboratory.
And, on top of that, I can help others claw into the fascinating and mysterious world of mushrooms.
Why did I stop growing mushrooms?
Once I started producing mycelium the coming logical step was to gather my own mushrooms.
So I set up a space in the basement of my house for mushroom product.
I equipped it with artificial lighting and humidifiers.
To pretend the conditions of a timber, which were suitable for regenerating into mushrooms.
I cultivated mycelia of Shiitake, Oyster Mushroom, Golden Oyster Mushroom, Pink Oyster Mushroom, Thistle Mushroom and Lion's Mane.
And that was one of the biggest miscalculations I ever made.
a ocean of spores Surely you know that mushrooms are the organ that the fungus has to produce spores and spread them to the wind.
They're so small that you don't see them.
But wherever you are, you're sure to have hundreds or thousands of spores around you.
They're generally not a problem.
Unless you are trying to grow pure mycelial societies.
In that case, if you walk through a ocean of spores, you'll have a lot of problems.
The room that functions as a laboratory in my house has a laminar inflow press.
It's principally a important addict that forces air through a sludge that traps anything larger than three microns in size( 1 millimeter is a thousand microns).
Thanks to this sludge I can grow mycelia in petri dishes and test tubes.
The problem comes when I turn off the laminar inflow press.
The room is swamped with spores that sneak far and wide.
Indeed inside my mycelium societies.
You can not have the laminar inflow press running 24 hours.
Not only because the addict consumes a lot of electricity.
You would exhaust the life of the sludge in a many weeks( and they're veritably precious).
So day by day I've to have a nonstop battle against the spores that have taken over my house.
Despite the fact that I have not grown mushrooms indoors for months.
That is why I stopped growing mushrooms at home.
