Sterilisation vs. Pasteurisation in Mushroom Cultivation I How To Grow Mushrooms I GroCycle

This video talks you through the difference between sterilisation and pasteurisation. You'll find out why it matters so much when you grow mushrooms and why some mushrooms growers choose one method over the other.
We also go into the detail with a comparison in yield and biological efficiency between the two methods.
We discuss how the following aspects will all influence which method to use:
- your choice of mushroom substrate
- if you use supplementation
- the mushroom varieties that you grow
- your equipment
- scale & budget
Links to Mentioned Videos:
- History of Mushroom Cultivation:
• The History Of Mushroo...
- Guide to Mushroom Substrates
• A Guide To Mushroom Su...
- Stem-butt Method (DIY Spawn step-by-step)
• Grow Your Own DIY Mush...
- How Much Does a Low Tech Mushroom Farm Cost?
• How much does a low t...
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  • @GroCycleTV
    @GroCycleTV Жыл бұрын

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  • @joeyb6680
    @joeyb66803 жыл бұрын

    Great video fellas. Really good information in this one.

  • @aivkara
    @aivkara3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a total Newb to mushroom growing in practice, but I've done a lot research. You two have, I think, the best information and approach to real-world startup of mushroom growing that I have seen in several years. Thank you!

  • @danielsigursson6215
    @danielsigursson62152 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video, great explanation and comparison between wet weight harvest yield and actual biological efficiency.

  • @slamurai8080
    @slamurai80802 жыл бұрын

    thankyou so much for sharing such valuable information!! love you guys!!

  • @jaquiwilson5051
    @jaquiwilson50513 жыл бұрын

    As always very informative. Thank you.

  • @seanshiels153
    @seanshiels1533 жыл бұрын

    Cheers lads. A lot to ponder there 👍

  • @bonbalab_
    @bonbalab_2 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing Amazing idea

  • @vk081064
    @vk0810643 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot brothers. That's a very detailed comparison study. God bless you folks. Keep safe.

  • @arthurbuccioli

    @arthurbuccioli

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cheers from brasil, thanks a lot for the video, very usefull info! Whatts the proportion of line to use in cold pastheurization? Can we combine lime and hot water methods?

  • @humanjad
    @humanjad3 жыл бұрын

    excelente video, sigan produciendo buenos contenidos!!!

  • @leicodaya4660
    @leicodaya46603 жыл бұрын

    Quality info my bro

  • @ebtsoby
    @ebtsoby3 жыл бұрын

    Yessss, highly debated topic, thanks so much for covering this been looking for a vid like this for a while and I trust you guys cause you're pros, keep it up!!

  • @ebtsoby

    @ebtsoby

    3 жыл бұрын

    and the breakdown of biological efficiency at the end was great!

  • @saltypyro9458

    @saltypyro9458

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ebtsoby Not really. They are comparing a hardwood substrate to a softwood substrate like straw. We already know hardwoods produces more BE. That's why we use hardwoods, not softwoods like pine and straw. Pasturise and run a lil bit higher spawn rate to take over faster.

  • @SparkyHelper
    @SparkyHelper3 жыл бұрын

    Such a great video. Thanks. Looking forward to taking your course soon.

  • @danushkajayasooriya574
    @danushkajayasooriya5743 жыл бұрын

    Great vedio thanks lot

  • @majidaattaplantscare4582
    @majidaattaplantscare45822 жыл бұрын

    So amazing

  • @DianaMJoice
    @DianaMJoice Жыл бұрын

    I love your detailed mushroom growing videos. Thank you! And... would sterilisation work in an oven?

  • @shawnc958
    @shawnc9582 жыл бұрын

    Glad to find your channel !! so Im looking at getting into medicinal growing for health, years ago i grew "recreational" mushrooms using a brown rice flower and vermiculite substrate and high heat simi sterilization with great success, any thoughts on this substrate mix ??

  • @jackthemuss2493
    @jackthemuss24933 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant guys. Love the math. Also I prefer Hydrated lime and only pressurize sterilization for spawn seeds. The best thing about learning from you guys is it lets me know what I'm doing is correct.

  • @stevensanborn6010
    @stevensanborn60103 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure i saw that just sterilization adds yield done in experiments on non supplemented substrates. Not sure by how much , because there are many ways , species and types of sterilization and pasteurization . Also sterilization has a very key benefit of reducing contam. I do both sterilization and pasteurization and I found my contam goes down by a lot using sterilization. Tossing blocks is the biggest waste of energy and just feels bad. This is also why its more consistent , so its important to consider - trust me id rather soak than pressure cook. Also bio efficiency is great for straw because its light and carry so much water. But it takes up a lot more space. So it's also important to consider that if you are a grower limited by space , denser might be better .

  • @osmundmathias7998

    @osmundmathias7998

    2 жыл бұрын

    happy

  • @sirdeakia
    @sirdeakia Жыл бұрын

    Guys, the most important part of Pasteur's process isn't elevating the temperature to x or y degrees. It's subsequently lowering it to a radically lower temperature, with the variation being the final strike on microbiological life.

  • @scroogemcduck1462

    @scroogemcduck1462

    Жыл бұрын

    Can you expand on this?

  • @ryaeon9793
    @ryaeon97933 жыл бұрын

    thank you! can we have all cold pasteurisation method? lime vinegar etc etc

  • @ignaciaholmes4897
    @ignaciaholmes48973 жыл бұрын

    Hello, great video thanks. I am in Chile and wonder what is the hydrated lime chemical details so I can try to find something similar here

  • @chinocio

    @chinocio

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hola Ignacia. Calcium hydroxide is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca(OH)₂. (Wikipedia)

  • @ozooner
    @ozooner3 жыл бұрын

    Hello, thanks for the detailed video! You mentioned supplementing with nutrition, but can you go into detail with this as well? I know some people add gypsum and some say that adding nutrition is overthinking. What is your verdict on it?

  • @WASS291

    @WASS291

    3 жыл бұрын

    2 studies showed that adding caco3 calcium carbonated (which acts as a buffer for ph) and gypsum calcium sulfate (makes the substrate surface better ) so yeah consider using them and do not use hydrated lime or lime which is calcium hydroxide ca(oh)2 and good luck brother :)

  • @stefanieshedd9687
    @stefanieshedd96873 жыл бұрын

    Eric you got your haircut!!

  • @rikjennihoddinott4063
    @rikjennihoddinott4063 Жыл бұрын

    How do you dispose of the lime infused water after pasteurisation? Would I be harmful to dispose of?

  • @joshuafritz1386
    @joshuafritz13862 жыл бұрын

    For some reason I cannot imagine that sterilization is applicable to rural areas with little to no technology. We are talking about growing in a simple way. Farms aren't clean.

  • @kemaketseforkssebitiela3089
    @kemaketseforkssebitiela30892 жыл бұрын

    Did you mention vinegar, chlorine and lime for cold substrate pasturization?

  • @trickyblickfang
    @trickyblickfang2 жыл бұрын

    what abuot cooking in ashwater? do i may need to wash out with cooking water afterwards?

  • @irilesyataghene1567
    @irilesyataghene15672 жыл бұрын

    how many times can you reuse the water in the lime pasteurisation method? maybe by adding some more lime at each batch to reach the desired pH..

  • @rfldss89
    @rfldss893 жыл бұрын

    1:00 do you have any experimental data to back that up or something? I couldn't find any sources starting that the simple fact of boiling a closed container increases its temperature above boiling due to the pressure, and from my understanding that's impossible.

  • @alexandervlaescu9901

    @alexandervlaescu9901

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is a really simple physics fact. Boiling , freezing , etc points are affected by two major things : temperature and pressure. Normally when you freeze or boil something you do it in an environment of one atmosphere (normal atmospheric pressure). If you were to have a higher pressure boiling and liquidizing something would be far easier.

  • @samuel58237
    @samuel58237 Жыл бұрын

    What is the difference in yield per square foot of building? I guess that depends on how much your columns weigh.

  • @thekarmafarmer608
    @thekarmafarmer6082 жыл бұрын

    Hi guys, I have asked a question before in several places but never got an answer, concerning the pressure of pressure cookers here in UK. After this video I`m compelled to ask again in the hope someone has an answer. I recently bought a well reviewed pressure cooker, which has a sterilisation setting. I found out only afterwards that European/UK pressure cookers have an lower maximum working pressure than American ones; around 12 psi. I`m quite disappointed that most videos cite 15 psi as a base line for sterilisation. I gather from this video that my cooker will merely `super-pasteurise` my substrate. I wondered if I could off-set this deficit by adding time to the cook? Any ideas, or will I just have to save for an All American? Thanks for your great work.

  • @Juniperlaneestatesales

    @Juniperlaneestatesales

    Жыл бұрын

    12 psi is perfectly fine (google shows many discussions when asked if 12 psi is okay to sterlize) just leave for 90 min to 2 hrs

  • @thekarmafarmer608

    @thekarmafarmer608

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Juniperlaneestatesales Hi. Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did read many articles and even scientific papers on the subject but all suggest that 12psi would `super-pasteurise` and not sterilize.

  • @MrTupimus

    @MrTupimus

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, just takes longer. As a sidenote superpasteurization refers to a technique where pasteurization temperatures are held for 12-24 hours. Works much like sterilization.

  • @junbaldonado4055
    @junbaldonado4055 Жыл бұрын

    After cold pasturization and let the material drip, do you need to rinse it? When you add supplement to enrich the nitrogen content, is the supplement in whatever form, does it need to be sterilized because you already pasturized substrate and an added supplement ?

  • @Nostalgiaforinfi

    @Nostalgiaforinfi

    Жыл бұрын

    No rinse.

  • @bartendersunny1
    @bartendersunny12 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone explain the vinegar method? What % of vinegar to water?

  • @sogniluigi
    @sogniluigi3 жыл бұрын

    Can I pasteurised sawdust? Because sounds like that i can just sterilised sawdust. Thanks for the good video

  • @CMZneu

    @CMZneu

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can definitely pasteurize it as long as you don't add anything to it.

  • @yousuckmorethanido
    @yousuckmorethanido2 жыл бұрын

    but what happens between 80C and 121C? what doesn't get killed at boiling water? how much better is 15psi than 8 psi?

  • @CMZneu
    @CMZneu3 жыл бұрын

    When you mention biological efficiency, how many flushes are you considering?

  • @CMZneu

    @CMZneu

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@justinlangley9529 Standard?! i don't know, i don't remember seeing any mushroom growing channel that normally get 100% of first flush. Can you recommend one? what substrate do they use?

  • @skullbone2473
    @skullbone24733 жыл бұрын

    What kind of pellets are/can you use?

  • @bubblerings

    @bubblerings

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think the video is: Easiest way to grow oyster mushrooms at home... They use pre-pasteurized Straw pellets or hard wood pellets.

  • @shayeladshayelad2416
    @shayeladshayelad24163 жыл бұрын

    Hello the im trying to get oyster king/orngi mushroom with no success I have the white furry mycelium but when i drill holes in the box after more then month there arent even small mushrooms poping What can be the reasons for that please help

  • @bubblerings

    @bubblerings

    3 жыл бұрын

    Watch more videos about Fruiting conditions... and monotubs. You drill the holes first, and can Cover them with tape until fruiting... or you will have problems.

  • @asamusicdude
    @asamusicdude3 жыл бұрын

    Will liquid PH up do the same as lime?

  • @dirtpoor9571

    @dirtpoor9571

    2 жыл бұрын

    We're you ever able to find an answer?

  • @asamusicdude

    @asamusicdude

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dirtpoor9571 I tried it and it works fine

  • @junbaldonado4055
    @junbaldonado4055 Жыл бұрын

    Do you have to rinse after cold pasteurization?

  • @trip_lord1atinstagram890

    @trip_lord1atinstagram890

    Жыл бұрын

    Look him up 👆

  • @Nostalgiaforinfi

    @Nostalgiaforinfi

    Жыл бұрын

    No

  • @MalinaImport
    @MalinaImport3 жыл бұрын

    i believe temps don't need to be 121 for sterilisation. atmospheric sterilisation for longer times at lower temps also works.

  • @viktormorris194

    @viktormorris194

    3 жыл бұрын

    What you're referring to is super pasturization. It functions similar to sterilization when applied to bulk substrate bc it kills, say 99.5-99.9% of contaminants. The mycelium can usually handle the rest. But it's not *technically* sterilized bc of that small amount of bacteria that could survive

  • @rfldss89

    @rfldss89

    3 жыл бұрын

    For sterilisation you need to reach temps high enough to destroy the most resilient microbial spores. Generally thats considered to be botulinum spores for which you have to reach 120°C for a certain amount of time. Maybe colloquially sterilisation is used in a different way, but we should really stick to technical definitions to avoid confusion.

  • @Ted...youtubee
    @Ted...youtubee3 жыл бұрын

    I realize you respond with "volume", but, why can't one use microwave oven for killing substrate organisms?

  • @kemaketseforkssebitiela3089
    @kemaketseforkssebitiela30892 жыл бұрын

    Use subtitles please

  • @saltypyro9458
    @saltypyro94583 жыл бұрын

    Trying to compare straw to hardwood is not a good comparison for BE. We already know hardwoods produce better than softwood like pine and straw.

  • @ccrust2111
    @ccrust21112 жыл бұрын

    chestnut is not agaracuis it is pholiota

  • @victorsenna5729
    @victorsenna57293 жыл бұрын

    Hi, sterilization is relative, you never kill everything. Sterilization reduces 99,9999999999% (log reduction of 12) of organisms and pasteurization reduces 99,9999% (log reduction of 6).

  • @ianmoon1103

    @ianmoon1103

    Жыл бұрын

    Here we go 🙄

  • @kennetharmbruster

    @kennetharmbruster

    5 ай бұрын

    He said eliminate all of the COMPETITIVE ORGANISMS. If they’ve been mitigated/debilitated to the point where they’re no longer a threat, they’re not competitive.