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Growing shrooms outdoors

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dsmitty501

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Okay so i live in the south of the us is it even possible to grow shrooms outdoors cuz ive never realy herd about it being done ive herd of ppl going out and finding some or growing indoors.... But can u actually grow them like marijuana? *no* O and btw i cant grow indoors so plzz dont even say anything about that.
 
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The thing about growing outdoors is that only very experienced growers will be able to pull it off. And even then, it's a stretch. There are too many variables that you can't control outdoors, such as humidity, temperature, sterile conditions, etc.
 
^ Isn't growing the same thing as making drugs or any other way of obtaining them? I always thought so, but I could be wrong.
 
I was thinking about this the other day at work when I saw about 5 liberty caps hanging out in the grass while on break. I know indoor setups give you good control over variables that you would not be able to get outdoors- Right humidity, right moisture content of substrate, right temperature, remote field where you will not get shot or arrested, proper identification of mushrooms...etc...Depending on where you live in the south, you may be able to find instruction on how to grow edible varieties outdoors. I know the outdoor Saturday market in our downtown has a company that sells oyster and shitake spawn and instructions. That would make for a hella good supper, but not so much an interesting trip...lol.....
 
addictivepersona said:
^ Isn't growing the same thing as making drugs or any other way of obtaining them? I always thought so, but I could be wrong.
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Well it is the same as making them, and yes, you do obtain drugs through growing them, but the spores have to come from somewhere. That's where the real sourcery comes in, to me.
 
I take it the issue is probably that you need a place to stash them. I'm sure that the weather in Georgia is fine for growing mushrooms, nice and hot this time of year. What I would do is go to Walmart or Target and buy a large non see through tupperware bucket. The kind you would store clothes and stuff in, about 50 gallons or more and proceed to put the substrate in the bottom spore the substrate and stick the tupperware somewhere nice and hidden that gets shade during the hottest part of the day. That way you don't risk cross contamination.

Otherwise if you're growing them outdoors and it's your first time, in the summer time, in Georgia, you might as well just wait until you can grow them inside.
 
Growing mushrooms outdoor can be done in your yard or 'guerilla farming' style.

The process is quite different than with cannabis and less easy to control. Depending on your climate you can use Cyanescens / Azurescens for somewhat colder places or Cubensis for subtropical places. First you would need to grow mycelium on a relatively small scale, then spawn that to bulk. Meaning you mix the mycelium with a bunch of wet sterilized wood chips (not all types of wood work), then you let that mycelium colonize it in one or more big bags, then in early spring you create a patch in the ground filling the ground with the colonized wood chips and covering with a protective layer.
It needs to stay moist there so if it's dry and hot where you live it's not gonna work.

Cannabis only takes like 2 months to visibly grow up to plants and make the weed, with outdoor mushrooms like this it takes waiting almost the entire year and in fall suddenly there will be flushes of mushrooms jumping up from the ground out of the patch. They don't grow slow but suddenly. Cyanescens and Azurescens are pretty much the most potent mushrooms there are but they are pretty sensitive and need to be grown right and with care.
IMO you will in the greatest likelihood fail as a beginner. With indoor growing experience you can build up skills and experience. Also you would need proper equipment which is either very expensive or you have to be handy enough to build it yourself (like a flow hood, glove box, etc).

This isn't something you just do because you really want to, it takes understanding, skills, investment, commitment. Only for real shroom-growers. I attempted this as a project once (having said experience - not that much though - and equipment) but I failed to get the mycelium to keep colonizing properly.

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last season when I was out collecting cubensis shrooms in cow poo I took a shovel and scooped up a load of cow pats that had shrooms growing from them, i put these pats carefully in a cardboard box taking care not to break them up too much, I took them home and put them in a corner of the back garden and watered them with the hose lightly every day if it wasn't raining, every time there were wild shrooms fruiting in the paddocks i went and checked the back garden patch and hey presto, fresh shrooms 10 feet from my back door.

I got about 3 crops off of them over the period of the last couple of months of the season.
 
dsmitty501 said:
Okay so i live in the south of the us is it even possible to grow shrooms outdoors cuz ive never realy herd about it being done ive herd of ppl going out and finding some or growing indoors.... But can u actually grow them like marijuana? *no* O and btw i cant grow indoors so plzz dont even say anything about that.
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Actually in the southern US, growing cubensis mushrooms outdoors would be WAY easier than growing indoors. You would still need to create a few jars (minimum, but the more the better) of spawn, and then once those are colonized and ready you would need to obtain a bulk substrate. Leached cow manure would work best (obtained from a dairy farm that has a manure separator - they are huge machines, grab from the piles of separated solids, gold color would be the better piles - try to get from the steaming hot middle of the pile), but failing this option, you can probably obtain horse manure from a local stable, and leach it yourself by spreading it out in a pile soaking it with a hose, allowing it to dry and repeating that several times (you can do this while your jars are colonizing).

Once everything is ready you put down some wet newspaper on the ground (this acts as a barrier from the ground, also a food source for the myceluim as it is composed of cellulose, as well as helping to maintain water retention and drainage to a degree) then on top of the newspaper put a 1 inch deep layer of the manure (about 1-3 square feet per jar, again more (jars) is better). Then spawn your jar to the manure layer, cover the spawn with another layer of manure (about 1 inch depth per layer max) now you can put a soaker hose over this layer and spawn this layer - you can spawn around the hose - then cover the hose and spawn and all with another layer of manure. Your total depth should be no deeper than about 4.5 inches from the ground.

Allow the bed to colonize for about 3 days and then you can begin running the soaker hose for short intervals each day (say about 10-15 minutes maybe 2-3 times a day) - this is if it is very dry, if it rains every day, you won't need to do this. In about 2 weeks you should have your first mushrooms coming up.
 
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