I recently changed from horizontal to vertical oyster mushroom farming in hopes it would make my life easier.
I have fruited oyster mushrooms on a horizontal shelf since the beginning, and always found it tough to put more bags in the room and harvest bags when they were ready. The capacity to hold more bags was higher, but the difficulty in managing that space was also higher, and in the end i got tired of it. So I decided to shift from the intensive farming method of horizontal mushroom fruiting method to a more relaxed vertical fruiting method.
I home build a vertical shelf which can hold 48 bags. It’s well under half of the capacity of the horizontal shelves, which had a capacity of about 120 for the same space. But I never had these shelves more than half full as the management of that many bags on a shelf became too difficult. The vertical shelves are easy to harvest, load, unload, and clean.
I am going to build more of these shelves for my mushroom fruiting chamber.
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Hi !What is the distance between the wall and the bottom wood ?
Great idea!! How many grams do you get from a bag per flush?
What was the angle of the cuts you made?
Looks absolutely fantastic. Great upgrade
Cool am doing vertical farming too
Is the wood treated to stop the humidity from rotting it? If so what is it treated with?
This has been a few months can you show how is it doing?
Hi Tom, nice work!
I was just wondering if there are endless regulations involved in growing mushrooms to sell in NZ. Or can you just set up and crack on? keep up the good work and keep the video's coming…cheers, Reece
Haha poor England.
Nice design! Did you have any problem with exposed timber in high humidity at all? I'm inclined on the same design here in Western Australia, but considering using zincalume downpipes and rivets instead, bit more expensive, but potentially lighter and sturdier. But if timber is no problem, might go with timber/PVC like you
They say everything is backwards and upside down in Australia/NZ. Wonder if outside and inside are flipped too!
Him: 0:47
Oh.
0:31 is that a siren head.
Sorry all jokes aside awsome video thank you for sharing.
Sweet as
does the size of hole you cut matter? why not just cut the whole side off
Thank you for doing these videos!
I have questions..
What will be the range of Temperature?
How long will open the lights?
In humidity can use spray water?
How often will spray?
And lastly how can i avoid pest..
Genius
I know this might be a little difficult but maybe you could stack them side to side on some tracking. That way they can be stacked side by side and also moved to be harvested. Maybe you could put leds on the back of each one too so it would light the one that it’s up against?
Excellent work.
Got a question about the temperature of your fruiting chamber, how many C° do you have in there?