Customer Reviews

Let's Grow Mushrooms!

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3 star:		(2)
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To any budding mycologist: Consider these videos required material. Buy them at the same time or even before you purchase your brown rice flour, grain, jars, or pressure cooker. These guys show you almost everything you need to know when it comes to growing mushrooms...almost any kind. They show how to collect spore prints, make syringes, inoculate jars, spawn to bulk substrate, clone, work with grain and agar, and so much more. The videos do not spend much time on fruiting parameters because these are species specific and vary quite a lot.

For info regarding species specific fruiting parameters head on over to The Shroomery(google) and ask roger rabbit and roadkill yourself.

Wow, it's a no-brainer to give 5 stars to this 2 DVD set!

I had previously purchased a copy of Paul Stamets "The Mushroom Cultivator", so this time I ordered "Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms" and the "Let's Grow Mushrooms" 2 DVD set by Marc R Keith at the same time. I really like the straightforward approach to teaching how to grow and cultivate mushrooms that is presented in this instructional DVD.

"Let's Grow Mushrooms" skips all the technical/scientific jargon about pleurocystidia, basidium, cheilocystidia, etc., which is all great to know for us mycology geeks, but is really confusing and completely unnecessary for beginning growers who just want to get started learning how to grow mushrooms at home. "Let's Grow Mushrooms" begins and ends with specific hands-on video demonstrations of extremely easy to follow techniques that will have you starting to grow mushrooms the very day you receive your DVD, using materials readily available from your local grocery store or nursery.

Detailed video techniques on using brown rice as both a spawn and substrate open the DVD, and it then progresses from there through the production of grain spawn, growing mushrooms on straw, manure, sawdust/woodchips, and finally finishing up on disk 2 with the more advanced techniques you'll use later on to isolate strains, and also to isolate healthy mycelium from contaminants on agar. All techniques are presented in a clear, visual format, and the music, pictures, and graphics are first-rate quality.

If you've been lost trying to figure out exactly what steps you need to perform to cultivate mushrooms at home, or if you're a visual learner, this 2 DVD set is for you.

The video is great. Anyone interested in or growing mushrooms of all kinds should have it. It made the process of growing P. Ostreatus "oyster mushrooms" from a test tube culture alot easier and funner for me. From start to finish and beyond Marc's way of explaining things is priceless. He makes it easy to understand the more technical steps that are sometimes less well explained elsewhere. Also, he provides many good tips that you don't get from some of the books. If he makes another video or book...I'll buy it!

This video is a wealth of information on mycology for those new to the field. The DVD effectively shows you how to do all the major steps in the mushroom growing process in an easy to understand, well organized manner. From cakes to bulk substrates, this dvd has it all.

I particularly loved the section on agar strain isolation. If you are already experienced in growing mushrooms but haven't been adventurous enough to step into agar work yet, then this dvd is for you. The author has made all steps of agar work easy to follow for even new mycologists. The video segment on agar is worth the cost of the DVD by itself, and yt there is so much more to this dvd.

A GREAT BUY!

- Iracious

If you are a beginner in mushroom cultivation this video can help you a lot since the online guides are sometimes hard to comprehend fully. With the video you see what are the steps etc....if english isn't your mother language you'll get a better idea by listening and seeing instead of just reading which can be confusing (you have to speak english at least a bit though since the dvd is not subtitled I think).

But if you are an expert or have succefully grown before, I don't think it has so much to offer....but it has been really useful for me and I love it!

a-z info on shrooms like magic and food shrooms cloning +++++
if you are new to shrooms or a veteran it covers pf-tek thru advancd cloning teks.
extensiv 2 disk dvd
i recomend it to all best 50buks ive spent in a looong wail

So, they say this is a great video, some say it was taken from Paul Stamets books (which is not completely untrue). I think it goes to say, without a doubt, even if these are from a book, some people don't have time or the attention span to read 500 pages of books to get this information and not don't get to see it done in front of them. If you don't watch, it becomes trial and error, if you watch (and read?) it becomes a more likely chance to not fail.

Thanks RR for putting them in a video, but you should give credit to Paul Stamets. He is a great mushroom mediator and should be given credit. Unless you have originally come up with all of this info, it should be given credit.

Love, Light and Blessings.

Peace/Harmony

Fantastic easy step by step guide. Countdown to our small production to start, need to now begin planning on buildings for mushroom cultivation, and production. *****

This video has super accurate info. I recommend any amateur mycologist watch it whether or not you have started playing around with growing.

It's got some vital stuff..& the creator is a library of info with true love for the hobby/business/science.

It is totally worth the 50 bucks.

This movie is a hands on guide for everything you need to know to start growing mushrooms. With the advice in the movie, I've been successful at every mushroom project I've tried. Excellent format and very easy to understand. The music is a little corny though. And, sometimes the process detail repeats itself.