Putting your focus on growing the most perfect mushrooms is going to create a system with problems very quickly. You’re going to baby those mushrooms, you’re going to tweak your system for every efficiency, and you’re going to quickly become overwhelmed with just how much work is involved in growing large quantities of perfection. A true Sisyphean task if there ever were one!
Buying extremely cheap strains may seem like a smart move upfront, but you’ll be paying for that decision for a long time to come with poorly performing mushrooms. We’ve gotten several of our customers just by giving them a sample of what we offer. The clusters of healthy, strong mushrooms that have a fair amount of heft to them are all it takes to get them to call back for more.
Contrary to popular belief, mushrooms generally require a fair amount of light to grow well. In fact, the mushrooms that grow on the back of our blocks and don’t get much light tend to grow looking slightly wilted. While they’re still good for personal consumption, they’re not the quality we want to sell to a restaurant.