[00:02] years, I've experimented with almost every method of growing mushrooms at mushrooms will grow on almost anything with enough carbon in it. So, I had a thought. What about all this leftover cardboard always piling up at my house?
[00:16] Now, for this experiment, it's important to avoid any glossy or heavily printed cardboard. So, I stuck with the pure brown stuff and removed any tape or my cardboard into smaller pieces and I
[00:28] sanitize it because when growing mushrooms indoors, contamination is the cardboard into a clean tub and I just want it slightly damp, so I squeezed out any excess moisture. And to grow the mushrooms, I'm using these plastic grow
[00:43] fruiting block that has already been inoculated with black king mushroom and I broke it up into pieces and layered it with the moist cardboard, And I only used about a quarter of the block with the cardboard, which means
[00:58] one grow block can actually create four separate mushroom bags. Next, I sealed up the bag tightly with some tape, making sure to keep that patch on the bag exposed. And then, I just let the bag sit and colonize. And after about 1
[01:10] week, I could start seeing little white patches of mycelium starting to appear mycelium just kept spreading and spreading. And in about 4 weeks, the entire bag was completely white and fully colonized with the mycelium, which
[01:23] meant it should be time for these mushrooms to fruit. So, I sliced the bag open and moved it into my grow tent to give it consistent humidity levels, And honestly, at this point, I still had absolutely no idea if this was going to
[01:36] work. But about 1 week later, when I opened that tent, I could see tiny cardboard. And then, just a few days after that, boom! Beautiful black king or king oyster mushrooms growing from all sides of the bag. Now, that's how
[01:50] you turn trash into food, my friends. I grew these mushrooms on cardboard. Come grew these mushrooms on cardboard. Come on.