Do Mushrooms Need Light To Grow? | GroCycle

Growing mushrooms, either at home, or on a commercial scale, is a great way to have an ongoing supply of delicious gourmet or medicinal mushrooms, and you don’t need much to get started.

To get the best yield and properly formed mushrooms, you’ll need to provide the best fruiting conditions possible, and one factor you’ll need to get right is having the correct amount of light.

This may come as a surprise, as a lot of people assume that mushrooms are grown in the dark!

Join us in today’s video to find out if mushrooms do need light, and what you can do to create the ideal lighting conditions for the best possible mushroom harvest!

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Chapters:

00:25 - Do mushrooms actually need light to grow?
01:05 - Why are some mushrooms grown in the dark?
01:13 - Manipulating mushroom growth through darkness
01:44 - What does light do to mushrooms?
01:50 - The affect of light on mushrooms in nature
02:43 - Light helps fruit bodies to form
03:17 - Mushroom growth: Dark vs. light fruiting conditions
05:23 - Creating the optimal lighting conditions
06:12 - Choosing the right types of light
06:31 - How to calculate the right amount of light
07:20 - Measuring your light levels
08:08 - Cycling your lights with a timer
08:35 - Further learnin

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