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Lion's Mane Cultivation
The species the Phoenix floor ran more than any other, written up as the exact protocol: recipe, sterilization, incubation, pinning, harvest.
Southwest Mushrooms / Books by Michael Crowe
The protocols behind a commercial mushroom farm, in print.
Michael Crowe grew commercially in Phoenix from 2017, at up to about 1,500 pounds a week. His books are the exact methods from that floor: recipes, sterilization, spawn, fruiting and harvest.
Paperback, Kindle and digital editions. 195K growers follow the channel.
- Commercial growing in Phoenix from
- 2017
- A week at peak, about
- 1,500 lb
- Subscribers on YouTube
- 195K
- Species, one SOP each
- 8
The flagship title
Lion's Mane Cultivation
The species the Phoenix floor ran more than any other, written up as the exact protocol: recipe, sterilization, incubation, pinning, harvest.
- 6 x 9 paperback with full colour photographs from the grow room
- The master substrate recipe with moisture, gypsum and sterilization numbers
- Incubation, initiation and fruiting parameters with the reasons behind them
- Contamination, yield optimization, record keeping and block log templates
Paperback on Amazon$34.99
Printed and shipped by Amazon
Kindle eBook$12.99
Delivered to your Kindle
Digital SOP edition$29.99
Secure checkout on michaelcrowemycology.com
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The Complete Cultivation Library
Lion's Mane, Oyster, Shiitake, King Oyster, Reishi, Maitake, Chestnut and Turkey Tail. One protocol per species, the way the farm ran them.
Tools for growers
Free tools, built on the same numbers.
Each one points to the chapter that explains the method behind it.
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Where the books came from
Written on a working floor.
These photographs are from the Southwest Mushrooms farm in Phoenix.
About the author
Michael Crowe has been growing mushrooms for twenty years and grew commercially in Phoenix, Arizona from 2017, as the founder of Southwest Mushrooms. He documents his methods for current and prospective growers on the Southwest Mushrooms YouTube channel. Today he writes cultivation books, builds education tools for growers at Crowe Logic, and works on mushroom genetics and grow trials of his own.
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