Hi Kristian,
although this course is not designed to help you set up a mushroom kit business, there are clearly a lot of useful tips in the modules which relate to making growbags that could in theory then become mushroom kits for sale.
You’ve rightly highlighted a couple of issues which differ when making kits for sale as opposed to just growing on a small scale at home. Without going into lots of depth (we’ll cover this sort of thing in a more detailed follow-up course next year), you can prevent fruiting for an extra few weeks by refridgerating the grow bags and covering up the filters to slow down the mycelium respiration.
In our experience, they always tend to fruit anyway eventually and we don’t sell via shops because of this.
With regards the BTTR guys, the process they show in that video is not very clean and not advisable (I believe they used coffee which was a number of days old). Allthough they don’t make a big thing of it, they don’t actually make their kits from coffee anymore. They switched in 2013 to having a big company make them from waste rice husks & sawdust because, in their own words, they ‘kind of suck at growing mushrooms’. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUF4wUEUKCI They were investment bankers after all!
Hope this helps.
best wishes,
Adam
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