Southwest Mushrooms teaches growers how to go from a first block to commercial-scale production.
New here? Start Here, the 8 free paths on this channel in order:
youtube.com/watch?v=pwVXLraQo2A
Led by Michael Crowe. Real cultivation systems from 10+ years running a working farm in Phoenix, Arizona, at peak up to 1,500 pounds a week at under 2% contamination.
Free transcript archive of every long-form film:
www.southwestmushrooms.com/library
The Complete Cultivation Library, written protocols for the 8 species we ran ($79):
michaelcrowemycology.com/c/bundle-all-8?via=yt-cha…
Every guide, build plan and book:
mushroommike.gumroad.com
Dried mushrooms, tinctures, cultures, grow kits:
southwestmushrooms.com
Members get the grower community, the monthly guide drop from Cultivation Explorer up, and the culture discount at Cultivation Connoisseur:
youtube.com/channel/UCTXP5BRecHpwa7_sFbbyMng/join
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Members, your perks are ready to claim. Go to swm-memberships.yellow-block-3adc.workers.dev/clai…, type the name you use on YouTube, and confirm your email from the link we send.
Enthusiasts get the grower community invite, Explorers add the monthly written guide drop, Connoisseurs add the culture discount on live cultures. Nothing goes out until you confirm, so if you have heard nothing from us yet, this is why.
Thank you for backing the channel. Michael
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Where do I start? That is the question I get most in the comments, so I made a 3 minute answer.
Years of videos on this channel are now organized into 8 free paths you can watch in order: Mushroom Growing Quickstart, Course 1 Cultivation Foundations, the 30-Day First Flush Challenge, Gourmet Grow Guides, Grow Room Blueprints, Course 2 Advanced Production, Course 3 Harvest, Sales and Scale, and the Mushroom Business Accelerator. Four are YouTube courses under the Courses tab, four are playlists.
Start Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwVXL...
The 8 links are in the pinned comment under the video. Tell me in the comments which path you picked.
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Eight species. Eight complete protocols.
Lion's Mane, Shiitake, Oyster, King Oyster, Reishi, Maitake, Chestnut, Turkey Tail. Substrate recipes, spawn rates, fruiting conditions, contamination points, and the yield numbers from my own rooms.
This is what I would hand someone starting today instead of telling them to watch four hundred videos.
THE LIBRARY, $79
All eight species protocols, instant download
buy.stripe.com/28EbJ09ao3bXbFl26yg7e1o
THE COMPLETE SET, $149
Same eight protocols, plus the Commercial SOP Playbook: batch scheduling, contamination budgets, yield per square foot, running it like a business
buy.stripe.com/dRm6oG2M013P24L5iKg7e2c
Both instant download. No shipping, no waiting.
www.southwestmushrooms.com
www.michaelcrowemycology.com
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This week only, 15% off our fresh dried harvest. Now in stock: dried lion's mane, dried reishi, and dried shiitake, plus our full mushroom tincture line. Use code HARVEST15 through Sunday, June 21. Free shipping over $75. Shop at: southwestmushrooms.com. And last chance: our cultivation SOP sale ends June 19, half off at michaelcrowemycology.com
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Been heads down behind the scenes for a while and there is a lot coming, but first a thank you to everyone who has been growing along with the channel and picking up the cultivation SOPs.
Through June 19 every species SOP is half off, $29.99 down to $14.99. Lion's mane, shiitake, oyster, king oyster, reishi, maitake, chestnut and turkey tail, the same protocols I run on our production floor, written out lab to harvest with the substrate recipes, fruiting parameters and yield benchmarks. The complete library of all 8 is $79.
michaelcrowemycology.com/
Grab the species you are growing and if you hit a snag, drop a comment on any video and I will help you work through it.
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Most cultivation tracking treats every batch like it happens in a vacuum. It doesn’t. Contamination, yield drops, and fruiting irregularities almost always show upstream signals two or three runs back, you just need a system that actually catches them.
That’s what Cultivation OS is built for. Longitudinal data, pattern recognition across batches, and a record of what actually moved the needle versus what didn’t. Built by Crowe Logic, the parent technology company behind our AI infrastructure for mycology, agriculture, and drug discovery.
Commercial cultivators, farms, retailers, and distributors: we’re opening early partnership and affiliate spots now. The operators who come in early shape what this becomes.
Cultivation OS: ai.southwestmushrooms.com/
Crowe Logic: www.crowelogic.com/
Drop a comment with your operation size and what you grow, happy to talk.
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IT'S HERE. 🍄 The Mushroom Grower is officially LIVE.
After 18+ years of commercial cultivation, growing 1,200+ lbs a week at Southwest Mushrooms, I put EVERYTHING into two books. Over 2,000 pages of real-world growing knowledge.
📘 Vol 1 & Vol 2: The most comprehensive mushroom cultivation guides ever written
🤖 Crowe Logic AI: Our AI-powered growing platform is live at ai.southwestmushrooms.com
📋 FREE SOP Playbook (632 pages) with every pre-order today only
🔥 Launch Day Bundle: Both volumes for $499 (save $99):
buy.southwestmushrooms.com/b/00w6oHgjW63O6MO0haejK…
Individual volumes available at $299 each.
This isn't theory. This is 18 years of commercial growing, contamination battles, and scaling from a bedroom closet to a full commercial operation. Every protocol, every technique, every hard lesson, documented.
Drop a 🍄 if you're ready to level up your grow game.
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Pre-orders are live. I've been growing mushrooms for over 18 years. Started when I was 15. Built Southwest Mushrooms from nothing into a commercial operation pushing 1,200+ lbs a week. These two books are everything I know.
Volume 1: Foundations of Cultivation — Lab setup, sterile technique, grain spawn, getting your first harvest.
Volume 2: Species Mastery & Commercial Operations — Dialing in species, scaling production, running the business.
1,500+ pages. No filler. Just the real work.
What's included in the Complete Bundle ($499):
✔ Both volumes (1,500+ pages)
✔ Audiobook series (10+ hours)
✔ Legacy video library (12+ hours)
✔ Crowe Logic & CroweLM models access
✔ Substrate calculator
✔ Contamination ID guide
✔ 500+ cultivation photos
✔ 1 month Skool community access
Pre-order through March 3rd also includes the SOP Playbook — free. The SOP Playbook alone represents systems that would cost tens of thousands to develop. That window closes at midnight March 3rd.
Releases March 4th.
Volume 1 — buy.southwestmushrooms.com/b/dRmcN58RufEo8UW6FyejK…
Volume 2 — buy.southwestmushrooms.com/b/aFabJ10kY77S6MO2piejK…
Both Volumes — buy.southwestmushrooms.com/b/00w6oHgjW63O6MO0haejK…
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You can tell everything about a culture by holding it up to the light. Pure vigor, zero contam. That’s the standard.
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