Anyone growing shrooms, have a look at this thread.

[IslandGreenGuy]

I have been experimenting with different strains of mushrooms spores. I have found that every different strain I tried, (8 in all) that the use of Rye Flour instead of Brown rice flour is much much much better. The jars colonized almost twice as fast and much better then with the BRF. I got my Rye jars to fully colonize in under 14 days, the brown rice flour was almost 25 days. Same temp same incubator. I will let you all know how the harvesting goes with the Rye, if you care.

 

[erock7789]

Keep us posted

 

[IslandGreenGuy]

you got it

 

[overfiend]

Rye works good try throwing a piece of "cake" from a colonized jar into a jar with sterilized rye grain it will grow on whole rye grain too

 

[multisonic]

where can i get rye flour then?

 

[cali-high]

same place you get brown rice flour from

 

[overfiend]

get rye or brown rice and put it in a coffee grinder "flour"

 

[IslandGreenGuy]

I got the rye from the super market. I will thy the whole grain rye method soon. It hear you get better yeild with whole grains, is that true?

 

[Nuggetsinmypocket]

ya keep me posted on this. brown rice does seem to take a long time. what strains you got goin

 

[IslandGreenGuy]

ya keep me posted on this. brown rice does seem to take a long time. what strains you got goin

Right now I have 8 jars of the following species going. It was just an experiament of mine to see which was the best producing of the 8. Four of each are in Brown rice flour and 4 in Rye flower. strains are as followed: B+, Gulf Coast, Amazon, A Stain, Pink buffalo, south american, Z stain and lipa yai. So far the gulf coast seems to be fastest growing stain I have. None of the Brown rice flour jars have produced anything yet. All stains exept for Pink buffalo have either started to pin or produce mushrooms on the rye flour. Only 3 jars in total became contaminated with pennicilian mold, 2 were brown rice flour, one of them was rye. And all of them were of the Lipa Yai stain. I'll keep posting, maybe some pics

 

[To0 Much Dr0]

can i see some pics?

 

[DMTER]

gots to love growin the shrooms Im wantin to start some azurescens here pretty soon got some B+ goin right now you should try doin a liquid culture that makes things speed up and its simple!

 

[IslandGreenGuy]

Where can get the instructions for a liquid culture?

 

[hemlockstones]

Shroomery - Liquid Culture Basics

 

[IslandGreenGuy]

Thanks man. I checked that out. Sounds easy..

 

[hemlockstones]

yea i have never made LCs but after reading that im going to give it a try with some honey....

 

[IslandGreenGuy]

Ya, It seems really easy. Some strains take like 6 weeks before your mushrooms start pinning. I think that would make those strains ready in under a month. Don't do the Golden Teacher strain. They tell you that there great and easy, there not. I did them once before and had very small yeild. Only got 6 grams out of 8 jars and they only flushed once.

 

[hemlockstones]

yea same with B+... lame

 

[IslandGreenGuy]

I think if you just pick one of the ones you've never heard about, you may be surprised

 

[hemlockstones]

yea i had some great success with cambodian, south american and alacabenzi...