mo841
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So my first step is to buy wild bird seed, qt jars, polly fill, alu foul, coco coir from the pet store, vermiculite, spore syringes and a 66qt clear tub.
I dump a bunch of bird seed into a pot and rinse it in water a few times to get some of the dirt out. The bird seed expands a bit so you only need about 3/4 of the amount you want to end up with while its in the dry form.
Once the bird seed is rinsed and the sun flower seeds are removed I boil the seeds for about a half hour.
After u boil it u pour it thru a screen colinder and spread it out on a towel to dry it off then jar it up. Once it's jared up pop holes in your lids, stuff poly fill in the hole then wrap with alu foil and load the pressure cooker
Once they are pressure cooked for 1 1/2 hours let them cool and take the alu foil off. Get the spore syringes, burn the needle, let it cool for a bit then start knockin up jars 2cc a jar. After a while they will start growing mycelium. I usually get a 50% success rate so expect some to turn differant colors. Here is a good one and a bad one
Sometimes you get jars that are half good, half bad so u can bury them ones outside if its nice out and usually get some to pop up.
Once the mycelium in the jar is fully colonized or at least almost fully colonized you take a 650g brick of coir and hydrate it in a big ass pot, pressure cooker pot would work fine if its big enough. Once I have the water content correct(can barely squeeze water out of it) I put about 3 qts of vermiculite in it to help hold moisture and I use it to get my moisture content correct. Then I turn the stove on low and mix the coir/verm for a helf hour untill its all super hot.
Dump the coir verm into your washed out 66qt tub and let it cool off. Once its cool, mix in about 5qts of mycelium as much as possible and smooth it out. Put the lid of leaving a small gap and put a cfl light over the tub for as many hours you are awake.
Once the shrooms pop mist it a couple times a day and let it rip
Make sure to make spore prints. I lay out alu foil on a plate and put a bunch of caps down, get the caps wet with a few drops of water then cover the whole plate with a big glass bowl. U can use cups over each cap also.
Thats it. I got agar coming in this week so I'll be experienting with that and hoepfully lowering my contam percentage. Good luck ppl
I dump a bunch of bird seed into a pot and rinse it in water a few times to get some of the dirt out. The bird seed expands a bit so you only need about 3/4 of the amount you want to end up with while its in the dry form.
Once the bird seed is rinsed and the sun flower seeds are removed I boil the seeds for about a half hour.
After u boil it u pour it thru a screen colinder and spread it out on a towel to dry it off then jar it up. Once it's jared up pop holes in your lids, stuff poly fill in the hole then wrap with alu foil and load the pressure cooker
Once they are pressure cooked for 1 1/2 hours let them cool and take the alu foil off. Get the spore syringes, burn the needle, let it cool for a bit then start knockin up jars 2cc a jar. After a while they will start growing mycelium. I usually get a 50% success rate so expect some to turn differant colors. Here is a good one and a bad one
Sometimes you get jars that are half good, half bad so u can bury them ones outside if its nice out and usually get some to pop up.
Once the mycelium in the jar is fully colonized or at least almost fully colonized you take a 650g brick of coir and hydrate it in a big ass pot, pressure cooker pot would work fine if its big enough. Once I have the water content correct(can barely squeeze water out of it) I put about 3 qts of vermiculite in it to help hold moisture and I use it to get my moisture content correct. Then I turn the stove on low and mix the coir/verm for a helf hour untill its all super hot.
Dump the coir verm into your washed out 66qt tub and let it cool off. Once its cool, mix in about 5qts of mycelium as much as possible and smooth it out. Put the lid of leaving a small gap and put a cfl light over the tub for as many hours you are awake.
Once the shrooms pop mist it a couple times a day and let it rip
Make sure to make spore prints. I lay out alu foil on a plate and put a bunch of caps down, get the caps wet with a few drops of water then cover the whole plate with a big glass bowl. U can use cups over each cap also.
Thats it. I got agar coming in this week so I'll be experienting with that and hoepfully lowering my contam percentage. Good luck ppl
