How Mushrooms Are Grown

[vindicated erudite]

This is an educational guide on how to grow mushrooms.

There are loads of other ways to grow mushrooms but this is the method I have chosen.

(EDIT: The initial inoculation of the rice bags takes around 7+ to inoculate fully.)

The process is pretty simple.

You inject spores into a sterilised bag containing food for the spores to eventually grow into mycelium. Mycelium is basically the roots of the mushroom and will only grow fruits (the actual mushroom) if the food source is under threat of running out. You then take the mycelium and place it into a tub which contains a larger amount of a food source that is much harder for the mycelium culture to digest and then it will fruit. Due to the mycelium being in a much larger container, more food for it is available for the mycelium to grow which will result in a much larger yield of mushrooms. It takes weeks to cultivate them so it may be a good idea to stock up on them. You will need to dehydrate your harvested fruits ASAP as 90% of its water is water and will rot within a couple of days if you don't. Also, you can often reuse your tubs to get multiple flushes of mushrooms just as long as you keep the tub moisturiser sufficient.

Growing mushrooms require common-sense meaning that you can swap some things out if you don't have it like the containers for example.
You will need.

1. Plain Brown Rice Bags like those uncle bens bags.
2. Rubbing Alcohol 70% or Disinfectant
3. Micro-pore tape
4. Plastic storage boxes for your fruiting stage. The larger ones you use the larger your yield will be.
5. A large airtight plastic bucket with a lid for pasteurisation
6. Scissors or a scalpel
7. Container to hold your mushrooms such as airtight mason jars
8. A dehydrator. This is very much needed.
9. Coco choir which is coconut fibres (not bark!) people tend to buy them in bricks however I prefer to the loose fibres in bags as you can usually buy more for less.
10. A fan is airflow is needed.
11. Gloves too or wash your hands really well

Note that the less you operate in a sterile environment, the higher chance of contamination there is.
 

1. Take your uncle bens bag and wipe it down with your rubbing alcohol.
2. Cut of both corners of your uncle bens bad with enough room for a finger to fit into the bag.
3. Cover both corners with micro-pore tape
4. Shake your syringe containing your spores so they are evenly distributed
5. Inject your syringe into the middle of the bag.
6. Inject into the bag like a Capri sun 0.75cc of your liquid spores into the centre of the bag.
7. Cover the whole you have made with micro-pore tape.
8. Wait until the whole of the rice has been fully colonised (turned into a white solid clump). There should be no black spots in the bag, your bag has been contaminated if you see black mould in the mycelium. It should take around a week or two to get to this stage.
9. The inoculation and will eventually sprout fruits if given enough time. However, we want a bigger yield than what leaving it in a rice bag would provide to do that we need a bulk substrate.
10. To make the bulk substrate, you will need to sterilise your container and pasteurise your substrate. In this guide, we will be using coco choir as the substrate however people tend to combine their coco choir with vermiculite and gypsum.
11. The ideal ratio for is you want to add those ingredients is 1 part coco choir, 4 parts vermiculite, 0.125 gypsum and 10 parts boiling water. So let's say you add 500 grams coco choir then you add 2000 grams vermiculite, 125 grams of gypsum and 5000 grams of hot water (It doesn't really matter if you're precise with the water just as long as it covers the mix).
12. When preparing the bulk mix you add your coco choir into a sterilised bucket.
13. Add boiling water directly into the bucket
14. Close the lid immediately.
15. Wait 1 hour to swirl the bucket - do not open.
16. Wait around 12 hours for the bucket to cool completely.
17. Line the bottom of your tub with 2 inches deep of coco choir that has been strained to field compacity. Basically, you take the coco choir out of the bucket with your hands whilst wearing gloves and squeeze it until no more water comes out of it. Then you place it into the box.
18. Then break up your mycelium brick that is in your rice bag into grains and places onto the coco choir layer.
19. Mix the grains and the coco choir.
20. Place another 0.125 inches of coco choir onto of the mixed in grains.
21. Cover the lid by turning it the other way around so air can still get into the bag
22. Wait mushrooms start to fully fruit
23. Cut the mushrooms at the stem leaving a small stump.
24. Place your mushrooms in a dehydrator for 12 hours. They should be cracker dry.
25. Store in an airtight container and consume whenever you want.
26. The bulk substrate can yield multiple flushes all you need to do is fill from a corner into the bulk substrate water so that bulk substrate rises and you can take it out. This will also help moisturise the bulk, soak it for an hour.

If you want to make micro-dosing pills then all you need to do it blend 13g of dried mushrooms into a coffee blender and add them to a manual pill filler of 100 pills. 13 / 100 = 0.13 per dose. You can use gelation casing pills or a plant alternative it doesn't really matter what you use, just as long as it fills in the pill filler.

This video will teach you how to make spore prints

From there you just scrape the spore prints using a knife or scalpel and insert them in a syringe filled with distilled water.

If you make your own spore prints then you can save a lot of money because you don't need to buy syringes.

Edited October 25, 2020 by vindicated erudite

[Rilles]

uuuh... probably against the guidelines hehe

[vindicated erudite]

1 hour ago, Rilles said:

uuuh... probably against the guidelines hehe

Hey man, this guide is for educational purposes. Just don't do anything illegal with it. 

[Rilles]

1 hour ago, vindicated erudite said:

Hey man, this guide is for educational purposes. Just don't do anything illegal with it. 

of course.......

[sophia422]

On 10/25/2020 at 10:25 PM, vindicated erudite said:

This is an educational guide on how to grow mushrooms.

There are loads of other ways to grow mushrooms but this is the method I have chosen.

(EDIT: The initial inoculation of the rice bags takes around 7+ to inoculate fully.)

The process is pretty simple.

You inject spores into a sterilised bag containing food for the spores to eventually grow into mycelium. Mycelium is basically the roots of the mushroom and will only grow fruits (the actual mushroom) if the food source is under threat of running out. You then take the mycelium and place it into a tub which contains a larger amount of a food source that is much harder for the mycelium culture to digest and then it will fruit. Due to the mycelium being in a much larger container, more food for it is available for the mycelium to grow which will result in a much larger yield of mushrooms. It takes weeks to cultivate them so it may be a good idea to stock up on them. You will need to dehydrate your harvested fruits ASAP as 90% of its water is water and will rot within a couple of days if you don't. Also, you can often reuse your tubs to get multiple flushes of mushrooms just as long as you keep the tub moisturiser sufficient.

Growing mushrooms require common-sense meaning that you can swap some things out if you don't have it like the containers for example.
You will need.

1. Plain Brown Rice Bags like those uncle bens bags.
2. Rubbing Alcohol 70% or Disinfectant
3. Micro-pore tape
4. Plastic storage boxes for your fruiting stage. The larger ones you use the larger your yield will be.
5. A large airtight plastic bucket with a lid for pasteurisation
6. Scissors or a scalpel
7. Container to hold your mushrooms such as airtight mason jars
8. A dehydrator. This is very much needed.
9. Coco choir which is coconut fibres (not bark!) people tend to buy them in bricks however I prefer to the loose fibres in bags as you can usually buy more for less.
10. A fan is airflow is needed.
11. Gloves too or wash your hands really well

Note that the less you operate in a sterile environment, the higher chance of contamination there is.
 

1. Take your uncle bens bag and wipe it down with your rubbing alcohol.
2. Cut of both corners of your uncle bens bad with enough room for a finger to fit into the bag.
3. Cover both corners with micro-pore tape
4. Shake your syringe containing your spores so they are evenly distributed
5. Inject your syringe into the middle of the bag.
6. Inject into the bag like a Capri sun 0.75cc of your liquid spores into the centre of the bag.
7. Cover the whole you have made with micro-pore tape.
8. Wait until the whole of the rice has been fully colonised (turned into a white solid clump). There should be no black spots in the bag, your bag has been contaminated if you see black mould in the mycelium. It should take around a week or two to get to this stage.
9. The inoculation and will eventually sprout fruits if given enough time. However, we want a bigger yield than what leaving it in a rice bag would provide to do that we need a bulk substrate.
10. To make the bulk substrate, you will need to sterilise your container and pasteurise your substrate. In this guide, we will be using coco choir as the substrate however people tend to combine their coco choir with vermiculite and gypsum.
11. The ideal ratio for is you want to add those ingredients is 1 part coco choir, 4 parts vermiculite, 0.125 gypsum and 10 parts boiling water. So let's say you add 500 grams coco choir then you add 2000 grams vermiculite, 125 grams of gypsum and 5000 grams of hot water (It doesn't really matter if you're precise with the water just as long as it covers the mix).
12. When preparing the bulk mix you add your coco choir into a sterilised bucket.
13. Add boiling water directly into the bucket
14. Close the lid immediately.
15. Wait 1 hour to swirl the bucket - do not open.
16. Wait around 12 hours for the bucket to cool completely.
17. Line the bottom of your tub with 2 inches deep of coco choir that has been strained to field compacity. Basically, you take the coco choir out of the bucket with your hands whilst wearing gloves and squeeze it until no more water comes out of it. Then you place it into the box.
18. Then break up your mycelium brick that is in your rice bag into grains and places onto the coco choir layer.
19. Mix the grains and the coco choir.
20. Place another 0.125 inches of coco choir onto of the mixed in grains.
21. Cover the lid by turning it the other way around so air can still get into the bag
22. Wait mushrooms start to fully fruit
23. Cut the mushrooms at the stem leaving a small stump.
24. Place your mushrooms in a dehydrator for 12 hours. They should be cracker dry.
25. Store in an airtight container and consume whenever you want.
26. The bulk substrate can yield multiple flushes all you need to do is fill from a corner into the bulk substrate water so that bulk substrate rises and you can take it out. This will also help moisturise the bulk, soak it for an hour.

If you want to make micro-dosing pills then all you need to do it blend 13g of dried mushrooms into a coffee blender and add them to a manual pill filler of 100 pills. 13 / 100 = 0.13 per dose. You can use gelation casing pills or a plant alternative it doesn't really matter what you use, just as long as it fills in the pill filler.

This video will teach you how to make spore prints

From there you just scrape the spore prints using a knife or scalpel and insert them in a syringe filled with distilled water.

If you make your own spore prints then you can save a lot of money because you don't need to buy syringes.

Video is not working but your detailed information is really helpful. Mushrooms grow from fungal spores that thrive in damp, dark conditions. They require a medium that is high in decaying plant matter. They often spring directly from dead trees. Plants, on the other hand, grow from seeds and require plenty of sun and soil, and don't do well in overly damp environments. Mycelium, or actively growing mushroom culture, is placed on a substrate, usually sterilized grains such as rye or millet and induced to grow into those grains. This is called inoculation.

[collierreinhold]

thanks for the informative guideline but I hope that you can replace the video with a new one because this video is not available anymore

bubble shooter

[vindicated erudite]

On 13/02/2022 at 1:08 PM, sophia422 said:

Video is not working but your detailed information is really helpful. Mushrooms grow from fungal spores that thrive in damp, dark conditions. They require a medium that is high in decaying plant matter. They often spring directly from dead trees. Plants, on the other hand, grow from seeds and require plenty of sun and soil, and don't do well in overly damp environments. Mycelium, or actively growing mushroom culture, is placed on a substrate, usually sterilized grains such as rye or millet and induced to grow into those grains. This is called inoculation.

 

On 14/02/2022 at 10:50 AM, collierreinhold said:

thanks for the informative guideline but I hope that you can replace the video with a new one because this video is not available anymore

bubble shooter

Spores are contained in the gills of a mushroom (that black ring of a mushroom). You can create spore prints by cutting off the head of mushrooms and placing mushrooms on tinfoil (gill side down). You can also spray the mushroom heads with water in order to make the transfer easier. From there all you need to do is wait 24 hours for the spores to transfer from the mushroom to the tinfoil. At the end of the 24 hours, you'll find a black ring pattern on the tinfoil. These are your spores just scrap them off, mix them with some distilled water and use a syringe to inject into your substrate mix.