Favorite / fastest substrate

[Balzac89]

Dunk and rolling two tonight

 

[SKOre]

dose anybody have a opion on ordering spore syringes at if so wht company is recommended and witch ones are not.. thank you for your time

 

[Balzac89]

Ralphsters spores

 

[monkeybones]

everywhere i read says that grain jars colonize faster than PF tek. my popcorn didn't colonize very fast but that's not necessarily top quality grain now is it

i made a substrate of 5 parts cour, 5 parts verm, and 1 part gypsum. it colonized fully in about 6 days i think

 

[DaSprout]

Heh heh. That Mankey's comin' at ya'. Heh heh. Stoned.

 

[Balzac89]

I don't think i'm gonnas user whoel grain unrefined any more. I had a bunch of the rice sprout and then ferment killing the mycellium idk how to spell and no spell check on this bitch.

I used refined brown rice, like instant brown rice for two jars and they are fully colonized and beautiful.

 

[canndo]

everywhere i read says that grain jars colonize faster than PF tek. my popcorn didn't colonize very fast but that's not necessarily top quality grain now is it

i made a substrate of 5 parts cour, 5 parts verm, and 1 part gypsum. it colonized fully in about 6 days i think

did you shake your grain? If you did not, then it will take longer than even most mixes. I don't see much in the way of nutrients in your mix, looks more like a casing than a substrate. The mushrooms can't eat the vermiculite or the gypsum so they are left with only a small amount (less than half) of a low nutrient material.

 

[canndo]

I don't think i'm gonnas user whoel grain unrefined any more. I had a bunch of the rice sprout and then ferment killing the mycellium idk how to spell and no spell check on this bitch.

I used refined brown rice, like instant brown rice for two jars and they are fully colonized and beautiful.

If your rice sprouted then you didn't sterilize your substrate.

 

[Balzac89]

I did alot of jars I might have messed up because I only pulled three and my pot only holds three so you're probably right. Man that's what I get for doing them at three in the morning,. lol

 

[NiggaDuke72]

1st time here using spawn bags. 1st attempt had green mold along with myc. Threw that out. Next i am going to try spawn and fruit bag kit. Any suggestions? Using Burma and Ecuador strains if that helps.

 

[Balzac89]

Everything is going nicely got the majority of my cakes in a fruiting chamber. Three to four weeks we shall see what we get.

 

[monkeybones]

I inoculated a bulk substrate of 6 parts coir, 4 parts vermiculite (i may have that backwards), and 1 part granulated gypsum with colonized popcorn

it was fully colonized in 7 days and ready for fruiting

but that's the full extent of my experience so far so I can't say if that's any good

 

[Balzac89]

Im fruiting a bulk experiement with just rice

 

[PuffinChronic]

I've always had good luck with bird seed..

 

[sonar]

Im fruiting a bulk experiement with just rice

What exactly are you doing with the rice? Just curious.

 

[Balzac89]

Well basically i'm just messing around. I took instant brown rice put it in a pyrex pan. I put four cups of rice and three cups of water and covered it with foil. I baked it four an hour at 250 then took it out and used a mason jar to indent the center oif the mass.

Then covered it back up cooked it at 270 for half hour. Let it cool over night. Then took a rice cake I had that was fully colonized and placed it in the center. In a sterile box this was all done. Then covered it again and let it sit until its fully colonized. Working pretty good so far. Just worried about contaninants

 

[Balzac89]

How many fresh grams of Z strain should one eat to get the effexts of close to an 8th dry?

 

[cindysid]

Mushrooms are at least 90% water, so to get 4 grams dry it would take at least 40g wet.

 

[Balzac89]

So I just picked a rather large one because the veil was starting to split and it weighs 31 grams would be cloe to 3gs?

 

[cindysid]

That's about right. Probably a pretty good dose all by itself!