Mushrooms

Hi again. So now your jars are filled with mycelium. All clean and white. No contamination. Great. 🍄Now DIY time again. I made 2 monotubs (plastic boxes where the mycelium is going to live and grow into mushrooms). I'll show u my measurements in the picture 🤠. And make sure for the inside of the monotub you will need to make a black liner have a look online more about them because they are important and save you a lot of trouble In total I had 6 jars.. but I lost 2 in the process.. got a contamination. So I was left with 4 jars. 😔 But enough for 2 tubs. 2 for each tub. 🍄So for my substrate I used 1 brick of coco coir with some vermiculite. You will have to pasteurize your bulk substrate by cooking it in an oven or steaming it. You need to mix the two ingredients together and hydrate the mixture to 'field capacity.' If you grab a handful of the substrate and squeeze it as hard as you can you should be able to get one or two drops of water to drip out. Put some rubbing alcohol into a spray bottle and sterilise your monotubs. Spray your hands, your working surface, any scissors you might use to cut. Spray the outside of your spawn jar as well before opening it. Make sure the room that you are inoculating in is clean! If you have pets make sure the room has been recently vacuumed. So now we're gonna build our habitat for shrooms. You want to start by sprinkling about one inch of bulk substrate into your sterilized monotub, or in the liner if you're using one. Make sure you can squeeze out a couple of drops of water your bulk substrate. If it dried out during pasteurization you'll need to add sterilised water to it. So first 1 inch bulk substrate then shake your jars so the colonized mycelium will break apart into small pieces and add a thin sprinkling then Add another inch of substrate followed by more spawn. Keep sandwiching spawn in layers of bulk substrate until you've reached your desired depth. Use a paper towel with more rubbing alcohol and wipe down the sides of the monotub just above the inoculated bulk substrate. Put the lid on your monotub and don't remove it again until the monotub is fully colonized!(you can peak at it sometimes but not every moment we get coz it puts your grow at risk of contamination) Keep the monotub someplace warm, but not hot, and out of direct sunlight but with some ambient light present. And keep waiting. Check on your bin daily to watch it colonize. You'll see white spots start to expand from each point of grain spawn. Over time they will completely cover the surface of the bulk substrate. You should see small droplets of mushroom exudate. This is natural and a sign of proper hydration and a speedy colonization. If you see your substrate is getting dry get a fine mist bottle spray and spray it not at it but more like up in the air and let tiny droplets land on the substrate and spray your tubs walls. I haven't got any photos or detailed ones for you but you can find a lot of info online. It was just a curiosity research trial🧐🤔