🍄‍🟫Episode 5: Grain Spawn Experiment Update - The Break & Shake!

[@splinedown]

Nice lab! I set mine up in a 4x4 tent with a 2x2 hood that draws air from inside the tent and a hepa filtered air, creating positive pressure inside the tent. I have left an open plate on my bench for 2 days. Nor a single sign of any contamination.

[@TheQueenOfDreams]

@@splinedown that’s awesome! I do think having a positive pressure environment helps a lot! Much luck to you!

[@johnm5359]

I like your set up, I am just using a still airbox and small 2x2 tent. What substrates have you grown on?

[@TheQueenOfDreams]

CVG, straw, and hardwood pellets. I keep experimenting with additives, but these are my base substrates. I would like to try cardboard at some point, too. What do you grow on?

[@johnm5359]

I like your set up, I am just using a still airbox and small 2x2 tent. What substrates have you grown on? Also why the vermiculite in the grain spawn?

[@TheQueenOfDreams]

@@johnm5359 so far, coco coir, vermiculite, and gypsum, various hard work pellets, and straw. I added the verm to the grain jars because the grains seemed a little over-hydrated to me. Thanks for commenting!

[@johnm5359]

That’s what I kinda figured, I have had a problem with wet rot, I empty my corn onto cotton towels to absorb the extra water. Seems to be working decently but I like your trick of adding vermiculite, I guess I would just be scared to introduce a contam if the vermiculite wasn’t pasteurized

[@TheQueenOfDreams]

@ the vermiculite was pressure sterilized along with the grains. 😉

[@veerchasm1]

My Microbiology class had nothing on you!

[@TheQueenOfDreams]

@@veerchasm1 lol, I don’t know about that! 🤪 I have a lot to learn, but I’m open and willing! 🍄❤️

[@christianm5271]

Mushlove ❤

[@TheQueenOfDreams]

@@christianm5271 thank you! 🍄‍🟫❤️

[@h2oguydro738]

Please… whisper ❤

[@TheQueenOfDreams]

Was I too loud?