How to Make Grain Spawn: A Deep Dive into the Heart of DIY Mushroom Cultivation

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[@dont.ripfuller6587]

It's really a simple and straight forward process that has a lot of wiggle room for variation. I think that new growers have a lot of fear of contamination but these things grow in the wild among max contamination. Just get the fungus a head start and you'll usually outpace the contamination and be done fruiting by the time it catches up.

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[@somefishhere]

Love the scaled up liquid culture option for the commercial growers!

[@TerpyTen]

Grain spawn is legit. Nearly 100% success rate. I haven't even bothered with rice or other grains because it works so well.

[@sealofakatosh]

Rice would be considered a grain to use to spawn to substrate. It's all considered ur grain. Rice, rye berry, popcorn, millet, sorgum, etc.

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[@dont.ripfuller6587]

I like to do a quick soak and rinse to remove dust/debris and small broken fragments and use tap water for this cuz the sink has a handy sprayer, then for the actual soak/hot bath use bottled water.

[@spiritual_awakening]

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[@glennplatvoet7111]

You're videos are much better than they were. Looks like you have it all pulled together. I'm going to check on you're site for liquid culture have a great day 😁

[@_fungaia]

Haha thank you! I have a long way to go.

[@IIBundo]

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[@Murciano207]

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[@KingStix]

it's mainly the sunflower seeds in WBS that causes issues, too much water retention especially on damaged/split sunflower seeds

[@babygorilla4233]

Ya know what i like this guy and these are free professional grade guides to microscopy. I think I'll get some liquid culture from him next time im buying. All i have right now is enokie lions main and blue oyster.

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My thoughts exactly amigo.

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[@18Hands]

I just wanted to throw it out there that usually milo and whole oats are on the cheaper end of things. Rye, Sorghum and millet are more on the expensive side. It depends on what you can get in your area. I get mine at my local feed store. Online prices are extremely high.

[@_fungaia]

Yes, thanks, feed stores are a great source for cheap grain, especially since shipping it usually costs more than the grain itself! Just make sure you get feed grains labeled "untreated." Treated grain will do nasty things to your fungus.

[@ustotz]

Thank you for the many interesting and helpful videos. When living rye grains are soaked in cold water, encymatic processes are activated that break down substances such as folic acid and the grain is prepared for seedling. The grain is made bioavailable for the seedling, and in our case for the mycelium. Even though mushrooms are masters of alchemy, I consider this preparation to be a benefit to the mycelium.

[@ashboom2175]

thank you for being so thorough and detailed in this video. it really helps clarify any confusion with all the different methods out there so this is truly gold :) definitely will stay tuned and looking forward to the next video!

[@keyscook]

You rock Paul... I'm looking forward to growing for the potential health benefits - Thank you!

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[@cuznclive2236]

Found your channel today, subbed, and rang the bell! Wondered why my rice kept exploding, and now I know why; I was not setting it out to dry before pc'ing. Makes good sense. Thank you!

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[@Xulzen]

Your videos have helped reinspire me to get back into cultivation.

[@shakysugars]

Thanks brother! I appreciate the well made content, I made sure to support via LC purchase. 11 bags and 5 jars getting sterilized tonightttt!

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Amazing video as always. this channel is so underrated you deserve more subs. waiting for a video on substrates 😁

[@luisfmoralesjr5221]

Thank you. Great video. Fills in a lot of details. How long would you cook the grain spawn in an Instant Pot? How long for liquid culture in an Instant Pot. Thanks.

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[@tamris3188]

could you do a video on making and sterilizing substrate sometime in the near future please? Love your videos by the way, and recently bought substrate from you, because i'm just starting to try to use substrate for the first time. in the past i've done grows just using brown rice and vermiculite in jars and fruiting them in a tub of perlite. pretty easy way to grow but yielded few mushrooms per grow.

[@Alexmw777]

One thing I was missing in the inoculation chapter was the ratio of liquid culture to grain

[@Bingobongo3]

Love your channel! Very informative

[@goodfindfungi]

Amazing! My partner and I have a small organic vegetable farm and we're moving into mushrooms. Your videos are extremely helpful. Thank you Paul. Just to clear, you don't add gypsum to the rye grain at any point when using the soak only/scaling up method in Part Two with Professor Sporadicus?

[@rewty]

I just made rye grain spawn for the first time thanks to this video P.S. I got the DUNE reference! ALOHA from Hawaii

[@TheTubejunky]

Liquid culture sounds good but VERY difficult to tell if it's contaminated until after inoculation. Agar wedge or Grain to grain is my recommendation.

[@andreasduenow3329]

Thanks, thanks so much for all your work! ❤

[@keziha5315]

Can you use normal jar lids? (I'm doing grain to grain not injection anyway)

[@Pattwon]

Thank you for the rich in content video. Not sure why we would loosen the lids if there are exchange vents in the lid?

[@_fungaia]

The filter allows only a minute amount of gas exchange. It's less of a concern with grain, but you can really tell with liquid: even with the air filter, if the lid is tightened down the jar will boil over and often break in the pressure cooker. I never put sealed containers of any kind in a pressure cooker.

[@rivervanblerk2088]

What are your thoughts on injection ports? I have heard from some pretty legit guys in the actives space that it's an unnecessary vector for contamination, seeing as one cant sterilize, only sanitize, the face of the port using iso. Thusly the best and most consistent method of inoculation when using LC is to open inoc using a flow hood or SAB.

[@thedailydump7407]

Great videos! My question is; is contamination dangerous? I will often have a flush but there is also some green contamination as well as some white fuzz contamination. I’ve eaten some of these shrooms anyway and felt no ill effects. Thoughts?

[@NorjiLab-bw3tu]

One for the Prof Sporadicus . Could this scaling up calcualtion be the same for fruiting blocks if I wanted to add dry ingrdients and H2O to the bags without prior soaking of substrate ?

[@4Abaddon4]

Nice Video! I would like to know what you are doing with the ergot you are collecting? I always throw mine away.

[@BujArt]

Hi, Pr. Sporadicus Great Videos on your Chanel with your Employee exposing a great Didactic and Scientific content.😊 It’s like a Cabinet maker that makes his own devices, tools and gages instead of buying costly brand devices, analysing the problem, principles and solution. Great! As a new Mushroom grower, I see that I have a lot of Tools that have been Contaminated, (like Syringes, Needels, etc.). So much plastic and Stainless steel into the trash bin. Seeing your Videos I imagine you have a System to avoid to much Plastic waste. Do you sterilise your Tools? Seeing your Flow hoods and your passion searching new Strains in Nature, how would you solve topic if you would make long expeditions and have limited space? Or, how do you avoid an environmental pressure by cultivating Mushroom and how to avoid it? In general, training our mentality and attitude to avoid waste in behalf of Climate change, this would be a very important topic for Mushroom Cultivation. Thanks once again for your Work on U-Tube.

[@skrazi]

Another absolute banger.

[@aidennymes6335]

with modified lids that have filter discs, it's not required to loosen the lids for PCing.

[@michaellutz8497]

Thank you for the in depth knowledge! Watching your videos has exponentially sped up my learning curve. I accidentally use tap water to soak. Dump it or it'll be ok?

[@_fungaia]

I'm sure it's fine! Most folks use tap. I have feelings about it, but not to worry.

[@yalestormofficial]

Grain spawn is my favorite way to cultivate mushrooms.

[@MikeBCG]

I’m glad you spoke on bio accumulation this seems to be treated as a non-issue amongst cultivators and consumers

[@EmreBuyuktuna]

Thank you for your effort and sharings to put out this quality content. I am just collecting info about cultivation of mushrooms, and i have a question, in soak no boil method, is sterilizing machine same with the pressure cooker or are they totally different machines

[@_fungaia]

Yes, the sterilization is the same. Any pressure cooker will work. In the video I used a larger pressure cooker for the grain bags, but the function is the same as the smaller one.

[@HHg-dq6nh]

Do you have videos on making truffles?

[@wastelandgrow]

You can give video for create surin mushroom (paddy mushroom seeda)

[@rerikm]

I wonder how cost effective is to only use organic rye?? sounds very expensive

[@Andrewski2]

When doing the soak and no boil, do you dry the rye the same way as you would with the boil on a towel?

[@sonnybrasco9735]

Very thorough video sir 🫡

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[@milkybee4298]

awesome and informative!

[@NihilisticRealism]

Subbed for the long run.

[@nadjibmahieddine7307]

thank you bro this helped a lot to understand lot of things so thanks alot

[@Michael-tr4st]

Can you do the second method you detailed, with jars instead of bags?

[@_fungaia]

Yes, absolutely! The process is exactly the same.

[@BattleForEden]

You are AWESOME my friend

[@edgardmedinasierra6811]

It's amazing men. Congratulations. .

[@danielmcardle3476]

I'm a complete novice, but I heard that you should let steam out for like 10 mins before adding the weight. What do you think about that time period sensei?

[@danielmcardle3476]

I should add that you also restored my faith in humanity yesterday, so cheers for that!

[@TantricBioHacker]

I've platooed here Im having large problems. Getting further. My petri dishes with Agar are perfect. I followed Philly Golde teacher advice and cloned them 3-4 times. The biggest problem is that they refuse to inocculate the grain I need help. I've used corn kernals, brown rice, oat meal, red lentils. I started out with two growth kits. Perfected spore printing and the whole agar technique. Now I'm stuck I just want to get to the harvesting part again please help.

[@Grimreaper420ful]

Amazing video!

[@vang5352]

Hola gente hermosa! necesito ayuda ¿como puedo esterilizar los frascos si no cuento con una olla a presión? Hello Beautiful people! I need help, how can I sterilize the jars if I don't have a pressure cooker?

[@MikeJ0hns0n]

Dude is fuckin' awesome!! Thank you for the education!! Time to get shroomin'!!

[@thematrixcentre]

Can we use rice grain to make spawn

[@tothmihaly8066]

Hi. Nice explanation . Thank .

[@tothmihaly8066]

Can i grow mushrooms at tropical weather conditions . My country temperature always 30 c degrees . Thanks for your answer !

[@_fungaia]

Yes, you absolutely can! You just need to choose mushrooms that are adapted to that climate. Oysters (Pleurotus species), paddy straw (Volvariella volvacea) and Cordyceps are some popular varieties that would do well

[@tothmihaly8066]

@@_fungaia thank your answer !

[@nabeelz4977]

Best mushroom video ever

[@paradisepoolservice2505]

Great content!

[@equalizingforce2581]

Great video. I am really new to this. I homebrew and I have some pilsner grains I need to use iup and I'm wondering if I could use that, any idea if that would work? Also I have grain a year past their sell by date, any idea if that would affect the growth potential. Cheers.

[@john-smith.]

Brewing grains are soaked, germinated, and kilned dry. You will have a lot of trial, and error and don't think they will even work...maybe for bulk substrate but not for grain from LC, or agar. Go find a feed store and get whole oats for animal feed, or racing horse oats which are cleaner...their usually the cheapest for step.

[@equalizingforce2581]

@@john-smith. These are whole grains as I malt them myself. Cant get any cheaper than using these up.

[@adimkarp6950]

Insta-subscribe! All the time i wasted on clown videos on this subject.... Will check this channel first in future! Well done, thorough but not repetitive and informative.

[@beddj1]

What did you pull out of the rye and put in a test tube? lol

[@john-smith.]

Looked like he was just picking out the garbage from the grain...and thats just what he put it in.

[@lukesalter-ec3hh]

Any reason I couldn’t boil it to get it to moisture, and bang it in the air fryer to dry the surface off?

[@john-smith.]

NO! just lay it out, your just making it harder.

[@davidstick9207]

I am giving this site a 2 thumbs up

[@SnakeEater503]

Doesnt the chorine evaporate out during the boil?

[@_fungaia]

Quite a bit does offgas, yes, and most folks use tap water without many problems. My buddy in college did trace analysis of water for his chemistry thesis and I was shocked at how nasty a lot of our tap water is. Chlorine is highly reactive and municipal water systems have some questionable pipes... It's really just a personal fixation of mine. Follow your heart!

[@estherlungu8143]

What is that liquid?

[@TheHardenedSophist]

No gypsum in the soak? cup of coffee?

[@beddj1]

20:11 Like he went into another dimension where calculators are some unknown object LOL

[@l.slayer551]

Just out of curiosity, have you ever run a side-by-side to compare colonization times and final yields using spring water pitted against tap/chlorinated water?

[@blockhead9070]

Like True Blue!

[@Kevfactor]

Opinions about distilled water? I can't really justify buying bottled water for the fungus but i could invest ina cheap distiller. I just fear distilled water might not work as it's void of minerals.

[@ZCRAIZED1]

Distilled is perfect. The lack of minerals is just fine.

[@AdvaitaVedantaHUB]

cool videos mate (Y)

[@awakening_bryan]

Why put it up for 2 days?

[@18Hands]

I wanted to try to answer your question, although I didnt see where he said anything about 2 days. I do know that you want your grains to thoroughly cool so that it does not kill the mycelium when you inject your jars.

[@JuanTiller]

I was taught the 48 hour incubation period was to quality control for contamination before inoculation.

[@allisonyoung2039]

Ya Paul!!

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I LOVE YOU

[@thegregofficial]

Saturated dry grain... Got it

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[@jmseipp]

Pronounced ‘My-Lo’

[@siris.oooı]

the bill nye of rye

[@umbrellahole]

You are weird but great videos!

[@joshuafreeman6720]

18:48 no, millet soaking overnite draws little moisture. Rye. I have soaked 50 grams of rye at room temp for 24 hours and without boiling induced the rye and it weighed like 90grams