I’m currently waiting to inject liquid culture in the jars I prepped last week and came up on some do-it-yourself flow hood videos. Taking inspiration, I’ve come up with a game plan of my own. Formula Used for Fan Basically, you want to ensure you have enough air to flow through filter, but not disrupt...

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July 20, 2024

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Making the Lids

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This batch, I’m making some plastic lids for my jars with a syringe filter for air exchange and a rubber stopper as an injection port. For the lid itself, I purchased the “regular size” lids, which as the description on Amazon says, fit both the half pint and pint jars I have. I came to...

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drill drill bits jar lids rubber self healing port stopper syringe filter

July 19, 2024

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Prepping Grain Spawn

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My last batch of grain spawn was in pints that I’ll be dividing in half for my baby buckets. As those are almost ready to go into buckets, I want to prep a new batch of true half pints to run my recipe with. Last time I was a bit short of grains using a...

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grain spawn half pint jars pasteurization pressure cooker sterilization

July 18, 2024

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Mushroom Baby Bucket Recipe (Ver 1 – FAILED)

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Edit (2024-08-19): Experienced heavy contamination. Likely the bran, hwp combo. It’s bucket day! And it’s time to get down and dirty with bucket prep, planning the substrate mix quantities, prepping it and seeing what it yields. I have a 16qt pressure cooker and so 12 half pint jars fit perfect in it. This is my…

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baby bucket buckets hardwood pellets hwp jars pasteurization recipe

July 17, 2024

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Pressure Cooker Level Up

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Using a pressure cooker was outright scary for me the first time, but with the help of some friends and the reference to this awesome video, I got over my jitters. However, a year on, and it seems I’ve slipped up. I was watching a video on cordyceps and noticed he said he did not...

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pc pressure cooker presto sterlization

July 17, 2024

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Update: Colonization_2024.06.20-2024.07.17

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[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”16″ gal_title=”Colonization_2024.06.20-2024.07.17″] Bad News: Reishi has a spot of green on top. It’s not stopping the rest of the jar from colonization though, and so I’m going to let it continue. It was suggested to me to bury it and see if it will grow outside. I saw on iNaturalist that Golden Reishi is...

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chestnut colonization enoki lions mane mycelium reishi shittake turkey tail turtle shell beech

July 8, 2024

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Fixing the Humidity Sensor

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In my previous set up, I had initially bought a monitor with a corded sensor. Cord or not, the monitor itself I came to learn was horribly inaccurate. It took purchasing a bunch of other monitors to compare and find this out and no doubt it contributed to some over humidified oysters I lost last...

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humidity hygrometer monitor sensor

July 3, 2024

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Planning First Bucket Grow

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I was inspired by a video by GrowVeg on growing mushrooms in buckets and I’m really starting to break down what I want to do with the current jars. I’ve updated my Inventory and am planning to divide my current jars into shoe boxes and buckets. I have always wanted to stick to a smaller...

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buckets grow tent micro grow small grow

June 27, 2024

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Circulation Schedule for Air and Humidity

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After much trial and error with mechanical timers, leaving air or humidity on for x min every x hours, I found I couldn’t find the right balance for my Martha. I wanted a finely controlled timer and the solution ended up being cheaper than you think! I purchased “smart plugs”, you can usually find a...

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circular fae humidifier schedule smart plugs

June 20, 2024

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First Batch Ready for New Tent

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innoculation jars