Inoculating Grain to Grain - Making Mushroom Spawn 

Do you know what technique he used to colonize the first jar???

Good job fam

@@morghan_glamour8214 agar to to bird seed

Good stuff man! Keep at it!

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It doesn't have to be complicated. The simpler the better.

I'm a pro ... But you will have to ask for me on broadway Friday night...

It is simple!!

It is simple.

Do you crack lid a 1/4 turn to allow some gas in?

yup

He working with a laminar flow 🤣

That's because technically it was only 20% colonized if that. A fully colonized jar of grain cannot be shaken loose, you have to go at it with a spoon (sterile) and work at scooping it out. If you can shake it loose and see grain, it's not ready yet for G2G and certainly not ready for spawn to bulk.

@@VladTheImpalerTepesIIIthis is not true 😂 If you cant shake your grain loose before S2B you have bad spawn

Thank you! I wouldn't be able to do this without you and everyones support in this wonderful community. I'm glad you are a part of this journey! 😁

awesome! i have exactly 3 half pint jars colonizing and was wondering how far i could stretch them.

Froggo doggo? More like Froggo Druggo 💪🏻😎🍄

Same

Hey you're an amazing part of the community! 😁

I'm glad it helped! I wish you the best on your journey 🙏 🍄

Literally had me thinking he pulled another jar from the side lolol

Good luck on your journey! 😄

😁 Learning is fun

Been there, keep @ it brother

Mycelium is microscopic :D

I think the mycellium bruises and changes color when it is broken up and turns white again after a few days. Maybe PhillyGoldenTeacher can elaborate

​@@spewdog Nah it's just because it's so fluffy, like cotton candy. A thick fully colonized agar plate will become just a piece of material around the size of a grain of rice or smaller on your finger if you swipe your finger around the whole thing. But it leaves small amounts of mycelium everywhere it already was before the shake and after it had already eaten from the grain so it regenerates easier.

Because it's not actually fully colonized ;). A fully colonized jar of grain cannot be shaken loose, you have to go at it with a spoon (sterile) and work at scooping it out. If you can shake it loose and see grain, it's not ready yet for G2G and certainly not ready for spawn to bulk.

@@VladTheImpalerTepesIII That's not true though. Mycelium grows outward every direction if it isn't on a 2d surface like agar. If the jar looks fully colonized from the outside of the jar, it's good on the inside too, for a transfer at least. A jar doesn't need to be consolidated so long that it refuses to break up, to be considered fully colonized. Neither me or anyone I know, including professional growers, let it get to that point before G2G. Although I do let them sit a few days or so after fully colonizing, to consolidate, before spawning. There's a difference between the two. Colonize just means when it's covered the grain, consolidate is when it has more time to digest it, and it gets thicker during this time. Also pouring grain for G2G is better than a spoon, so shaking it is something you should be able to do. But if you're not waiting a while for your jars to consolidate like that, and they're still hard to break up, it could be a sign of bacteria, which normally will still fruit, but not to it's potential.

it provides an elevated surface to work on, and in my case it does provide stability because im using the lid of the SAB as the base and its flimsy and not really a true flat surface.

I had mine abort in the cold. I just got a lil heater from walmart :)

You can technically get by without any holes or modifications on the lid but growth may/can stall. I would leave the lids loosened 1/4th turn and flipped upside down if you aren’t using any holes or mods. If you use mods then use the micropore d surgical paper tape or polyfill

any clean jar will work. he keeps the jars loose a quarter turn for air :-)

Yes I made a video about lids, check it out on my channel

@@PhillyGoldenTeacher thanks, will do

Technically you can but it makes sense to start from time to time from agar to makes sure that your culture is not contaminated.

i’m a year late but yes you can!

It can slow down some extent of growth potentially, but not to a large extent. It sort of depends on your need and wants for preference if you are really aiming towards maximizing production times, but it is not a major difference in most sense.

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2 options: plastic box with 2 glove holes (cheap option with low space) or flow hood with H14 filter. You can try your luck soon after shower in a toilet without carpets that u just sanitized like a OCD mom spraying alcohol on all the walls with all the windows and doors of the house closed using a mouth mask. Out of those 3 options its just too risky to get contaminations.. Like.. Those spores are literally EVERYWHERE.