PERFECT GRAIN SPAWN FAST! Quick Hot Soak Method Eliminates Burst Kernels 

Always great stuff from you.

Extremely helpful specially the part about burst kernels

Very straight forward! Good video!

Really appreciate the content you drop. Thanks for all the new info and the reminders. Love the bran idea as it also increases surface area. Have you ever compared colonization time or quality w and w/out the bran? Thanks!

Hi I’ve just started growing and I thought this video was very interesting and informative I will give your technique a go thanks for a great video cheers

I just want to say thank you brother. I've been using your method with the wheat berries since the last video you made, I think about a year ago and it works pretty well.

Very effective and efficient!

The added wheat bran tip is awesome. I now use it every time. Just super easy and quick, and allows to sneak in some extra supplementation in a safe way since it’s gonna go through the PC. A little extra work to clean the jars afterwards perhaps (bran is a bit sticky), but almost not worth mentioning. It’s a great tip. Thank you!

You should publish a cultivation book. You have a gift! ❤

I'm definitely gonna try this technique. Looks much more efficient and might solve some of the challenges I've faced. Thanks

Thanks for this, Im going to give this tek a try. I dont always know when I'll have free time, so I like that I dont have to start a day ahead of time. Also...today I was planning my fall pier salmon fishing trip and looking for videos. I stumbled across a very familar voice throwing cranks from a lake ontario harbor 😉

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Great Tek! I’m definitely going to try it. The only thing I would change is not to rinse the grain with cold water. That step slows the evaporation of the water off your grain, making the process longer and potentially causing excess moisture in your grain. Especially if you are properly ‘cooking’ your grains, you don’t need to cold shock it. Nothing needs to be rinsed off and it can literally be loaded warm into jars for PC’ing, as long as it is dry enough to pass the TP test. Thanks for experimenting and sharing!

Very explicit demonstration. Can I use a plastic jar instead of the glass?

Your channel is a sleeper great video keep bringing quality content

Use a grain bag for brewing beer they work great

You can also use lime to dry them quickly

Nice 'n plump. This next batch I think I'll do a hybrid of the 2, hot soak overnight with no simmer the next day. Every time I simmer get burst grains and kinda tired of it.

Great videos! Sort of off topic question. I let my lions mane grain spawn go too long and now there are mushrooms growing in the spawn bag. Is this OK to use with substrate or just let it continue in the spawn bag and try again with another bag? Thank you!

So say I blended my mixed grain that I used. I decided to use chicken scratch because I had it on hand it already had cracked corn in it and it’s been outside all winter in a bag and then also in a Tub. Probably pretty clean right. Freezing temperatures kill all fungus doesn’t it? Couldn’t we just freeze our grain?

No pressure cooking sterlization necessary at all?

Have you let the endospores germinate and THEN pressure sterilize? I've heard of the benefits of allowing this, as it gives the mycelium more food?

hello renegade!!! Do you boil the grain too or do you just let it rest for 90 minutes? thank you very much for your videos they are the best!!!

Hey great video! Are the lids reusable? Do you have to replace the injection port?

Are gloves necessary while loading jars? I would think it wouldn't really matter?

Can we skip the pressure cooker run if it's been soaking in boiling water already?

Hi, I want to ask about the gypsum, why you don't use it for the grain? Thanks

Hi would this method work with brown rice and rye berries because that is what I have on hand currently.

I've been looking for larger mesh colanders for my grain spawn any chance you could tell me where you picked that one up?

I used whole corn, worked very well and very cheap, 50lb for $10.

Hope you don't mind my ignorance, but what is the worry with burst grains and the need to remove them?

How long would you soak rye with that method?

So I just did the soak over night method and I bursted my rye I’m picking it out. Unlike you I don’t have the time to do another soak. Until next weekend, what do you think the time for rye berries would be?

hello, I have two very important questions, I hope you can help! I have rye grain, brown rice flour, bird seed mix (linseed, sunflower seeds, millet), vermiculite. My question is, after colonizing the jars, can I not I use additional nutrients! Should I move the colonized substrate into a box and add only perlite to the bottom of the box, in the middle mycelium, last layer of vermiculite?!

Do you think 90 minutes would be good for Oats as well?

it appears that micropose no longer sells those lids for the jars. where do you get them now?

hello again, how many milliliters of liquid is injected into a jar? I have 0.500 as the amount of substrate?!

Is food grade lime good for mushroom

How do you keep the grain from sticking to itself in the jars? Every time I try to make spawn it ends up as a grain log after the PC and I can't shake it up.

Isn't it rising with cold water an invitation for contamination or is it better?

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So you put the lids on tight? With that rubber shield how does the jar “breathe” and not burst from the pressure? I am constantly having too much moisture in my grain after I sterilize at 15psi, I’m guessing because I leave my lids loose and the steam is getting in there and saturating it. Help please

Have you ever had fully colonized jars sit for any length of time and still had success?

Burst kernels happen because of Improper moisture content. That's why they contaminate.

You still have your discord channel and patreon etc Renegade?

My popcorn I pressure cooker. It turned dark. What did I do wrong

I usually soak my hard red wheat grain 12-24 hours then boil for 15,20 minutes (just enough to throughout hydrate the gains without causing them to pop.... basically looking for most of the inside of the grains to be translucent, but not open up). Then I pressure cook them at 15 psi for 1.5-2 hours. I tried this new technique. I soaked it in scalding water for 2 hours in the pressure cooker (for containment, not on a heat source), sealed and insulated it. I did check them at 1.5 hours but the inside kernels were still chalky white. After 2 hours, the wheat didn't swell as much as the other method and although there were less burst kernels, the wheat didn't colonizing nearly as fast as it does with the long soak and boil. It took nearly a month to get full colonization. I'm not sure why it took so long, but the grain did colonizing. I'm also using aggressive mycelium strain. Once it finally colonized to 95 % I shook my jars one final time to verify its viability before Inoculating substrate. This final shake usually re-colonizes in two to three days, however, it's been an entire week and the mycelium in all five jars has not recovered and there are points of moisture I can see, showing that it's metaboluzing, likely because of contamination. I've lost all 5 jars. I'm not sure if I did this "quick and dirty" method properly or if it's just not a good method, but I think I'll be going back to the long soak method. I've never had this problem yet and this entire batch had it. The only thing I've done differently was not doing the long soak and boil. The learning curve in cultivation can be so rewarding and so disappointing at the same time.

Is your grain organic?

You said 40 percent gain so 9 pounds will give you 12 ponds you said multiple by 1.4 where you get that number dumb it down im not getting it ill probably be oh yeah after you explain lol sorry for dumb question

soak em for 24h ..and thats it..

Great vid but really only applies to wheat , which isn't what most people use , just sayin

Every time a RU-vid video rinses something that should not be contaminated by putting it in a kitchen sink, I get itchy. No matter how well you clean the sink, there will be stuff in the drain that likely comes up with the air displaced by the water going down... And most of that is likely to be compatible to contaminate food, given that that's likely how it got there to begin with... I know it is a detail compared with the value of the video, but I do wish people didn't do this. Drain the water into a utensil, then pour it into the sink...

You've probably been asked this a million times, but what don't you like about the no soak, no boil method? 3 parts grain to 2 parts water (by weight) straight into the jars and pressure cook. I've never tried this soaking business before, as it seems like a waste of time and effort. What are the advantages? Is it just the ability to rinse the grain? Anything else? With enough water in my PC, I don't have an issue with burst kernels.