ingredients:
- 30 Cups Shredded Horse Manure
- 16 Cups Vermiculite
- 14 Cups Coco Coir
- 12 Cups Wild Bird Seed
- 4 Cups Organic Worm Castings
- 4 Cups Garden Gypsum
- 2 Cups Spent Coffee Grinds
- 3 Tablespoons Kelp Meal
- 4 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil
- 1.5 Tablespoons Hydrated Lime (add before hydrating)
- A tad under 1.5 gallons Water (use best judgment after first gallon added)
Makes 4 spawn bags (82 cups dry)
It might take more Hydrated Lime depending on what you're shooting for. Take a sample, hydrate and then test pH after a few hours if you want to know what it's at.
Since there is so much stuff in this recipe, and some of it in very small quantities, it is important to mix everything very well. I suggest mixing every time after you add a new ingredient and then mixing the crap out of it (actually, leave that in, it's important) after everything is in there. I think that it is important to keep the batch this size or smaller, because if you quadrupled the recipe and mixed it all up, you probably wouldn't have an even distribution of ingredients.
Water content is critical, so keep adding a little at a time until it gets so that a light squeeze causes a few drops and a hard squeeze causes a small stream. If you add too much water, add some more vermiculite and horse poo to soak it up.
This is to be loaded into spawn bags and sterilized in a PC. See related article for instructions on that. It could be pasteurized too if you wanna do it that way (leave the birdseed out if you want to spawn grain to it), but I suggest sterilizing and inoculating with LC because there will be much smaller chance of contamination and pasteurization can be tricky to get right. 3.5 hours at 15psi is a good sterilization time.
I suggest inoculating with 120cc's of LC per bag for the fastest growth and highest chance of success. (2 60cc syringes)
Potency will be very high with this formula.
Expect 3 to 6 oz dry per bag.
****Note: The intended method is for mushrooms to be grown inside the bags. That means you don't have to mess with humidity or grow chambers, just lop off the tops of the bags when it's time to harvest. You can still cruble them and put in a tub and case and grow in a fruiting chamber if you really want to, but if you wanna save a lot of hassle don't bother. I can't say that any minor benefits are worth the extra effort to do that.
-MasFina
