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#10981397 - 09/01/09 05:53 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Bulk Growing for Noobs
Introduction
This is a really simple guide if you want to grow a bulk amount of Psilocybe Cubensis. It comprises of using the PF TEK (v1, slightly modified) and spawning the mycelium to dehydrated manure. I wrote this guide because I see a lot of noobs that are confused about bulk substrates and how to use them to grow mushrooms. I also see a lot of you confused about casings.
When you spawn to bulk, you take a colonized sub, such as brown rice flour and verm, or Wild Bird Seed, and crumble it up and add it to more substrate such as manure, coir, straw, or coffee grounds. This results in getting more fruits (mushrooms). In this guide I use PF Tek, because it is easy, and cow manure because it is easy to find. There is no need for a glovebox or pressure cooker using this method.
Casing is when you take something that is not nutritious and layer it on top of your colonized substrate to give it more moisture and results in more fruits. This guide will use peat moss and vermiculite to do this. Even though some say verm is nutritious, it seems to make a good casing material. You don’t have to use a casing layer, so you can skip this step.
Temperature cannot be stressed enough during this whole procedure. You want to aim for at least 70 degrees during the colonization phase and for fruiting as well. If you keep your jars at 60-65 degrees you will experience stalled jars. Cubensis does much better if it’s at around 75 – 78 degrees. Jars will colonize in almost half the time it would take for jars stored at 65 degrees. The 10 degree difference will really impact your grow.
Materials for PF TEK
½ pint (8 oz) wide mouth or regular mouth jelly jars
Brown rice flour (rye flour can be substituted)
Vermiculite (fine or medium) grade
Big pot to boil (steam sterilize) jars
Small towel or Paper towels
Mixing bowl and spoon
Lysol spray, or any surface disinfectant
Oust spray or other air sanitizer
Masking tape (NOT Necessary with dry verm layer)
Alcohol (70%)
Spore syringe (will make 10 jars)
Procedure
1. Clean and sanitize your work area. Spray Lysol and oust in the air. Use antibacterial products and products with bleach if you can. Make 4 holes on top of jar. Use a nail to do this. Imagine drawing a square on the jar’s lid to fit inside the depressed circle in the center. The holes should be on the four corners, equidistant from each other. Close all windows in kitchen/work area.
2. Mix vermiculite and brown rice flour in mixing bowl. ¼ Brown rice flour, ½ cup vermiculite, and a very little less than ¼ cup of water per jar.
3. Put pot on stove and put paper towels or a small towel on the bottom of the pot. Make sure you use 7-10 sheets of paper towels.
4. Load jars into pot so that only half of the pot if filled with jars, make sure you pack them together tight. Leave lids loose on jars, don’t screw them on, just leave them laying atop the jars. You can place shot glasses in between them if the are prone to fall over. Pour water into pot on side without jars so that the water goes a little less than a ¼ way up the side of the jars. Load rest of jars into pot making sure water is no higher than ¼ - less than ½ up the side of the jar.
5. Put burner on low heat until water starts to boil. Make sure it is a slow boil. Boil jars for 75-90 minutes. You can get away with one hour of boiling.
6. While jars are boiling take masking tape and tear 1 ½ inches pieces. You need 4 x The number of jars you are using. If boiling 10 jars, cut 40 pieces of tape. Stick tape to outside edge of table you are working with.
7. When jars are done boiling, take them and place them on the table. Tighten the lids and put the tape over the holes. Allow jars to cool over night before injecting spores.
You can use a dry layer of verm at the top of the jars about a 1/2” thick to keep out contams. Wipe the inside top 1/2'” of the jar with alcohol to be even more safe.
Pictures:
Brown Rice / Rye Flour:
 
Colonized Cakes:
Inoculated Jar after 6 days:
Injecting spores
It’s good to do this in a small room with no windows open. You want still air. Spray down the area with your disinfectants. Take your syringe and put a flame at the needle until its red hot. Wait for it to cool then wipe it with alcohol. Lift the tape off of a hole and put the syringe into the jar. Squirt some solution (1/4 cc) down the inside of the jar. Repeat for each hole, wiping syringe in between holes. Cover the holes back up with masking tape.
Jars will take anywhere from 2 weeks to a month to colonize. You should see growth within the first week, usually after 3 or 4 days. Tape can be taken off the holes when colonization reaches 60-70%. At this time the jars should be flipped upside down until they finish colonizing. Mycelium should look white and cottony looking. At first it may appear grayish, so don’t clean out those jars just yet. We wait until the jars have fully colonized before moving to the next step.
You can fruit these cakes as they are if you don’t want to go any further. Just wait until they fully colonize, then dunk them underwater, roll them in vermiculite and throw them into an appropriate grow chamber. You take the cakes out (birth them) by slamming the jar onto the lid, or onto a book or table. You put them underwater (dunk) for 14-20 hours then take some oven sterilized verm (350 degrees F for a half hour or so, allow to cool) and roll your cakes in it so that the cakes are covered with verm. A fruiting chamber can be made out of a see through Rubbermaid style storage bin. Holes must be made on all sides, ¼” in size and spread about 2.5 – 3.5 inches apart. Perlite must be spread on the bottom, about 3-5” is sufficient. You can soak the perlite in water before you place it in the chamber, or just not put holes in the bottom so that you can let an inch or so of water sit at the bottom of the perlite. CFL lighting should be used (fluorescents) in the daylight spectrum. 12 hours on, 12 hours off, or on all of the time if you’d like.
Spawning PF Cakes to bulk sub
Materials needed:
Large pot
Pillowcase
Meat thermometer (analog is fine)
Lysol and oust spray
Cleaning products
Manure (dehydrated – store brand is fine)
Gallon sized freezer bags
Trays and / or tubs
Duct tape and / or trash bags
Procedure
1. Take containers to be used and place duct tape around the base of the container going up as far as you would like the substrate depth to be.
2. Spray area down with disinfectants and close windows.
3. Take manure and make sure to shred it up nicely.
4. Throw manure into pillowcase and tie the end of it into a knot.
5. Put pot on stove on low heat and wait for the temperature of the water to reach 140 -160 degrees Fahrenheit. Only fill pot about half way with water.
6. Put pillowcase into pot and make sure to keep the whole thing submerged. You can throw another pot on top of the pillowcase to keep it under the water.
7. Pasteurize the mixture for 70-90 minutes. You can do an hour. You can go up to 170 degrees, but if you go over you might be alright. Just try to keep the temps in the acceptable range.
8. Take cakes and throw into freezer bag. Crush the cakes inside very finely, crumble them well.
9. When done pasteurizing, take pillowcase and dump it into the sink. Allow to cool, then squeeze out excess moisture until only a few drops are coming out.
10. Take crumbled up cakes and mix with manure into your container.
11. Cover containers with tin foil and set aside for 4-7 days
12. Introduce trays into fruiting conditions when mycelium is fully spread.
You want to use a 1:3 ratio of spawn to manure. So, if you're using 3 cakes you want to use 9 jars(cups) worth of manure. You can also use a little less, a 1:2 ratio. If using 3 cakes, mix in 6 cups of manure.
If putting your spawn and sub into a monotub, be sure to make holes on the four walls. Make them a ¼” and space them about 2 inches apart. You can also make 4 tiny holes side by side, move over a couple inches and make more holes. I like to make 2 or 3 rows of these holes on the walls of the tub. If using trays, you must place them into a suitable fruiting chamber.
Throughout the whole process you really shouldn't have to worry about the smell. I never had a problem. Smell is very minimal, not really noticeable. There will be a slight smell if you open a monotub, but nothing serious at all. It won't smell through, say, a closet or in another small space. You really can't smell it at all, even when pasteurizing.
Pictures:
Picture of pasteurization:
Colonized trays:
Monotub:
 
Fruits!:
 
Casing
Peat moss and vermiculite, mixed in a 1:1 ratio, makes a really good casing layer. The casing layer acts as a microclimate and adds moisture resulting in more mushrooms. In order to prepare it, you must pasteurize it. Just follow the steps in the Spawning PF Cakes to bulk sub section of this TEK, replacing manure for 50/50 mix. When done, allow mixture to cool and squeeze out excess moisture.
Take 50/50 mix and spread across of fully colonized bulk cake / tub. You want to lay down a 1/2" to an inch of the 50/50 mix on top of your tray / tub. After casing layer is laid down, it takes about 4-7 days for the mycelium to spread throughout it. At that point it can be thrown into a Fruiting Chamber.
You can also place a layer of 50/50 mix under your sub as well and obtain good results. This is not Neccessary.
Pictures:
50/50 casing made with only crumbled cakes (Not spawned to bulk):
 
Quick overview of TEK: PFTEK -> Manure -> Casing Layer -> Outdoor Grow
Fruiting chamber concept
A fruiting chamber is where the mushrooms grow. You can make them out of clear Tupperware containers. You need to line the bottom with about 3-5” of perlite and add enough water to cover the bottom inch of the perlite. You must make holes on all sides, ¼” spaced about two inches apart. An overhead light source is also needed, a daylight CFL should be sufficient. The chamber will need 4-5 mistings daily, with a fine mist, and will need to be fanned at least twice a day. Mist then fan. The misting can be avoided with setting up and attaching a humidifier to the chamber. Be creative. Also fanning isn’t such a concern because of the holes, but should still be done.
Pictures:
 
You can use a florescent desk type lamp with the above tub, or one with a clear top.
If using bulk trays, use two under the bed type tupperware boxes with one flipped upside down and on top of the other to create a dub tub. You can now place those trays inside the FC. Make sure to drill holes into the top tub, for FAE, and line the bottom with at least 2-3" of moist perlite. Treat like any other shotgun FC.
 
Inside the fruiting chamber:
 
 
Drying your mushrooms
Mushrooms can be dried using damprid or any other desiccant. Make a chamber out of a tupperware container. Take chicken wire and cut and bend it so that it sits at the bottom like a raised shelf you can place the mushrooms on. Pour desiccant into bottom of chamber so that it sits beneath the wire. You can place your mushrooms in front of a fan for a day to speed up the process. Without a fan it takes about 3-4 days to get even the largest mushrooms cracker dry.
Pictures:
  
Outdoor growing
When you cakes / bulk cakes have flushed 3 times, you can take the mycellium and place it outside. You can also do this if your cakes contaminate. You can place them in a hole as deep as the substrate and cover with a 50/50 vermiculite/peat moss casing layer. Be sure to pasteurize the mixture. Water every 2 - 3 days for best results, and you'll get a couple more flushes for your work! You can also just throw the cakes atop soil and break them down with a shovel to crumble them, but you'll get smaller fruits. 70-75 degrees Fahrenheit is the best temperature to do this in.
Pictures:
Outdoor patch 1st flush (4th flush) crumble method (no casing layer):
 
 
Outdoor patch 2nd flush (5th flush):
  
Spore prints
You can take spore prints so you can make more syringes. My method does not require a glove box. One spore print can make 4 syringes.
Materials needed:
Small Tupperware container (not needed)
Paper towels or 2 clean towels
Aluminum Foil
Alcohol (70%)
Small knife
Shot glasses
Opened mushroom cap
Cleaning agents (Lysol spray, oust)
Masking Tape
Procedure
1. Clean work area / room. Spray air with air sanitizer and clean all surfaces you will be working on.
2. Take Tupperware container and make 8 small holes on the lid in the shape of a rectangle. Make 2 rows of 4 holes.
3. Take clean towel (or paper towel) and place at bottom of container
4. Take aluminum foil and cut into strips between 4” to 5” inches by 4” to 5” inches. You can do 5” by 5”. Fold foil in half, then unfold as to leave the crease in the middle of the foil.
5. Wipe surface of foil with alcohol and place at the bottom of the chamber.
6. Take mushroom and sterilized knife (wipe with the alcohol) and cut the cap off of the mushroom closest to the gills as you can.
7. Place mushroom cap on one half of the foil.
8. Take sterilized shot glass (use the alcohol) and cover the caps. Fold up a little piece of foil and stick it under the glass, as to have the glass tilt slightly so that air may enter. Put lid back on container.
9. Wait for about 2 – 3 days then open chamber to collect prints. Remove caps and shot glasses. Fold foil over the crease and fold back the sides a little so that only one end of the print is open.
10. Place print into desiccant chamber for 2 – 3 days. Remove print after that time and fold over the one remaining open side. Tape up spore print with masking tape so that no air can enter the print.
You can simply lay down paper towels on your bureau and make a printing station there. Just cover the shot glasses with paper towels and you’ll be good. This is what I do. Always be sure to spray down the area with disinfectants when taking prints.
Pictures:
Finished prints:
Making Spore Syringes
Syringes can be made from prints. Once again, this method is very easy and anyone can do it. You can take these syringes and use them to continue the growing cycle. After your first grow you shouldn't have to spend any more money to buy spores.
Materials needed:
Syringes (10 ml syringes with 18 - 20 gauge needle)
Used syringes can be used from your first grow, so remember to save them! Just try to buy the widest (lowest gauge) needle you can find at a pharmacy.
Small pot
Cleaning Supplies (oust / lysol spray)
Spore prints
Shot Glasses
Alcohol (70%)
Small blade or razor
Masking Tape
Procedure:
1. Spray down area with disinfectants, also remembering to clean surfaces.
2. Fill pot half way with water, then place on stove top.
3. Bring water to a boil and let water boil for at least 10 minutes, 15 is better.
4. Take syringe and draw up water to fill the syringe (you can turn the burner off) and squirt the water into the sink. Repeat this step one more time with syringe.
5. Fill up all syringes to be used with the very hot water again for the third, final time, and cap them and put them in a dark place in a ziplock bag.
6. Allow 4 - 8 hours to allow syringes to cool.
7. Take cooled syringe and squirt water into sterilized shotglass.
8. Open spore print and scrape 1/4 of the print into the shotglass.
9. Mix the water in the shotglass with the end of the needle, then use the syringe to draw up the water. Repeat steps 6 - 9 for every syringe you make. You can use the same shotglass, but wipe it down with alcohol after making each syringe.
10. Cap syringes, tape the contact points with masking tape, and set aside in ziplock bag. Let spores syringes sit for 12 - 24 hours after making them to allow for the rehydration of spores.
Syringes:
Edited by m00nshine (11/15/09 10:59 PM)
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: m00nshine]
#10982641 - 09/01/09 08:56 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Thank you very much for posting this, I was planning on doing cakes but after reading this decided to use this tek and it seems like it would be overall better. My one question is how much manure would you suggest per cake? Say I was going to put it in a large tray, how much manure should I put in per crumbled cake? Also how much yield would you roughly get per cake?
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: xxgeorgexx]
#10982715 - 09/01/09 09:05 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Sticky this shit 
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: Bassgasm]
#10982777 - 09/01/09 09:12 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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This is exactly the procedure I'm currently doing and it's going great.
Thanks for taking the time to type this out, I'm sure it will come in handy to a lot of members.
Next time you do this tek, consider photographing the steps. Visual aid is a big plus for teks, as you know, a picture is worth a thousand words!
You definitely deserve a rate for this one!
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: Sebastien]
#10983047 - 09/01/09 09:54 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Thanks, guys, really appreciate the feedback. You want to use a 1:3 ratio of spawn to manure. So, if you're using 3 cakes you want to use 9 jars(cups) worth of manure. You can also use a little less, a 1:2 ratio. If using 3 cakes, mix in 6 cups of manure.
 I knew I forgot that part!
More to come, pictures soon. I'm glad I could help out the community.
Edit: Yield is roughly 4 grams per cake (after spawning), but you should get even more if you keep up perfect conditions!
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Edited by m00nshine (09/01/09 09:58 PM)
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: m00nshine]
#10983483 - 09/01/09 11:23 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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yo man very nice guide, ill be using this once i get my feet in the water
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: datdude2k9]
#10983501 - 09/01/09 11:28 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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I wish I seen this before I put my cakes into the fc. Nice tek tho man, will def be doin on my next run with cakes.
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: elemental420]
#10983537 - 09/01/09 11:37 PM (2 months, 19 days ago) |
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Thanks for your time and effort mate.. Do you answer questions via PM? =D
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: phoenixsage911]
#10988279 - 09/02/09 06:00 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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Thread updated with new pictures, spore printing and syringe making coming up soon, and explanation of casing.
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: m00nshine]
#10988315 - 09/02/09 06:06 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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Nice dude! Very easy to follow, I know what I'm doing next lol.
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: GhettoChild]
#10988345 - 09/02/09 06:13 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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I know, I had to do some research and ask a few questions to learn about the spawning to bulk part of the process, I couldn't seem to find an all in one guide, just pasteurization TEKs. Glad I could help.
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: GhettoChild]
#10988347 - 09/02/09 06:13 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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or if you want a better bulk grow tek, go here its just a set and forget method to grow a shit ton of anything.
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: gotfungus]
#10988494 - 09/02/09 06:41 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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Quote:
gotfungus said:
or if you want a better bulk grow tek, go here its just a set and forget method to grow a shit ton of anything.
I hear ya, but people can use a monotub and it should keep up good conditions as long as the sub's water content is right. This is also geared more towards those with experience with only PF cakes.
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: m00nshine]
#10988501 - 09/02/09 06:42 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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true dat, good work on the tek. i wasnt knocking your work.
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: gotfungus]
#10988506 - 09/02/09 06:44 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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I have a question how much does it smell once you start using manure?
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: datdude2k9]
#10988553 - 09/02/09 06:52 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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Smell is very minimal, not really noticeable. There will be a slight smell if you open a monotub, but nothing serious at all.
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: m00nshine]
#10988700 - 09/02/09 07:21 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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so a stealth grow is very possible?
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: datdude2k9]
#10988999 - 09/02/09 08:26 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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datdude2k9 said:
so a stealth grow is very possible?
Move out of your mama's house before you grow! 
just kidding, but seriously, if you own your own place, you need a stealth grow.
Moonshine, again, great tek.
I am doing another small tub with this tek with a very slight variation. I used the Lazy Mofo Bag Tek (spawn colonized Pf jars to more PF sub to quickly produce more PF spawn) and will proceed to use the colonized BRF+Verm to spawn to coir+manure.
Not that you guys really want to hear about it
Although I might be posting pics of it as my first grow log!
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: Sebastien]
#10989084 - 09/02/09 08:47 PM (2 months, 18 days ago) |
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What do you mean? with the original PF Tek how bad is the smell?
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Re: Bulk Psilocybe Cubensis growing for noobs - Very easy TEK [Re: datdude2k9]
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datdude2k9 said:
What do you mean? with the original PF Tek how bad is the smell?
It barely smells unless you got your face stuck to your cakes.
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