- Agar and Culture Storage
Using agar, petri dishes, culture slants, and other methods of mushroom culture storage.
- Bulk Substrates
Preparing and using bulk substrate materials such as coco coir, manure, straw, and wood
- Casing Procedures
Methods for creating a non-nutritive, protective, moisture-providing top layer for substrates growing species that need this.
- Cloning
How to take tissue samples of desirable mushrooms and use them to create master cultures for duplication.
- Contamination
Learn how to prevent, recognize, and cope with contamination.
- Drying and Storage
Preserving your mushroom harvests safely and effectively for later use.
- Fruiting Chambers
Construction how-tos for various mushroom fruiting environments, such as Shotgun Terrariums, Monotubs, and others.
- Grain Spawn
Preparing and using whole grains for mycelium running, such as rye grain, wild bird seed, and grass seed.
- Humidification
Providing a moist, humid environment, that's ideal for mushroom growth.
- Liquid Culture
How to use water-based media for quickly growing live, injectable mycelium.
- Spore Prints and Syringes
How to capture and store your mushrooms' spores, and prepare them for use in your next grow.
- Sterilization and Pasteurization
Prevent contamination by learning how to sterilize or pasteurize your materials.
- Cultivation Archive
A museum of outdated or superceded documents, preserved for historical reference.
- Glove Boxes and Flow Hoods
Constructing and using a glove box, still air box, or flow hood.
- Clean procedures
Prevent contamination by keeping your work area sanitized.
- Containers and Lids
Information about spawn bags, lids, filters, injection ports, jars, etc.
- Lighting
The optimal light for mushrooms is 6500k. Fluorescent and LED are the best sources of this light. Daylight is also an option, but not always available.
