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Outdoor Cultivation - Bulk LC Soak
    #18437117 - 06/18/13 01:48 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

I searched all over shroomery for a hint that this method would work and found very little. However, I did see a mention of Stamet making an unsterile liquid culture to use outdoors and that got me thinking along the lines of a slurry.

Essentially, I made an unsterile liquid culture to soak a substrate in. A 5 gallon bucket a quarter full with water was used with a spore print, a couple tablespoons of molasses along with corn starch and a gram or so of table salt (was led to believe that this would prevent contamination at least for a while). A couple pint jars worth of aged cow manure were torn into small pieces and added to the LC along with a bunch of chopped straw (about a 1:10 ratio). I'm assuming that allowing the LC to develop on my substrate would act in a similar manner as a slurry assuming that the mycelium takes hold of what I fed it.

Another 5 gallon bucket was placed inside the one containing the LC and substrate mix to compress and drain the LC after a 3 day soak. Turning it upside down and applying pressure was all that was necessary to get a 3-5 inch brick of straw / poo substrate. One large concern is whether or not the mycelium will bind to the substrate and grow. I haven't seen a whole lot of people having success with just straw or poo without spawn. However, given that it's very compressed and the straw is coated in a thin layer of manure / corn starch / molasses I have high hopes.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but spawn is used for nutrition and multiple inoculation points. The absence of it should just mean lower yields assuming I've given enough time to cover everything in a thin layer of mycelium. I've also considered adding soaked WBS to this unsterile recipe but it seems like it would only be a bigger contamination issue. If I were to give it a try, I'd probably blend 2 or 3 pints worth and add it to the existing recipe in the hopes of the mycelium binding to that if not the straw or poo.

Is there any reason that I'm not seeing that makes this doomed to fail?

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