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Perception7
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Registered: 01/10/16
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First monotub grow - over 1 lb of dried mushrooms (full description of grow method)

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#23066513 - 03/31/16 09:12 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

*This method produced over 1 pound of dried mushrooms with 3.5 quarts of spawn*

I decided to post my grow here as it's my first monotub, and my first grow in 10 years or so. I will update with pics and note the total final weight. I really appreciate everyone's help on this forum, especially Damion5050, RogerRabbit, FrankHorrigan, and Pastywhyte. I read through all 162 pages of Damion's post and learned a lot (was reminded of a lot), and really appreciate all the user contributions. Critiques and constructive criticism are welcomed.

How I got it done:

1) Prepare your grains

I used Roger's tek on rye grain prep

The only thing we noticed with this video is Roger says to use 10 cups for 10 quart jars, we found this to be pretty insufficient, we found 10 cups filling up only 5 quarts jars to 2/3 full, so use 20 cups for 10 quart jars instead of 1 cup per quart. Also concerning the lids of the jars, you will see if you scroll through the thread that I use poly-fil in my lids, Roger discusses how this is prepared in the video. You can use just a drop of spores from a multispore syringe purchased online for each jar, some users use 1/4 of a CC, some use 1 CC. I inoculated my grain jars after they cooled to room temperature after pressure cooking for 1 hour at 15 PSI. I stuck the needle (after flame sterilizing) through the poly-fil so that the grains are not exposed to open air.

Read this thread to learn about spores: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21365919/fpart/1/vc/1

2) Prepare the substrate

I used the Damion5050 tek for the foundation: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11916595/fpart/1/vc/1

I only used 3.5 quarts of rye grain instead of the 5 quarts that Damion uses and had full colonization in less then 10 days. Instead of using the trash bag I duck taped all of the 6 holes and put the lid on loosely. I also gave the tub indirect light for 12 hours on and 12 hours off while it was colonizing.

Also I used 1 cup of powered gypsum. I boiled the gypsum on the stove with my 4-5 quarts of water and poured the water on top of the coir/verm mixture in the bucket. I highly recommend cutting/ripping the coir into small little pieces prior to pouring your 4-5 quarts on top in the bucket. I heated the 4-5 quarts of water to 190 degrees before taking off of the stove and immediately pouring it over the verm/coir. Apply the lid and let it sit for 1 hour. Come back and stir in 1 hour, then apply the lid until the bucket has cooled to room temperature. Add the contents in the bucket to your 5 quarts of spawn in your tub and level it. Apply the poly-fil (details below) and put the tub into its fruiting area with 12 hours on/off schedule.

*Note* Pastywhyte uses 5 quarts of water (instead of 4 that Damion uses), 3 quarts of vermiculite (opposed to 2 quarts that Damion uses), one 650g brick of coir, and 5-6 quarts of spawn. This is how I prepared my second tub found on page 5 of this thread.

Here is the link for some coco coir (there are many sources for this):

http://www.amazon.com/Zoo-Med-Compressed-Coconut-Substrate/dp/B0010OSIHW?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00

Here is the link for some vermiculite (there are many sources for this):

http://www.amazon.com/Espoma-VM8-8-Quart-Organic-Vermiculite/dp/B002Y06KTE/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1461090956&sr=1-1&keywords=vermiculite

3) Prepare the tub

Once the substrate was fully colonized I used Frank's tek on how to properly dial in your monotub:

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17332777

The 6 holes in my monotub are 1.5" in diameter. I cut the lid in the center (scroll through the thread to see the pictures) and applied a bathroom curtain liner to the lid with scotch packaging tape in order to look inside the tub without opening it, and so that light could penetrate the substrate better.

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This pic is 10 days into colonization:

These two pics are day five of fruiting conditions (pins visible):

Scroll through the pages to see how well all of this works together. I got around 14 dried ounces indoor and several ounces outdoors after I threw the substrate outside because it flushed 4 times.

Edited by Perception7 (06/16/16 04:08 PM)

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