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Using Wheat to spawn (HELP)
    #25521518 - 10/08/18 09:45 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

hi guys, i'm confused, the first time i tried to grow shrooms i was successful, i used BRF Cakes with coir/verm bulk substrate and it worked, didn't fruit as much as i expected but at least it WORKED :dancer:

the second time i used some kind of bird seed, i really tried to find WBS but no luck, where i live they call everything simply bird seed :facepalm3: anyways, i brought one looked like the images i could find as WBS and i soaked it for 30 hours ( i know that was too much because it smelled like trash ) then pressure cooked it for 90minutes and finally introduced it to my GT spores. aaaaand it actually grew inside the jars but when i opened them all of them was infected. i removed the infected parts and mixed them with my bulk substrate ( i know it was stupid but i was really desperate) it grew on the bulk substrate but never fruited. (as expected huh? or idk fact check if they're infected, they could never fruit right?)

my third attempt, i used Wheat grain, this time i soaked it for 24 hours, then rinsed it well (the last time i didn't rinse them idk why and that smelled not good), pressure cooked it inside the jars for 90minutes, all of them was fine until i opened the jars and again most of them was infected  :begger: i really can't understand why, and to be clear, i am really really careful when i'm inoculating (i built my own glove box), i sterilize everything! EVERYTHING, i was a freak when i just started, researched for a month, i flame sterilize my needle between each hole of my jars, figure..

is it because of my grains? does it make a different if i use BRF or WBS or any other TEK?
what do you suggest? i'm about to prepare my next batch, i'm thinking about BRF again, because it worked considering that was my first attempt!

any advice is VERY VERY much appreciated!  :bow2:


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25521528 - 10/08/18 09:48 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

Are you simmering and drying out your grains before PCing them?

I take grain prep very seriously and do so over roughly three days. Rinse until clear. Soak overnight 12-18 hours usually. I rinse again in the morning until clear. Then I simmer my wbs using Frank's recommendation by removing my wbs from heat the moment it begins to boil and sift out the water. I lay the wbs out on a window screen/ 2x4 build. I flip the grains around every 5 minutes for 30 minutes or until dry and then load my jars 2/3 full if im going to inoculate with a ms syringe or just 1/2 way if I intend to do a G2G transfer. I inoculate/ transfer the following morning.


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: Cody2C]
    #25521538 - 10/08/18 09:53 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

yes, not that much dry, but i poured some on tissue paper and see if it leaves water mark after 10seconds or so, i read about it somewhere i don't remember where


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25521547 - 10/08/18 10:00 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

Do you have any pictures of your contaminated jars? Pictures usually help to identify the problem.


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: Cody2C]
    #25521552 - 10/08/18 10:03 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

:frown: no i was so upset i just removed them quickly and tried to save the rest


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25521559 - 10/08/18 10:08 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

Also, opening contaminated jars indoors is a bad idea as mold spores can spread. I dont have issues with jars and I never really have. Are you flame sterilizing the needle when inoculating?


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: Cody2C]
    #25521584 - 10/08/18 10:18 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

yes, even between every jar i flame sterilize my needle as i wrote in my post.
here's my grain (wheat). and also at the left you can see my spawn, i'm not sure if i should bulked it, would it fruit? it had contams on it, i removed those parts but still.. last time it didn't work, and also they don't smell good. they have a sour smell. when i opened jars they had a very good smell, but not anymore, is it because they had too much water? is it ok to soak them for 24hours?



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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25521645 - 10/08/18 10:48 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

You need to dry the outside of your grains.

I just boil my wheat for like 25-30 minutes.
Then strain water a d shake the heated grains make the outside water evaporate.

If you have ever made noodles you want your grain to be just like that "Al dente"

You had success with brf because it's basically bacterial resistance for whatever reason but grains are not. I would learn agar


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: van hatton]
    #25521787 - 10/08/18 11:58 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

so you don't soak it? do you pressure cook your jars?


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25521875 - 10/08/18 12:45 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

Of course i pressure cook thats just how i hydrate my grains. No i dont soak i only boil my grains. It lets me control the amount of hydration better in a short amount.of time.

I pc my jars for 90 mins and.my 5lb bags for 2.5 hours maybe 3 if i have time.

Properly hydrating and drying.the outside of.your grains is pretty important. Its really easy to get them too wet.

Like im making grain right now. I chose to do it today. Because the suns out so ill be using the sun to my advantage (and low humidity) to dry my grains out real well. Keep in mind this is specifically. For bags which are not as forgiving as jars with excess moisture.

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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: van hatton]
    #25521893 - 10/08/18 12:56 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

There are thousands of contaminant spores floating around anyways, idk why people get so freaked out about it... generate spawn in a SAB with slow and steady movement in order to avoid kicking up contaminants... load the SAB and wait 10 minutes before starting your work... clean spawn and field capacity coir are really all you need to worry about: there's no avoiding contaminants on cakes, or in bulk substrate once in open air... a healthy spawn ratio  (1:1 or 1:2) will give your healthy living culture a chance to colonize the substrate before contaminant spores have a chance to germinate and grow to be an issue... chances are,  if it contaminates before second flush, it was in your spawn to start with... agar is your best friend... I've found My SAGARI  to be the fastest/safest way of getting fully colonized and CLEAN spawn


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: van hatton]
    #25521909 - 10/08/18 01:04 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

i'm gonna do it tomorrow again, what do you think? does it worth retrying with wheat or should i just do it with BRF cake? does it really matter?


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25521922 - 10/08/18 01:09 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

I'd stick with brf... I'd imagine it a  little more resistant to contaminants...


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: Caps McGee]
    #25521924 - 10/08/18 01:09 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

thank you for your reply, i used to see many talk about agar, the thing is i just don't understand what it does, is it gonna be used instead of spawning? and also while i have your attention, i'm really curious to know, what is the difference between BRF and other grain spawns? why people go with grains more than BRF?


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25522078 - 10/08/18 02:17 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

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thank you for your reply, i used to see many talk about agar, the thing is i just don't understand what it does, is it gonna be used instead of spawning? and also while i have your attention, i'm really curious to know, what is the difference between BRF and other grain spawns? why people go with grains more than BRF?




Grains are much easier to deal with in bulk. You can do grain to grain transfers, yielding potential exponential growth. You can shake grain jars, spreading the inoculation points and drastically reducing colonization times.


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: Cody2C]
    #25522116 - 10/08/18 02:29 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

awesome, i'm gonna try it again then, this time i'm not gonna soak it.
i'm gonna boil it as @van hatton suggested.
last question, my grains stink after 2 weeks while mycelium is growing inside jars, it seems after we boil or soak the grains they get contaminated fast. when you do grain to grain transfer isn't that dangerous since many of those grains might get contaminated in the new jar while staying for another two weeks?


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25522255 - 10/08/18 03:27 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

Agar is used to clean a culture by making multiple transfers of leading edge growth, and then used to inoculate with... Once I have a clean culture, I do it like this...


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: pezhvak]
    #25522293 - 10/08/18 03:43 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

From my understanding you soak to wake up the contaminants, leaving them vulnerable to the PC. You simmer for the grains to absorb the moisture. Not vice versa. In my opinion avoiding the soak will not help you. Ive got 36 jars in rotation right now and not one of them seems less than perfect. When I G2G they fully colonize in 4 days, not two weeks. This is because of the 100 or so colonized grains that get mixed within the new jar instead of just spores that still need to germinate and grow mycelium to 20-30ish% before they can be shaken (usually 10 days). Idk why your grains start to contam after two weeks. On the bright side of G2G if you do get one grain jar to colonize correctly, its only a few days away from having 6+ more.


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: Cody2C]
    #25522305 - 10/08/18 03:45 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

Don't prep grain until you're ready to use it


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Re: Using Wheat to spawn (HELP) [Re: Caps McGee]
    #25522617 - 10/08/18 05:33 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)

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? Im always ready.


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