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Hands or Hand-drill? For mixing grain spawn and substrate.
    #27794042 - 05/26/22 05:11 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

I've been using an electric drill with a paint/concrete mixing rod to mix my grain spawn with my substrate (oats and coir).

Then I started to wonder if this is a bit crude and possibly damaging the mycelium.

What do you guys do? Mix with hands or with some power tools?

This is the tool that I'm referring to:


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Re: Hands or Hand-drill? For mixing grain spawn and substrate. [Re: baldur]
    #27794052 - 05/26/22 05:14 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

i would worry about breaking open the grains using that, but not sure that matters.  i hand mix.

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Re: Hands or Hand-drill? For mixing grain spawn and substrate. [Re: normalperson]
    #27794084 - 05/26/22 05:40 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

No substitute for a good hand job.

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Re: Hands or Hand-drill? For mixing grain spawn and substrate. [Re: WeavieWonder]
    #27794173 - 05/26/22 06:36 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

Hmm I don't think I've seen anyone using that type of mixer to mix spawn.

But I have seen people use a drum-type concrete mixer to mix a lot of spawn and pasteurized straw substrate, for stuffing in logs or whatnot.

I think that paddle mixer may be pretty damaging to the grain spawn but might work anyway.


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Re: Hands or Hand-drill? For mixing grain spawn and substrate. [Re: WeavieWonder]
    #27794174 - 05/26/22 06:37 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

I try to be gentle with my spawn as well as it seems to recover faster.  I just dump the spawn/substrate into a garbage bag and mix it up by kneading the contents before pouring it into a lined tub.

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Re: Hands or Hand-drill? For mixing grain spawn and substrate. [Re: sandman420]
    #27794177 - 05/26/22 06:39 PM (2 years, 7 months ago)

I agree with above, you might mush up some oats and let contam take foothold….but if it aint broke why fix it?

I used to use a giant spoon i picked up thrift shop for .99c


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