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North Spore Shop: Bulk Substrate, Injection Grain Bag, North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies

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Supplement grain instead of substrate?
    #28622905 - 01/16/24 03:28 AM (12 days, 13 hours ago)

Yield is much better with supplemented substrate but supplemented substrate must be sterilized. I want to avoid sterilizing (relatively) large volumes. If I add a small amount of soy hulls with my grain jars before sterilizing, inoculate with LC, then mix fully colonized jars to pasteurized substrate, would that make sense? If it matters, I'm using Lipa's quick pasteurized HWFP.


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Re: Supplement grain instead of substrate? [Re: Floret] * 3
    #28622959 - 01/16/24 05:55 AM (12 days, 11 hours ago)

If you want to go that route just use extra spawn per bag and the spawn itself is the supplement. Grain has plenty of nutrients. This works great for hobby growers. No one does it at scale because it would be expensive and inefficient to make a ton of spawn instead of just supplementing and pasteurizing blocks


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Re: Supplement grain instead of substrate? [Re: Stromrider]
    #28623678 - 01/16/24 04:00 PM (12 days, 58 minutes ago)

Thx that's a simpler way. Extra grain works better than adding supplements? What's recommended spawn ratio?


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Re: Supplement grain instead of substrate? [Re: Floret] * 2
    #28624007 - 01/16/24 08:32 PM (11 days, 20 hours ago)

20% spawn is probably the best bang for your buck.


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Re: Supplement grain instead of substrate? [Re: deadmandave]
    #28624212 - 01/17/24 05:34 AM (11 days, 11 hours ago)

Supplementing without sterilizing just gives competitors nutrition to feed on. So it would most likely take any small issues of contam that the fungi can deal with and make it a bigger problem.


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Re: Supplement grain instead of substrate? [Re: taku] * 1
    #28624694 - 01/17/24 03:09 PM (11 days, 1 hour ago)

That's why I wanted to know whether it made sense to supplement my grain before sterilization. Strom and Dave answered my question, supplementing grain is unnecessary because grain is nutritious enough. Commercial growers supplement and pasteurize their sub because it's more cost effective.


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