Just mix up a batch of substrate as usual and load it into a blender. Pressure cook it or whatever... and then just let it grow from there.

After it is colonized, just take off the lid and stick it in your grow chamber. When it stops fruiting, put the lid back on, add new sterile substrate, blend and voil?!

This could be used if you are able to keep a 0% contamination rate (hard to do without expensive filtration systems). But really, why don't you just make up a new batch of cakes?

heycorncobs&stalks as substrate...
grind or just cut into smallpieces...
then soak em in water&cookfor 2-3hrs
and sterilize after for 90minsat15psi...
i got peanutshells sterilizing at the mo...
give evrything a go i say!!!

Peggy

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0881923613/qid%3D947624389/002-0296196-2233829

It's a book about plant tissue culture, media formulations and cloning techniques. Alot of mycologists use it for it's cloning info but if you want to get an idea of how to transfer tissue into tubes....give it a look.

but WHY?
What would you get out of the shrooms by growing them this way? I mean...it doesnt seem to me that growing them in this method would boost potency, size, growth rate, or anything -- does anyone have evidence to back it up that it might? Just takes more work. I dunno, what are you thoughts on THAT.

kake

Why bother with hydroponics? I mean, more work and no benefits. Sounds like we got some weed growers who just got turned on to shroom growing. Two totally different processes.

If you want better shrooms, the only way to go is genetic engineering. I'm looking into it...

But seriously I could see a super fast growing tissue culture of some sort, maybe even have it flow right into a dehydrator of some sort. Here's how it works, open box, pour in water, spores and food of some sort. Then be sure to dump out the "catch drawer" full of mushroom powder every couple days. Market with Magic Chef(tm) to compete head to head with Salad Shooter(tm) during the christmas season. It's the gift that keeps on giving, besides everyone HAS a salad shooter now. Now for a catchy name... "The Little Magic Kitchen" or "Easy Baked Oven" (damn, already taken!). Ok, I'll spare you the agony of me coming up with a jingle. But I can see the comercial now..... It's great for trips!

Way too naturally high tonight...
-Capt'n

1. The possibility that it could extend the life of ones mycelium culture.
2. One could cut off the supply of nutrients to the mycelium causing it to stress and fruit.
3. It would be possible to feed precursor chemicals in controlled amounts to increase the psilocybin and psilocen content of the mushrooms.
4. One could observe and record the amount of nutrients the mushrooms consume.
5. It would allow the grower to make fine tune adjustments to many variables during the growing process. Standard methods for growing mushrooms only allow the grower to control humidity, temperature and light exposure. Utilizing a hydroponic growing system the grower could control the amount of nutrients going to the mushrooms. The grower could adjust the PH level of the growing medium. The grower could control the temperature of the growing medium.
6. A hydroponics growing method would work well for scientific research since it would be easy to control many variables in real time thus making it easiere to ensure against confounding variables that would pollute data.
7. After experimenting by controlling all the variables associated with the mushrooms growing cycle, it could be possible to increase the maximum yield of both the quantity and the quality of the mushrooms.

This would be a very challenging way of growing mushrooms. It would require hours upon hours of research. And one would have to construct this setup from scratch. One would have to be willing to take some risks. But if one was successful I truly believe that it would be worth all the time and effort.

The only people I can think of that would be interested in doing this, would be advanced mycologists who get paid alot of money to do this type of experimenting.

This is just pothead talk.

Thanks for the great idea, I imagine I can use the old dead biomass for a filler, like vermiculite, and keep adding food. Now the problems are, 1. Blender tops are quite a bit more expensive than jars. 2. if it eventually does fill the blender, guess I can always chunk some out. I remember reading somewhere a quart jar screws right on to a blender bottom. In that case you could add rice to jar, invert, blend. Repeat until bored. I'll try to dig out my buddies 1/2 broken digital camera today and snap some pics for ya. Anyone else try this??
just blending,
-Capt'n

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that way the water is sucked into the bottom layer and can be used by the normal cased shrooms

so you have a four layer sandwich
from the bottom to the top
rockwool/hydro-granulate/perlite
vermiculite/perlite/compost/soil/gypsum
(optional) manure
crumbled cakes
(optional) manure
wood compost/verm/gypsum

I will try that when my next jars are ready ( in a few days)
will post results

[This message has been edited by Prellgott (edited January 19, 2000).]

also i dont think the basic shroom growing tek's are hydroponic. hydroponic doesnt meen without soil, but working with water, doesnt it? if these teks were truly hydroponic, all the nutrients would be provided by the water, and the solids would just be for support, nutrientless. to fruit ,you would have to go low on nutrients AND have stagnate water wouldnt you? if the water was still flowing, i dont know how the shrooms could start pinning, heh.

well viva la innovation!

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