So about 5 years. Dont know why Unable to subscribe to it. Using the genetics of a strong mycelium to selectively grow a new generation with beneficial traits such as larger fruit, albino mutations, or any beneficial trait. A sign of really young growers lacking the ability to acquire the right gear. If you just want to know about the grow skip to the planning section. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Lets talk about the rice. Created a gas exchange hole by using a hole punch and micropore tape. Forgot to take a good pic while I was doing my B+ grow but this it more or less the same. Admittedly my reasons was only one part scientific curiosity and one part desperation not to waste my precious 0.5cc of spore solution. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Based on our rate of colonization, we could have done this around day 10. I also recently did a COMPLETE write up of the easiest magic mushroom tek I have heard of. Hey Jay, We placed the bag inside of an unmodified fruiting chamber (medium Sterilite container). Hope this helps. In December I saw a post on the front page of reddit by a guy who said he was depressed for more than 20 years until microdosing completely changed his life. I love when people go into detail about their grows. The bag is filled 3/4. Happy shrooming and have an excellent day! So far as I can tell, it was first posted on Reddit by u/ThisIsMyShroomAccount and they deserve the credit for this incredibly genius move. Inkbird Temp and Humidity Controller Combo, beginner-friendly simple coco coir substrate recipe, Purchase Uncle Bens Ready Rice from your local grocer, Inject 1CC of spore solution from the spore syringe of the variety of your choice, Set aside in a dark place inspecting the bags after 5-7 days for mycelium growth and/or contamination, Break up the mycelium chunks to spread mycelium-covered grain evenly throughout the bag and return the bags to the dark spawning area, Once the bag is fully colonized (12-30 days) you may either place it into fruiting condition or prepare your spawn for a bulk grow, Uncle Bens Ready Rice Plain brown or white rice (no flavor added). Now without further ado, let's get into some Teks! We are a participant in the Amazon.com Services LLC Associates Program, which provides a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Radio Frequency is my email list reserved for Fellow Travelers, Matrix Escapees, Psychonauts, Shamanic Journeyers, Alchemists, Interdimensionals, Inquiring Minds, & Mad Hatters; those who dare to join & explore wonderland with me. We removed the mycelium cake, placed it in a ziploc baggie and filled the bag with water. Then came the emptying. This way you're not leaving a hole exposed while you cut the tape. asmr 0mniartist. I stopped immediately. Lysol Disinfects the air to prevent contamination. Clear Plastic 6 Quart Bins w Lids You need 1 tub for 1 to 2 bags of Uncle Bens Spawn, Substrate Coco Coir Or Coco Coir plus Vermiculite: UBT Author used pure coco coir, 5-Gallon Plastic Bucket with Lid A clean home depot bucket and lid work fine too. I read this post completely about the comparison of hottest and earlier technologies, its remarkable article. Shroomscout's Comprehensive "Easiest Way to Learn Shroom Growing with Uncle Bens Tek" Instructions. What is Gypsum and Why Should You Use It in Your Mushroom Substrate, A Rough Approximation to Convert Weigh of Hydrated Grain Substrate to Volume. If you are interested in more high vibe content, check out this article I wrote: How to remove Negative energy from your space. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Keep Spawning temps between 72 76. I am set on jars and lids so that all is interchangeable so there is not point in revisiting the idea. Out of the methods I tested, which included fan drying and oven drying, the best and most convenient for me was putting the mushrooms in a mesh bag and leaving them top of my pc case which has fans on the top. Mistakes I made during previous grow attempts: Misting too often - I believe you should only mist your tubs if the substrate looks dry. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Ken. Up until this point I had not been misting or fanning at all. This is one of the strains I recommend new growers start with because of their dependable potency, widespread availability, and relative ease of cultivation. How long is it usually taking you to get full colonization of your brown rice packets? This information is worth everyones attention. Allow to cool. Top shelf is for placing Ben bags. 8 weeks from innoculation to harvest. Both are slightly diminished through the cooking process. Hey Tanie, Weve just posted our final progress picture of the fruits from the rice bag. I remember trying it out and having inconsistent or really slow results. Window works too. Only got them because cleaning supplies were scarce), 22L Ikea samla box (used as improvised SAB), 1m PVC Syphon Tube 10mm Internal Diameter, Phillips LED 12.5W 6500k light bulb (I didn't buy it specifically for this grow, but I did use it so I might as well include it), ThermoPro TP53 Hygrometer Digital Indoor Room Thermometer. Im at work surfing around your blog from my new iphone 4! Once the entire bag is colonized, spawn to bulk using the method of your choosing. Keeping a growlight too close to the tub - Ended up drying out my substrate really quickly. Lined the 3rd shelf with a black trash bag so the bottom wouldn't get any light. Its typically just rice, water, and some oil to stop it from sticking together. Happy growing! Edited by roc, 22 October 2019 - 10:40 AM. would fit under my bed. I wish I had taken pictures every day to show some kind of time lapse of the viewing window but it basically went like this: Day 1: 30% green, 0% white. If you want to see the shopping list divided in 4 parts, simply continue reading. Let me be clear: this is NOT whats commonly sold in a box as instant rice or minute rice. To produce fruits directly from the bag we first re-hydrated the cake by filling the bag up with distilled water and allowing the cake to absorb moisture for 12 hours. Keep on Trucking Noreen, you will get there. issue with UB is it's wet as fuck with all burst grains. I still have the bag unopened fully colonized. However, today we opened our bags to check our progress. Great write up. Under the right conditions I would imagine you could get 3 for sure! Colors in 1, sid the squeeze n shake, and haven't seen signs of colonization since. When colonization is about 30% complete, shake each bag to break up chunks. When growing mushrooms using a bulk substrate you will be mixing a colonized grain with a non-nutritious substrate. Total time from innoculation to harvest - 8 weeks. My only real priority for this grow was that it didn't take up much space. A standard spore syringe is 10 ml, and each bag needs just one ml of spore solution to inoculate the whole bag. So I thought since this bag is mostly mycelium, could it eventually overtake the contam? Part one of Uncle Bens Tek deep dives into how mushrooms grow, their life cycle, ETC. Press J to jump to the feed. These include the popular PF tek which involves the use of pressure cookers to sterilise grains. Either way, Mush love my friend. After my veetee experience I used uncle ben. I've tried many variations of sterilization, based on the original pf tek. So lazy, in fact, that we think it takes too much time to put rice in a pot of boiling water and wait for 20 minutes for it to absorb said water and become edible. This is a long post so TL;DR: Innoculated 11 bags with 0.5cc b+ each, spawned to bulk with a 650g coco coir brick in an unmodified monotub, got 2204g wet (151g dry) 1st flush. All my other supplies are reusable or leftover from the first grow. I added holes with a hot fork and covered with tape for FAE and am now leavin a space heater on in the room I keep them. So basically, I decided to make a shit load of mushrooms because I didn't want to waste any coco coir. 70-80 degrees is the golden zone I've noticed. God Bless you man. Ive been getting a LOT of questions on my posts concerning the Uncle Ben technique for inoculation so I thought Id do a write-up. r/unclebens is a beginner-friendly community created by Shroomscout to share the "Ready Rice" technique, a simple and beginner-friendly method for cultivating mushrooms without a pressure cooker. While the others had parts that were a little yellow or brown (myc piss not contam) this bag looked pure white and as I said had already produced mushrooms. I wouldn't need a dub tub/plastic bag. The surface conditions looked wet enough and I had the lid turned upside down resting on little foam padded tape pieces, so there was a 1cm gap all around the edge of the box and the lid. I completely saturated two paper towels with alcohol and used them as a "mat" for my hole punch and scissors so they wouldn't have to be placed directly on the table. Im on day 1 of uncle bens inoculation and this is super exciting to see. To do the uncle ben tek proper one must open the bag from the corner and either inject spores or mycelium into the rice and close up the bag with micropore tape. Turned on my grow light that I kept on a 12hr on / 12hr off schedule. Required fields are marked *. Let the bag (s) colonize somewhere out of the way and about room-temperature (colonization will be slower than for jars incubated in warmer conditions, but incubating on the cool side helps fight contamination). Flipped the lid and left it alone for about another 2 weeks. I'll answer any other questions in the comments and post updates on my future flushes. I hope this can be a good reference for anyone else starting this journey. Thanks for your help! You could eat it from the bag with a fork if you wanted to. I had the bags on the top shelf of my closet, with the sliding door open. Cool. For more information, please see our Scissors To cut shit, like the corners off the rice bags. Flame sterilize the needle. End result should look something like this. Even if it wasn't very much it's the principle of the thing. Hmmm. I used the capri-sun method to inject the bags. Golden teacher-Uncle Ben's Ready Rice Tek trial - contamination? Would LOVE to hear about your microdosing experience also as your story sounds almost exactly like mine! Although I later grew paranoid about the increased likelihood of contam if I placed it under my bed, so I ended up putting it in a cupboard. I realize this is a lot of spawn + substrate. How lose should the polyfill be? If you like to read, I also have a list of some of the best books I have read on spiritual awakening. Should The bags be left standing vertically or laying down after inoculation? For what could be a variety of reasons none of my veetee test worked. Im particularly intrigued by the bag you managed to salvage from contam. Your email address will not be published. To speed up the growth you may break up the mycelial mass and evenly distribute the colonized rice with the un-colonized. I had to hole punch the bags and cover them in micropore tape so I could inflate the bags first. The last thing I want to do is spread misinformation. Really appreciate all the detail and thought you put into this! So before I harvested my first flush (before I even spawned to bulk) I tested a few methods of dehydrating on some store bought mushrooms. We update the site weekly so keep checking in. It didn't occur to me to include this but I got asked about it so here it is. After the bubble wrap was removed the bulk substrate recovered and started colonizing in the middle. Well it requires a bucket (or cooler) with a lid. Or worse, throw away half a brick of coco coir that I paid good money for. Temperature in my room was about 68f - 75f. Lysol'd the entire room and waited about 2 mins for it to settle. Fanned it about once every two days, surface conditions looked good so I didn't mist it at all. And yeah just one punched hole per bag. This method of growing allows you, Read More How much mushroom substrate do you need for a 3lb bag of grain spawn?Continue, How to Dry Shrooms While Preserving Potency Whether youre harvesting a large flush of homegrown mushrooms or scored a bunch of shrooms from the, Read More 4 Ways to Dry Magic MushroomsContinue, Gypsum is a common mineral that is composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate. This sounds too good to be true right? It may not be visible in these pictures but all of the mushrooms had 'fuzzy feet'. Im planning on fruiting from the bag and had a couple of questions. Ben Horowitz. I used Bod's Easy AF harvesting tek. There must have been some contam near the top of the bag that spread when I was breaking it up. D'oh! Let me know in the comments below YOUR favorite mushroom! You might check them out while you are waiting for your bags to fully inoculate or need something to distract you to keep you from obsessing about seeing the first pins. Such a great informational tutorial! Hi Kizzy, welcome back! Your email address will not be published. I loaded up the first bag with about a third of the mushrooms, placed it on top of my pc case, did some video transcoding so they were being blasted with warm air from underneath, and they were cracker dry in 12 hours. Yes, the bulk substrate method does have a higher yield. And some contam I guess. jmp840 3 yr. ago. Great work! I didn't want to have half a brick of coco coir lying around. Then you seal the bag and allow the cake to soak up the water for 8-24 hours. Can someone recommend Speculums and Dilators? We had something come up right before the pandemic and the rice cake was introduced to less than ideal conditions which halted its fruiting. Please give them your praise and love. Love and light to you! 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