Here is a photo of what I mean. Had some obvious innoc. Both of these techniques are ideal for beginners. We then cut back the trash bag and closed the container. If you want to see the shopping list divided in 4 parts, simply continue reading. Scissors To cut shit, like the corners off the rice bags. Shroomery is a wealth of information and I highly suggest doing so. Do you need to put any water into the bag to keep the mycelium moist? But this was primarily due to less than ideal conditions in the shuffle of the pandemic. Getting the humidity perfect is key to getting your mushrooms to fruit. Can you describe your specific equipment and process for the bulk cultivation ( fruiting chamber) ? perhaps use the micropore tape or something similar on the corner for FAE like the video with the rice. Should The bags be left standing vertically or laying down after inoculation? Like others have mentioned, ideally it should look like the surface of the substrate has thousands of tiny droplets on them. So instead of tossing it I simply separated it from the other bags and decided to observe it. Juthro, FLASHINGROOSTER and PsiloIdaho like this. Worried about contamination or bruising? I read this post completely about the comparison of hottest and earlier technologies, its remarkable article. Cool. Maintaining the ideal environmental conditions is more challenging when growing directly from the bag. The beauty of the Uncle Ben tek is simplicity and convenience, but buying rice this way is more expensive than buying it dry and cooking it. Brief but very precise info Love the shpooing list. It might not be obvious from my previous pictures, but more than half of the mushrooms are actually quite small so they dried very quickly. 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). Innoculated 12 bags with 0.5cc each - 27/06. Common consensus at this point would be to throw out the bag or bury it. How would you go about trying to get a second flush of mushrooms directly from your Uncle Bens rice bag? If you want to see all the items from pat 1 to Part 4 in one single printable list, here it is: highvibrationstation.com/ uncle-bens-tek-shopping-list/. DONT use a sprayer! Air in my room is pretty still because I keep the door closed, and I really didn't do anything to help circulate the air. As long as you were relatively careful during inoculation you shouldn't get any contams. (Mycelium doesn't appear white at all after break & shake). Katie Lyn, Oh my goodness! I use a crock pot and leave them in for about an hour. So I went and tested it out. Privacy Policy. You don't want the fungus to drown! Drain the popcorn. Should have been 7 but I delayed S2B by one week. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 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. Colonized jars for PF Tek (left) and colonized Uncle Ben's bags for Spiderman Tek (right) . In hindsight, I can see this was entirely due to my own inexperience and if I were to try it again now I could get it to work. Press J to jump to the feed. These bags can be purchased at any local grocery store and contain the perfect medium for colonizing gourmet . 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. Im particularly intrigued by the bag you managed to salvage from contam. When misting, make sure to sprits the inside walls of your fruiting chamber, as well as allow for some of the tiny water particles to land on the spawn cake, then fan to promote pinning. A mister gives an ultrafine even mist which is exactly what you need for the perfect flush. Either way, Mush love my friend. Most of what I wrote about are the mistakes I made or the answers to questions others have asked me. So we decided to create a fruiting chamber using a 23-L Sterilite tub, moistened perlite, and ventilation holes stuffed with polyfill. Thanks Jeff, We only pulled down one full flush. It might not be clear from the pictures since they were taken from above but there were several dense clusters of fairly small mushrooms, which made harvesting fairly difficult. Amazing! 10 bags of Uncle Ben's PLAIN Brown Ready Rice ONLY plain, brown, ready rice, max 30 mg sodium. "It looked like a fun, easy way to start a batch of mushrooms, but my experience with Uncle Ben's has been mixed," says Brian, a 33-year-old in Virginia. Lined the 3rd shelf with a black trash bag so the bottom wouldn't get any light. To speed up the growth you may break up the mycelial mass and evenly distribute the colonized rice with the un-colonized. Taking a few minutes and actual effort to produce a top notch article but what can I say I procrastinate a lot and never seem to get anything done. Excellent write up. So you may want to try two bags of rice. I dont see any air holes and it appears that you simply lined a plastic tote with a plastic bag ? Window works too. Wiped down the table I was going to be working on with rubbing alcohol and paper towels. The biggest challenge when fruiting straight from the bag is maintaining the ideal temperature, humidity, and fresh airflow. How lose should the polyfill be? Muchos Gracias for your blog.Thanks Again. I miss those days and all the success and fails! My temps are dang low so its taking forever. Fruits were harvested using regular scissors that were wiped down with rubbing alcohol. Or my tub was too humid from hydrating my coir a little too much. Still Air Box Recommended but optional. So I purchased 4 veetee and did two with an old LC and two with MS. After my veetee experience I used uncle ben. If you just want to know about the grow skip to the planning section. We were in a constant search of new and better methods beyond the PF Tek. Nice write up and beautiful harvest! So I mixed up my spawn and substrate (and boy was it a lot) as described in the guide. First tub yielded about 960g wet, second tub was only about 700g wet. would fit under my bed. My only real priority for this grow was that it didn't take up much space. Inoculating Uncle Bens for Colonization ? By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Posted 16 August 2013 - 02:45 PM. 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. Its a good idea to clear bad vibes from your grow space before you start to give your shrooms the best possible environment to flourish. Added pasteurized coir into the tubs (Coir should be at field capacity, get a handful and squeeze until no water comes out, then add it into the tub. I've found that you can actually do this more effectively by cutting the piece of micropore tape out first (about 3 inches) and partially placing it over the spot where you intend to punch the hole. Genetic Isolation. **FOR EDUCATIONAL AND HARM REDUCTION USE ONLY ! Compact Dehydrator Dehydrate mushrooms at 130F overnight for long lasting crisp shrooms. Just curious. Poured 8 quarts of coir into a home depot bucket. After the bubble wrap was removed the bulk substrate recovered and started colonizing in the middle. Use a hose attachment. Repeat this process making sure to wipe down all utensils, bags, and flame sterilize your needle and knife with every bag. Just for fun. Edited by roc, 22 October 2019 - 10:40 AM. If you want to see the COMPLETE Uncle Bens Tek Shopping List for ALL Parts 1-4 In ONE SINGLE List click HERE. Glad it worked well for you. This might seem silly but I didn't want to use half a brick of coco coir and then have the other half taking up valuable space for a year or more. 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. LED Strip Lights OPTIONAL; Light tells mushrooms which direction to grow. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I attempted this myself but didnt want to wait for spore syringes to arrive so made my own syringes from spore prints (well i tried to) over 2 weeks on and zero contamination.. but also zero mycelium so it was a bit of a fail haha. The bag smells rich and earthy. All my other supplies are reusable or leftover from the first grow. The Uncle Bens Tek is THE easiest mushroom growing tech I have ever seen. And don't forget, bruising is very blue (totally normal!). It's pretty economical. I hope this can be a good reference for anyone else starting this journey. But damn, I see tons of newbs buying remade subs and spawn bags lately, this would be perfect for someone like that. The method was to stab the needle through the unopened package and inject spores. Humans can be incredibly lazy. Which thing did I do wrong? That I believe may make a huge difference on the the speed of colonization and over all results. Well written, thorough and informative.awesome post! This method will draw heavily on Uncle Ben's tek using pre-cooked rice grains to kick start a grow. I'm a big fan of WBS and have all the gear but may try this for kicks and use it as a master spawn to WBS instead of using it for bulk spawn. In this stage you prepare the substrate for your mushrooms and make the conditions ideal so the substrate produces fruit (aka mushrooms). In spite of that, it was a really fun experiment. 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. Nothing to buy for part one, this sections is for learning and gives you a solid background. Gouri Shankar Latest Modified Report 15.11.09. . I seen this posted to shroomery from a reddit user a couple months ago. Any idea how many years you expect it to last you? Looks like Uncle Bens Ready Rice is an off-the-shelf alternative to the traditional spawn prep methods. The myc won. Keep Spawning temps between 72 76. The most you should need for each syringe is 10 clear plastic bins. This is NOT my tek! Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Fruiting from a monotub using the Uncle Bens Tek worked out pretty well in this case. So when I did break & shake on 13/07 the bags were closer to 70%. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. First introduced in 1992, the PF Tek was developed by a cultivator named Robert McPherson and it is one of the simplest methods for growing Psilocybe mushrooms. Hi Kizzy, welcome back! If necessary, you can gently break up any large clumps you feel with your fingers. Just ONE spore syringe can inoculate 10 bags of Uncle Ben's Ready Rice. We also were playing around with Capri Sun and other low sugar juices in the same style packaging to make Liquid Culture. Required fields are marked *. I would love to hear from you! We did not use any special lamps for this. On the other end of the spectrum, if I took 5g every two weeks, then this would last me about 1.3 years. Also consider that some bags may not inoculate properly or may have contamination, so you may need fewer bins. Great question. For our bulk grow we added a liner (black trash bag) to our fruiting chamber and then layered the substrate and colonized rice.