Yerrrrr, how ya doing fam? I'm pretty good, just drank some Guinness, having a nice night watching the 1952 classic Invasion USA.

Any of yous guys know how to grow fungus? I want a source of organic vegetarian tacos and vegetarian tacos fucking suck without a mushroom base to take the place of the meat. Yous guys know how to grow portobellos? Shittakes? lmk how to properly grow fungus because I aint know shit and I wanna learn

  • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbN_JHTKhR_eC2KyhOTIJOg

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkzY4M9kg2VmqJ2nNcNM8hw

    There's tons of stuff on youtube about it.

    At some point I'm going to grow magic mushrooms. My last batch was ruined by black mold in my spawn bag. The simple gist of it is:

    • source some spores. spores come in different forms. you can buy spore syringes, agar samples, spore prints. the goal is to make your own agar so you can propagate in the most efficient/inexpensive way.

    • put your spores in a grain spawn. you can buy pre-sterelized and sealed grain bags to inject your spores. You can buy your own grain (millet, rye, brown rice flour, etc) and use a pressure cooker to sterilize it. Then use mason jars to spawn your mycelium. Again, doing it all yourself is cheaper and you have more control.

    • transfer the mycelium to a substrate. people often use cocochoir and vermiculite for moisture retention. Of course you need to sterilize this too. there's other substrates you can use as well.

    • then the mycelium attaches to the substrate and mushrooms begin to pop up.

    • you can harvest your mushrooms and then soak the block of substrate in water (this is called a wash) and then you'll get more mushrooms out of it.

    There's tons of techniques (teks) out there. Just like with any other gardening, everyone has their way of doing it the right way. Mushrooms can be a little more particular because you do need a clean environment for part of it.