how to grow mushrooms the easy way

Extra popcorn came in handy last night. Third time cooking my jars, the first 2 times water was pooling at the bottom of the jars after they cooled down. Starting to be a pain in the ass :lol: I think my popcorn might've not been dried out so I let them dry more over night. I'm going to lose my noodle if there's pools in them again
 
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Extra popcorn came in handy last night. Third time cooking my jars, the first 2 times water was pooling at the bottom of the jars after they cooled down. Starting to be a pain in the ass :lol: I think my popcorn might've not been dried out so I let them dry more over night. I'm going to lose my noodle if there's pools in them again
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Ha ha! Sorry but thats s norm. Dont sweat it. Unless its an 1/8 of the jar or a few centimetes worth or more. I wouldnt worry. Thats the corns own moisture. It should suck it back up during the first day of cooling.

I used to bug out about it. Several other growers notice that with their pcorn jars.
 
That makes me happy, I didn't even notice the pooling till I used up a syringe on 6 of the jars, hope they make it :). Gonna do the other 6 when I get home
 
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That makes me happy, I didn't even notice the pooling till I used up a syringe on 6 of the jars, hope they make it :). Gonna do the other 6 when I get home
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As long as you kept your place and innoculation points clean. You should be good. :hump:

Just keep up the practice and experimentation. :cool:
 
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Seeing first signs of little white fuzzies 3 days in, only in one jar tho, is enough to excite me :D. I bought a seedling heat mat to keep them warm i have like 4 towels under the case of jars to keep the bottom of the case around 80 degrees.
 
You know how it is when you grow your own goodies. It'll feel real good to have your own stash of these around.

I love the mushies.
 
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Hell yeah, I loved growing bud. Miss it, just been buying it these days. I haven't had mushrooms in 6 years, never able to find any around so this will definitely be a treat if it all works out. Seeing growth in 7 jars now :D. Going to give them a swirl tomorrow night. Thinking about buying the pre-pasteurized casing mix from shroomsupply when I need it
 
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Hell yeah, I loved growing bud. Miss it, just been buying it these days. I haven't had mushrooms in 6 years, never able to find any around so this will definitely be a treat if it all works out. Seeing growth in 7 jars now :D. Going to give them a swirl tomorrow night. Thinking about buying the pre-pasteurized casing mix from shroomsupply when I need it
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Great! Happy to hear that everythings going well. I used to grow bud... that is my one undying love. Growing bud. OG Kush. I miss you bro'. But. Growing the shrooms is the next best fun thing on my retirement list.

My suggestion to anyone reading this.

Go balls deep in just doing this tek. It is by far the easiest grain tek to do. As far as cost of $ compared with cost of time in preparation. There is no other way to go. WBS is great. But, the time cost is high. Rye is nice. But the time, availabity/time, and unease in prep is high. Popcorn is at nearly every bodega (corner store) or grocery store.

Just keep everything clean.

If the jars dont look obviously contam, but are going slow. Keep em. Put em to the side. Review what you did. Make corrections. Make new jars.

Just keep on going forward. This tek works. Its easy. We you just do stupid shit to fuck it up. I know I did. I was out the game for nearly 3 years. I came back in with more $, and ended up infusing too much calcium. It slowed everything down. Only one questionable contam out of the first week of 22 jars. Good percentile. But, they are all bouncing back. Super charged with awesome looking myc!

I just made 11 more jars.

5 are from corn malt, corn meal, worm casing, coco/verm cakes. 6 are of popcorn. Whatever. The point is to keep going.

Perhaps the greatest part of this tek is the fact that you can sit and view everthing that is going on with the process by examining the growth within the jars. By doing this. You can better plan and execute your bulk grows, and have a better understanding of what to expect.

Good luck to you all. And keep it growing.

Later.

Da Sprout.

:bigjoint: :evil: :twisted: :fire:
 
I think I've become obsessed. It's like the beginning of growing mj all over again. I'm constantly reading up on different ways to grow and improve, and I've made the drunken decision to buy 5 sterilized spawn bags to use up my freebie syringe of south american and try a coir mono tub while my jars are going :lol:. So far there's one contam'd jar out of the 12, the other 11 seem to be growing quite fast, been about a week since inoculation.
 
got 5 jars almost 100% colonized just gave them fresh air, I suspect them to be done in a few days. About casing, shouldn't you just put the jar lids back on tight after you put your layer of casing on? Just a little confused because this says to replace the lid with a baggie right after casing, but I've read to keep it in colonizing conditions until you see the mycelium to run up into the dirt. I guess it probably doesn't matter, I'll just stick to these instructions :).

11 days since inoculation, got 5 jars almost fully colonized and 6 going slower but no signs of contams. This has definitely surpassed my expectations and hope it continues to. In the beginning I was very skeptical mainly because of the need to be so damn clean I expected no more then 1 jar to make it. Still room to fuck up tho I guess, still very excited for them to be done and experience these wonderful things once again :hump:
 
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got 5 jars almost 100% colonized just gave them fresh air, I suspect them to be done in a few days. About casing, shouldn't you just put the jar lids back on tight after you put your layer of casing on? Just a little confused because this says to replace the lid with a baggie right after casing, but I've read to keep it in colonizing conditions until you see the mycelium to run up into the dirt. I guess it probably doesn't matter, I'll just stick to these instructions :).

11 days since inoculation, got 5 jars almost fully colonized and 6 going slower but no signs of contams. This has definitely surpassed my expectations and hope it continues to. In the beginning I was very skeptical mainly because of the need to be so damn clean I expected no more then 1 jar to make it. Still room to fuck up tho I guess, still very excited for them to be done and experience these wonderful things once again :hump:
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I just put mine to fruit. I left the lid on these first ten to incubate for a few days (3-7). Added the foil. Then when I noticed it up running. I patched and put em to fruit. Looks good thus far.

Good luck to you brother.
 
Thanks :D, I was wondering if a fully colonized popcorn jar will look completely white or will there still be visible kernels? Just trying to get a better idea of when to apply the casing.
 
There may be a little yellow showing, that's OK.

Don't put the lid on, the whole thing needs air now, baggies are to keep the humidity and allow exchange of air.
 
Here's my 5 best jars, I think they're close :D.

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Thanks guys, gave the slower one some fresh air. I was wondering if it would be safe to open up, dump out and clean a contaminated jar or should it just be discarded?
 
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