A Comprehensive Account Of Projects That I Have Built And Made For The Growing And Cultivation Of Mushrooms.
As a beginner, pouring agar can seem daunting. This is because pouring agar improperly can cause fast, irritating contamination and be very disheartening. For those who don’t know agar is a naturally occurring gelatine like substance extracted from seaweed, once…
Injection ports allow the safe injection of a liquid culture or spores into the sterile environment of grain or substrate. The needle pierces the port, usually rubber or silicone, tearing a channel through it.
When we talk about mushroom bags, we’re generally talking about autoclavable, polypropylene, bottom gusseted filter bags. These bags come in all shapes and sizes. In this video we’re going to look at the three most common (and quite possibly only)…
I’m not usually someone who is that interested in the health benefits of mushrooms, I love growing them because they’re an amazing organism that you can literally watch them grow in front of your eyes; they also taste pretty damn…
Parafilm is a sealing film, it’s made from a blend of plastics and paraffin wax; making it stretchable, moldable, waterproof, odorless, semitransparent and self-adhering giving it a wide range of uses in labs. In mushroom growing, we use this as…
I'll preface this with a warning. I'm not a qualified electrician, nor do I claim to have any remote understanding of electricity, life, the universe or anything else for that matter. If you choose to copy me, you do so…
Isopropyl alcohol is the fastest and safest way to kill fungi, bacteria and any other nasties that you may have lying around your mushroom work area. It’s cheap, abundant and can be diluted to stretch it further down to around…