General Mushroom Cultivation Topics.
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…
As I’ve said before, I’m not hugely interested in the health benefits of mushrooms, I’ve always taken the claims with a healthy dose of scepticism and I’d suggest you do the same. The fungal world is truly magical but it’s…
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…
It can be an overwhelming experience when you begin exploring the world of mushroom growing. In this post, I hope that I can help clear some bits up for you about Sterilising and Pasteurising Substrates and Grain Spawn. When we…
I’ll apologise first off that I didn’t get any still pictures for this blog post, they’re taken from the video I made that you can view here or in the window at the bottom of this blog! Let’s begin! This…
So, the first ‘Learn To Grow Mushrooms In Doncaster’ was a great deal of fun! We had 5 people + me teaching, making for 6 total. We started off the day by getting to know each other. We had a…
Hey guys! Hope all is well! I have been thinking of the best way to spread the word about mushroom growing in the UK and trying to get more people involved and learning. I’ve decided to start teaching small groups…
Liquid culture or LC as it’s often referred too is mycelium suspended in a nutrient broth. The purpose of LC is to make inoculating substrates and grain spawn easier. The risk of contamination is lower because the culture goes from…