If you want to bulk up, you’d be better off working out twice a week for 30 minutes and eating right, than working out 6 days a week and not eating properly. I learned this the hard way. I spent four years of college working out five days a week for 90 minutes a day trying to get bigger.
Bulk Growing for NoobsIntroductionThis is a really simple guide if you want to grow a bulk amount of Psilocybe Cubensis. It comprises of using the PF TEK (v1, slightly modified) and spawning the mycelium to dehydrated manure. I wrote this guide because I see a lot of noobs that are confused about bulk substrates and how to use them to grow mushrooms. I also see a lot of you confused about casings.When you spawn to bulk, you take a colonized sub, such as brown rice flour and verm, or Wild Bird Seed, and crumble it up and add it to more substrate such as manure, coir, straw, or coffee grounds. This results in getting more fruits (mushrooms). In this guide I use PF Tek, because it is easy, and cow manure because it is easy to find.
There is no need for a glovebox or pressure cooker using this method. This TEK also does however detail using bird seed, which will require a pressure cooker for proper preparation.Casing is when you take something that is not nutritious and layer it on top of your colonized substrate to give it more moisture and results in more fruits. This guide will use peat moss and vermiculite to do this. Even though some say verm is nutritious, it seems to make a good casing material. You don’t have to use a casing layer, so you can skip this step.Temperature cannot be stressed enough during this whole procedure.
You want to aim for at least 70 degrees during the colonization phase and for fruiting as well. If you keep your jars at 60-65 degrees you will experience stalled jars. Cubensis does much better if it’s at around 75 – 78 degrees. Jars will colonize in almost half the time it would take for jars stored at 65 degrees. The 10 degree difference will really impact your grow.Materials for PF TEK1/2 pint (8 oz) wide mouth or regular mouth jelly jarsBrown rice flour (rye, WBS or yucca flour can be substituted)Vermiculite-fine or medium (better IMO) gradeBig pot to boil (steam sterilize) jarsSmall towel or Paper towelsMixing bowl and spoonLysol spray, or any surface disinfectantOust spray or other air sanitizerMasking tape / Micro pore tape (NOT Necessary with dry verm layer)Alcohol (70%)Spore syringe (will make 10 jars)Procedure1.Clean and sanitize your work area. Spray Lysol and oust in the air. Use antibacterial products and products with bleach if you can.
Make 4 holes on top of jar. Use a nail to do this. Imagine drawing a square on the jar’s lid to fit inside the depressed circle in the center.
The holes should be on the four corners, equidistant from each other. Close all windows in kitchen/work area.2.Mix vermiculite and brown rice flour in mixing bowl. 1/4 cup Brown rice flour, 1/2 cup vermiculite, and a very little less than a 1/4 cup of water per jar.3.Put pot on stove and put paper towels or a small towel on the bottom of the pot. Make sure you use 7-10 sheets of paper towels.4.Load jars into pot so that only half of the pot if filled with jars, make sure you pack them together tight.
Leave lids loose on jars, don’t screw them on, just leave them laying atop the jars. You can place shot glasses in between them if the are prone to fall over. Pour water into pot on side without jars so that the water goes a little less than a 1/4 way up the side of the jars. Load rest of jars into pot making sure water is no higher than 1/4 - less than 1/2 up the side of the jar.5.Put burner on low heat until water starts to boil. Make sure it is a slow boil.
Boil jars for 75-90 minutes. You can get away with one hour of boiling.6.This step is not necessary. While jars are boiling take masking tape (or micro pore tape) and tear 1 1/2 inches pieces. You need 4 x The number of jars you are using. If boiling 10 jars, cut 40 pieces of tape. Stick tape to outside edge of table you are working with.7.When jars are done boiling, take them and place them on the table. Tighten the lids and put the tape over the holes (again - not necessary with dry verm layer).
Allow jars to cool over night before injecting spores.You can use a dry layer of verm at the top of the jars about a 1/2” thick to keep out contams. (Do this if you don't plan on using masking tape to cover the holes on the lid) Wipe the inside top 1/2” of the jar with alcohol to be even more safe.Pictures:Jars:Yucca + VERM vs Rye + VERM PF style Jars:Closeup of Yucca flour pf style jar:Yucca Jar after being steam sterilized:Brown Rice / Rye / Yucca Flour:Colonized / Colonizing Cakes:Injecting sporesIt’s good to do this in a small room with no windows open. You want still air.
Spray down the area with your disinfectants. Take your syringe and put a flame at the needle until its red hot. Wait for it to cool then wipe it with alcohol. Lift the tape off of a hole and put the syringe into the jar. Squirt some solution (1/4 cc) down the inside of the jar.
Repeat for each hole, wiping syringe in between holes. Cover the holes back up with masking tape.Jars will take anywhere from 2 weeks to a month to colonize. You should see growth within the first week, usually after 3 or 4 days. Tape can be taken off the holes when colonization reaches 60-70%. At this time the jars should be flipped upside down until they finish colonizing.
(NOT necessary and only included because it hasn't failed me yet) Mycelium should look white and cottony looking. At first it may appear grayish, so don’t clean out those jars just yet. We wait until the jars have fully colonized before moving to the next step.You can fruit these cakes as they are if you don’t want to go any further. Just wait until they fully colonize, then dunk them underwater, roll them in vermiculite and throw them into an appropriate grow chamber. You take the cakes out (birth them) by slamming the jar onto the lid, or onto a book or table. You put them underwater (dunk) for 14-20 hours then take some oven sterilized verm (350 degrees F for a half hour or so, allow to cool) and roll your cakes in it so that the cakes are covered with verm. A fruiting chamber can be made out of a see through Rubbermaid style storage bin.
Holes must be made on all sides, ¼” in size and spread about 2.5 – 3.5 inches apart. Perlite must be spread on the bottom, about 3-5” is sufficient. You can soak the perlite in water before you place it in the chamber, or just not put holes in the bottom so that you can let an inch or so of water sit at the bottom of the perlite. CFL lighting should be used (fluorescents) in the daylight spectrum. Quote:datdude2k9 said:so a stealth grow is very possible?Move out of your mama's house before you grow!just kidding, but seriously, if you own your own place, you need a stealth grow.Moonshine, again, great tek.I am doing another small tub with this tek with a very slight variation.
I used the Lazy Mofo Bag Tek (spawn colonized Pf jars to more PF sub to quickly produce more PF spawn) and will proceed to use the colonized BRF+Verm to spawn to coir+manure.Not that you guys really want to hear about itAlthough I might be posting pics of it as my first grow log! Post Extras:Pages: 1 Shop:Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post( )/22/02 03:46 PM( )/03/04 03:03 AM( )/19/02 07:11 AM( )/06/03 04:00 PM/23/01 04:43 PM( )/03/03 11:40 PM( )/31/02 08:06 AMExtra informationYou cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topicsHTML is disabled / BBCode is enabledModerator:,420,041 topic views. 0 members, 1 guests and 0 web crawlers are browsing this forum.