Use an electric drum heating belt around the barrel. Prop the barrel up on some cinder blocks and put a fire underneath it. You could soak the straw in 55 gallon barrel or you could use a bucket. 
Then turn the microwave on until then water boils out of it. Use mesh bag to soak straw and drain for 15 to 20 minutes.Īnother option that could work would be to put straw in a bowl with water into the microwave.
Hot Water: Raise water temperature to 149 – 175 degrees Fahrenheit and soak the straw in the hot water for 1 to 2 hours. Use mesh bag to soak straw and then drain out for an hour. Hydrated Lime: 175 grams of hydrated lime per 100 litres of water and soak for 12 to 18 hours. Can be pasteurized using a hydrated lime or hot water. Straw chopped into 3 to 4 inch lengths (use a weed wacker in a 55 gallon barrel). This one is a favorite among psilocybe cubensis growers (growing cubensis in the United States is a federal crime). The majority of mushrooms can grow on the PF-Tek substrate. The PF-Tek method is good for making small amounts of mushrooms but isn’t designed to make big mushrooms and they will tend to be much smaller. Then put the jars into a pressure cooker at 15 PSI for 45 minutes. In 250 ml (half pint) mason jar put = 1/6 cup brown rice flour (BRF), 1/2 cup vermiculite & 60 ml water. 2) Psilocybe Fanaticus Technique (PF-Tek) If you don’t use the bran to supplement the sawdust you wouldn’t need to sterilize it because the wood pellets are already sterilized in the process of turning them into pellets.Ĭan be used to grow almost any type of mushroom, but best for mushrooms that specifically grow on dead trees in nature or for inoculating logs. This would need to be sterilized in a pressure cooker. Now that you understand what your mushroom growing substrates should contain let’s look at the most common mushroom substrate recipes: 1) Supplemented Hardwood Sawdustĥ pound block = 5 cups hardwood pellets, 1.4 liters water, 1 1/4 cups bran ( wheat or oat). I have other articles linked further down in this article that will tell you the best substrate to use for that specific mushroom based on what other people have tried. This formula produces HUGE first flushes… better than almost any mix before it.Ĭertain mushroom will grow better on different types of mushroom growing substrates. For example, TR Davis came up with the idea of using a 50/50 mix of 1 lbs hardwood sawdust and 1 lbs soy bean hulls with 1.4 liters water (AKA Master Mix). The reason I tell you this is because people come up with new mushroom growing substrate ideas all the time. 
pH levels in the range of 4 – 7 depending on the mushroom (almost neutral on the PH scale of 0 – 14)(you may find a PH tester useful). Small amounts of minerals (K, P, Mg, Ca). Small amounts of nitrogen (0.2% – 0.4%). Additionally, they like to have the following: These are the 3 main components found in the cell walls of plants and trees and this is what mushrooms feed on to grow. That being said, let’s look at what mushrooms eat… It is essentially the food for your mushroom to grow. Mushroom growing substrates provide specific nutrients for different types of mushrooms to grow.
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