Do you know what weight of the substrate you ended up with?
And what was the weight of grain spawn?
Do you know what weight of the substrate you ended up with?
And what was the weight of grain spawn?
No I didn't measure any of it, a total crap shoot.
I'd guess I added about 30L of water to get to the desired 65% hydration so about 45-50kg of substrate would be a guess.
The grain spawn was a big bag as it was when I changed my hydration method (why I think it colonised so quickly). I'd guess it was about 3-3.5kg.
I'll weigh it all in a week or so when I check on it & let you know. It's currently buried under other storage boxes 😆
That’s big!
Yeah - like I said total crap shoot, a gamble.
I'm betting that the low nutrient value of the substrate, the aggressive fungi & the little bit of wood ash I added, will allow the substrate to colonize without contamination.
I didn't know what else to do with the big bag of grain other than inoculate a pile of wood chips.
I figured I should try the mushrooms before letting them loose in the garden.
I also used some of the grain to inoculate a bag of straight sterilized sawdust. I will probably add 30% wheat bran to the sawdust spawn bags in the future. Sawdust spawn bags seem less susceptible to contamination in the substrate but provide less yields.
Yeah I got too excited.
It's closer to 25kg of medium & 3kg of grain spawn.
I forgot about all the water that I poured out when I drained it too.