Thanks Nevertheless Im experiencing situation with ur rss . We will be testing two methods to fruit these mushrooms. While the others had parts that were a little yellow or brown (myc piss not contam) this bag looked pure white and as I said had already produced mushrooms. It's pretty economical. Golden teacher-Uncle Ben's Ready Rice Tek trial - contamination? (Mycelium doesn't appear white at all after break & shake). Then put them in the oven at 70C (160F) for 2.5 hours. Keep Spawning temps between 72 76. Ive got the uncle Bens ready rice whole grain brown rice bag and you mentioned feeling the bag if its solid to help in discerning when the mycelium have grown enough since the only clear part is on the bottom, but all the uncle Bens bags Ive seen and the ones I got are vacuum sealed so theyre already really solid and packed together and I havent really been able to loosen it up much, its still one hard solid chunk. If you want to see the shopping list divided in 4 parts, simply continue reading. Once the mushrooms begin to separate from the veils it is time to harvest. Uncle Ben Tek is actually working (so far) [Re: tryptkaloids] #27064882 - 11/30/20 02:33 PM (2 months, 15 days ago) Edit : Reply : Quote : Quick Reply : Sorry dude pics are not the best like. The most you should need for each syringe is 10 clear plastic bins. r/unclebens is a beginner-friendly community created by Shroomscout to share the "Ready Rice" technique, a simple and beginner-friendly method for cultivating mushrooms without a pressure cooker. Hi there! Ill wait till 10 days before breaking them up. Laid out all my items out on the table and wiped them down with alcohol. The myc won. If I follow the exact instructions do I need to worry about misting for humidity? We have seen this done with many bags in a fruiting chamber. Hello fellow travelers! It took me more than an hour to harvest everything. Our goal here was to keep optimal conditions between airflow, temperature, and humidity for our mushrooms to flourish. Sorry for the delayed reply Evan. Nothing to buy for part one, this sections is for learning and gives you a solid background. Bad news - most of the bags had no visible mycelium in the viewing window until the very end. I harvested the first flush eleven days after I put the monotub into fruiting conditions. The bottom of the bag is clear and given a couple of weeks for colonization you can crumble and shake and once it's fully colonized you can clearly see it from the clear bottom. Nursing our Uncle Bens bag to good health has finally paid off! Sitar buying guide to learn more about this enchanting instrument before buying a sitar. It is truly a great and useful piece of info. I keep it in a sterlite tub so it's more of an indirect heat. Wipe down your scissors with alcohol or another disinfectant. Im particularly intrigued by the bag you managed to salvage from contam. Great question. Wait a few seconds for it to cool down a little. But damn, I see tons of newbs buying remade subs and spawn bags lately, this would be perfect for someone like that. All tek's have their pro's and con's, all that matters is that the end product is mushrooms. Now I was filling it up next to the sink, but there isn't much space by my sink to actually harvest my mushrooms (not with a monotub my size), so I planned to work on a large table on the opposite end of the room. To speed up the growth you may break up the mycelial mass and evenly distribute the colonized rice with the un-colonized. Out of the methods I tested, which included fan drying and oven drying, the best and most convenient for me was putting the mushrooms in a mesh bag and leaving them top of my pc case which has fans on the top. To prevent small pins from falling through the tray, Airtight Glass Canisters store dehydrated mushrooms for years without losing potency. How frequently you update your web site? With proper care you cake can produce flushes for up to 1 month. Thanks for writing in. Just as background anyhow. While we were able to fruit directly from the bag of ready rice, this method was more of a challenge than using a monotub as well as produced a far lower yield. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Its a good idea to clear bad vibes from your grow space before you start to give your shrooms the best possible environment to flourish. But for my second attempt I decided I would go with uncle bens. End result should look something like this. How long is it usually taking you to get full colonization of your brown rice packets? Prevents Contamination. Kind of got the water half way up, then got paranoid I was going to spill it all over my carpet so I ended up just taking the cake out. We are! God Bless you man. There was a lot of water left over. Thats it! Part 4 of the Uncle Bens Tech is harvesting, drying and preparing for your NEXT flush. We then cut back the trash bag and closed the container. I'd never done any drugs in my life. One estimate I've seen thrown around on this subreddit is to expect between 5g-15g of dried mushrooms per uncle bens bag. I ended up harvesting 40g wet (5g dry) mushrooms from that 'pre-flush' even before I spawned to bulk. Keep us posted on how your mushrooms grow! Total time from inoculation to full colonization was 25 days. ffaio which includes loader and ffa gui blankets from ikea monet mazur addams family. Break up the rice in the bag with your fingers. Im at work surfing around your blog from my new iphone 4! Can you describe your specific equipment and process for the bulk cultivation ( fruiting chamber) ? A contaminated bag may show signs of mold or put off a foul smell. You have ended my four day lengthy hunt! Good question. The mycelium will colonize from the top of the jar, where you have injected the spores, down through the vermiculite+brf+gypsum. Your email address will not be published. Plenty of people who want to grow their own medicine may never start due to "analysis paralysis" from all the information available. Or just use a smaller tub. Muchos Gracias for your blog.Thanks Again. Such a great informational tutorial! It comes in multiple flavours but the one you want is just plain brown rice. Added a 0.5 inch casing layer of coir on top. I am set on jars and lids so that all is interchangeable so there is not point in revisiting the idea. These links include full instructions, photos, and even videos of the process if you sign up for a free Shroomery account. How many flushes did you get? I love hearing about work-arounds and substitutions knowing this isn't one shoe fits all hobby. Thanks for sharing your info. Its fine if you just drop it on top or stab right into the rice; it shouldnt make a difference. Lastly, PLEASE read the comments and both links above before you message me with any questions. Excellent write up. If you like to read, I also have a list of some of the best books I have read on spiritual awakening. I imagine its slightly different in other countries. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Everything appears to be credible, havnt tryed it myself but I would love to. I agree. I remember trying it out and having inconsistent or really slow results. Up until this point I had not been misting or fanning at all. Edit #2: For anyone having issues with their bags being too moist, I suggest the following two things: Dont use more than 1cc of spore solution per bag. Just for fun. This is supposedly caused by lack of fresh air / too much humidity. Then came the harvesting. Hey Jay, We placed the bag inside of an unmodified fruiting chamber (medium Sterilite container). Glad you got something useful from the blog. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Based on our rate of colonization, we could have done this around day 10. So I mixed up my spawn and substrate (and boy was it a lot) as described in the guide. If you are interested in more high vibe content, check out this article I wrote: How to remove Negative energy from your space. You don't want the fungus to drown! The bag smells rich and earthy. Shoutout to /u/shroomscout for creating this wonderful sub and writing such a comprehensive guide on mushroom cultivation. Fill each jar full with the cooked corn. Except I was using a 22 Litre Ikea samla box. Appreciate it, Your post is the post that has me start growing on pay day. At this point I'm questioning if this is really what I want to do. As a result this post is way longer than I originally planned and written in more depth than any essay I ever wrote for school. I had been lurking on this sub since January and felt I had learned enough that I could make it work. Hey Tanie, Weve just posted our final progress picture of the fruits from the rice bag. I think what OP meant by "one hole" is that they only punched on one side of the bag, rather than, say, on the left and also on the right side of the bag. We removed the mycelium cake, placed it in a ziploc baggie and filled the bag with water. Pour the corn into the colander to drain out the cook-water, rinse in cold water, and then set aside to drain thoroughly for 30 minutes. This one weighed less than the others because it had already produced a decent amount of mushrooms. when you cut the small hole on the top to inject the spores, did the bag open up some and if not how will I know if the mycelium have grown all the way through? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Fill the jars. Is that it ? Filling the jug at the sink. I added it to my favorites blog site list and will be checking back soon. It has a variety of uses, including being added to mushroom substrate, Read More What is Gypsum and Why Should You Use It in Your Mushroom SubstrateContinue, Read More A Rough Approximation to Convert Weigh of Hydrated Grain Substrate to VolumeContinue, Read More What is the Best Grain Spawn to Substrate Ratio?Continue, Is it just me or are Magic Mushrooms more popular than ever these days? Like the other guy said, it's just a single hole punch used on the right side of the bag. I love when people go into detail about their grows. Temperature in my room was about 68f - 75f. When I first learned about the uncle ben rice tek I though it was pretty cool. There must have been some contam near the top of the bag that spread when I was breaking it up. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. All bags were successful and I hope that yall try this out too. So can you get messed up when ingesting these mushrooms?? wishing you luck, im starting this weekend. This community is also for any other questions you might have! So the total substrate weight would be 3900g. I used Bod's Easy AF harvesting tek. This sounds too good to be true right? I didn't include this bag in the S2B because it wasn't ready at the time and because I didn't want to risk contaminating my monotub. But this was primarily due to less than ideal conditions in the shuffle of the pandemic. My only real priority for this grow was that it didn't take up much space. Remove the cake and place back in the packaging in the fruiting chamber. There is technically nothing you need to purchase for part 1, so there is no shopping list. Mush Love. Anyone who is aware of kindly respond. I wish I had taken pictures every day to show some kind of time lapse of the viewing window but it basically went like this: Day 1: 30% green, 0% white. Wait. Now without further ado, let's get into some Teks! I attempted this myself but didnt want to wait for spore syringes to arrive so made my own syringes from spore prints (well i tried to) over 2 weeks on and zero contamination.. but also zero mycelium so it was a bit of a fail haha. Love and Light energy to you! To test I purchased 4 uncle ben bags and would inoculate with agar wedge. As a person who makes jars I saw the uncle ben tek as a good way to get alot of spawn done quick and easy. Thanks for sharing. Thank you for writing this up and sharing your experience! Great documentation. Very good info. I've read posts were 1cc was too much and 0.5 is much easier math than 0.75 so that's what I went with. All bags were successful and I hope that yall try this out too. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Part one of Uncle Bens Tek deep dives into how mushrooms grow, their life cycle, ETC. Also since I saw that people with more/larger airholes tended to have faster colonization, I overlapped four punched holes so they were bigger. I'll answer any other questions in the comments and post updates on my future flushes. Please check out my site as well and let me know what you think. I have 6 bags and after 7 days they are showing good signs of colonizing the rice. The room I was in had the door and window closed and any devices that created air flow were turned off. From Bod's easy AF bucket tek I read to multiply your coir weight by 5 to get the water weight you would use to hydrate to field capacity. Radio Frequency is my email list reserved for Fellow Travelers, Matrix Escapees, Psychonauts, Shamanic Journeyers, Alchemists, Interdimensionals, Inquiring Minds, & Mad Hatters; those who dare to join & explore wonderland with me. Hey Ken, thanks for writing in. THIS HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU BY THE MANUFACTURER. Well it requires a bucket (or cooler) with a lid. I read this post completely about the comparison of hottest and earlier technologies, its remarkable article. Are these psilocybin or regular mushrooms? A place to discuss the growing, hunting, and the experience of magical fungi. Happy shrooming and have an excellent day! Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 8 weeks from innoculation to harvest. When growing mushrooms using a bulk substrate you will be mixing a colonized grain with a non-nutritious substrate. I'm a big fan of WBS and have all the gear but may try this for kicks and use it as a master spawn to WBS instead of using it for bulk spawn. For more information, please see our How would you go about trying to get a second flush of mushrooms directly from your Uncle Bens rice bag? Ive tried my best to leave them be, as per everyone on the internet lol, but this is a good read to get an idea from. Should look something like this. To promote additional flushes you will want to attempt to re-hydrate the cake. Anything super warm is going to lead to more condensation and more moisture. I hope you found this Uncle Bens Tek Shopping List helpful for growing your own batch of goodness. I dont see any air holes and it appears that you simply lined a plastic tote with a plastic bag ? Legit dude, I think you landed on the wrong page, or you are 5 grams deep. Our spawn has taken to our coir substrate nicely. Silica packets Optional if you use a dehydrator, but good preservative insurance, Window Screen Mesh Optional. (Was going for about 3-4qts per 20qt tub, figured it would be better to prepare too much instead of too little). I had to hole punch the bags and cover them in micropore tape so I could inflate the bags first. YES! This information is worth everyones attention. And so we decided to give it a try ourselves. Upon checking our bags it appeared that they were roughly 80% colonized. This is a very good tip particularly to those fresh to the blogosphere and growing shrooms. When colonization is about 30% complete, shake each bag to break up chunks. And I poked some holes in the middle for more gas exchange. 19 days after spawning to bulk (Some of them were ready to harvest, but I had a really nice looking pinset and I kind of wanted to see what a full canopy would look like lol). So I went and tested it out. Using too much spawn when doing a grain to grain transfer - This is kind of a niche one. Wiped down the table, tubs, and ben bags with alcohol. I wanted something I could keep hidden away under my bed or in a cupboard. Uncle Bens Tech can be used to grow all kinds of mushrooms, from gourmet, medicinal, common grocery store button mushrooms and especially the enchanted interstellar traveler type mushrooms, aka Psilocybin Cubensis mushrooms (if they are legal to grow where you live, of course). Created a gas exchange hole by using a hole punch and micropore tape. Someone should give the juice bags a try again and make a youtube video lol. Would LOVE to hear about your microdosing experience also as your story sounds almost exactly like mine! Thanks for your help! I know the guide says to innoculate near the bottom near the viewing window but I read a few posts where rice would get stuck in the syringe and cause problems, so I injected near the top. Inoculation with the Caprisun + Hole Punch method: Heated up tip of syringe with lighter until red hot (I used a campfire lighter because they burn a lot hotter and heat up the syringe faster. For subsequent flushes we do a 12 hr soak in cold water. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. ariel malone married. Fanned it about once every two days, surface conditions looked good so I didn't mist it at all. veetee had a large clear window and looked to be a great container for mushroom growing. Simply put the fruiting chamber in an indirect source of light for 8 or so hours. Here's where I encountered my first problem. A standard spore syringe is 10 ml, and each bag needs just one ml of spore solution to inoculate the whole bag. Colors in 1, sid the squeeze n shake, and havent seen signs of colonization since. PLEASE do not source mushrooms/spores/cultures here (see rule #2). So I carried the monotub over to the table then started filling it again. Also consider that some bags may not inoculate properly or may have contamination, so you may need fewer bins. Appreciate you including the time line as well. According to many online cultivation forums, not only can you, but its even easier than you think. Let me be clear: this is NOT whats commonly sold in a box as instant rice or minute rice. Amount of water you use depends on the type of bucket. Nitrile Gloves Latex and powder free. Even if it wasn't as good as a still air box I figure it was better than not using one. I have no idea how much effect, if any, this had but I didn't worry much about light and most of the mushrooms grew straight up. I might do something with it later. Gouri Shankar Latest Modified Report 15.11.09. . worst football hooligans uk. The guide already has an excellent method for pasteurizing coir that many people have had work for them. When I was innoculating I didn't exactly use a still air box but I basically used a setup like this. I started this mushroom cultivation journey a few months ago, and it has been such a cool experience so far. Shake your bag once its about 30% colonized. See this wonderful post here! It might not be clear from the pictures since they were taken from above but there were several dense clusters of fairly small mushrooms, which made harvesting fairly difficult. Ive been getting a LOT of questions on my posts concerning the Uncle Ben technique for inoculation so I thought Id do a write-up. This also works out to be 14.1g dry mushrooms per rice bag. By using this oven pasteurization tek. As you can see, the Uncle Bens rice bags are now fully colonized and have a wonderful mushroom smell to them. This method will draw heavily on Uncle Ben's tek using pre-cooked rice grains to kick start a grow. "It looked like a fun, easy way to start a batch of mushrooms, but my experience with Uncle Ben's has been mixed," says Brian, a 33-year-old in Virginia. The surface conditions looked wet enough and I had the lid turned upside down resting on little foam padded tape pieces, so there was a 1cm gap all around the edge of the box and the lid. However the mycelium at the sides always looked stronger than the middle and fruit was far denser on the sides as well. 70-80 degrees is the golden zone I've noticed. Here they are: Sainsburys - 207g. Yield can't really be predicted accurately because there are so many variables to take into consideration, like genetics and grow conditions. Here are all the pictures. Easiest way turned out to just be a regular corner cut method. Hey! Because the rice bags were vacuum packed I couldn't get the syringes into the bag. I found that the grow light actually lightly heats the top rack up which makes it perfect for colonization. If you want to see all the items from pat 1 to Part 4 in one single printable list, here it is: highvibrationstation.com/ uncle-bens-tek-shopping-list/. Turns out 1/6th of a bag is actually a lot of rice and it wasn't easy getting them into the fresh bags. If you just want to know about the grow skip to the planning section. But things got worse. After my veetee experience I used uncle ben. LED Strip Lights OPTIONAL; Light tells mushrooms which direction to grow. This set us back about twenty days and required some delicate care to bring it back to life. Thank you. all you shroomers out there that use good old uncle Ben! Lined the 3rd shelf with a black trash bag so the bottom wouldn't get any light. Love and light to you! No signs of contamination! Have you noticed your bags feeling "puffy"? I used to do 2 holes but it doesn't really make a difference and it's extra work lol. Just ONE spore syringe can inoculate 10 bags of Uncle Ben's Ready Rice. What I found, especially about using microdosing to help with anxiety and procrastination led me to decide I had to try this for myself. Keep on Trucking Noreen, you will get there. You currently have javascript disabled. This is awesome and so low tech! For instance, I can only fit 6 half pint jars in my PC which is about 3 uncle ben bags or 6$. I'm so grateful you took the time to explain everything in such great detail. Top shelf is for placing Ben bags. If necessary, you can gently break up any large clumps you feel with your fingers. When they did work though, they made an awesome container to draw LC from. I hadn't even smoked a cigarette. I had a few bags that had some contamination on the top like this, but I just cut the contaminated part off when I was spawning to bulk and it worked out fine. Aw, this was an exceptionally nice post. Im on day 1 of uncle bens inoculation and this is super exciting to see. Primarily concerned with psilocybin containing mushrooms, but all psychoactive species are welcome. I eventually discovered my mistake when I reread the bubble wrap tek. Taking a few minutes and actual effort to produce a top notch article but what can I say I procrastinate a lot and never seem to get anything done. Allow to cool. Except, I made another mistake. (If using a still air box, do every step that follows inside of it). If you mix the time to full colonization is faster. Yes, the bulk substrate method does have a higher yield. Boiled some tap water and poured it into the bucket when it was at a rolling boil, Put a lid on the bucket and left it overnight to cool, Wiped down the table, tubs, and ben bags with alcohol, Cut open 4 Ben bags and placed them into the tubs (I like to get all the blocks into the tubs before breaking them up, to reduce the chance of any uncolonized substrate being exposed to contaminants), Broke up the blocks of UB rice spawn into individual grains. I'll see if that changes for the second flush. So, I put my 650g brick of coco coir in my bucket (without lid). Best. Unfortunately due to unforeseen ciircumstances I couldn't S2B that day and didn't end up doing so until a week later on 30/07. We also were playing around with Capri Sun and other low sugar juices in the same style packaging to make Liquid Culture. Sorry I missed this, I kind of just filled the bucket up till all of it was submerged, then brought the coir to field capacity after pasteurizing it. ( pssthey you! Stop by again and drop a pic of you grow if you can. Had some obvious innoc. These holes were then lightly stuffed with polyfill. What I forgot to take into account is that 45L / 1.5L is a lot of refilling and pouring. It amazes me how many new people buy the pre-made bags and such. Wow this is simply amazing! Let me know if you have any more questions! sap next talent program salary. Ultra-Fine Water Mister Essential for maintaining proper humidity. It's awesome! Cookie Notice Check them out! Wipe down all surfaces, materials, and utensils with 70% isopropanol alcohol. I would use the chip clip method when hole punching gas exchange holes. Amazing! Although about 35g out of that 40g was from one sainsburys bag. So for me, I could expect between 60-180g. If contamination is suspected, throw the bags away and try again. Or worse, throw away half a brick of coco coir that I paid good money for. A sign of really young growers lacking the ability to acquire the right gear. Email: service@psychedelicstores.com Phone: +1(760)718-1194 Website: https://psychedelicstores.com/ https://psychedelicstores.com/buy-b-psilocybin-cubensis-online-kaiserpermanente/, Your email address will not be published. Now at this point I know some people are giving their screen dirty looks right now so I'll just say: use shroomscout's or Bod's bucket tek. Worried about contamination or bruising? When I posted the picture of my first flush I was thought I'd get a few congratulatory comments and one or two questions. I am misting the sides of the container 1x per day if needed. I want to to thank you for this excellent read!! This is one of the strains I recommend new growers start with because of their dependable potency, widespread availability, and relative ease of cultivation. Part 2 of the Uncle Bens Tek is all about inoculating and colonizing the Rice Bags. I hope this can be a good reference for anyone else starting this journey. I had a bucket (without a lid), and I did not want to buy a bucket (or cooler) with lid that I was only going to use once and just take up space doing nothing afterwards. We are trying to revive but will be posting updates soon! what does coyote waits mean; where to stay in azores, portugal; diamond floor stable brown. You can grow Golden Teachers on popular mushroom substrates, including rye grain, BRF tek, Uncle Ben's tek, manure, wild bird seed, etc. : unclebens. First introduced in 1992, the PF Tek was developed by a cultivator named Robert McPherson and it is one of the simplest methods for growing Psilocybe mushrooms. Had to mist multiple times a day just to maintain surface conditions. Air in my room is pretty still because I keep the door closed, and I really didn't do anything to help circulate the air. We accomplished this using perlite and a modified mono-tub. Here is a picture of what the Uncle Bens brand looks like in Canadian stores. It's hard to isolate the problem with my process when I'm doing everything for the first time. I realize this is a lot of spawn + substrate. Find out Here! I think it was Hippie3 back in the day that shared this idea with us. To produce fruits directly from the bag we first re-hydrated the cake by filling the bag up with distilled water and allowing the cake to absorb moisture for 12 hours. A week or so longer until we should see some pins! Although I later grew paranoid about the increased likelihood of contam if I placed it under my bed, so I ended up putting it in a cupboard. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. However, today we opened our bags to check our progress. Well, it's been a monthhow did it turn out? A must read article! Consequently, we set up in a room with little to no airflow and made sure to spray an aerosol disinfectant. No pics of finished flush from that one? We shall see. An important note, and something I am asked frequently: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HEAT OR COOK THE RICE. Thank you for stopping by Dennis. Inkbird Temp and Humidity Controller Combo, beginner-friendly simple coco coir substrate recipe, Purchase Uncle Bens Ready Rice from your local grocer, Inject 1CC of spore solution from the spore syringe of the variety of your choice, Set aside in a dark place inspecting the bags after 5-7 days for mycelium growth and/or contamination, Break up the mycelium chunks to spread mycelium-covered grain evenly throughout the bag and return the bags to the dark spawning area, Once the bag is fully colonized (12-30 days) you may either place it into fruiting condition or prepare your spawn for a bulk grow, Uncle Bens Ready Rice Plain brown or white rice (no flavor added). Like others have mentioned, ideally it should look like the surface of the substrate has thousands of tiny droplets on them. Shroomery is a wealth of information and I highly suggest doing so. I completely saturated two paper towels with alcohol and used them as a "mat" for my hole punch and scissors so they wouldn't have to be placed directly on the table. So when I did break & shake on 13/07 the bags were closer to 70%. 10cc multi spore syringe for the Mushroom of your Choice 1 syringe inoculates 10 bags of rice, 10 bags of Uncle Bens PLAIN Brown Ready Rice ONLY plain, brown, ready rice, max 30 mg sodium, 70% Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol Do NOT get 90% or more, 70% is best for penetrating bacteria. We update the site weekly so keep checking in. Had some obvious innoc. Ben Horowitz. When misting, make sure to sprits the inside walls of your fruiting chamber, as well as allow for some of the tiny water particles to land on the spawn cake, then fan to promote pinning. Can you tell me exactly everything I need to do this; Im a beginner! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, 6 x 2.5cmx9.1m micropore tape (I bought extra but only ended up using half a roll), Sainsbury's Antibacterial Multi-Surface Wipes x40 (Not my first choice but cleaning supplies were hard to come by), Spontex Disposable Gloves 40 Pack (not great - thin, kept tearing.