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Can another ingredient be used in place of the bran? If so what?

@@mind.your.own.beeswax5416 hardwood and soy hull 1:1

Maybe it´s helpful for the metric guys. Hope the ratios are correct. 2500g Total weight for each bag: - 850g Oak wood pellets - 1430g water - 90g wheat bran - 130g gypsum powder

I'll have to do more experiments with popcorn! So far I usually just use rye.

Whatever you use should be dried up and not contain too many ingredients. Hardwood sawdust is the best. Some mushrooms like oyster thrive on wheat/paddy straw as well. I've heard that leaf litter also works for oyster mushrooms. Also 70% used coffee grounds mixed with 30% straw and even 50% Cocopeat mixed with 50% vermiculite (some even suggest adding gypsum to this) are other options.

@@rayyanali4471 this is great! I’ve never cultivated mushrooms and want to start. Where can I learn the start to finish process.

@@JackGilbertJr There's a bunch of youtuber channels like Fresh Cap mushrooms and North Spore where they have a bunch of tutorials. You can buy grow kits if you want to try growing it quick without all the hard work.

I have grown on straw and is commonly, but hay is never or rarely used.

@@rayyanali4471 Thanks for your suggestion. I have a sawmill and wondered about sawdust, which is what hardwood pellets are.

I'd love to hear how it goes for you! Lion's mane is so fun, I really liked this grow and I'm about to start more lions mane today!

Help asap please. My 4.5lb bag of rye grain is completely colonized with LM mycelium. I just got my bag of Mushroom Media oak/soy 50/50 pellets. Can you tell me: 1. How many cups of water to cups of dry pellets. 2. Do I really need to pressure cook it? I have a Presto 23qts PC but I'm hearing different opinion about the sterilizing requirement for MM's wood pellets when doing a grain to pellet transfer. Thank you in advance!

nah that's not accurate. They just do it some times.. i've had it happen a few times, and i never block the filter.

Yes, blocking the filter resulted in the bag expanding, which pushed the pan off, and he's lucky that did not become a big pipe bomb. Don't follow this advice.

You have used them for this successfully?

@@JackGilbertJr i have, many times. They're all the same. Just make sure they dont have chemical additives

Thank you, Josh!

Thank you George!

I bought a huge pack of those! Its what I use now, such a good idea. Tempted to remake this video just to show people how easy it is use.

What are these of which you speak?? I’ve been using rubber bands!

Thank you! Can't wait for this block to fruit!

@@OneEarthMushrooms Me too!🙂

Thank you!

Do you need the gypsum powder or can you get away without it?

Aw sweet! Never even thought to look there! I'll check it out! Thanks for the pointer :)

good idea, you can never be too safe

Ur a good soul but my mans lives in Hawaii lol good luck

lol why tho? i mean it's only in public view already

you shouldnt use liquid culture on a fruiting block, that's only good for inoculating bags of rye grain, and then at some point you'll still have to do a transfer. He wasn't doing a grain to grain transfer here, he was transfering his fully colonized grain into a bag of substrate, which is something you'll have to do even if you start with a liquid culture.

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Hey, I just grew Lion's Mane this way and yes you just pour in the spawn and kind of squish it around and shake up the bag a lot:) It doesn't matter if it's not perfectly distributed because that seems hard to achieve - just do your best and the mycelium will take hold.

Thank you! I think the 5-6 pound bag is typically used because it strikes a balance between a few factors: -Sterilization time -Fit into the sterilizer -Colonization time -Ease of handling -For large scale growers, fit onto shelving in fruiting chamber. I think a larger bag would work but wouldn't be as efficient as the 5-6lb bag. But maybe I'll give it a shot and see how it works!

I got them on Amazon, bought these early on during the lockdown so I didnt have to go rummaging around in the stores.

Hi Laura! Having the correct moisture content in the substrate is pretty important; if it's too wet it could develop "wet rot", and if it's too dry, you may experience slow colonization or a failure to colonize at all. Air exchange isn't super important, you don't need any fresh air while colonizing. I use bags that have a filter patch to allow gasses (CO2 mainly) to slowly escape, preventing the concentration of CO2 from getting too high. CO2 is needed for colonization, but too much can be toxic to the mycelium. Thanks for watching!

90 for 15 is ok for jars. NOT bags. the heat has to penetrate further with blocks

@@zuul902 nah, i've done about 400 blocks at 90 minutes and i've not had a single problem. I do 6 pound blocks btw (5 lbs of substrate and a pound of grain spawn)

@@zuul902 how much would you recommend?

I came into the comments looking for the answer to this question! Im curious if he used both pints of spawn we saw in the sab or if that was split between a couple bags, or what actually happens at that point in the video.

you want about a 1/4 or 1/5 ratio, so if you're doing a 5 pound block use a pound of grain spawn

Someone else recommended using chip clips like this: www.amazon.com/GRIPSTIC-Greatest-Patented-Airtight-Waterproof/dp/B00PR82UC6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=chip%2Bbag%2Bsticks&qid=1639206717&sr=8-1&th=1 I've been using them and they work great!

go with a 1/4 or 1/5 mix of mycelium to substrate, and once the bag's ready and sealed you just place it in a cool dry place for a few weeks until the substrate is fully colonized

Pine is a softwood. Probably won't work. You'll need a hardwood like oak. You can buy premium hardwood oak pellets for wood burning stoves.

I agree with Comacho. I'd use hardwood pellets (oak, apple, etc..)

Bryan, honestly I don't think it's necessary. It doesn't make sense...the pellets are manufactured at a very high temperature and pressure, much higher than the thermal death point for thermophilic bacteria...pressure cooking seems unnecessary. I think the only thing that contributes to the potential for contamination in my process is the wheat bran, as I'm not sure what temperatures or conditions that material sees during processing. And yet, while I acknowledge all of this, I continue to pressure cook my bags. I'd like to take a more scientific approach to getting away from pressure cooking, and it's something I'll definitely be exploring more in the future. I haven't been very vocal about these goals, but I'd like to refine a process that doesn't use pressure cooking and doesn't use single-use plastics... but can still produce on a large enough scale for small time grower to be able to use it. Thanks for watching, and thank you for the thought provoking comment.

@@OneEarthMushrooms Thanks for the explanation on this. I personally haven't used wheat bran before but that makes sense that it is a source of potential contamination. If your thinking to skip the pressure cooking you could try and mix the grain spawn with the hardwood pellets and only use half the water. Then if you leave it for a couple of hours and add the rest of the water and wheat bran, you can provide the mycellium a head start in cultivating the substrate over competing bacteria. As long as your using something between 10 - 20% spawn to substrate ratio, this should minimize the chance of contamination. I live in the UK though, I think you mentioned living in hawaii so maybe you need to be more paranoid in that climate. Thanks for the great videos, just went through and watched some others on your channel. How do you use the lions mane mushroom? I hear they taste like sea food but have never tried it, only powered in a pill.

@@bryankneis8286 Hey, thats a pretty good idea! And another thing that sparked in my brain is to mix up the bran and half of the hardwood pellets and allow it to sit for a day...this should germinate most of the bacteria and fungi in the bran. Then on day 2, add boiling water and the remainder of the pellets. The boiling water should kill off the germinated organisms, then I can inoculate as soon as it's cool enough. I haven't eaten the lions mane whole yet. I dried and powdered all of the lions mane from this video, and put it in pills. If i get better quality fruits on my next bag, I'm going to try to make some seafood substitutes out of it.

Hi Bryan could you give me a link to the straw pellets you use for growing mushroom I am starting out growing and pressure cooking substrate is not a option for me at the moment .I would be very grateful for your reply thanks and best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪

Flour may clump up. Bran is much larger flakes. Worth giving it a shot!

I haven't tried without a patch, so I can't answer this. I think gas exchange is generally a good idea for substrate colonization though.

You can use polyfill/non-absorbent cotton.

you have to have SOMETHING for FAE, or fresh air exchange.. in a completely sealed environment mycelium will die

Fresh sawdust would work fine. Hardwoods like oak elder, each type of mushroom will have an affinity for certain types so look it up and you should be able to make some interesting mixtures if you’re generating the sawdust yourself.

@@buckaroobonsaitree7488 thank you so much

The pellets revert back to sawdust when wetted.

@@HowToDriveinOregonReviews Wheat bran is not as nutritious as grain and is less prone to contaminates than grain.

I don't have any recommendations for this. I really dislike my burner, but it was also like $15 at Target.

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soy hulls are completely different than hardwood pellets. They're literally just waste material produced during the process.. Just try searching soy hulls and leave pellet off the search.

or soy hull husks

I usually end up using 3:1 or 4:1.

@@OneEarthMushrooms by weight or by volume?

You'll get 3-4 flushes. I don't know how much they'd yield but theres plenty of videos.

You need hardwood pellets, they technically can grow on softwood pellets but the yield is usually pretty bad and its more complicated to setup

I agree with A A. Needs to be hardwood.

It is! Hiked Fuji in 2018.

Not sure! I've never tried rice bran.

Yeah, totally! Shouldn't be a problem, you'll have to add your spawn later anyways, so some reshaping will already be necessary.

@@OneEarthMushrooms Thank you Thank you.

I've found I can fit 4 5 pound bags, or 6 4 pound bags in my PC. Definitely smush them in there!

Hole saw that is the size big enough for your arms to fit through or get a blue torch from lowes and a can of soup. After your meal Heat that bitch up a few times and press it and twist where you want the holes. Doesn't have to be red hot.

they're just rye seed berries

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if its sterilize and there is no contams( usually have hidden contams). yes you can but it will not fruit rather it will go to colonization and once its fully colonize then it will go to fruit, best is either take a spore print or clone to agar and start from there.

@@FrozenFlames243 thank you I will definitely try it now knowing it can work

@@FrozenFlames243 also will cutting the mycelium hurt it or will it be fine

You can, but you will have less nutrients and likely less mush in your flush.

Pine is a soft wood. I personally haven't used soft woods for lions mane, but they seem to grow only on hardwoods in nature.

depends on the cooker, I use a instapot duo (6qrt) and I use 1 cup of water.

Like 1-2 cups

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I don't see why not. Is corn gluten free? I've used corn for grain spawn before; seems to work fine.

@@OneEarthMushroomsThanks. Corn does not contain gluten. Gluten is in wheat, barley and rye.

Haha yeah, totally! I gotta find a source closer...I think I saw gypsum at my local feed store. It was a 50 pound bag for like...$10.

Some species are known for preferring wood

I'll give it a try! I'm sure that would work. Pretty easy to get coconuts around here.

Haha yeah a lot of people in the north use them for home heating! There are cheaper ones made from soft wood that work great for heating. The hardwoods (apple, maple, etc) are great for smoking.

Yeah, it may have benefited from a bit more moisture. Next time!

@@s7r49 yes, it is too wet.

I am! Learning as I go :)

@@OneEarthMushrooms just so you know you don't have to sterilize wood pellets..and you can do alot more sub at once by Coldwater pasteurizing ...and gypsum is useless imo

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