How to Make Grain Spawn: A Deep Dive into the Heart of DIY Mushroom Cultivation

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Grain spawn is the key to the mushroom cultivation process. This video demonstrates how to prepare perfect grain to grow your own mushrooms from scratch at home. This simple DIY method will allow you to exponentially expand your mycelium from spores or liquid culture into many pounds of spawn in just a few short weeks.
Packed with lots of helpful tips, trick and techniques, this in-depth video will help you streamline your process, get reliable results, and keep your fungus happy, even if you're on a budget.
Watch to the end to meet Professor Sporadicus and learn how to scale up to commercial production and take your mushroom farming to the next level (plus a teaser for some juicy projects from Fungaia R&D).
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Other items:
Good, clean water
Mason jars
Large cooking pot
Pasta strainer or colander
Long-handled spoon
Pressure cooker or Instant Pot
Bath towel or window screen
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Upcoming videos:
Introduction to Mushroom Cultivation
How to Use a Liquid Culture Syringe
How to Grow Mushrooms the Easy Way
How to Make Liquid Culture the Easy Way
Introduction to Sterile Culture Technique
How to Make Agar Media and Pour Petri Dishes
The Basics of Breeding
Storing Genetics and Managing a Mushroom Culture Library
Troubleshooting Contamination: Identification, Prevention and Problem-Solving
Working with Mushroom Grow Bags
Making Substrate for Dung-Loving Mushrooms
Making Substrate for Wood-Loving Mushrooms
Building a Home Lab
The Laminar Flow Hood
The Fungaia Flow Hood Kit
DIY Bulk Pasteurizer
DIY Cold Storage
DIY Humidifiers
DIY Water Filtration
Tyndallization: How to Make Grain Spawn without a Pressure Cooker
Low-Tech Mushroom Cultivation with Cold Pasteurization
Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation
The Liquid Culture Revolution: 5 Ways Liquid Culture Will Change the World
Fungaia's Bulk Liquid Culture System
R.E.M.I.S.: The Remarkably Efficient Mass Inoculation System
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(Please forgive the video/edit quality, I’m learning!)
0:00 Intro
1:05 Overview
3:49 The Key to Perfect Grain Spawn
4:32 Soak, Boil or Both?
5:36 Supplies
8:37 Step 1: Prep
12:00 Step 2: Sterilize
15:18 Step 3: Inoculate
16:25 Incubation & Mixing
18:14 Part Two: Scaling Up with Professor Sporadicus

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@Michael-tr4st 5 ай бұрын

My god, you are probably the best channel for hobby mushroom cultivation I have come across. Thanks so much for the love you put into your videos. 😊

@kajkob 4 ай бұрын

Agreed, the knowledge and presentation thereof is the best I’ve seen on KZfaq so far. Personality helps too. This quality actually discourages me from starting my own channel 😅

@danielvladimir1452 3 ай бұрын

Respect

@lukesalter-ec3hh 3 ай бұрын

This guy, and sensei PGT are the dons for home mycology!

@nicolasgeiger1358 4 ай бұрын

This masterpiece just summarized Like every Video i‘ve watched in The past 2 years on grain, proper pressure Cooker usage and everything around… Very impressive, amazing Video 👏🏻

@joshtaylor816 Ай бұрын

@spiritual_awakening 5 ай бұрын

I’m going to start my own mushroom farm 👏😊

@jasonshults368 4 ай бұрын

Do it!

@hAckAbleMe 28 күн бұрын

And I thought chickens was the way to go 😂 . Kidding. I love my hens.😊

@jonstephenson5436 5 ай бұрын

I think this is the best video I’ve seen yet on the topic. All the most practical, “where the rubber meets the road” type points are clearly understood. I’m also excited to see that there is another mycologist within striking distance of where I live (rural Idaho, about 2 hrs from Walla). I used to hang out with a bunch of friends up there. It’s been a while. I’d love to see your operation, if you do that kind of thing. There is also a really cool guy that started a mushroom grow in Clarkston, WA. It’s spreading like hyphae 😎

@nia_d 4 ай бұрын

This is completely the best DIY video on the topic out there. Thank you so much for creating this and staying devoted to your mission!

@ashboom2175 5 ай бұрын

thank you for being so thorough and detailed in this video. it really helps clarify any confusion with all the different methods out there so this is truly gold :) definitely will stay tuned and looking forward to the next video!

@dcfromthev 3 ай бұрын

I love this channel so much OMG thank you so much for the long form videos and information. I'm a year into my journey and this is exactly the stuff I need to see while I ramp up my operation!

@danielmacbride525 5 ай бұрын

Your content is top quality, thanks so much for providing this free and detailed information for everyone's benefit!

@jasonshults368 4 ай бұрын

You've really upped your game with the production quality!

@metty7528 4 күн бұрын

Amazing video as always. this channel is so underrated you deserve more subs. waiting for a video on substrates 😁

@glennplatvoet7111 5 ай бұрын

You're videos are much better than they were. Looks like you have it all pulled together. I'm going to check on you're site for liquid culture have a great day 😁

@_fungaia 5 ай бұрын

Haha thank you! I have a long way to go.

@MasterOfCatz 2 ай бұрын

I truly love your videos. Man, you're a guts. And it's always a pleasure to learn with you. And I can see the amount of work and time that went into this. Thank you so much. Mush love

@jessembs 5 ай бұрын

Yay! Love your work :) Hope you're well!

@ustotz Ай бұрын

Thank you for the many interesting and helpful videos. When living rye grains are soaked in cold water, encymatic processes are activated that break down substances such as folic acid and the grain is prepared for seedling. The grain is made bioavailable for the seedling, and in our case for the mycelium. Even though mushrooms are masters of alchemy, I consider this preparation to be a benefit to the mycelium.

@somefishhere 2 ай бұрын

Love the scaled up liquid culture option for the commercial growers!

@Xulzen Ай бұрын

Your videos have helped reinspire me to get back into cultivation.

@andreasduenow3329 3 күн бұрын

Thanks, thanks so much for all your work! ❤

@tattooedgardener Ай бұрын

Amazing detail an quality i love growing everything it heals my heart thanks for sharing, now subscribed

@skrazi 5 ай бұрын

Another absolute banger.

@Grimreaper420ful 5 ай бұрын

Amazing video!

@cuznclive2236 4 ай бұрын

Found your channel today, subbed, and rang the bell! Wondered why my rice kept exploding, and now I know why; I was not setting it out to dry before pc'ing. Makes good sense. Thank you!

@nadjibmahieddine7307 5 ай бұрын

thank you bro this helped a lot to understand lot of things so thanks alot

@adimkarp6950 3 ай бұрын

Insta-subscribe! All the time i wasted on clown videos on this subject.... Will check this channel first in future! Well done, thorough but not repetitive and informative.

@milkybee4298 3 ай бұрын

awesome and informative!

@paradisepoolservice2505 5 ай бұрын

Great content!

@edgardmedinasierra6811 3 ай бұрын

It's amazing men. Congratulations. .

@sonnybrasco9735 3 ай бұрын

Very thorough video sir 🫡

@tothmihaly8066 5 ай бұрын

Hi. Nice explanation . Thank .

@NihilisticRealism 3 ай бұрын

Subbed for the long run.

@18Hands 5 ай бұрын

I just wanted to throw it out there that usually milo and whole oats are on the cheaper end of things. Rye, Sorghum and millet are more on the expensive side. It depends on what you can get in your area. I get mine at my local feed store. Online prices are extremely high.

@_fungaia 5 ай бұрын

Yes, thanks, feed stores are a great source for cheap grain, especially since shipping it usually costs more than the grain itself! Just make sure you get feed grains labeled "untreated." Treated grain will do nasty things to your fungus.

@rewty 2 ай бұрын

I just made rye grain spawn for the first time thanks to this video P.S. I got the DUNE reference! ALOHA from Hawaii

@tamris3188 2 ай бұрын

could you do a video on making and sterilizing substrate sometime in the near future please? Love your videos by the way, and recently bought substrate from you, because i'm just starting to try to use substrate for the first time. in the past i've done grows just using brown rice and vermiculite in jars and fruiting them in a tub of perlite. pretty easy way to grow but yielded few mushrooms per grow.

@KingStix 3 ай бұрын

it's mainly the sunflower seeds in WBS that causes issues, too much water retention especially on damaged/split sunflower seeds

@beddj1 2 ай бұрын

20:11 Like he went into another dimension where calculators are some unknown object LOL

@blockhead9070 5 ай бұрын

Like True Blue!

@goodfindfungi 3 ай бұрын

Amazing! My partner and I have a small organic vegetable farm and we're moving into mushrooms. Your videos are extremely helpful. Thank you Paul. Just to clear, you don't add gypsum to the rye grain at any point when using the soak only/scaling up method in Part Two with Professor Sporadicus?

@4Abaddon4 5 ай бұрын

Nice Video! I would like to know what you are doing with the ergot you are collecting? I always throw mine away.

@AdvaitaVedantaHUB 2 ай бұрын

cool videos mate (Y)

@yalestormofficial 2 ай бұрын

Grain spawn is my favorite way to cultivate mushrooms.

@paradisepoolservice2505 5 ай бұрын

Stoked on your Awesome videos! Keep them coming! You're a great teacher! 🤙🏽

@l.slayer551 Ай бұрын

Just out of curiosity, have you ever run a side-by-side to compare colonization times and final yields using spring water pitted against tap/chlorinated water?

@keyscook 4 ай бұрын

You rock Paul... I'm looking forward to growing for the potential health benefits - Thank you!

@MikeJ0hns0n 5 ай бұрын

Dude is fuckin' awesome!! Thank you for the education!! Time to get shroomin'!!

@EmreBuyuktuna 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your effort and sharings to put out this quality content. I am just collecting info about cultivation of mushrooms, and i have a question, in soak no boil method, is sterilizing machine same with the pressure cooker or are they totally different machines

@_fungaia 4 ай бұрын

Yes, the sterilization is the same. Any pressure cooker will work. In the video I used a larger pressure cooker for the grain bags, but the function is the same as the smaller one.

@thedailydump7407 Ай бұрын

Great videos! My question is; is contamination dangerous? I will often have a flush but there is also some green contamination as well as some white fuzz contamination. I’ve eaten some of these shrooms anyway and felt no ill effects. Thoughts?

@michaellutz8497 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the in depth knowledge! Watching your videos has exponentially sped up my learning curve. I accidentally use tap water to soak. Dump it or it'll be ok?

@_fungaia 4 ай бұрын

I'm sure it's fine! Most folks use tap. I have feelings about it, but not to worry.

@HHg-dq6nh 2 ай бұрын

Do you have videos on making truffles?

@NorjiLab-bw3tu 19 күн бұрын

One for the Prof Sporadicus . Could this scaling up calcualtion be the same for fruiting blocks if I wanted to add dry ingrdients and H2O to the bags without prior soaking of substrate ?

@rivervanblerk2088 2 ай бұрын

What are your thoughts on injection ports? I have heard from some pretty legit guys in the actives space that it's an unnecessary vector for contamination, seeing as one cant sterilize, only sanitize, the face of the port using iso. Thusly the best and most consistent method of inoculation when using LC is to open inoc using a flow hood or SAB.

@Pattskee 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the rich in content video. Not sure why we would loosen the lids if there are exchange vents in the lid?

@_fungaia 4 ай бұрын

The filter allows only a minute amount of gas exchange. It's less of a concern with grain, but you can really tell with liquid: even with the air filter, if the lid is tightened down the jar will boil over and often break in the pressure cooker. I never put sealed containers of any kind in a pressure cooker.

@Andrewski2 Ай бұрын

When doing the soak and no boil, do you dry the rye the same way as you would with the boil on a towel?

@soel2193 17 күн бұрын

I LOVE YOU

@equalizingforce2581 2 ай бұрын

Great video. I am really new to this. I homebrew and I have some pilsner grains I need to use iup and I'm wondering if I could use that, any idea if that would work? Also I have grain a year past their sell by date, any idea if that would affect the growth potential. Cheers.

@john-smith. 2 ай бұрын

Brewing grains are soaked, germinated, and kilned dry. You will have a lot of trial, and error and don't think they will even work...maybe for bulk substrate but not for grain from LC, or agar. Go find a feed store and get whole oats for animal feed, or racing horse oats which are cleaner...their usually the cheapest for step.

@equalizingforce2581 2 ай бұрын

@@john-smith. These are whole grains as I malt them myself. Cant get any cheaper than using these up.

@allisonyoung2039 5 ай бұрын

Ya Paul!!

@aidennymes6335 4 ай бұрын

with modified lids that have filter discs, it's not required to loosen the lids for PCing.

@TheTubejunky Ай бұрын

Liquid culture sounds good but VERY difficult to tell if it's contaminated until after inoculation. Agar wedge or Grain to grain is my recommendation.

@Michael-tr4st 5 ай бұрын

Can you do the second method you detailed, with jars instead of bags?

@_fungaia 5 ай бұрын

Yes, absolutely! The process is exactly the same.

@wastelandgrow Ай бұрын

You can give video for create surin mushroom (paddy mushroom seeda)

@TantricBioHacker 2 ай бұрын

I've platooed here Im having large problems. Getting further. My petri dishes with Agar are perfect. I followed Philly Golde teacher advice and cloned them 3-4 times. The biggest problem is that they refuse to inocculate the grain I need help. I've used corn kernals, brown rice, oat meal, red lentils. I started out with two growth kits. Perfected spore printing and the whole agar technique. Now I'm stuck I just want to get to the harvesting part again please help.

@davidstick9207 4 ай бұрын

I am giving this site a 2 thumbs up

@thematrixcentre 2 ай бұрын

Can we use rice grain to make spawn

@tothmihaly8066 5 ай бұрын

Can i grow mushrooms at tropical weather conditions . My country temperature always 30 c degrees . Thanks for your answer !

@_fungaia 5 ай бұрын

Yes, you absolutely can! You just need to choose mushrooms that are adapted to that climate. Oysters (Pleurotus species), paddy straw (Volvariella volvacea) and Cordyceps are some popular varieties that would do well

@tothmihaly8066 5 ай бұрын

@@_fungaia thank your answer !

@lukesalter-ec3hh 3 ай бұрын

Any reason I couldn’t boil it to get it to moisture, and bang it in the air fryer to dry the surface off?

@john-smith. 2 ай бұрын

NO! just lay it out, your just making it harder.

@beddj1 3 ай бұрын

What did you pull out of the rye and put in a test tube? lol

@john-smith. 2 ай бұрын

Looked like he was just picking out the garbage from the grain...and thats just what he put it in.

@SnakeEater503 4 ай бұрын

Doesnt the chorine evaporate out during the boil?

@_fungaia 4 ай бұрын

Quite a bit does offgas, yes, and most folks use tap water without many problems. My buddy in college did trace analysis of water for his chemistry thesis and I was shocked at how nasty a lot of our tap water is. Chlorine is highly reactive and municipal water systems have some questionable pipes... It's really just a personal fixation of mine. Follow your heart!

@estherlungu8143 2 ай бұрын

What is that liquid?

@soel2193 17 күн бұрын

the bill nye of rye

@vang5352 2 ай бұрын

Hola gente hermosa! necesito ayuda ¿como puedo esterilizar los frascos si no cuento con una olla a presión? Hello Beautiful people! I need help, how can I sterilize the jars if I don't have a pressure cooker?

@Kevfactor 3 ай бұрын

Opinions about distilled water? I can't really justify buying bottled water for the fungus but i could invest ina cheap distiller. I just fear distilled water might not work as it's void of minerals.

@ZCRAIZED1 2 ай бұрын

Distilled is perfect. The lack of minerals is just fine.

@awakening_bryan 5 ай бұрын

Why put it up for 2 days?

@18Hands 5 ай бұрын

I wanted to try to answer your question, although I didnt see where he said anything about 2 days. I do know that you want your grains to thoroughly cool so that it does not kill the mycelium when you inject your jars.

@JuanTiller 5 ай бұрын

I was taught the 48 hour incubation period was to quality control for contamination before inoculation.

@SantaFeMMA 2 ай бұрын

Bro makes Netflix quality tutorials and Posts them on KZfaq 😩

@jmseipp 3 ай бұрын

Pronounced ‘My-Lo’

@DickHill 5 ай бұрын

@D do you wrap in towels to ensure it’s staying warm?

@18Hands 5 ай бұрын

Youre just trying to let it cool down and absorb excess moisture. I actually use a rack outdoor that sits on the ground with a sheet of window screening. I live in Nevada, so the excess moisture evaporates quickly. You won't want much excess moisture in your jars/bags as this can get mushy or even sprout. As well as moisture can harbor bacteria. Best of luck!