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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    I use the spent grain as an additive for more difficult and expensive mushrooms, once done fruiting I resterilize the substrate and inoculate with oyster mycelium, I get no points for recycling substrates in this way, harvesting 2-3 mushroom varieties off of the same substrate, oysters will grow...
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    I REALLY appreciate it!!
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    Logs or stumps for the shiitake? I cultivate a small amount for personal consumption using enriched cased wood chips or straw bags depending on what else I'm growing. Yea I knew about the N% I in wood chips, still shocked at what brewer's grain contains! Gypsum is a staple I use almost too...
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    I love it and your right! I had not observed the nitrogen content of wet brewer's grain is listed at 3.2-4.42%n!! I happen to have the pleasure of having a friend in the honey business that gives me all the (yellow) sweet clover straw I need, add brewer's grain and blood meal composted in...
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    Please link something to this claim, I would love to read it!
  6. W

    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    I learned from methods honed over the last 18 years of mushroom cultivation ;)
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    Let me expand on this, naturally mushrooms do not grow on whole grains, we force mushroom mycilum to colonize whole grains because there size is great for inoculating bulk substrates resulting in hundreds of inoculation points, fruiting off whole grain alone can be done but results in 30-40%...
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    Definitely a guise, its a modified "pf tek method" designed by Pscilocybe Fanaticus "PF"... Spent grains don't have enough nutritional value to fruit mushrooms off of
  9. W

    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    :) pm with any questions along the way, good luck!!
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    Use straw, never hay, and make your own spawn from a healthy clone, one quart jar of spawn will inoculate 10 more jars those ten will inoculate 100 and those hundred will inoculate 1000 and so on.. well not really, if I was selling jars of spawn yes, if cultivating no, heres why, organisms have...
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    I'm glad to hear we need more aspiring mycologist, unfortunately the strains most likely to be spawned with or fruit off of are the most difficult to work with, your right about the use of spent grain by others, most work with either rye, wheat, millet, milo, cracked corn, or wbs (wild bird...
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    FYI: I use the grain as a additive for the mushroom substrate for its texture and simple carbohydrates. You CANNOT fruit mushrooms off spent grains alone, the brewing process strips the already cracked grain of most if its nutriance, has anyone left spent grain outside and find it grew...
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms by paul stamets is a great place to start for cultivation information, the Shroomery.org forum site is great too (I have the same user name there) but most topics there are posted with the understanding you have already read this or comparable books and is...
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    Try super-sterile, autoclaves and lamanar flow hoods are minimum required equipment in the industry, outdoor cultivation would be considered "semi-sterile" but only after inoculation if the bulk substrate
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    <- mushroom grower looking for spent grain in the Manchester CT area

    Just so I understand your question, your asking why mushroom mycelium (mold) won't grow on a antibacterial substrate? Lmao yea they inhibit the growth of mycilum of every known saprophytic strain (mushroom making mold) on earth
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