Our grow kits come 100% sterilized and ready to grow any of your favorite grain loving mushrooms. These instructions are not intended to grow any of the psilocybn cubensis spores as that is illegal. These instructions are for edible mushrooms only!
After inoculation of the jars, tighten the lid bands . Place the jars in a safe place out of direct sunlight. Indirect light is all that is required. If the temperature is kept around 70 degrees, germination will begin within 3 to 5 days. Germinating spores appear as small white fuzzy spots, quickly growing and spreading with cottony white growth and strandy "rhizomorphs". Any room temperature is O.K. If it gets cold indoors, over head light shinning down on the tops of the jars is a perfect heating technique for this culturing stage. A clamping type light with a reflector works well for this. If this is done, keep the temperature around 70 degrees (don't overheat the jars). A warm overall house temperature is fine. But in the overall view, cool temperatures are never a problem. The rule is to not overheat.
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Once the cakes turn completely white, remove the lid. With a clean fork, scrape away the majority of the dry top vermiculite layer. There will probably be seen some wispy mycelium here and there in the top layer. Place an old jar lid over the jar mouth and turn the jar upside down. Lightly slam the jar down on a table cushioned with a magazine. The fungus cake will slide out onto the old jar cap (BIRTHDAY). The jar cap functions as a base for the cake. When handling the fungus cake, be careful as not to squeeze and bruise it. Bruising results in a bluish mark. This fungus is resilient and can tolerate a certain amount of handling, but handle it as least as possible.
As soon as the fungus cake comes out of the jar, daub the cake with a piece of loose tissue paper to soak up any water droplets that may have deposited on the cake as it comes out of the jar. Immediately after the birthday, place the cakes into the terrarium for the fruiting cycle.
Now that the jars have turned completely white, it is time to prepare the fruiting chamber! Take your bag of perlite and empty it into the fruiting chamber. Add water until all the perlite is moist. Be carefull not to add too much water. You want to avoid having standing water in the bottom of the fruiting chamber. It could cause your cakes to become contaminated. Once you have placed your cakes into the Fruiting chamber, open once a day and fan out. You should have condensation on the sides of the fruiting chamber if humidity is correct. Within days of placing the cakes into the fruiting chamber they will begin to produce mushrooms. The best time to pick them is when the caps begin to open. They will produce 4-5 flushes of mushrooms. Once the cakes stop producing, throw the cakes away.
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