Brown rice and popcorn are my main grains. Rice especially is so cheap and easy to get and its made for human consumption so it starts out way cleaner then feed grains. Thank you for the video! It should definitely help some people out. 🙂
@depraved420 yeah, I love brown rice, man. My favourite grain for sure. The human consumption cleanliness of the grain is one of the reasons. I get way lower contam rates than with other grains. I don't have so much experience with pop corn though.....I wanna use it a little more though. I've seen people get mad results with it
I love your videos, Big Mush 9000. They are so relaxing to watch, and so very well organized. I appreciate the calm and orderly way you go about things and your attention to detail. I never come away after watching your videos with any “But what about…” questions, which is a rare occurrence for someone who obsesses over the minutiae. I used to work in a lab growing other species of fungi, so I take sterile technique seriously and contamination personally, lol. You do it right. 😍🍄❤️
@maxineetheridge6922 that's very kind of you to say. I'm glad you enjoy my videos. I certainly enjoy making them :D what species did you grow in your lab? I'm looking to branch out to a few more in the near future.....still learning though and taking my time
@@BigMush9000 Unfortunately, I never grew anything edible. My job involved cultivating fungal pathogens that infect different kinds of fruit for the purpose of developing chemical, cultural, and biological forms of control. I also grew Trichoderma spp. . We used Trichoderma as a biocontrol agent on bare root strawberries to ward off infection by soil-borne fungal pathogens once the plants were in the ground. As everyone trying to grow mushrooms knows, Trichoderma is highly invasive and very aggressive. So, a lot of my experience with controlling contamination involved taking the steps necessary to PREVENT sneaky Trichoderma from growing all over the lab on everything I didn’t want it on. I’m just getting started with mushroom cultivation and would love to try growing some non-psychoactive medicinal species and gourmet mushrooms in addition to various Psilocybe varieties. Just a beginner at this point, though. Got some GT in jars and some B+ queued up for inoculation. My first set of grain jars were purchased pre-sterilized, but I would ideally like to have a completely self-sufficient and self-sustaining operation, which means making my own grain spawn, bulk substrate, liquid culture, agar plates, etc. Your videos are going to be a big help with all of that. Keep up the good work! 😊
You grew trichoderma willingly? We are enemies haha. Jokes aside, that experience will give you a lot of insight that'll translate very nicely to mushroom cultivation! You'll soon be growing all manner of medicinal species. I'd love to grow some cordyceps fairly soon. I'm still reading up on it.....it requires a few different techniques to the ones I'm comfortable with at the moment. For now I'm content with experimenting and trying things out. I have a couple of experiments running at the moment testing nutritional additives, moisture content/substrate ratios as well as a couple of different fruiting techniques. I love the scope for experimentation that mushroom cultivating presents. Keep me updated on your progress. I have a genuine interest in seeing other people's success (and commiserating failures)
@@BigMush9000 I will keep you posted on progress if you’ll continue to do the same…? Can’t wait to hear more about your experiments and results! One of the things I love about the mushroom growing community is everyone’s willingness to experiment, and to help new growers learn and troubleshoot their grows. The frustrating thing, though, is that cultivation trials are too rarely conducted in a strategic, systematic way (e.g., by changing one variable at a time, using a control, with adequate reps, controlling for extraneous variables, building on previous results, etc.). It also feels like a foundational understanding of mushroom biology is sometimes missing from people’s opinions. I guess maybe it’s just me, but coming from a science background, I feel like I have to test all the dogma for myself before I can accept it. That’s something I enjoy doing, but it’s also very time consuming. That’s why I particularly value your approach to testing different variables and sharing what you’ve learned. It’s hard to design mushroom cultivation experiments that control for all the extraneous variables and yield quantifiable results, but I know that I can trust your methodology. Keep going! I look forward to hearing and seeing more. 😊
Again this is a very useful video @BigMush9000. I like the way you pay attention to details such as the cooking time of the various kinds of rice, and the measure of dryness before packing it. This is information that new growers like myself need, and it isn’t easy to find. This is the first channel I turn to whenever I start a new mushroom project.
Same. I watch your videos first, and the others as filler. This one came out at exactly the right time as I’m just about to embark on preparing my own grain jars and had settled on brown rice as a medium based on the results of your comparison and a similar trial conducted by Philly Golden Teacher. Can’t thank you enough! 🙏
I agree with you. These are things a newbie wouldn’t know about and would otherwise need to guesstimate. It’s such good clear information that is easy for me to follow along to
I’ve been experimenting with different grains throughout the years and found that some of the fungal species I grow ( I also have wood decomposers) really enjoy rye berries and brown rice with brown rice having the added benefit of containing Tryptamine in the bran coat which is why they tend to be a bit more potent than most. Peace👍
@@Steveshappylittletrees yeah definitely man! I'd love to muck with some wood eaters as well. There are plenty from my homeland I wouldn't mind trying to cultivate
@@BigMush9000 - Sweet. The one’s I have are taken from wild prints from Southern Australia, New Zealand and coastal Oregon. I’m in Detroit Michigan USA and have 4 separate species growing quite well in a mixed wood chip bed underneath a huge Silver Maple in my backyard. We’re a zone 6 (use to be 5) and they made it through the last two winters with no problems and have expanded their mycelial mass quite significantly 👍
@Steveshappylittletrees Beautiful, mate. Subaeruginosa etc etc? They really do love pine woodchips. You're making home sick! When I visit home again, I hope to find some wild fruits to take some prints. Amazing you're growing them in Detroit. I'd have imagined it'd be too cold
@ - When I first set them out, I wasn’t so sure myself but luckily the ground hasn’t frozen solid in quite a bit now and the winters are milder here now since childhood growing up here although it is pretty cold out today and supposed to dip into single F. temps for lows into next week
@Steveshappylittletrees well good on you mate! Those temps you describe certainly sound like Tasmania/Southern Aus/New Zealand. I hope the ground doesn't freeze on you yet. Do you use a mulch or anything to keep your growth from patch warm at all?
@andynd5571 I've had a few foul-smelling jars of brown rice myself! Bacterial contamination absolutely stiiinnnlkksss. It's usually bad culture that does it or an insufficient sterilisation cycle. If you ever feel like trying it again, use a smaller volume, and you may have better results. What grain do you prefer to use instead?
@trickthekids the time depends on the volume of grains you're sterilising. More doesn't hurt. I'd hate for anyone watching to waste culture because they didn't sterilise long enough
Precisely! My last big spawn run I did 4 hours. It split some of the grains and maybe cooked them a little.....but no contam and very good colonisation .
@@BigMush9000 oats for sure need to be PC'd for 2.5+ If you just spent all that time prepping and getting your PC up to temp might as well let it run a little longer and save yourself the headache in 4 weeks & ensure your spawn doesn't contam! Love the videos glad to see this info spreading across the world!! 💜💜
Brown Rice for Mushroom
Thank you for always making great videos!
Likewise man! I get a lot of enjoyment from yours also
Nice work.
Thanks :D
Brown rice and popcorn are my main grains. Rice especially is so cheap and easy to get and its made for human consumption so it starts out way cleaner then feed grains. Thank you for the video! It should definitely help some people out. 🙂
@depraved420 yeah, I love brown rice, man. My favourite grain for sure. The human consumption cleanliness of the grain is one of the reasons. I get way lower contam rates than with other grains. I don't have so much experience with pop corn though.....I wanna use it a little more though. I've seen people get mad results with it
Your channel is very helpful and interesting, too, @depraved420. Subscribed. 😊
I love your videos, Big Mush 9000. They are so relaxing to watch, and so very well organized. I appreciate the calm and orderly way you go about things and your attention to detail. I never come away after watching your videos with any “But what about…” questions, which is a rare occurrence for someone who obsesses over the minutiae. I used to work in a lab growing other species of fungi, so I take sterile technique seriously and contamination personally, lol. You do it right. 😍🍄❤️
@maxineetheridge6922 that's very kind of you to say. I'm glad you enjoy my videos. I certainly enjoy making them :D what species did you grow in your lab? I'm looking to branch out to a few more in the near future.....still learning though and taking my time
@@BigMush9000 Unfortunately, I never grew anything edible. My job involved cultivating fungal pathogens that infect different kinds of fruit for the purpose of developing chemical, cultural, and biological forms of control. I also grew Trichoderma spp. . We used Trichoderma as a biocontrol agent on bare root strawberries to ward off infection by soil-borne fungal pathogens once the plants were in the ground.
As everyone trying to grow mushrooms knows, Trichoderma is highly invasive and very aggressive. So, a lot of my experience with controlling contamination involved taking the steps necessary to PREVENT sneaky Trichoderma from growing all over the lab on everything I didn’t want it on.
I’m just getting started with mushroom cultivation and would love to try growing some non-psychoactive medicinal species and gourmet mushrooms in addition to various Psilocybe varieties. Just a beginner at this point, though. Got some GT in jars and some B+ queued up for inoculation. My first set of grain jars were purchased pre-sterilized, but I would ideally like to have a completely self-sufficient and self-sustaining operation, which means making my own grain spawn, bulk substrate, liquid culture, agar plates, etc. Your videos are going to be a big help with all of that. Keep up the good work! 😊
You grew trichoderma willingly? We are enemies haha. Jokes aside, that experience will give you a lot of insight that'll translate very nicely to mushroom cultivation! You'll soon be growing all manner of medicinal species. I'd love to grow some cordyceps fairly soon. I'm still reading up on it.....it requires a few different techniques to the ones I'm comfortable with at the moment. For now I'm content with experimenting and trying things out. I have a couple of experiments running at the moment testing nutritional additives, moisture content/substrate ratios as well as a couple of different fruiting techniques. I love the scope for experimentation that mushroom cultivating presents. Keep me updated on your progress. I have a genuine interest in seeing other people's success (and commiserating failures)
I agree with you, very well presented. It’s obvious bigmush is an expert on this
@@BigMush9000 I will keep you posted on progress if you’ll continue to do the same…? Can’t wait to hear more about your experiments and results!
One of the things I love about the mushroom growing community is everyone’s willingness to experiment, and to help new growers learn and troubleshoot their grows. The frustrating thing, though, is that cultivation trials are too rarely conducted in a strategic, systematic way (e.g., by changing one variable at a time, using a control, with adequate reps, controlling for extraneous variables, building on previous results, etc.). It also feels like a foundational understanding of mushroom biology is sometimes missing from people’s opinions.
I guess maybe it’s just me, but coming from a science background, I feel like I have to test all the dogma for myself before I can accept it. That’s something I enjoy doing, but it’s also very time consuming. That’s why I particularly value your approach to testing different variables and sharing what you’ve learned.
It’s hard to design mushroom cultivation experiments that control for all the extraneous variables and yield quantifiable results, but I know that I can trust your methodology. Keep going! I look forward to hearing and seeing more. 😊
Very concise, well organized and informational. Thanks Big 🍄
You're very welcome. I'm glad you found this useful!
I was just commenting on another post that said the same and how much I enjoy watching these vids. I’m learning so much!
Again this is a very useful video @BigMush9000. I like the way you pay attention to details such as the cooking time of the various kinds of rice, and the measure of dryness before packing it.
This is information that new growers like myself need, and it isn’t easy to find.
This is the first channel I turn to whenever I start a new mushroom project.
Thanks mate! Too kind of you to say. I'm glad you get some use from these :).
Same. I watch your videos first, and the others as filler. This one came out at exactly the right time as I’m just about to embark on preparing my own grain jars and had settled on brown rice as a medium based on the results of your comparison and a similar trial conducted by Philly Golden Teacher. Can’t thank you enough! 🙏
@maxineetheridge6922 Again, much too kind :D Good luck with your rice! Be sure to keep me updated with your progress
@@BigMush9000 Will do! 🙂
I agree with you. These are things a newbie wouldn’t know about and would otherwise need to guesstimate. It’s such good clear information that is easy for me to follow along to
I’ve been experimenting with different grains throughout the years and found that some of the fungal species I grow ( I also have wood decomposers) really enjoy rye berries and brown rice with brown rice having the added benefit of containing Tryptamine in the bran coat which is why they tend to be a bit more potent than most. Peace👍
@@Steveshappylittletrees yeah definitely man! I'd love to muck with some wood eaters as well. There are plenty from my homeland I wouldn't mind trying to cultivate
@@BigMush9000 - Sweet. The one’s I have are taken from wild prints from Southern Australia, New Zealand and coastal Oregon. I’m in Detroit Michigan USA and have 4 separate species growing quite well in a mixed wood chip bed underneath a huge Silver Maple in my backyard. We’re a zone 6 (use to be 5) and they made it through the last two winters with no problems and have expanded their mycelial mass quite significantly 👍
@Steveshappylittletrees Beautiful, mate. Subaeruginosa etc etc? They really do love pine woodchips. You're making home sick! When I visit home again, I hope to find some wild fruits to take some prints. Amazing you're growing them in Detroit. I'd have imagined it'd be too cold
@ - When I first set them out, I wasn’t so sure myself but luckily the ground hasn’t frozen solid in quite a bit now and the winters are milder here now since childhood growing up here although it is pretty cold out today and supposed to dip into single F. temps for lows into next week
@Steveshappylittletrees well good on you mate! Those temps you describe certainly sound like Tasmania/Southern Aus/New Zealand. I hope the ground doesn't freeze on you yet. Do you use a mulch or anything to keep your growth from patch warm at all?
Great vid thumbs up and subbed sir
Thanks so much, mate! Happy to have you here!
Very good video. New friend here with full support👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks mate! You're too kind
Are you new to growing mushrooms? I am, and finding this channel to be super helpful
Thanks!!!
No problem!
Never had any luck with brown rice. It always goes stinky and i throw it away :(
@andynd5571 I've had a few foul-smelling jars of brown rice myself! Bacterial contamination absolutely stiiinnnlkksss.
It's usually bad culture that does it or an insufficient sterilisation cycle.
If you ever feel like trying it again, use a smaller volume, and you may have better results.
What grain do you prefer to use instead?
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Classique
That kind of just looks like mold
Looks can be deceiving. Rest assured, that's definitely mycelium
At 15 psi your sterilization time should only be 30 minutes
@trickthekids the time depends on the volume of grains you're sterilising. More doesn't hurt. I'd hate for anyone watching to waste culture because they didn't sterilise long enough
For grains MINIMUM 90 min, I do 2.5/3hr for oats
Precisely! My last big spawn run I did 4 hours. It split some of the grains and maybe cooked them a little.....but no contam and very good colonisation .
@@BigMush9000 oats for sure need to be PC'd for 2.5+ If you just spent all that time prepping and getting your PC up to temp might as well let it run a little longer and save yourself the headache in 4 weeks & ensure your spawn doesn't contam! Love the videos glad to see this info spreading across the world!! 💜💜
@@Bentwambus yeah mate, a little extra time in the pc saves a month!