What you need: Beginner Mushroom Growing Guide

• Inflatable Monotub or • 5 gallon Bucket • Plastic Plugs or Tape STEP 1

66qt Hard Monotub with tight sealing lid
• Foam Filters or Purchase monotub from Purchase spore Purchase spawn bag
• Sterilized Spawn Bag • Large Cooking Pot
Micropore tape BoomerShroomer.com syringe from from spawnmagic.com
• Spore Syringe • Stove/Heating
• Dry Packs for Storage or build your own inoculatetheworld.com
Element
• Black Plastic Liner • Spray Bottle
• Mason Jars
• Gypsum • Lighter USE CODE USE CODE
• Paper Towels
• Coco Coir • Water • 70% Isopropyl Alcohol boomershroomer BoomerShroomer
• Vermiculite • Dehydrator for 10% off for 10% off

NOTE: Always ensure a sterile environment by disinfecting your

equipment and surfaces. It’s important to be as sterile as possible.
It is easy to get contmination so it’s crucial to minimize risk.

STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4

• Inoculate Spawn Bag
with spore syringe.
• It’s very important to be
as sterile as possible.
• Spore germination to grain
is not guaranteed.
• If no germination (mycelium
growth) after 10 days, gently
shake the bottom. (Spores
germinate in pairs, you want
the spore solution to remain
in a compact area so they
can find each other)
• Wait until the spawn bag is 10-30% colonized. • Make Bulk Substrate the day before you’re
• Then break up and mix colonized grain & reset going to use it, then let it cool overnight.
• After you mix the spawn bag wait another • Close lid overnight
14-30 days for spawn bag to fully colonize 16 cups of
• Store bag in a dark warm place. Temp 70 to 75°F Lid boiling water
(21 to 23°C)
(4 quarts)
5 Gallon
10% 100 grams Gypsum
colonized Bucket
500 grams Coco Coir
500 grams Vermiculite

TIP Need a sterile environment? Use TIP Avoid direct sunlight! It will kill new TIP If you use the bulk substrate while
your bathroom! mycelium growth. it’s too hot, it will kill the mycelium.

STEP 5 STEP 6
• Prepare monotub for colonization stage. • Watch the tub carefully as it starts to colonize.
• Plug all holes (this helps maintain high humidity • Wait 5-14 days for the monotub to fully colonize
within the tub while substrate colonizes) • Try not open the monotub during this time.
• Break up fully colonized spawn bag, then mix up all • Once the monotub is about
of the spawn and half of the bulk substrate recipe in 80% colonized, it’s time to
the bottom of the tub, inside the liner. Finally add a Spawn and Bulk start the fruiting stage.
half inch later of substrate covering all the spawn. Bulk Substrate Substrate
• Store tub in warm place out of
• Close the lid. Store in the dark warm place. Temp 70 to 75° F (21 to 23°C) direct sunlight. Temp 70 to 75° F
Fully colonized monotub (21 to 23°C)

TIP TIP Once substrate is almost completely

Aim for 80-90% humidity in the monotub while it’s colonizing. white, move to Step 7.

STEP 7 STEP 8
• Each day, fan monotub 2-3 times/day.
• Prepare the monotub for fruiting stage.
• Remove all plugs and replace with micropore tape or foam filters • If the sides of the tub are dry, mist
the sides to keep up the humidity.
• Fan monotub with the lid before
closing (Introducing fresh air is the • Never mist the mycelium directly
first stage to start pinning). to prevent bruising.
• In 5-10 days, mushrooms will start to
• Place monotub in indirect
appear as tiny white bumps before
sunlight - Avoid direct sunlight!
fruiting.

TIP Mushrooms don’t need light to grow, but it does help - if TIP
Never mist the mycelium directly.
they are given light they will grow toward it. So cool!

STEP 9 STEP 10
• After 5-15 days, your mushrooms
Veil Breaks • To dry, place newly harvested mushrooms
will be ready to harvest.
on a paper towel with a small fan and
• The best time to harvest
wait 2-7 days for them to dry completely.
mushrooms is right before
the veil breaks. • After mushrooms are completely dry,
• Gently twist and pick them from place in a mason jar for safekeeping and
the substrate. storage. Don’t forget to add a dry pack to
the jar for best results.
Once the mushrooms start to spore, they stop producing
TIP psilocybin and start to produce spores. Once they break TIP
their veil they are at their most potent state. You can store your mushrooms for years like this.

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