Finished inoculating my Great Big Summer Mushroom Grow 🤣. I kid you not, there's probably 60-80lbs of seed spawn in that tub. It all went into my closet in my grow room and it's going to sit there for the next week before I check it but at least 2 weeks before I start using any of it.
For medicine, I have more Treasure Coast and Tidal Wave.
For food, blue and pink oyster mushrooms, Hen of the Woods and Enoki mushrooms(regular button mushrooms)
For fun, Panellus stipticus, a bioluminescent mushroom.
Hopefully it'll be ready in time for Halloween. Apparently they take like 3-4 months to fruit. And they're not even edible lol lots of words just to see a glow in the dark mushroom.
I also have to do a casing layer this time. The white button mushrooms won't grow properly without the casing layer. The treasure Coast and Tidal Wave would grow better with a casing layer as well. I haven't messed around with casing letters so it's something I have to research a little. If anyone knows any good info about casing layers PLEASE LMK ðŸ™.
I'm probably just going to go simple and do 50/50 coco vermiculite mix with maybe a dash of gypsum. I was also thinking about jiffy starter mix and hydrated lime but I hear that that one is a lot more susceptible to contamination. If successful, will give you crazy yield results. All this craziness is going to start just in time for all my autos to bloom. So hopefully there will be a nice oxygen CO2 exchange in that lung room.
If it wasn't for all the vermiculite, I would totally put the spent substrate into the worm bins or compost so I could rework it back into my medium... The Coco coir is fine, the mycelium is fine The mold and bacteria is fine..... It's just a vermiculite will start adding up with every single grow and it doesn't break down, nothing grows on it, It's just going to hold too much water in the medium. It's a shame. I need to figure out if I could use a substitute to keep up the sustainability.