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# HomeMyco
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A [homebrewer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing)'s take on practical home cultivation of [mycelium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium) and their [mushrooms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom).
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Mycelium are kind of like a mushroom's roots but this is not an exact analogy.
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The purpose of a mushroom is to release spores as far away from the colony as it can reach.
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Mycelium are like a mushroom's roots but this is not an exact analogy.
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The use of a mushroom to the mycelium is to release spores as far away from the colony as it can reach.
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[Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0](LICENSE)
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There is always a risk that bacteria and mold will invade, competing with your precious mushroom makers.
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Many guides do everything they can to reduce this risk.
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My approach gives you methods that are still effective but easy and cheap to recover from contamination.
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My approach gives you methods that are also effective but easy and cheap to recover from contamination.
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# Do it Thrice
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Bird seed, coconut husk, and sugar water are inexpensive.
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All other equipment can be reused.
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Saving a control will help you test for contamination introduced through your technique.
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If all fares well you can always using it the next time you do inoculations.
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You can always use the control the next time you do inoculations.
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# Finding Samples
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Online shopping can get you all sorts of mycelium sample types, ranging from spawn grains and liquid culture to spores and dried mushrooms.
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When paying good money for a sample try to find liquid culture as they have a pretty good colonization rate.
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Eventually you will want to make your own cultures from your harvested mushrooms.
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Eventually you may want to make your own cultures from your harvested mushrooms.
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# Three Stages
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Nutrient rich grain treated and sanitized to feed mycelium.
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Vitamin and mineral rich substrate treated and sanitized to provide mycelium a growing surface.
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In this guide we combine grain spawn and substrate to simplify the process and reduce risk of contamination.
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- [ ] 16 oz wide mouth mason jars with lids
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0. Fill with water until moisture is visible on the surface of the mixture and soak overnight.
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0. Split evenly to each 16 oz wide mouth mason jar, about 1 cup.
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0. Split evenly to each 16 oz wide mouth mason jar no further than the 300 ml mark.
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0. Cover jar opening with aluminum foil and [pressure cook](#autoclave) for 2 hours.
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0. Store in a dark cool place until inoculation.
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When you become more familiar with the above process you may wish to colonize only grain spawn prior to mixing with substrate.
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This process is easier to view contamination and to agitate the mycelium to increase the colonization rate.
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Once grain spawn is fully colonize you would mix the colonized grain spawn with the substrate to provide adequate fruiting space.
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## Spawn Inoculation
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- [ ] 50 to 100 ml syringe with hollow needle, [autoclavable](#autoclave)
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