Bird seed or Popcorn?

I see a mixup of terminoligy.
Spawning of mushrooms is the act of using a colonised grain to spawn into another medium like horse poop....

If you want to use the grain itself as a substrate I'd go with rye or corn.

Originally Posted by ANC

I see a mixup of terminoligy.
Spawning of mushrooms is the act of using a colonised grain to spawn into another medium like horse poop....

If you want to use the grain itself as a substrate I'd go with rye or corn.

My bad. I mean using popcorn instead of wild bird seed in my jars that I will be injecting. I saw it on the shroomery where the dude used whit popcorn in qt jars. Just something I was thinking about.

Originally Posted by estesj

My bad. I mean using popcorn instead of wild bird seed in my jars that I will be injecting. I saw it on the shroomery where the dude used whit popcorn in qt jars. Just something I was thinking about.

Here is the link.Shroomery - Popcorn Tek w/pics

Now look carefully, what don;t you see..... mushrooms

The tek is purely to innoculate corn (grains) with fungi.

As I tried to explain you could either use the corn itself as a medium to grow the shrooms, rye is better but more expensive.
But the ultimate goal of using grains is to spawn into another medium like horsepoop, or what have you. The smaller the grain, the more seeding points there are when spawning to the final medium.

Using straight corn, you can layer some verm in an icecream tub, then add your colonised corn, break it up so you get an even layer and then add about a quarter inch of moist verm on top to seal it all in and keep the moisture in. Put this into your fruiting chamber.

Do not try to make cakes from corn, it sucks...

Originally Posted by ANC

Now look carefully, what don;t you see..... mushrooms

The tek is purely to innoculate corn (grains) with fungi.

As I tried to explain you could either use the corn itself as a medium to grow the shrooms, rye is better but more expensive.
But the ultimate goal of using grains is to spawn into another medium like horsepoop, or what have you. The smaller the grain, the more seeding points there are when spawning to the final medium.

Using straight corn, you can layer some verm in an icecream tub, then add your colonised corn, break it up so you get an even layer and then add about a quarter inch of moist verm on top to seal it all in and keep the moisture in. Put this into your fruiting chamber.

Do not try to make cakes from corn, it sucks...

No cakes at all! I am doing the monotub with the horse poo, vem, and worm casting mix. I was just thinking pf using popcorn instead of wbs in my jars i will be knocking up. I am probably going with the wbs tek in my jars tho.

Ok, either way it should work fine, I've done corn and pooh before without problems...

Originally Posted by ANC

Ok, either way it should work fine, I've done corn and pooh before without problems...

Cool cool. I have heard some say to fill your jars half way before they go in the pc and ive heard 3/4ths. What do you think?

About 3/4 is good, remember that 1/4 inch dry verm in the bottom of your jar.

The space is only needed in case you need to shake the jar... which is realy not what I recommend anyway... no one shakes nature's jars outdoors...