hey team in this video we're going to take you through making the easiest
mushroom blocks possible and these blocks are perfect for growing up boys
to mushrooms if you haven't growing them before and you want to give it a shot
and I recommend um trying to this method here and it gets our great results
making these blocks involves using a preferably hardwood fuel pellets
although you can use softwood fuel pellets and our sweet holes and that is
mixed together in a ratio of 50/50 so 50% hardwood or softwood if your
parts and 50% Sui hulls this is known as the Masters mix and it was turned
masters mix by a gentleman called TR Davis from earth angel mushrooms and if
you haven't seen his YouTube channel make sure you go check it out he is
incredible grower but I'm he brought the Masters mix to the world and from be
earners are spread around to a lot of growers and a lot of other growers there
I know grow on it I mean I grow on it myself as well and it goes our top
quality results now it takes about four weeks to go from fuel pellets and soil
pellets through a fully colonized bag now that's about the same amount of time
as the half-life of a chromium 51 isotope wait a minute
half-life of a chromium 51 isotope half-life does that mean half life 3 is
confirmed and I just want to thank you my subscribers for the award and
especially I wanted to thank Tom from audience for being here tonight and for
being here for all those years so good luck figuring it out and so the easiest
way to get a mushroom substrate bag really is simply I get your your
mushroom bag here in my case it's a unicorn grow bag and in it throw 50% of
your hardwood fuel pellets and 50% of your soy hulls
I've got one kilo of each it's one kilogram and to finish this bag off all
I need to do is tap on 2.4 kgs of water or 2.4 liters of water we can thank the
Mitch system that effect that our 2.4 kg of
water is in fact also 2.4 liters of water what else can we think the metric
system for well one is confusing Americans until is not changing the
sounding of the word ton from ton is that an imperial ton or is it a metric
ton who knows once you've got your wit substrate and the bag all you need to do
is get it under your pressure cooker or your autoclave and once it's in the
journey good practices to cook it for at least 45 minutes and up to 90 minutes or
2 hours if you've got a lot of substrate in there after the bags been sterilized
in your autoclave or a low pressure sterilizer they've generally come out
looking like this I pulled this one out just to show you guys generally I
wouldn't handle them with your hands but I'm doing it just for this demonstration
so that's really to be inoculated with mushroom spawn this one here was not get
inoculated about a week and a half ago actually maybe only a week ago and you
can see you got all the mycelium growing through that just nicely and this one on
the right was inoculated three weeks ago now that is ready to go into my fruiting
chamber and that is going to be placed and this week all of the substrate in
the areas are colonized I mean it is really go if the conditions and your
fruiting chamber are perfect after about a week you should have a nice patch of
mushrooms just like this this is growing on the Masters mix and the bags as
you've seen behind here and this has produced a nice bunch of blue oyster
mushrooms you can see the size compared to the bag is quite good so that is a
very nice first flush which I'm happy with and that's my process it takes four
weeks to go from the raw fuel pellets to the fully colonized bag at the back and
then another week to get this beautiful flush of mushrooms out of it