The Ultimate Grain Experiment for Mycology

Wassup students, It’s your boi PGT and welcome back to class. Today’s class I’ll be sharing with you the results of my ultimate grain experiment. Many people keep asking me which grain is the best grain for cultivation. So I’ve decided to put all the grains that I can find to the test against each other and see how they compare. The goal of this experiment is to find out

1. What effect did the grains have on mycelium during colonization, which will colonize the fastest?

2. What effect the grains will have when it comes to fruiting?

3. What’s the best overall grain you should be using? Stay tuned until the end to find out.

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[shroomieshrooms]

Summary for grains
Colonisation time:
1. WBS
2. Sorghum & Brown rice
3. Milo & Popcorn
4. Millet & Oats & Ryeberry
5. Wheatgrass

Biological efficiency/best fruiter:
1. Brown rice (501g)
2. Ryeberry (492g)
3. Sorghum (429g)
4. Millet, Oats, Popcorn, Milo & WBS (300-380g)

[louisbrill]

The world needs more citizen scientists like this

[rizdraver]

The feed store down the road has 55lb bags of rye for next to nothing. But the prep for brown rice is so much easier and my yields are 100% identical to my rye tubs – as well the brown rice always colonizes faster, sometimes shockingly so with certain strains at a higher incubation temp. It's like the hardcore mycologist in me doesn't want to admit the easy "beginner's" grain is the best – and wants to jump through a bunch of hoops to feel more but the real-world yields and potency from brown rice simply can't be denied!

[toddwmac]

Dude, a very nice gift to the community. Thank you. As always, you continue to deserve the name...Teacher.

[arcies]

This, like the rest of your content, is super helpful, informative, and engaging. Love the amount of effort you put in sharing knowledge that cost you time and money for free to strangers to make the world better <3

[gregwilvert]

Thanks so much, fascinating video. I’ve mostly worked with brown rice but I’ve tried many others. My method for brown rice is: put the brown rice in a saucepan with water 0.6 times the weight of rice. So if you have 500g of BR, add 300g of cold water plus gypsum. Give it low flame for about 20mins, open to stir and give it about 10 more minutes, maybe reducing the flame a little. When the water is all absorbed, load into jars. Pressure cook. Do a hot shake. This method works great! No rinsing. There will probably be some small clumps after the shake and mix but it will all colonize just fine. No boiling and this nothing lost to leaching. I have jars finish in ~16 days.

[HearMetallica]

What strikes me is not the difference in colonization time, but the end yield. Brown rice was not only the fastest to pin but had the highest fruiting yield. Thank you PGT.

[joeyfung-i]

LFG PGT…. Been following you for years. Happy you came back on. You certainly enhanced my harvesting journey years back and grateful to see you coming out with this type content. Can’t wait! Mush Love All!

[glenw]

I love in depth, detailed, experiments like this. Great work PGT!

[PoH]

Super happy to see this. Just inoculated my first batches that Ive made from scratch and they were all brown rice, so I'm glad I made the right choice 😁

[DangerRussDayZ]

Fresh From the Farm Fungi did a similar video . Millet was one of the slowest to colonize the grains but it was the fastest to grow actual mushrooms once spawned to bulk.

[BlaccKyle]

You, 90second mycology, & rookie mycologist got me started on my journey. I appreciate you my guy.

[WildmanBarmer]

Awesome experiment PGT! Thank you for all you do for the myco community! Many of us would not be here if it wasn’t for you and all your incredible support and instruction!!!!

[imurgodsgod]

What is got from this is that a mix of grains is better than a single one!
I was poking around the US patent page looking for any mushroom related breakthrough and I found one regarding potency’s % and medicinal increase along with MASSIVE YEILD INCREASES, they were saying that a minimum of two compleat proteins and at least one starchy structural grain ( but that’s just the minimum you can add more their patent was for 8 grains ) gives a perfect diet for the mushroom, the gyst of what they were saying is the IF you add compleat protines and a good startchie structural grain together (the more kinds of grains the more diverse nutrients will be introduced COLORS MATTER purple corn, red quinoa, black quinoa ect, because mushroom are sponges they are even finding if you grow on cannabis it absorbs some of the cbd and cdn and stuff), add the stimulants of sound ranging from 200hz to 855hz ( if your useing agar play the sound when it’s growing on that too 222hz has been shown to be best for stimulation of general cell growth in other experiments ) and expose the jars and tubs to light from all spectrums of the scale except yellow APPARENTLY it cuts the time to completey fill the bag to full colonization to 12-14 days ( without a break and shake!!”)instead of 21-28 days avoiding the contains that occurs in more likelihood at the 16+ day mark, also they had a reduction in time to colonize tubs and fruit in only 1 to 2 weeks from when the time the spawn goes into the substrate there has to be something to it if they went and patented the idea, I’m not gonna steal it but I’m gonna use it to crest my own ideas, this video seems to prove the theory in a way, the WBS did best my guess is its more complex nutritionally or had a more compleat nutrient base better for the mushroom, so Recap— good nutrition + sound + lights (not yellow) + OH I FORGOT they used only -OPH water so around 9ph water, they said water that -400 to -600 OPH (or OHP I can’t remember) but that basically translates out to ionized charged 9ph water they said it was give it them HUGE HUGE HUGE increases in not only YEILD but also POTENCY….. I’ve also heard of 15% increases of potency (tested on a machine) by adding powder oyster shell, 5% by volume gypsum ( use brewers gypsum they put trykadeema bacteria in garden gypsum ) and 2%-5% coffee grounds by volume (or just do like 1 cup coffee to 10 cups water)

[Mossycreekmushroomsofficial]

Nice! I've always used Oats just because of their sheer ability to take horrendous abuse. I can over cook them by a long shot and they still don't explode on me.

[Antonyg]

Perfect timing of this vid! Thank you for sharing and doing this. I was just wondering if different grains and stuff made much of a difference. Thank you again for doing a real world test of so many different types!!

[CranialCastration]

Love your content!!! Could we get a video(s) on second flushes, dipping cakes, and stuff of that matter?

[lestat]

This is fantastic. Thank you for trying this out for the benefit of the community. As always your videos are well made, easy to understand, and a pleasure to watch.

[RocketSpam]

This must have been an incredible amount of work/process. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[__-pljg]

I guess I'll use brown rice instead of red wheat berries from now on and popcorn as a backup source when needed. Thanks for sharing your experiment results🙂.