Making Mushroom Substrate - Oyster Mushroom Bags

I grow on masters mix, which is quite possibly the top performing mushroom substrate you can use for making easy Oyster mushroom bags. making perfect mushroom bags with masters mix will give you huge first flush and quality second and third flushes. You can see the results for the pleurotus flush I got in the video!

To make masters mix you use 50/50 hardwood fuel pellets and soy hull pellets. You can use softwood pellets like I do, but I am guessing the end biological efficiency isn't as good as using hardwood pellets, but it still works great.

After you mix 50/50 pellets and soy, you just add water. You want to add about 120% of the pellets weight as water. So if you use 1kg of dry substrate, add 1.2kg of water. This is by no means a perfect amount, but it works great for me, especially with low pressure sterilizing. If you are using a sealed autoclave you can probably use less water as there will be less evaporation.

It takes a week to sterilize and cool, then 3 weeks to colonise, then about a week to fruit. a 5 weeks turn around, and perfect for small scale mushroom growing.

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[bomboy]

Far and away the funniest myco channel on the tube!

[Max-bhrc]

Watching this many years later while HL3 hype building. Well done, sir. Mushrooms looking great!

[stellaromanis]

Hi from South Africa. Love your humour in all your videos! :)

[dougs]

Beautiful Oysters!!!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[nevillejones]

Thanks for confirming masters mix is the best, I will try this recipe.

[pelvabill]

Good job. Very enjoyable watch. Which model/size bag are you using?

[lbarnes]

Big fan, thanks for the content. Curious what size unicorns bags are you using? Thanks

[benbain]

Do you soak your soy hull pellets at all before adding to the bag, or do you add those along with hardwood pellets and water? I've seen it both ways, but have been a long time lurker on your page and have come to trust your judgement on a lot.

[Imakeweirdstuff]

would it be possible to use for example oat or barley instead of soy?

[lisemariecaron]

Hello, i really like your videos, i have a question, the master mix bags, can it be sterilised at low pressure in a steam tank? Thanks for the time and effort to reply :) and how much time and how much temperature ? Almost thanks

[drcobb]

I know this was made a while ago now, but the oystermushroom bag you showed that had fruited, do you remmber what the ratio of spawn would have been?? and what is your grain of choice now and what was it on this video?

[ShineGoMTL]

What temperature is the water you put in the bag? How long do you leave it in there? (overnight) What exact time? When you put it in the pressure cooker, do you seal the bag first? And how long exactly? There's a big difference between 45 minutes and 2 hours (for a bag containing 1kg of oak and 1kg of soy). How much time?

[ah]

Hi. Is there any preferred wood type for blue oyster.? Because when I tried growing it on hardwood sawdust., they failed to colonise. But on straw they are good. Im from India and we can't find those hardwood species that u usually recommend

[calebcardon]

As an American, I wholeheartedly agree that our units system is complete garbage. Like why did we change it when the preexisting one just makes way more sense

[ApolloLax]

Thanks for the awesome content and great information. One question, how many bags are you able to fit safely into the stovetop pressure cooker?

[coloradodirtbike]

There's no grain in the bag just the master mix that you innoculate and it grows?

[codyhernandez]

As an American, directions unclear, flooded house. 🤷‍♂️🤸‍♂️

[ReishiSamurai]

Great work! What is spawn ratio for 1 substrate bag ? 1 l of spawn or less ? And my idea is to put colonized wooden stick 20 cm long in the middle (that I do for my oyster grain spawn--put colonized stick in middle of grain bag) and hopes that bag will colonize. But how mush grain spawn you put in ?

[jnnfxul]

brother tell me what humidity and temperature should be in the germination chamber before the appearance of primordia ???

[kentcherevaty]

Hey man nice work! So much simpler than others I've watched. Is it soy hill pellets or ground soy hulls? To add on to your country list below Canada says hello!