Making Grain Spawn for Growing Mushrooms - Better Than Uncle Bens

00:00 Intro
00:41 Preparing Walmart Rice
02:47 Intermission
03:27 Post-Processing Walmart Rice
07:23 Steam Sterilizing Talk
08:03 Pressure Sterilizing
11:26 Outro

Brown rice is the best grain spawn for mushroom cultivation.

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INDUCTION STERILIZER PARTS:

[philipholman]

Hey, is that Walmart Brand Brown Rice?

[MrJackson]

The everything is a $1.25 store,
dollar tree, has a two pound bag of brown rice, at half the price of Walmarts brand... Works just as good... For those savvy to saving $$$.
Great value and Great video 😊.

[bofeity]

Always rinse rice multiple times until water runs clear before boiling. Will help remove any dust/starch.

[aaronburks]

Myco Dog! Thank you so much for making the video and especially for the information about purging. For one, there’s actually not another good video for using a canner then yours. All the other ones use a pressure cooker or a stock pot or something else and this was super helpful. Again a double thanks for the purging information because I made 12 PF jars about a week ago and three of them were covered in bacteria within two days and I couldn’t put together why those three were contaminated when the procedure was done exactly the same for all the jars and that is a factor that could’ve definitely been it. I have not been purging my canner but I do know. That’s why we need people to continue to make videos even if they seem like they’re redundant because I’ve felt like I’ve watched so many of the same freaking videos doing the same freaking procedures just I don’t know why I do but when there’s pieces of the puzzle and videos like yours That makes it extremely helpful and very much worth it. Keep a lookout for ZoomFuture Labs videos in the near future. as I have found myself coming up with techniques and ideas that I have not seen anybody else do, and would like to share. Keep up the good work Sir

[TheSavvyBox]

We love you MycoDogs - please more videos!

[ronparker]

First time grower. Awesome video! Thanks.

[roonyaldo]

Any chance you could do a video on how you inoculate? Your videos are the best I’ve seen on this subject, by far

[bobbobby]

For those of you wondering can I do it in one bag, yes you sure can. Go buy crockpot liners, and walla. You don't have to order and wait for fancy heat resistant bags.

[brescalofrio]

ok bro finally somebody said you don't need foil as long the filter is sanitized and dry. micropore works just fine until mold grows on it.

[scottduff]

Awesome video! About to buy a pressure cooker myself. I love growing mushrooms!

[dustinewing]

I have found Great value brand grains such as the Popcorn, and Brown Rice are great for myco projects.

[mattborski]

@MycoDogs Next time you're folding/rolling the bags, could you put the microphone closer to them? I couldn't quite hear them crinkle enough. Thanks!

[Pattwon]

Cool video thank you. My only concern is thay the arsenic in the brown rice will end up in the mushrooms. To avoid this problem we cook our rice like spaghetti pouring off the excess water which takes a lot of the Arsenic away with it. Best of luck mate.

[jakuboprsal]

Thanks a lot for all you are doing or us, baginners ;)

[mercagubbendeluxe]

I cooked the brown rice with maybe 3 spoons of liquid honey in a pressure cooker, all the way till the water is gone. (Burned the bortom of the cooker a bit). Cleaned a plastic box with alcohol. (Empty ice cream box). Put the rice in it. Put the lid on, placed the box outside in 0 to -1 degrees C just enough to let the rice cool. Then I completely skipped the part with sterillizing the substrate. I figured the rice is already quite sterile after being pressure cooked and the box from having been wiped with paper and alcohol. So I just added the spores from the syringe. I put it on my ventilated window board so the box had a steaming radiator under it. (Around 40 degrees C) . Then I put a card board shoe box over it so it was completely covered and dark. Waited 9 days then the rice was beautifully covered in clean fresh mycelium. Now just couple of minutes ago I have started the fruiting process in a grow bag. (I just put the ice cream box inside the bag with some water and sealed the bag. (after I had poured bottled water over the substrate and kept in fridge for 12 hrs) Hopefully I get a nice flush of Golden teachers in about 2 weeks. Maybe you need to sterililize the substrate in jars before adding spores with other strains, don't know. With golden teachers the jar cooking part to grow mycelium was obviously not necessary.

[kingsherman]

Does the rice need to be completely dry before you put it in jars

[Shunya]

Great video. How long after you let the bags cool do you seal them?

[julietrobertsmusic]

Question?? After you preassure Cook it does the inside of the jar get more wet?
Rice is sticking to the jar and there is a bit of condensation on the top part of the glass. Is that ok?

[Amosyahu]

Dude says, "Have a dab, " as I've just cooked the glass clean to do so.
Great timing, my dude, and even better videos.
Stay rad, my dude, and as someone who eats rice like bread, rinse the starch off first. It's easy easier, unless you just need to cool the rice off, I guess.

[jasio]

Hi. I follwed your instructions, soimmered rice for 10 min, sterilized for 90 min. But after sterilization i found some grains bursted. It sewms that PC sterilization is still cooking rice. Is it ok?