How to Make Grain Spawn for DIY Mushroom Cultivation

Grain spawn is the key to the mushroom cultivation process. This video demonstrates how to prepare perfect grain to grow your own mushrooms from scratch at home. This simple DIY method will allow you to exponentially expand your mycelium from spores or liquid culture into many pounds of spawn in just a few short weeks.

Packed with lots of helpful tips, trick and techniques, this in-depth video will help you streamline your process, get reliable results, and keep your fungus happy, even if you're on a budget.

Watch to the end to meet Professor Sporadicus and learn how to scale up to commercial production and take your mushroom farming to the next level (plus a teaser for some juicy projects from Fungaia R&D).

Made with love by Fungaia,
a heart-centered, donation-based mushroom company
https://www.fungaia.life/

For the best, most reliable and super affordable mushroom
genetics and liquid culture, visit our favorite culture library:

True Blue Genetics
https://www.TrueBlueGenetics.org
Discount code: FUNGAIA

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Supplies List

Donation-Based Gourmet Mushroom Culture Library
https://www.fungaia.life/shop/species

The best liquid culture on the market:
True Blue Genetics
This is the last genetics provider you will ever need!

Fresh, organic rye grain:
https://www.fungaia.life/shop/fertilesubstrate/?q=raw_rye

How to make your own injection port jar lids:
https://youtu.be/AwacJaA6qHM

Synthetic jar filters: Microppose
https://microppose.com/r?id=992nf2
Discount code FUNGAIA
(Also a great source for monotubs, monotub filters and injection ports.)

Other items:
Good, clean water
Mason jars
Large cooking pot
Pasta strainer or colander
Long-handled spoon
Pressure cooker or Instant Pot
Bath towel or window screen

How to make liquid culture the easy way:
https://youtu.be/ybOImNKrOaY?si=Bf3ztj6u5-CYjsU2

Advanced liquid culture technique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxbbpDPg4tc

Bulk Liquid Culture IV Bags:
https://www.fungaia.life/shop/spawn/?q=bulk_lc
https://www.truebluegenetics.org/#wholesale

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All content, including music, was created by Paul Lynn. All rights reserved.

(Please forgive the video/edit quality, I’m learning!)

0:00 Intro
1:05 Overview
3:49 The Key to Perfect Grain Spawn
4:32 Soak, Boil or Both?
5:36 Supplies
8:37 Step 1: Prep
12:00 Step 2: Sterilize
15:18 Step 3: Inoculate
16:25 Incubation & Mixing
18:14 Part Two: Scaling Up with Professor Sporadicus