Introducing “Swab to Grain”: one of the easiest ways to continuously grow mushrooms.

Welcome to my channel! This is my very first video! ⚛️🎆

Swab to grain: one of the easiest methods on how to grow mushrooms from spores. No pressure cooker and no agar necessary.

This video is meant to inspire new ideas about how to germinate spores. I thought to research and develop this swab-to-grain method in hopes that it could be a new agar-free way to germinate grain loving mushroom spores from spore prints. So far I have been pleasantly surprised.

📝 What you need for this tek:

🍄 Mushroom spore print
🍚 90 second rice (whole grain brown)
🖌️ Sterile swabs
✂️ Scissors
🔥 Lighter (for flame sterilizing the scissors)
🚿 70% alcohol (alcohol is flammable, keep away from fire)
🩹 Micropore tape
⚗️ Large ziplock bags
🌰 Coco coir

This video presents a very easy and relatively fast way to grow mushrooms at home. DIY is one of my favorite ways to operate, and this is ine of the easiest teks out there.

Some important points to reiterate:

• This method will not be as successful as possible unless you use a spore print that is as clean as humanly possible.
• Make sure your techniques are as sterile as possible when inoculating and spawning the rice bags. Going from spore straight to grain is known to result in a greater chance of contamination. I don’t have the best set up but I make do with a BBFFU and/or a sterilized bathroom surface after running the shower on HOT for 5-10 minutes, turning off the AC, and spraying everything with 70% isopropyl alcohol.
• when you gather spores you mush “spin” the swab on a *single point* on the spore print, DO NOT DRAG THE SWAB ACROSS THE PRINT.
• push the swab through the rice cake until you can see the seab top through the view window on the bottom of the bag

If you have a relatively clean spore print, and you use a good sterile technique, then you’ll have a better chance of getting clean grain spawn and a clean mushroom flush.

This tek wouldn’t have been developed if not for the freely given advice from 90 second mycology. If you have more questions about using 90 second rice bags to grow mushrooms, be sure to check out 90’s channel:

https://youtube.com/@90SecondMycology?si=3E0ujNj7QZv5_rjL

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Please let me know your results if you try this Swab-to-Grain tek!

Keep spreading the spores!! ⚛️🎆

-Ty