Phase One - 9 Steps of Growing Psilocybin Mushrooms: Making Grain Spawn

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Phase One: Making Grain Spawn

• Takes Approximately 48 - 72  Hours: Prepare the grain, jars, and lid. Pressure cook the jars of grain. Prepare the clean room, and inoculate the grain with spores.
• Takes Approximately 1 Month: Grow the mycelium

Once the mycelium has grown throughout the grain, this is called "grain spawn" in the mushroom growing world. 

Above is a picture of grain spawn that has been fully colonized by mycelium in a grain jar. As you can see, the whole jar will look white. 

It took about 4 weeks for the mycelium to completely grow in my jars of grain.

Can I really do this? 

YES!! You really can do this. Anyone can grow mushrooms. It just takes knowledge, patience, time, planning, and organization.  

I'm here to help you with each of these. I had never done anything like this before. I scoured the internet, read books, watched videos, read articles, stalked different reddit and facebook groups.... but I did it. I figured it out. 

If I can do this, so can you!!

Please do not just go step by step and not read the whole article. You will need to read this blog like five times before you actually do this. Don't skip any of the steps. Watch the videos. Take notes. Picture in your head what you are going to do, before you do it.

You don't want to waste time and money on doing this wrong and having to start the whole process over again. 

Before you start learning about these steps, please get really familiar with the basics and vocabulary of mushrooms and mushroom cultivation - Basics and Vocabulary: Fungi and Mushrooms and Their Cultivation

Here are the steps. Please click on the links to go over each one. 

9 Steps of Growing Psilocybin Mushrooms: Making Grain Spawn

1. (Step 1) Planning - Timing and Schedule Breakdown
2. (Step 2) List of Items You Need
3. (Step 3) Making the Lids
4. (Step 4) Prepare the Rye Berries for the Pressure Cooker
5. (Step 5) Clean Room - Set up and Cleaning 
6. (Step 6) Using the Pressure Cooker for the Grain Jars
7. (Step 7) Last Prep for Clean Room
8. (Step 8) Inoculation of Grain Jars
9. (Step 9) Let it GROW!! Growing Mycelium into Grain Spawn