Horse poo is one of the best additives to any Gourmet Health Mushroom kit. It will provide you with a mountain of mushrooms, with larger than usual fruits. Horse poo will also boost any health properties or effects of your chosen Gourmet Health mushrooms.
Not really! The main star of the show here is the horse poo, these substrates are just along for the ride!
These kits will take a bit longer than the others, but are definitely worth it due to their bigger, more bountiful harvests of beautiful fruits!
These average around 5-8 weeks for your first harvest, but once this kit gets going, it will take a while to stop. Experience multiple harvests with this kit!
You do not need to add water at any stage prior to the fruiting period where you will need to add water by misting your bag once a day. Please see the below instructions on how to go about this!
This bag will give you a variable yield depending on the Gourmet Health Mushroom strain you chose, however it averages at around 600+g when wet. When dried, this will decrease to 10-20% of this bodyweight.
To Use (fruiting from the bag):
- Sanitize the area with 70% Isopropyl Alcohol Spray and allow the area to air out for 10-15 minutes before inoculating your kit.
- Use the alcohol swab to clean the injection port and then inoculate your kit with the spores provided, at a 45 degree angle into the bag.
- Do not mix this bag at this stage. Instead, place it on top of a heat source kept at around 26-27c in complete darkness. This will begin the colonization of your bag.
- Check in on the bag after 14 days in these conditions. You should see mycelium near the injection port. If this is bigger than a ping-pong ball, you can break the bag up and redistribute the mycelium around the bag to speed up colonization. If not, keep checking in every 7 days until you reach this point.
- Keep the bag in the dark until it is fully colonize and ready to fruit. This can take 4-5 weeks from inoculation.
- When the substrate is 95% colonized (mostly white). You can now enter the second phase of the project. Ensure you repeat sterile conditions like you did when inoculating and carefully cut away the bag surrounding your mycelium cake. Gently roll this in the provided vermiculite, and seal within the provided additional XLS fruiting bag. We would recommend keeping the bag upright like a tower at this stage.
- Store the bag within the same temperature or 26-27c, but in low, indirect lighting. If you need help with these conditions, please contact us at [email protected].
- Don’t open the bag for the first 4days. The closed bag allows for moisture to build up inside the bag and the 4 day period allows the Mycelium to grow up through the vermiculite coating. These two actions are setting you up for a heavy first harvest.
- Day 5 onwards you want to be opening the bags 3 times a day and fanning fresh air into the bag for 40 seconds each time. Sealing the bag back up after fanning. On the first opening of the bag, please spray a little fine mist of fresh tap water onto the insides of the bag. Doing this once in the morning will make a nice moist environment and the 3 fanning sessions a day will provide enough evaporation of moisture to promote a thick and heavy pinset.
- Continue until pins show. At this point you can stop with the fanning. Misting once in the morning and just leave one corner of the bag open 1 inch at all times. This will promote airflow into the bag.
- The Mushrooms will grow happily in the bag until they are mature and ready to harvest.
- Harvest the mushroom before they start to drop their spores either by reaching into the bag or by sliding the bag down so mushrooms can be removed at will.
- To get more mushrooms to grow from the substrate. Simply harvest all the mushrooms (leave tiny pins for next time round), leave the cake in the 2nd XLS bag and pour water into the bag from the cold water tap. Add enough water to make the cake float in 1inch of water. Seal the bag and leave for 12hrs. After the 12hr soak. Drain the water from the cake/bag for 15mins.
- Place back in tower position, close the bag up, lights on and temps 26-27, fans bag tops until pins show and then leave a 1inch air gap for daily air flow until mushrooms are ready to harvest
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