How to Make Injection Port Jar Lids for Mushroom Cultivation
Вставка
- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- Mason jars are the simplest, easiest and most reliable way to get started growing your own mushrooms at home.
This video demonstrates how to modify standard canning jars to turn them into specialized mushroom cultivation containers. Learn two different methods: a super quick, cheap trick to get you started right away, and a more reliable but slightly more involved technique to help you go the distance.
Made with love by Fungaia,
a heart-centered, donation-based mushroom company
www.fungaia.life/
For the best, most reliable and super affordable mushroom
genetics and liquid culture, visit our favorite culture supplier:
True Blue Genetics
www.TrueBlueGenetics.org/?cou...
Discount code: FUNGAIA
____________________________
Supplies List
Donation-Based Gourmet Mushroom Culture Library
www.fungaia.life/shop/species
The best liquid culture on the market:
True Blue Genetics
truebluegenetics.org/?coupon=...
(This is the last genetics provider you will ever need!)
Synthetic jar filters: Microppose
microppose.com/r?id=992nf2
Discount code FUNGAIA
(Also a great source for monotubs, monotub filters and injection ports.)
Sterilizable plastic jar lids:
Search for “Mainstays” (Walmart brand) plastic mason jar lids. You want the white ones. Make sure you’re getting the right size, regular or wide mouth.
Other Supplies:
- Mason jars
- Any 100% silicone sealant from your local hardware store. (You can get toothpaste-style tubes if you don’t have caulk gun.)
- Screwdriver, hammer, polyester fill (You can get a cheap pillow for about $4 at your local big box.)
- Or: Drill, 1/4-inch bit, countersink
- Love!
How to make grain spawn:
• How to Make Grain Spaw...
Fresh, organic rye grain:
www.fungaia.life/shop/fertile...
How to make your own liquid culture:
• How to Make Liquid Cul...
Bulk Liquid Culture IV Bags:
www.fungaia.life/shop/spawn/?...
Upcoming videos:
Introduction to Mushroom CultivationHow to Use a Liquid Culture SyringeHow to Grow Mushrooms the Easy WayHow to Make Liquid Culture the Easy Way
How to Make Grain SpawnIntroduction to Sterile Culture Technique
How to Make Agar Media and Pour Petri Dishes
The Basics of Breeding
Storing Genetics and Managing a Mushroom Culture Library
Troubleshooting Contamination: Identification, Prevention and Problem-Solving
Working with Mushroom Grow BagsMaking Substrate for Dung-Loving MushroomsMaking Substrate for Wood-Loving MushroomsBuilding a Home LabThe Laminar Flow HoodThe Fungaia Flow Hood KitDIY Bulk PasteurizerDIY Cold StorageDIY HumidifiersDIY Water FiltrationTyndallization: How to Make Grain Spawn without a Pressure CookerLow-Tech Mushroom Cultivation with Cold PasteurizationOutdoor Mushroom CultivationThe Liquid Culture Revolution: 5 Ways Liquid Culture Will Change the WorldFungaia's Bulk Liquid Culture SystemR.E.M.I.S.: The Remarkably Efficient Mass Inoculation SystemMyco-Materials
All content, including music, was created by Paul Lynn. All rights reserved.
© 2024 Alembic Enterprises LLC
Walla Walla, Washington
(Please forgive the video/edit quality, I’m learning!)
0:00 Intro
0:32 Overview
1:40 Air Filters
2:07 Method 1: Quick & Cheap
7:08 Method 2: The Better Way
11:32 Tips, Next Steps, Outro - Наука та технологія
One of the best mushroom channels on UA-cam.
This channel has redeemed UA-cam for me. Mush love
Just adding this comment to show appreciation and support 🫠
Best learning tool on UA-cam!! I appreciate YOU!
Great videos! I look forward to seeing more of your work!!
Great content and I appreciate your humor. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with the world!
I love the video and am looking forward to more from you. Thank you for the easy directions. I also like that you give the reason for why something is done. Keep that up in future videos please!
Love love your content..
Also…Tip: if u wet a paper towel and use that across your gloved hand u can tamp down the silicone it wont stick to gloved finger
"Because.... I like prime numbers." 😆 I'm dying. I know what you meant
Your videos helped fill in some gaps in my knowledge and make DIY mushroom cultivation very accessible ble.
Thank you.
What a nice guy and top tier tutorials. Gonna start my first grow soon
Love this channel
Great vid!
Good work man!!
Instead of just polyfill I use needle caps, y cut the end to make a tube and stuff the tube with polyfill. It makes it tighter and since the tube is longer it's more difficult for contams or or liquid to get in or out. You can even shake the jars since polyfill is hydrophobic
splendid
Have you experience with micropore tape seems it would be more cost effective than polyfill and easier to apply, thanks for the video, im about to go make my first lids.
Yes, micropore tape is great for monotub filters where contamination is far less of a problem, but it does not offer enough protection for grain.
If you rely on it for jar filtration, you will have mold issues. A cheap pillow is less than $4 at walmart and contains enough polyfill to make hundreds of lids!
Not to be that contrarian, but I've used micropore tape with less issues than polyfill. I do not advice against Fungaia's wisdom, but in my situation, I've got the same 85%-95% success rate. I also make sure to double the tape up and it is a PAIN to clean off of the lids for the next batch. I also will put all of my inoculated jars into my Martha tent inside of an isolated room that is always kept CLEAN . I'm sure that it doesn't hurt that I live in the frozen north where 1/2 of the year is frozen and there just aren't as many contam issues to worry about at that time. If I were starting over again, I think that I play around a few times with micropore tape and after a couple of adventures and mis adventures, switch over to the thick filter pads. They look pretty bomber! Mush love, all!
Great info!
Is that a Unicorn bag? If not, is there a type of bag you'd recommend for more advanced growers? Also, glad to see you posting! Love the work so far! Keep up the good work. :)
Yep, I have always used Unicorn bags and they have always worked perfectly for me. Always get a type T filter for making spawn. Stay tuned for a whole video on bags!
Commenting just to show support for our goofy myco homie
Question on the plastic lids. The ones I typically buy have a clear rubber gasket that fit in a groove for sealing. You said your are flat. So do they not have the gasket with the groove? Love your channel!!
Maybe a soon in photo of the inside of the lid. … I love prime numbers.. ha
For the alternative case i cant get access that one, can i use the fiter paper for coffee filter and double it?
In the video you stated there's a link to the filters used. I didn't see the link. Can you provide the name and vendor?
Yes the company is called Microppose.
microppose.com/r?id=992nf2
Hope that helps!
Under the video, on the right hand side, click on ".....more"
Hi iam your regular viewer. I love to watch your videos. could you please help me. Can I use air tight Jam jar for LC?
hi, do you guys think its a good idea to just close the aeration hole with some micropore tape? instead of the microfiber, it seems safer, or theres no need/drawbacks? thank you
i also like prime numbers.
Really no comments about the dude sneaking past the window =P 7:10
Great videos, Love em.
What’s in all of those buckets with the cheese cloth tops to your left?
Kombucha!
A much better option for a DYI injection port is employing the use of RTV rather than silicone. Also, I would not suggest those filter discs. Instead I would suggest the implementation of a syringe filter. It will keep the container water tight, and still allow for FAE and pressure/vacuum equilibrium when you draw LC with syringes. This guys methods are ok, but there are much better options for LC jar lids, in my opinion.
Hi! Cotton works as well as the poliéster filter?
Yes, cotton filters work too!
Has puncturing the filter with the syringe ever caused you contamination problems further on down the cultivation road?
Wondering the same.
No, as long as the silicone seals against the filter, the injection port will protect the hole that the needle makes.
If you peel the filter and silicone apart, you'll need to reapply the silicone to reseal the hole.
Another place one can get plastic Mason jar lids is from small 16oz peanut butter containers.
Mate, you’re a pro and a natural educator.
Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge dude
Very generous and kind soul
🫶
I've never thought to actually grow sum mushroom but doomsday is close DAMNIT!
Does any one breed barvaria basiana soil fungus for agriculture ?????
This was a very thoughtful and informative video. Thank you very much, amigo.
I am not a fan of the foolhardy scientist bit, but I love your channel otherwise. Thanks much
Watch the window at 7:11 - hilarious
Bro what is up with your hammer? 2:54
And prime numbers? 10:28
Love it
"I like Prime numbers""
you really need to re inflate your hammer