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There's a subreddit for just about everything, but if you're a legit Uncle Ben's fan who is also a serious Redditor (that's a lonely island), you might be disappointed to find that the subreddit r/UncleBens isn't so much a gathering of hardcore pre-cooked rice fans, as it is an online sub-community of DIY psilocybin cultivators who are using Uncle Ben's and other supermarket staples to grow magic mushrooms.
[...] What makes Uncle Bens the perfect vessel for psilocybin, according to the r/UncleBens crew, is that mushroom cultivation "requires a sterile, nutrient-rich environment in which their spores can grow," and since Uncle Ben's rice is pre-cooked, sterilized and vacuum-sealed, it provides the necessary environment for cultivation.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Saturday July 04 2020, @07:17PM (2 children)
Beginner's advice was implied in the summary: keep every thing sterile. That includes worrying about the air circulating around your project, there are a lot of particles in the air including dust and various spores. Afterall, that's how sourdough and many cheeses gets started.
As the AC mentioned you can probably get the expensive bags and use them to innoculate the whole grain rice or rye bags before transferring the mycellium to bags of sawdust or grain.
I wouldn't touch Reddit with a barge pole, though. There have to be higher quality sources. I'd expec the recent decades have brought at least a few to quality books on farming mushrooms, since it has become a commercial activity.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @07:32PM
Not expensive bags. A spore syringe. You can poke right into the Uncle Ben's with the syringe, inject a tiny amount of spores, and cover it up with Nexcare micropore tape. Shake it up mid-way to colonize faster.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unclebens/comments/el1d8q/part_2_inoculating_uncle_bens_for_colonization/ [reddit.com]
Everything that happens after the rice bag is colonized is specific to your type of mushroom and should be researched somewhere else.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 04 2020, @10:15PM
Those won't eat cellulose (but will gobble starches).
It's the molds that you need to keep away for the entire lifecycle - from mycellium development stage all the way to fruiting - after all, those are fungi themselves [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0