PSYLOCYBE FANATICUS. Fast, easy, fool proof inoculation. This is how I have inoculated my jars for years.
I have never run into any contam problems unless it was a bad source(Syringe, print, LC). I do this in open air, and it takes me about a minute to do a set of 12 jars. Here are the materials needed. I am sure you can make everything out, the little orange square is a piece of sponge that I cut. To start with, drop your piece of sponge into a container of alcohol. Pf tek done right TEK - Mushroom Cultivation. PF tekThings needed 1/2 pint wide mouth canning jarsPot/Pressure cookerVermiculitePerliteBrown rice/Brow Rice FlourTin foil70% Iso alcoholPlastic Tote6500K florescent bulb1/4 inch drill bit/DrillHammer/NailMixing bowl and spoonGypsumSpore syringeLatex glovesDust maskLighter Preparing the jar Take the lids and using a nail and hammer or a 1/8 drill bit, drill 4 holes near the rim of the lids nicely spaced out.
Depending what way you use you lids i use mine rubber side down just punch the holes so they don’t leave burrs pointing towards you. The basic recipe for 5 PF jars is this 2 parts vermiculite 1 part water and 1 part BRF (additionally you can add 1 tablespoon of gypsum for 5 jars) PF-Tek for Simple Minds. The PF-Tek was developed and first made public in 1992 by www.fanaticus.com (mirror).
This tek made the cultivation of mushrooms at home feasible for complete beginners utilizing commonly available materials. The growing method I describe here is based on the PF-tek but includes a few modifications that are time tested, and are in my opinion superior to the original PF-tek. I strongly recommend you to read the original PF-Tek, if you haven't done so already, to see a different approach to some steps.
The PF-Tek for Simple Minds is as simple and as foolproof as it gets, but is not completely foolproof of course.