You Should Never Write About Weed Edibles And Here’s Why

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    Purchase your spawn. While you can transfer spawn from old beds to this new bed, production is much greater if you use fresh spawn hungry for new organic matter. A 5.5 lb. bag of sawdust spawn will inoculate a small square bale (about 32 lbs.) spread out in a 7 ft. by 7 ft. area or about 50 sq ft.


    Wet the straw before spreading it out. We like to soak the bales, preferably for 3-5 days (throw the bound bales in a tank or pack even more in loose) just prior to building the bed. We have also spread dry straw out prior to a rainy spell, waiting for Weed Edibles natural hydration to occur. We are still trying to determine if the biological activity that occurs during a long soak is helpful in Wine Cap cultivation. We can certainly say it does not hurt. The setup of our tanks allows for a long soak- we just pull the plugs just prior to laying out the bed.

     


    Drain the water. After you drain away the water from the straw, spread out the straw into a 3-inch thick layer, and sprinkle with half of the spawn. Then add 3 more inches of straw, and sprinkle on the remaining half bag of spawn. Finally, add two inches of wood chips (any kind will do for this purpose!) to serve as a protective cap to keep the bed from drying out.


    If you have wood chips and not straw, you can certainly inoculate this fall but you may not get mushrooms this coming spring, rather, a nice fruiting later in the summer. One thing to note- if you are planting a strictly wood chip bed it DOES matter what Buy Edibles Canada type of wood chips you use as it will be the main food source. We fall plant both wood chip beds, straw beds and combination beds of chips/straw/old sawdust to make sure we have Wine Cap mushrooms all season long.


    After a few weeks you will be able to see the mycelium rebounding and growing out on the straw or cardboard (see image above!).

    Bed rejuvenation

    Wine Cap mushrooms break down the bed substrate quickly. For this reason, straw beds usually only fruit for a single year. Wood chip beds may fruit up for to 3 years, but production will decline over time. When this begins to happen, you may try to rejuvenate your bed by feeding it new wood chips. Simply add several inches of chips to the top of your existing bed, ideally in spring or after a mushroom harvest.

    Bed rejuvenation is not a guarantee, THC Edibles but if the Wine Cap is still vigorous enough, it will begin to colonize the new materials and be ready for more fruiting several months later. Consider adding new spawn to the fresh materials for a much more successful approach.