Psilocybin Mushrooms Cultivation: How to Grow Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms at Home: Safe Use, Effects and FAQ from users of Magic Mushrooms by Powel Henry J

Author:Powel, Henry J. [Powel, Henry J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Dunking

Even though we have talked a bit about dunking earlier – in this section, we will take an in-depth look at dunking.

Dunking involves dipping colonized jars in water for up to 24 hours to enable proper water circulation in the jars. You will usually do dunking before finally placing the colonized jars in your incubator or fruiting chamber as the case may be.

Mushrooms need moisture to grow, and dunking helps to introduce a fresh influx of water that will enable the colonized jars to fruit properly.

Dunking is important because, as your substrate was being colonized over the past two weeks, most of the moisture in the substrate got absorbed by the developing mycelium. Some of the water mass in the substrate also evaporated into the air.

The mycelium that has colonized the substrate will need all available water to grow into full mushrooms. So a substrate that is well hydrated will do well to aid the proper growth of your mushrooms.

Remember, the greater parts of mushrooms are mainly water – about 90 percent of the mushroom is water. Such a substance will definitely need a lot of water while growing.

The dunking process is very easy – you must ensure that you submerge the entire jar containing the colonized substrate in water. This has to last for twenty-four hours – and you must ensure that the cakes in the jar have been fully colonized before dunking.

To identify a fully colonized substrate is easy – you just need to observe the color of the substrate in the jar. If all the parts of the substrate have white color, then it has been completely colonized. If you open a jar and realize all the parts of the substrate in the jar have not been completely colonized, you either wait for full colonization to occur, or you simply wash off the parts that have not been colonized using water.

Don’t dunk a cake that has not been fully colonized – the reason for this is that the parts that are not colonized will likely grow molds and affect your yield.

Once you are sure that all the parts of the cake in the jars are fully colonized, then it is time to commence the dunking process. You may use tap water for this or spring water. Most people use normal tap water.

To start the process, open each jar and fill the substrate with water – let the water pass through the dry vermiculite that was used to cover the cake earlier.

Keep pouring water into each jar until the substrate cake in it begins to float. It is normal for the cake not to float probably because it has attached itself to the bottom or sides of the jar. The important thing is that you should fill each jar with water and replace the lid.

After filling the jars with water, place them in a refrigerator for 24 hours. Leaving the jars in the refrigerator helps to serve two purposes – one, it is a way to signal the mycelium mass in the jars that it is time to start fruiting.

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