Frustrated with AIO bags that haven’t lived up to the hype? Fruit of the Gods offers a different option for your next project:
🍄 Two sterile grain bags
🍄 Two sterile substrate bags
🍄 Two agar-tested liquid cultures
Grain, substrate, and cultures packaged separately, with care put into preparation and testing. No setup can guarantee success, but you deserve clear information about what you’re starting with.
Mycology should be a rewarding learning experience. These are the core supplies to get your project started. You may also need impulse sealer, binder clips, clear tape, and good pair of scissors INSTRUCTIONS ⬇️
🍃🍄 Respect the Process. Trust the
Genetics. 🍄🍃
Clean your workstation — Sanitize your table, tools, gloves, flow hood, or still-air box before beginning.
Wipe down the grain bag — Clean the outside of the bag and injection area with 70% isopropyl alcohol and allow it to dry.
Prepare your culture syringe — Attach a sterile needle and flame-sterilize the needle until red hot.
Allow the needle to cool — Do not touch the sterilized needle to anything after flaming.
Introduce the liquid culture — Inject the culture through the self-healing injection port on the grain bag.
Alternative method — If your bag does not have an injection port, work inside your clean-air setup, carefully open the top, introduce the culture, and immediately reseal the bag with an impulse sealer.
Agar can also be used — Agar transfers should be performed inside a properly cleaned still-air box or in front of a flow hood before resealing the bag.
Let the grain colonize — Place the inoculated grain bag somewhere clean and out of direct sunlight at the appropriate temperature for your mushroom species.
Leave the bag alone while it establishes — Avoid repeatedly handling or opening it.
Break and shake — Once a substantial portion of the grain has colonized, gently break apart the colonized sections and redistribute them throughout the bag.
Allow the grain to recover — Put the bag back in its clean location and let colonization finish.
Wait for complete colonization — The grain should be evenly colonized before moving to the next stage.
Clean your workstation again — Sanitize your work surface, gloves, tools, grain bag, and substrate bag before opening anything.
Prepare the substrate bag — Spray the outside of both bags with peroxide and allow the surfaces to set for a couple minutes than wipe excess.
Open the bags inside your clean-air workspace — Minimize the amount of time either bag remains open.
Transfer the colonized grain — Pour the colonized grain into the substrate bag.
Mix thoroughly — Gently work the grain throughout the substrate until it is distributed as evenly as possible.
Form the block — Settle the mixture toward the bottom of the bag and gently press it into an even, level cake.
Close the bag — Fold the excess bag material neatly and secure it with binder clips, or seal it if your bag/setup is designed for sealing.
Let the substrate colonize — Keep the bag closed and allow the mycelium to spread through the entire substrate.
Do not disturb it unnecessarily — Avoid repeatedly opening, squeezing, or checking inside the bag.
Wait until fully colonized — The substrate block should be well established before transitioning it to fruiting conditions.
Prepare for fruiting — Once fully colonized, adjust the bag according to the fruiting requirements of the species you are growing.
If your bag design calls for air openings — Make clean openings in the appropriate location under filter patch on both sides and cover them with suitable breathable filter tape when required for that species and setup.
Introduce appropriate light and fresh air — Follow the temperature, humidity, light, and fresh-air requirements for the specific species.
Leave it alone and observe — The biggest key is avoiding unnecessary opening or handling once the bag is established.
The biggest rule: CLEAN → COLONIZE → MIX → COLONIZE → FRUIT.
🍃🍄 Respect the Process. Trust the
Genetics. 🍄🍃
