How to: Grow Bulk without a PC or brf cakes. (Broke Boi Bulk Tek)

Do you find yourself thinking, "Hmmm, brf cakes suck. They take forever to colonize. But I'm a broke boi and won't spend money on a pressure cooker."?

Then you are in the right place. Colonizing bulk grains is possible without a pressure cooker, agar, LC, or any of that stuff you are too cheap to go buy or learn how to use. You can pull those thicc canopies with nothing more than spores and brown rice. Sure, you see people knocking up pre-sterilized grain bags with spore syringes all the time. But that is a total crap shoot. Spores are only acceptable for two things: brown rice and agar. Today, we'll be using brown rice. Because it's cheap, easy as fuck to prepare, and you can shoot spores straight on it with consistent results. Plus you can grab a bag at the grocery store and nobody is asking why you are carrying a 50lb bag of oats home to your fucking apartment. After using this spawn method, you'll never mix up brf jars again. Also, I will describe using unmodified jar lids in this write up because I know if you're trying this method, you're lazy and you don't want to bother with making jar lids. If you do have proper lids with a SHIP and gas exchange filter, well, you probably don't even need this write up.

Materials needed: (Total:~$45)

*Jars ($8)

*Large pot ($7)

*brown rice ($2)

*vermiculite (recommended but not necessary) ($7)

*aluminum foil ($1)

*Spore syringe ($15)

*SAB (still air box) ($4)

*Flame

Prep the rice

Just cook the damn rice. At my elevation, we normally cook rice on med-low heat for 15min. Since you will be putting this rice in the steam bath later, you only need about a 12 minute cook time.

Put your rice in a colander and rinse it thoroughly. This cools it down so it is easier to work with and also rinses off the starchy residue that was covering the rice. It will help to prevent clumping later.

Prep the jars

Put your rice in a bowl. If you're like me and bought a unnecessarily giant bag of vermiculite when you made your first brf cakes, go ahead and toss in a few handfuls of verm. It will help prevent the inevitable rice clumping you'll see later.

Then load the jars with the mix. Like with grain jars, you want to leave a little room at the top of the jar. This allows you to shake the rice later on when the mycelium has started colonizing. If you don't leave space, you won't get a good shake and distribute the myc evenly and you might as well have stuck with brf cakes because it will take forever to colonize.

Put the lids on the jars with the disc upside down. Cover with foil like usual.

Sterilize

This is the beauty of using whole rice. You get all the benefits of brf and grains.

Just like in the PF tek, throw something at the bottom of the pot to raise the jars up. Fill it up with a couple inches of water. Set your jars in, put on the lid, and crank up the heat. Once the water is boiling and the pot is filled with steam, feel free to lower the heat a bit so you do not run out of water and set a timer for 90 minutes.

Inoculate

Your 90 minutes is up. The jars have cooled. You have a SAB you made out with a coat hanger and an old tub you found in your garage. Jars and syringe are in the SAB. You have bathed in hand sanitizer. Hell, maybe you even put on a dust mask. Everything is set.

*Pull the foil off a jar.

*Loosen the ring.

*Sterilize your spore syringe needle with a flame

*Crack the jar lid

*Shoot 1mL of spore solution in the jar

*Lid back on tight

*Foil back on tight

*Loosen the lid and foil combo half a turn to allow for gas exchange.

When shooting the spores, please shoot them all into one spot and do not shake up the rice. You need the spores to find each other and make a happy mycelia family. Spraying them all over the place or shaking up the jars after inoc will only slow down the process.

Now set the jars somewhere and don't fuck with them for a week or two. When you see the myc get to about +25% colonization, tighten the lid and shake the shit out of the jar. Mycelium is hardy stuff. It'll be fine. Shake it until you're confident that the culture has spread evenly throughout the jar. Don't forget to loosen the lid slightly. It should recover well within 48 hours. Within a week, post shake, you'll be ready to spawn to bulk. Use this spawn for whatever your favorite bulk tek is. Of course mine is the unmodified.

Good luck! Mush love and all that. If you have any criticism, please comment and let me know where this can be improved. But remember, this is a broke boi tek, so all suggestions must be as lazy and cheap as possible.