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Step 11Birthing your cakes
Once the mycelium has taken a hold over all the substrate in the jar, the next step would be to pop the colonized cake out, or birth it.
Birthing is a fairly simple process of taking the foil and lid off the jar, flipping it upside down on a paper plate or peice of foil and giving it a few smacks downward to dislodge it.
After birthing it is a good idea to soak the cake in water for about 24 hours. Temperature shocking the fungus by soaking it in the refrigerator causes the fruits to appear quicker than a room temperature soak.
I have also seen methods that roll the cake in dry vermiculite after they have been soaked and birthed.
Remember that mushrooms are 80 to 90% water!
Birthing is a fairly simple process of taking the foil and lid off the jar, flipping it upside down on a paper plate or peice of foil and giving it a few smacks downward to dislodge it.
After birthing it is a good idea to soak the cake in water for about 24 hours. Temperature shocking the fungus by soaking it in the refrigerator causes the fruits to appear quicker than a room temperature soak.
I have also seen methods that roll the cake in dry vermiculite after they have been soaked and birthed.
Remember that mushrooms are 80 to 90% water!
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Mar 8, 2012. 7:43 AMbmaggard
says:
Does dunking it really make that big of a difference?? and at what temp. do u keep your fruiting chamber?
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