Smokey’s Mycology Recipes

🍄 Agar Recipes

1. PDA (Potato Dextrose Agar)

500 ml water

~4 grams corn syrup

8 grams agar powder

12 grams potato flakes

2. MEA (Malt Extract Agar)

500 ml water

8 grams agar powder

12 grams light malt extract

3. Low Nutrient Water Agar

500 ml water

5 grams agar powder

4. Custom Agar Blend

500 ml distilled water

9 grams agar powder

6 grams LME

0.5 gram agave

0.5 gram honey

Smokey’s Mycology Recipes

💧 Liquid Culture Recipes

1. Standard LC

600 ml water

12 ml (~1g) corn syrup

≈1.2 grams light malt extract

1 gram peptone

STIR WELL

Add magnetic stir bar or marbles

Autoclave 30 min / Pressure Cook 1 hour

2. Small Batch LC

300 ml water

12 grams Karo syrup

1/16 tsp light malt extract

1/16 tsp nutritional yeast

3. Super LC

1500 ml distilled water

30 ml Karo light corn syrup

2.5 grams peptone

3.7 grams light malt extract

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Smokey MYCOLOGY recipes

Substrate Recipes

1. Just Coco Coir

Weigh the block and multiply by 4.3

Boil that many milliliters of water

Throw all into a bucket and sit for 8–12 hours

If too wet, add vermiculite

2.CVG (Coir/Vermiculite/Gypsum)

650 grams coco coir

8 cups vermiculite

1 cup gypsum

18 cups boiling water

3. Manure Mix

1 block coco coir, hydrated

1 large pot of hay (boiled 20 min, strained, rest ~10 min)

~8–12 handfuls hydrated poo

Mix well, jar, and pressure cook 2 hours

4. Manure Replacement

1 tbsp FoxFarm Grow Big

1 liter boiling water

Coco coir

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Casing Layer

1 quart peat moss (1000 ml)

1 quart vermiculite (1000 ml)

7.5 grams (1–2 tbsp) calcium hydroxide

1/2 quart (500 ml) water

Mix well & jar up

Autoclave 30 min / Pressure Cook 1 hour

Apply 1/4 inch layer (not packed in)

pH should be ~9

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🌳 Woodlover’s Recipe

5 cups hardwood pellets

1/2 cup wheat bran

1.4 liters hot water

Mash hardwood pellets with hot water and let sit 30 min

Add wheat bran, test for field capacity

Bag & autoclave for 2.5 hours

Notes:

If cake is overlaying, case it

Best to maintain pH ~6.5

If pH too high or field capacity off, add vermiculite