{"title":"Substrates","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"organic-cvg-substrate-for-fruiting-exotic-mushrooms-therapeutic-species","title":"Organic CVG Substrate For Fruiting Exotic Mushrooms \u0026 Therapeutic Species","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe substrate your parents warned you about!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur hand-made CVG substrate contains organic coir and premium vermiculite, dusted with a little bit of gypsum, then mixed with water until floofy and homogenous. Why? Because it’s a tried and tested product that people have been using to grow mushrooms in the UK and abroad for years!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s all about the science, really. The coir provides an almost nutrient-free method of increasing the available moisture content; mushrooms are around 90-95% water content (just like a nice beer should be) so if you want chonkers then you’ve gotta make sure you’re giving them the juice. The vermiculite also helps with the water retention, and also looks fabulous because it’s got gold sparkly bits in. The gypsum buffers the pH a little, and also provides a few extra little nutrients just to make sure that your mushrooms have the peak environment to grow in. Finally we hydrate the whole shebang with just the right percentage of water (that’s the whole “\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Field_capacity\"\u003efield capacity\u003c\/a\u003e” bit), and that’s it: an amazing substrate for your mushrooms, ready to go, without you having to muck about and get your kitchen all dirty!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Loved by exotic fungi\/therapeutic fungi\/cool people\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Ready to go out of the bag if you really must\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Also ready to be put in a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/collections\/monotub-grow-kits\"\u003emonotub\u003c\/a\u003e so you can have more surface area\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Pasteurised for 24hrs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Perfectly hydrated to field capacity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Gypsum to buffer the ol’ pH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Organic, so there’s nothing nasty in there for your mushrooms to accidentally eat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow to use:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDon’t you dare use this to grow magic mushrooms, you beast. Unless you live somewhere that it’s legal to do that, in which case yeah this’ll work really well, have fun \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyou lucky bastards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMix well with fully colonised grain spawn - make sure your area is clean, you are clean, and your equipment is clean, please!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAllow substrate to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efully\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e colonise before you go fruiting it, unless you likeoderma the Trichoderma. “When is it fully colonised”, you ask? You’ll be able to tell from looking through the tub, it should look like Ron Jeremy’s gone mental in there.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFruiting starts when your sub gets fresh humid air and a quick glimpse of the light. If it’s in a tub, just open the lid for a second or two (or just leave it slightly ajar once it’s colonised). If you’re going straight from the bag (depending on what kind of mushrooms you’re growing and what size bag you bought), you might want a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/products\/so-you-forgot-the-easy-af-kit-humidity-tent?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=1ed931590\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003ehumidity tent\u003c\/a\u003e so that your mushrooms have got room to thrive and putting that on would’ve been enough.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDepending on what size you go for, you could either fruit in the bag or the tub (2kg has enough space so it’s up to you, the 3kg needs to go in a tub) but if you \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e decide to whack it all in a tub, make sure you get the right sized one for your grain\/substrate combo - a useful general rule of thumb is that you want it to be around 3-5 inches deep so that you’ve got enough surface area to grow \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esick canopies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, but also enough depth to maintain a good amount of moisture for your future flushes of decent home-grown mushrooms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you wanted to go for a fully-organic grow, you could pair this up with some of our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/search?q=organic+rye\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003eOrganic Rye\u003c\/a\u003e - it’s good for the planet and it’s a lovely bit of grain even if we do say so ourselves!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStorage:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShelf stable for 2 months, or for infinity months in the freezer like that box of fish fingers that’s in there*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDo try and use it sooner rather than later though as moisture will evaporate and it’s at its best when it gets to you\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStore in a cool dark place, like it was a Nosferatu or something\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn fact that’s it exactly, treat it like a vampire, cool and dark, no fire, doesn’t like bright sunshine, also keep it away from garlic and crosses just in case\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e*Probably not \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eactually infinity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, but 6 months is fine and is almost as long\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWanna make your own?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe also sell \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/search?q=coir\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003ecoir\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/search?q=vermiculite\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003evermiculite\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/search?q=gypsum\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003egypsum\u003c\/a\u003e. You’ll want a nice bag to put it all in, we use the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/search?q=xls-a\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003eXLS-A\u003c\/a\u003e for our 2kg CVG, and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/search?q=3b\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003e3B\u003c\/a\u003e for the 3kg CVG.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MycoPunks","offers":[{"title":"2kg","offer_id":40580593975487,"sku":"CVG_2KG","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"3kg","offer_id":40580632903871,"sku":"CVG_3KG","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"4kg","offer_id":55324980085117,"sku":"CVG_4KG","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0542\/6721\/6063\/files\/Organic_CVG_Substrate_For_Fruiting_Exotic_Mushrooms_Therapeutic_Species.jpg?v=1741942071"},{"product_id":"rise-above-supplemented-hardwood-and-bran-substrate-for-gourmet-fungi-organic","title":"Rise Above: Supplemented Hardwood and Bran Substrate for Gourmet Fungi (Organic)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the bee’s knees for growing all your wood-loving species of mushrooms on - \u003ca title=\"Lion's Mane\" href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/products\/lions-mane-hericium-erinaceus-commercial-culture\"\u003eLion’s Mane\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca title=\"Shiitake\" href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/products\/lentinula-edodes-shiitake-commercial-culture-mp07\"\u003eShiitake\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca title=\"Winter Oyster\" href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/products\/pleurotus-ostreatus-winter-oyster-liquid-culture\"\u003eOysters\u003c\/a\u003e, they all love a bit of this.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese species of mushrooms have evolved to grab a cool little niche: just like a crab has evolved to be able to imitate a 1980s BBC TV presenter and give your bottom a sneaky little pinch before scuttling off sideways, these have evolved to be able to literally eat trees. They believe that Ronald Regan was right (jesus fuck it pains me even writing that) and that trees \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e cause pollution, and so they put all their upgrade points into the Beaver skill tree.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe non-ridiculous (but still a bit simplified) explanation is that most plants use a complex polymer called lignin in cell walls which amongst other things, helps provide a mad amount of rigidity. It does a lot of other cool stuff too (helps prevent disease by literally blocking the way in, helps direct water around). It is also a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emassive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e twat for organisms to break down and eat, hence why we can use wood for building and whatnot. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo your \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esaprotrophic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(wood-eating) mycelium has evolved to be able to eat the stuff that most other organisms can’t, like lignin! This gives it a decent leg-up in nature, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealso\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e means that we can basically use another food source as the substrate, because nothing else really can make use of it. We’d still start off with a bag of grain, for sure (cramming the nutrients and water into the mycelium), and then transfer into this once your grain is colonised, because pound-for-pound there’s a lot more available nutrients in grain. Having said that, you could just squirt some liquid culture in here and it would start colonising, you just might end up with less mushrooms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you’ve got a big garage or that sort of thing then yup, you can grow wood-loving species directly in logs but not everyone’s got access to that kind of space, and it can be a hard sell to your partner when you’re like “uuuhhhhh yeah one of the kids has gotta move out because that’s the log room now”, so we reckon these bags are worth a go before the Social get involved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePremium organic hardwood, smashed to smithereens, mixed together with some nutrient-rich organic bran, hydrated perfectly before being pasteurised, then sent out to you to grow delicious mushrooms on. Send us some pictures of your gourmet grows by the way, we wanna see them!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat do I get?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBig bag of sterile supplemented hardwood substrate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYup that’s it\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Organic!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Makes sense to grow wood-loving mushrooms on wood!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Smaller than most logs!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e✅ Will grow \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elots\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of tasty mushrooms if you treat it right\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStorage:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eYou \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e freeze it if you’re going to be ages colonising your grain\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProbably won’t need to though\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDon’t let it dry out, so keep it somewhere… coooool and daaaarrrk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-723ffd7c-7fff-501c-bac9-593c670ef292\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you would like to buy this and some grain at the same time, then we do a bundle that’ll save you a few quid (and we even let you choose your own grain): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mycopunks.com\/search?q=hardwood+bundle\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eclick this sentence and you will be transported to the bundle page wooooooo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MycoPunks","offers":[{"title":"2.6kg","offer_id":40600822775999,"sku":"riseAbove2.6kg","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"4kg","offer_id":40600822808767,"sku":"RiseAbove4kg","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0542\/6721\/6063\/files\/Rise_Above_Supplemented_Hardwood_and_Bran_Substrate_for_Gourmet_Fungi_Organic.jpg?v=1746004327"}],"url":"https:\/\/mycopunks.nl\/en\/collections\/substrates.oembed","provider":"MycoPunks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}