rice, bird seed, bee pollen, & coconut flour?

[89blunts]

So for $50 my buddy sold me a pressure cooker, ingredients, and spores. The package included rice, bird seed, bee pollen, coconut flour, and brown rice flour. I already have brown rice flour and vermiculite from a previous failed experiment, but that was without a pressure cooker.

My question is, what's the ratio for all this?

Also, the water where I live has a lot of minerals and who knows what in it. Should I use brita filtered water, or would the minerals be better for them?

[charlie]

rather filter the water, or get hold of distilled water, you should be fine,
have a look at the teks, normally it would be 1 part BRF with 2 parts verm, and 1 part water..
i.e. ( 2 cups BRF, 3-4 cups verm, 1 cup water) - should give you substrate for at least 10 jars, ( I used whiskey tumblers, with foil as lids. that was fine and simple)

[tripdawg420]

i use 2 cups brf 4 cups verm and 2 cups of water for 10 jars

[NHMI]

The original PF tek is 2 cups verm, 1 cup brown rice flour, (though ground up corn, wbs or rye can be used instead) and 1 1/3 cup of water. You can adda 1/4 cup of gypsum and that will speed up myc growth significantly..

All the other stuff can be added in small amounts, like a half tsp of each...though it is best to mix the dry ingredients 1st, then add water.

I don't put an inch of dry verm either, I put tyvek under the lid instead and then put micropore tape over the holes that I innoculated through...

Never flip jars with a verm barrier or it will contaminate most of the time.

[tripdawg420]

and use a tbls of gypsum

[NHMI]

I add 1/4cup of gypsum to speed up growth, it works great...