Spawn Lab Training
Master the art of spawn making & general lab techniques!
- video presentations: 34 (4 hours and 40 minutes)
- instructional videos: 3 (43 minutes)
- knowledge test quizzes: 1
- Q&A support
About This Course
There’s much to know about how to make quality mushroom spawn using low-tech and low-cost equipment. Without these teachings there’s no reason for you to start with lab training. This is the basis of every professional mycology lab or any spawn making facility, so make sure you learn these if you want to make mushroom spawn. This course is packed with valuable theory and step-by-step shows so you can actually see some of these procedures in action.
Who is this for?
- Dedicated to any beginner/intermediate mushroom grower wanting to make mushroom spawn
- Great for mushroom growers having problems with molds or bacteria taking over their spawn/substrate bags
- For those whom want to improve their lab techniques skills
- Beginner mushroom enthusiasts wanting to dive deeper into mycology
Why enroll into this?
- You'll learn the step-by-step spawn making process on a small scale using low-tech equipment (grain, liquid and sawdust spawn)
- When growing mushrooms you'll afford to use as much spawn as you want in your mushroom substrate recipes and this always gives you with 10-20% more mushrooms
- You'll become independent from the market price/lb of spawn set by random companies.
- CUT COSTS. Shipping spawn to a destination costs in some cases even more than the spawn itself.
- You can sell spawn to people wanting to grow mushrooms
- You can perform lab work and clone wild mushroom strains of interest, germinate spores to get prolific strains, transfer fungus tissue using efficient transfer technique, build a pure culture bank, or make fungus inoculum - all representing general mycology lab techniques
- Learn the fungus nutrition basics and spawn quality management -essential for fast results and high quality
THE SPAWN LAB TRAINING PACK CONTENTS
Shows you the necessary equipment and materials, recipe and preparation, heat treatment, media pouring, media storage – you’ll be shown how to perform the procedure step-by-step. In addition you’ll be explained and shown how mushroom fruitbody cloning is done -important to get wild or grown fungus strains
This part includes both theory and show on how to make mushroom grain. Explains how to pick the right container, what materials and substrate recipe to use to get quality spawn, what you have to know about inoculum and the entire spawn production process including spawn storage
Explains you how to obtain liquid and sawdust spawn; how to make spore prints and germinate spores to get new fungus strains. Once you’ll have strains they will be your pure culture library – explains how to organize it and how to store your pure cultures
Every fungus is unique and has it’s own preferences when it’s about food. This teaches fungus food requirements, and how growth factors (media type, pH, moisture and temp, gas exchange and culture age) affects fungus development, It also explains strain theory and how to evaluate strain growth rate.
Shows you how to correctly perform fungus tissue transfers from plate to tube and from tube to tube, or from tube to plate -so to decrease contamination rate of your media.
Spawn quality is highly important if you decide to make your own spawn. This teaches you how to make the difference between good and bad spawn, common competitor organisms taking over spawn, good and bad procedural habits. It comes with a troubleshooting guide
Why Low-Tech?
Mushrooms don’t need fancy equipment to grow what they need is for you to provide them conditions for proper development which may be achieved by using low-tech equipment. Low-Tech means low-cost which is the ideal state for every beginner grower wanting to start a mushroom farm for self sufficiency or business. This also involves fun projects and requires growers to have a certain degree of creativity.
About Your Instructor
I grow mushrooms since 2005. I created this course to share my experience with you and to help you start the right way. When I first started out with growing mushrooms I did it the hard way and I lost a lot of time doing extensive research on how to grow mushrooms, I lost energy and funds in trials that got contaminated with bacteria and molds and many times I got disappointed. I had nobody to guide me but the internet and some books. I lost a lot of time and energy on the internet just browsing through fragmented information that in most cases wasn’t quality information, so I felt like I was playing puzzle and it took me a long time to understand what’s all about with mushroom growing or spawn making. I ran into random issues: molds would take over half of my mushroom blocks, other mushrooms popping instead of the expected mushrooms, weird looking fruitbodies..you name it. For me it was an adventure but honestly, I wouldn’t do it again.
Later, many of the farms I’ve visited were struggling out there to get the results they wanted to get but had no clear guidance. Some were doing much better than others and that’s the moment when I realized what means mentorship. Growing mushrooms is an art and to find the right path requires knowledge and experience. Find out more about me.
Here's What Others Have To Say About The Help They Got
“Dr Tura’s Online class really helped me round out my knowledge of basic mushroom cultivation. I learned the fundamentals to a functional and clean workspace, the why’s, how’s, and what’s to spawn production, and even how to build an affordable laminar flow hood. The program is designed for the curious mycophile starting out or for that hobby grower that needs to re-evaluate their processes.” Michael Heim – Boulder, CO
I love Your courses very informative. -Reiner K., Austria
“I just wanted to show you what we cooked up. Thanks for the course, it really helped a lot.
Yeah she took a lot of effort, very stoked with the outcome (and the 3m filters doing what they are supposed to).”
Byron, South Africa
Here's What You'll Learn
- How to make quality mushroom grain spawn using low-tech technology
- How to make quality mushroom sawdust spawn
- You'll learn all you need to know about effcient spawn storage
- About food requirement of fungi and factors influencing fungus growth - essential to give your strains what they need
- The step-by-step process of preparing Agar-based media
- How to make liquid media so you can cut processing time when you want to colonize substrate bags
- The step-by-step process of cloning wild and grown mushroom strains
- How to make spore prints, germinate spores to get new fungus strains
- How to perform correct fungus tissue transfers under the flow-hood
- How to set up a pure culture bank, how to organize your fungi and how to store them
- You'll learn what are the common competitor organisms, affecting spawn and fungus cultures, causes and solutions on how to decrease their impact
READY TO GET STARTED?
JOIN THE CLUB FOR..
$32/month
- Low-tech Mushroom Growing - starter pack
- Spawn Lab Training
- Small-scale Mushroom Farming
- Wild Mushroom Hunting
Training Modules: 50+
Access: 1 training module/week
LEVEL: Beginner
quit anytime you want!
Spawn Lab Training
$200
- video presentations: 34 (4 hours and 40 minutes)
- instructional videos: 3 (43 minutes)
- knowledge test quizzes: 1
- Q&A support
Training Modules:6
Access: Instant
LEVEL: Beginner
What Sets This Course Apart From Others?
Detailed Info
Low-tech Oriented
Scientific Touch
Affordability
COMMON BEGINNER MISTAKES WHEN THERE'S NO GUIDANCE
Mold contaminated mushroom spawn – commonly found among startup mushroom growers and spawn producers
- Up to 40% of your substrate bags get contaminated with competitor organisms and you don't know why
- 10-20 mushroom substrate bags get contaminated with mold or bacteria at once.
- Your fungus cultures often get bacterial or moldy
- Your fungus grows slowly in Petri dishes and you don't know why
- Your Agar medium gets caramelized
- Your fungal library is packed with mold and you don't know what to do about it
- Your mycelium doesn't fruit and you don't know why
- You want to germinate spores but they don't seem to germionate
- You've lost a lot of time, effort and money on materials and things seem to work against your plans
- You got good quality spawn but gives you poor yields
- Your substrate bags colonize but it takes forever
FAQs
Once you enroll you get instant access to all training modules
No, but you have lifetime access when you purchase instant access to these training modules.
The info includes the following: video presentations (power point and in front of the blackboard presentations -80%), step-by-step instructional video, text & pictures, and quizzes.
This training was designed for computer/tablet users, and therefore I would encourage you to use your computer/tablet to access the training modules.
For answers to your questions please contact me via the contact form
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