Many people feel that growing magic mushrooms at home is not an easy procedure and hence feel quite scared or get rather jittery whenever the thought or the wish to grow the shrooms arises. Queries about how to grow magic mushrooms are always pouring in though.

There are easy and ready to grow mushroom kits available in the market where everything is ready and all that is to be done is place the ready stuff in a room where mushrooms start sprouting with a new flush within a few days.

However, it is real fun to carry out the entire procedure on one’s own and then see the mushrooms bloom with pride. There are certain basic requirements that anyone going in for the procedure for the first time will require.

In order to fully understand the technique on how to grow magic mushrooms, it is important to first read the entire article so that the step by step procedure is easily understood before the real implementation. A few jars or cans, basic ingredients like vermiculite, brown rice flour and water to make a good substrate for the mushroom spores to grow properly, a few boxes or vases for final fruitarian of the mushrooms. Begin the procedure by first cleaning the jars properly. Now make a proper mixture with vermiculite, brown rice that is powdered and pure water. Ensure that the water is not contaminated and the source of the water is hygienic. Now the mixture is called basic substrate.

Fill each jar or bottle with the substrate and sterilize in a pressure cooker till the water inside the cooker boils. But always keep checking to see that the boiling water does not go inside the jars. Quickly lower the heat if the water comes up to the level of the jars. After the sterilization of the jars for about an hour or so, switch off heat. Let the jars cool off inside the cooker or vessel and levee it for at least four to five hours.

Next, time for inoculation. Take out jars from the cooker. Take the syringe full of magic mushroom spores and shake well so that the entire substance is equally distributed within the syringe. Inject the liquid with the spores right into the substrate in each jar at four different places. Ensure that here are no spores left on the inside edges of the jars and clean each jar properly before placing them in a dry but dark place where there is some heat.

This is done as the spores need time to germinate into living mycelium that will colonize each of the jars. This step is called incubation. Just after three or four days of inoculation the jars are seen to be full of small white dots. These are the germinated spores that are ready to turn into living mycelium. For all those who still are confused with how to grow magic mushrooms, it is better to understand each step in detail.

Next comes the incubation period where each jar is turned gently upside down and the entire germinated or colonised mycelium along with the substrate is taken out from each jar.

Each substrate with mycelium is placed into fresh substrate or bed called terrarium. This is done to enable the final fruiting of mushrooms to take place with abundance. As each new flush appears, it is better to remove the fully grown mushrooms so that a new batch appears in a few days. The new flush appears for at least three or four times. Thus, the basic procedure involved for growing mushrooms at home involve sterilization, inoculation, incubation and germination. Hopefully, this easy procedure is helpful for all those who want to know everything about how to grow magic mushrooms at home.