WELCOME TO SIMPLICI-KIT (TM)

Open the box carefully.

You will see we have taken the time to over bag the Simplici-Kit.  Open the Mycomedi Pack and spread out the 40x40cm sterile surface supplied in the Mycomedi pack but do not put on the gloves yet. Open the white outer bag by hand and unravel the kit. Shake any loose perlite to the base of the bag. Tip the kit to the side to move any perlite from the lid. Place the mushroom growkit on the sterile surface. NOW don your gloves.

Shake your syringe with black cap in place vigorously for 30 seconds to shake up any spore clumps. Our gourmet or medicinal spore syringes will be sent with a needle. To attach this to the syringe, you will need to Hold your breath. Now quickly open the needle packet. Un-screw the black protective cap from the syringe and screw the needle in its place. Work fast and with care. Now breathe.

KEEP THE NEEDLE PROTECTOR ON UNTIL READY USE. Try not to breath into the syringe/needle connection and work fast. Once the needle is screwed into the syringe. Place the spore syringe down on the supplied sterile surface so its ready to use.  

The mushroom grow bag is sealed with an Easy Glide Sealer stick. The stick is removed by sliding the stick to one side. One end of the stick can be considered to be less pointy. Pull on the less pointy end to remove the stick. Do not dismantle the sealer stick, it works as one piece.

The bag will remain folded at the top. Waiting for you to open it and bring the kit to life. 

The Simplici-kit can be considered ready to fruit when the white mycelium has covered all the grains and is just starting to grow up through the golden vermiculite. Make sure that there are no rye grains left uncolonized. At this point the kit is ready to fruit.

This is the easy bit. 

***ADD A DIM LIGHT SOURCE TO THE BAG. Not direct sunlight***

***Most lighting will be too close and too bright. A sheet of plain A4 paper makes a great light diffuser***

1. Open the bag and pour half a cup of fresh run TAP water into the white perlite in the base of the bag. 
2. Remove the lid and place this behind the grow box but still in the bag. Keep the lid and Keep it clean basically.
3. With a mist bottle. Spray into the bag 4-5 times so that the mist falls down onto the semi colonized golden vermiculite. 
4. Now close the bag up and maintain a space temperature of 26-27c. Heat mats set to these temps will work well BUT a heated space with air temps of 24c-28c will work better.

Now that you have initiated the fruiting process. All you need to do is maintain your environmental temperatures and 12 hrs a day lighting and with in 14days you will start to see your mushrooms growing. 

DO NOT OPEN YOUR GROW BAG YET.

The Mushroom growing bag will preform the nessacery magic for your mushrooms to grow. Keep the bag closed from the point of Initiating fruiting to the time you want to harvest your mushrooms. Closed growing systems means lower contamination risk. Click HERE to jump to Mature Mushrooms and Harvest

Yes you can fruit these cakes your growbuddie. Simply order 3liters of perlite per growbuddie60 and 2l for the growbuddie40. You will also need a 1000ml bag of our sterilized vermiculite. Read on for a quick guide.

1. Remove the fully colonized Mushroom Grow box from the Simplici-kit grow bag. 
2. Remove one of the injection ports but keep the lid on the grow box.
3. Pour clean running tap water into the hole where the injection port came from. Make sure to fully fill the container with tap water and make sure to replace the injection port when the container is full of water. 
4. Leave the fully colonized mushroom grow box with the tap water inside to soak for for 24 hours at room temp. 
5. After 24hours has passed. Remove any one of the injection ports and place the mushroom grow box container upside down to drain. 
6. Leave upside down for 30mins to drain fully.
7. After draining, Open the bag of Vermiculite and pour contents into a large and clean bowl.
8. Remove the mushroom growing box lid and tip the fully colonized AND DRAINED mushroom substrate cake from its container and into the pile of vermiculite in the bowl. 
9. You are to roll the square cake into the vermiculite so that the wet cake now has dry vermiculite covering almost every bit of the cake. Work slow and gently press the cake into mounded vermiculite. Be careful as strong hands may crush this delicate rye grain substrate cake.
10. Leave the cake in the vermiculite while you take your dry growbuddie that you have previously washed out with bleach water and pour in your white perlite. Add water to the rate of half the volume of perlite. So 2l perlite gets 1l of water. 
11. Place as many lids as you have cakes into the fruiting chamber and place your cake/s now covered in golden vermiculite ontop of its lid. Place the cake on the lid so that original topside of the cake that was originally covered in vermiculite is now flipped to be on the bottom side.
12. Leave the side vent holes of the growbuddie open and mist the cakes heavily until morning dew forms on the cakes surface. Never spray the cakes closer than 30cm distance and always use the finest mist setting that you can. Repeat the misting 3 times a day. The interval between sprays allows the outer vermiculite coating on the cake to semi dry. 
13. This repeated drying and mist cycle will promote pin growth and should be continued until pins show or 3 weeks has passed. No pins after 3 weeks means you must re soak the cake and start the fruiting process again. Soak and Drain the cake well before trying fruiting again. Maintaining wet but evaporating surface conditions is the key to promoting pins/baby mushrooms.  
14. When pins show. Reduce the misting cycle to 2 times a day and increase misting distance to 45cm away from Growbuddie opening. At this point you may introduce 30seconds of fanning directly after misting has finished. Overly wet and dark pin heads or baby pin heads that have been shot with a mister spray will abort. 
15. The perlite in the base of the growbuddie will help keep humidity high. Increase misting if your mushrooms develop fuzzy feet or fuzzy leg. Perfect conditions lead to large mushrooms. 
16. Harvest mushrooms as they reach maturity.  Click HERE to jump to Mature Mushrooms and Harvest 
17. Soak cakes in original box with closed lid for more mushroom flushes. Please repeat from step 2 of this guide. Optional extra coatings of vermiculite are beneficial for a great 2nd, 3rd, 4th pin set etc. 

Yes you can. 

In simple...... This guide could go on and on....

1. Remove the lid from the fully colonized rye grain container. 
2. Open a bag of coco coir or horse manure bulk substrate and shake the cake free and into the bulk bag. 
3. Seal the bulk bag back up with an easy glide sealer stick.
4. Break up the rye grain cake inside the sealed bulk bag and mix well with the bulk substrate. 
5. You know have a mixed and ready to use grain and bulk substrate. Fruit from the bag or try your growbuddie as a Monotub.... The world is now your Oyster....

After harvest. Just fill the substrate container with clean running tap water.

Be careful and turn the tap on low. Try and get the water into a corner of the tub and not directly onto the surface of the cake. Place the lid back on the container. Seal up the bag with a sealer stick and wait 24hrs.

After 24hours has passed. Please remove one of the injection ports and place upside down to drain for 30mins. 

After 30mins. Remove the lid and place the mushroom grow box back into the Simplici-kit bag right side up.

Close the bag and return to the warm 26-27c space and mushroom will reappear within 2 weeks. 

Failure to drain the cake well post soak will mean a wet cake and a agonizing extra wait for fruiting. Do not skip the drain stage.

You can keep flushing and fruiting the cake until the cake goes moldy or until all the food has gone and no more mushrooms grow. 

The kit is super efficient at turning substrate into mushrooms.

Very easy to use and very fruitful. 

The kit works mostly easily as an auto fruiting or manual fruit in the bag kit. But if you know how to PF TEK like a boss you will achieve higher yield fruiting these cake upside down and rolled in vermiculite in a fruiting chamber like the growbuddie40 or 60.