Dried Spawn is EASY to use! Just reconstitute in water, and either finely chop or use a blender, and pour the resulting spore mixture over your substrate or onto the ground where they need to be sown.
Grain spawn can be thought of like “seeds” in mushroom cultivation. It is made by starting from either spores or a mushroom culture, which is then transferred to sterilized grain.
The mushroom mycelium then grows throughout the grain, feeding off the starchy goodness.
Eventually, the mushroom culture will fully colonize the grain, covering it in white mycelium.
From there, it can be broken up into individual grain kernels and mixed into a bulk substrate.
The mycelium will continue to grow from there- eventually producing mushrooms.