Our Inject and Forget bags are one of the biggest selling kits on our website, and here’s why…
Easy and simple to use.
Simply inoculate your bag, give it a mix and lie it on its side in a nice, warm place. Keep it in the dark for 2-3 weeks until it’s fully cultivated and then move it into low light conditions when it’s ready to fruit.
Protected from contamination.
Unlike other kits, you do not need to fan or mist the bag. This heavily reduces the chances of contamination occurring in your bag! It’s an almost fully automatic process.
Perfect for Beginners
With simple, easy to follow instructions allowing you to inject and forget your project until it’s ready to fruit, this kit is perfect for beginners.
Quick results
For beginners and experts alike, this kit provides quick results. Within 2-3 weeks you’ll have a fully cultivated bag, then in a few additional weeks you’ll be having your first harvest. All without any spraying, misting or lifting so much as a finger. This whole process takes around 35-45 days from inoculation to your first harvest of Gourmet Health Mushrooms.
Multiple Flushes
This bag is not a one and done kit. You should get 2-3 harvests from each inject and forget bag you inoculate with your gourmet health mushroom spores. It’s as simple as adding a cup full of water and sealing the bag back up again with our large easy glide bag sealer! It’s the gift that keeps on giving!
1. Start off by preparing your work surface. Give it a wipe down with some 70% Isopropyl Alcohol Spray. Using an incubation chamber? Give it a wipe down too! Let these surfaces dry and do not spray anything near/on your inject and forget bag as it could damage the integrity of the filter patch.
2. Turn on your heat source and ensure it gets up to temperature. Your project should be kept between 26-27c. If using one of our 60L all in one fruiting and incubator’s, you don’t need to change any settings as it come’s preset. Simply plug in and play!
3. Wash your hands then remove your bag from its protective outer plastic bag. Be careful not to touch the air filter too much as the oils from your hands can affect its integrity.
4. Pop your Gourmet Health Mushroom syringe out of its silver foil packet, keeping the end cap secured until you’re ready to use the syringe.
5. Open your needle packet from the top, remove the end cap from your needle and insert the syringe into the needle, careful not to trigger the plunger early. Keep the protective cap on the needle until you’re ready to inoculate (we’re not there yet!).
6. Take out your alcohol wipe that comes with your bag and wipe the injection port of your bag (the small grey square sealed in plastic). You do not need to wipe or heat the needle as it’s a gamma irradiated, NHS grade needle. Therefore, sterilizing it further can cause contamination. Leave this to dry for a few seconds.
7. Gently shake your syringe against your hand to shake up the spores. No spores should be left behind!
8. Once you feel ready, take the protective cap off the end of the needle, and inoculate the bag. Ensure to tilt the syringe so it’s slightly angled downwards as you press the needle into the injection port, stopping halfway into the port. Push down the plunger and release your spores into the bag. If your plunger is stuck, slowly pull your syringe out (but don’t remove it from the port) and push the plunger down again.
9. Pull the needle out and give your bag 5-6 seconds for the self-healing injection port to seal before giving your bag a gentle, but thorough, mix. It might be a bit tough as our bags come straight out of the pressure cooker to your door. Therefore, it may be beneficial to smush it between your legs before moving the substrate around with your hands.
10. After mixing, place your bag on the heat mat horizontally, on its longest side with the air filter and injection port facing the wall not the ceiling. This will ensure a speedy grow.
11. Put your project in complete darkness and leave it for 2-3 weeks until it’s fully cultivated with healthy, white mycelium. If it’s being slow but mycelium is present, gently break up the mycelium and redistribute it within the substrate.
12. Once your project has fully cultivated, you must keep it in the heat, but move it into indirect, low light conditions. Too much light can damage your project. If you’re using artificial light, make sure you don’t have it directly facing your project. If you’re worried about whether your project is too dark/light, pop us an email with some photos at [emailprotected]. We’d be more than happy to help!
Once your project is moved into the light and pins are starting to rear their little heads, it’s almost ready to harvest your gourmet health mushrooms! It’s unlikely your mushrooms will mature all at the same time as this is an organic process. However, it’s incredibly important to harvest them before they fully mature and release their spores as that can cause contamination and bring an early end to your project. So, make sure to pick any mushrooms that are ready to pop their hoods whenever they pop up!
Make sure you harvest them between stage 3-4 to ensure your mushrooms don’t drop their spores!
Ensure you re-seal your bag with a large easy glide bag sealer if you’d like to get multiple flushes out of your bag!
It takes only three steps to promote a further flush (harvest) of your bag. Simply follow these steps below and you’ll have more gourmet health mushrooms in no time:
1. After your bag’s growth has stopped, simply open the bag and add a cup full of cold tap water to the bag. Let this sit (ensure it’s sealed) for 12 hours.
2. After 12 hours, slowly drain the water from the bag over the space of half an hour. Keep it at an angle to allow for the water to run out from the project.
3. Place this bag (sealed) in the exact same conditions you had it in before for it to fruit successfully. Wait 7-14 days and you should have the start of another flush.
Rinse and repeat!
Check out our YouTube channel for in depth tutorials on how to use our kits.
Check out our blogs for more information on tips and tricks to get you started on your journey into mycology.
What You Will Receive
You will receive one of our 4lb inject and forget bags alongside a alcohol swab for the injection port only.
Please note that our kits do not include spores.
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Disclaimer
Please note that it is illegal to grow magic mushrooms within the UK. We ask that you do not use these spores to grow mushrooms, but instead use them to study under a microscope. We cannot be held liable for any illegal use of these spores. Please check your local regulations as we cannot be responsible for the laws you should follow in your own country.
