Shipping Mushroom Grow Kits, Mycelium Liquid Cultures and Grain Spawn
Right now I'm just in the shipping room packaging up some of the online orders that we are shipping out today, and a lot of the orders, uh, seem to be mostly like liquid cultures. We have a couple agar cultures in the mix, uh, so these would just be like some Petri dishes with the myceliated culture, uh, fully grown out, and you can basically, the end user will end up using this to grow more of these mushrooms, you know, depending on the strain they're using. So just want everything to arrive in good condition, so we have our little process of just packing each order up. Make sure that we do some packing paper to fill up any of the space in the in the box, so the shipment arrives in good condition, so that we'll get a nice piece of tape on there, and then there we have it. We'll just put this aside.
So yeah, before we ship out like a petri dish or an a culture, everything gets like a protective, uh, layer of wrapping depending on what it is. Liquid cultures are shipped out in a sleeve, uh, and then the agar cultures are slipped shipped out with a shrink wrap, so it protects the Petri plate or culture from any outside elements, and then after that we'll just make sure we secure it with some of this craft paper, and we'll make sure everything is shipped securely at that point. All right, so the next order is just going to be one of our mushroom substrates, uh, basically a sterile substrate, and this is the Master's mix. So I'll kind of go and acquire that item real quick. So I'm just going to walk in there, grab a a block of substrate, and I'll be right back.
Got some sterilized substrate straight from the lab, and this is just going to be used to basically grow, uh, any one of any one of our basically Gourmet wood loving species. This substate works great for Chestnut, lion's mane, oysters, pipinos, basically most of your exotic mushrooms, uh, grow off of this. We'll make sure this gets packed up, so I'll just put some packing paper and any of the Little gaps and any spaces, which protects, uh, protects the items in here from getting dinged up. So yeah, shipping out online orders has been a pretty pretty busy for us lately. So yeah, thanks to everybody that's been putting in orders.
We really appreciate it. It's been, uh, been really, uh, helpful for us here, keeping us busy. All right, that's ready to be shipped. So next we have some, uh, melum melium grain spawn. So this is just some colonized, um, grains with a basically they're grown out with a mushroom melium, and this can be used to inoculate production blocks.
So this is the same spawn that we use in our mushroom growing operation to inoculate all of our blocks, and at this point we make extra or we'll make it available for other Farmers or other, uh, hobbyists to order and basically experiment with, so they can grow mushrooms, uh, you know, themselves. So this is a bag of freshly colonized grain spawn. We have the Chestnut, and we have some golden oyster. See if I can get a good view of this. So the spawn is Select it from incubation, and at that point we just remove any of the excess air, and the spawn might be a little broken up, uh, when it arrives.
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So you know, you basically could just let it sit out, um, and colonize back for a couple more days. So about two to three days after receiving a spawn shipment, um, it's most likely ready to start going into production blocks, or a lot of the times you could just use the spawn immediately. So make sure that we wrap the spawn up, make it, uh, nice and protected. That point we'll finish it off the destination shipping label. So all right.
So we're just getting some grow kits ready to ship out, um, so we have a couple, uh, strains here. This Is the shiitake mushroom grow kit, and we also have a lion's mane mushroom grow kit. So before shipping them out, uh, they'll have a plenum of air, uh, inside the bag through colonization, a, here at the facility, um, but we'll go ahead and remove the air, um, just by sucking it out through the filter patch, so that way, before it gets into transit, uh, the block is nice and secure, and basically just helps save space so we can put them in the box real nicely. But before doing that, uh, I'll actually prepare, uh, the grow kits with the necessary items, like the instructions and humidity tents that will be needed to grow the mushrooms. So we just have a set of printed instructions.
So it's just going to have some info about the, uh, initiation of the grow kid and growing the crop, and we just have a few pictures on setup, and basically just info to get you going in the right direction. So it's a real simple grow kit, uh, the lion's mane are very beginner friendly, um, and they basically grow themselves once you, once you start them. So we'll go ahead and produce the humidity tents. So it's basically just a food grade, um, um, poly poly bag, and we'll go ahead and hole punch it so it has some air exchange through growth. The holes just allow for the mushrooms to get adequate air exchange through growth, and you'll just use a spray bottle to basically, um, bring the humidity tent up, you know, mist it out really good, set your block up as according to the instructions, and basically, at that point, you're ready to grow.
So go ahead and get these ready. So yeah, here we have the shiitake kit, and this one, it's going to be a little bit different. Um, once, you know, you receive it, you're going to want to let the shiitake kit brown a little bit further, if it's not already brown. Uh, once it's completely brown, then that's basically when the mushroom block has ripened, uh, to produce a good crop of mushrooms. So we typically send these kits out, uh, right when they're ready to start producing, or right as they're ready.
So there we have a two grow kit box. We have some more grow kits just stage ready for shipment. This one's three grow kits. So we have a golden an noi pink oyster, and then of course another lion's mane, which has been a consistent top seller for a while. So some of our top, uh, beginner strains or beginner kits just have these stickered, um, basically stickered, um, front labels, and it kind of just gives you an idea of where to cut your grow kit, just some simple instructions as well, just seven steps that can just be repeated, uh, as you grow out the mushrooms to get, uh, fresh crops every 10 days or so.
So, um, one more instruction. I added some new ones. So, and we just recently came out with some new grow kits, um, more for, I guess, a intermediate level growing. So we have like golden anoi pioppino, uh, some of the trumpet varieties. So just a little bit more to, uh, I guess, have diversity.
So all right, we'll get the packing slip in there, and then we have our three grow kits all set. So yeah, here we have a international order, and on these international orders, we have to include some extra documentation, um, that way it gets, gets through customs just fine, and, uh, yeah, this one's going near Greece, so that's pretty cool. We'll send this Li's main grow kit out there. All right. So yeah, these grow kits are a little bit larger than what I mean you'd normally see, uh, for a mushroom gr kit.
So about 9 lbs, um, but they're equipped to produce a good amount of mushrooms, and so it's enough to feed, you know, the whole family on the first flush. So we'll save these customs documents so we can just go ahead and clip them on the outside. Of the box, and we'll just get the shipping label on there. So these are just commercial invoices, which are necessary to to ship, uh, internationally, U, so we'll include those, staple them. I'll just kind of sign my declaration, ensuring that all the contents are correct, and, uh, it's certified.
So one more international. This one's going to, uh, Dubai. Yeah, so for this order, we're just packing up some liquid cultures, and these ship, uh, really well internationally, uh, so we're shipping these all over the world, and, uh, yeah, does just fine. Actually, for this, I'm not going to include a envelope. So for international, uh, I always go to a for a box, just to make sure that it's travel safely.
It's going to be going further distances, so just double check, triple check, make sure that the items are correct, make sure that the quantities are correct, because sometimes, you know, there'll be two of two of two or three of three, so that's always important. And same thing with the customs forms, I'll just make sure that these are authenticated, signed. Forgot we have another international order going to Bahrain, a batch of liquid cultures and a bag of mycelium grain spawn. So that's the golden oyster. Then that'll do it for our international orders for today.
All right, so there we have, uh, there we have it. So yeah, if you're interested in any liquid cultures, cultures in general, mycelium grain spawn, or just grain spawn grow kids, check out the website Southwest Mushrooms.com, and yeah, we'll be happy to fulfill that for you.