On May 6th, I sprouted some hard wheat in a jar, and once there were root tails (May 8th), I planted them in 50% vermiculite and 50% compost.
Now look at them! May 18th.
It's now cat grass for my kitties, which doubles their usefulness. Actually, I saved about 1/3 of the sprouted wheat to make Rejuvelac, so that's triple-usage!!
Sadly, I put the pot in the skylight for the first day and a half, and they got baked to about 90 degrees F, so I might've killed the fungi. I'm afraid to look. Maybe I should look.
In 4 months, the fungi should be just sporulating, but that's a known timeframe for Bahia grass seed. Not sure what the time frame is for hard wheat. Yeah, I'd better look.
I just gotta test for the unwanted kind of fungi (tricoderma) before I harvest it all and use it.
Update 6/4/2020: There are no fungal hyphae. I don't think this worked. Either I killed it all when I put the pot in the 95 degree skylight shelf for a day, or wheat grass isn't ideal, or something. Maybe the store-bought starter inoculant is bogus, which would piss me off, because it's expensive.
I might retry by following the exact directions so that I can see what success looks like before trying to modify instructions.
Update 6/29/2020: Well, the grass is dying, and there's still no hyphae. Wheat grass is too short-lived to reach the 4 month growth period. Also, why would you use only one kind of seed? What if it only forms relationships with one kind of mycorrhizal fungi? I think the best would be using multiple kinds of seeds.
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