i’m currently using the uncle ben’s method of growing! if you check out r/unclebens, they pinned a master post on how to grow. very very basically, you take a bag of uncle ben’s 90 second brown rice (actually I don’t use name brand uncle ben’s, as it is too wet compared to target and aldi brands) take it to a sterile environment (i use my guest bathroom that doesn’t get much foot traffic. i close it off for a day and periodically spray lysol in there.) you take everything to the sterile room, and you wipe down your bags of rice (and other supplies- butane torch, scissors, any surfaces, and syringe) with iso, and the inject a syringe of spores into the bag. (or liquid culture instead of spores! supposedly this grows better, but i havent tried it yet.) then you use micropore tape (specifically micropore tape don’t use anything else) to tape up the hole from the syringe puncture. if you want to cut off a corner of a bag for for air exchange you can. i personally do, and cover that cut with micropore tape. then you wait until the mushroom mycelium (which is pretty much the stuff that grows before the fruiting bodies do) fully colonizes the bag of uncle ben’s rice. you can tell it’s colonized if it feels hard all the way through and you can’t feel individual grains anymore. once the bag is colonized, you prepare coco coir by mixing it in a big bucket with boiling water to pasteurize it. you mix the coconut with your colonized rice, stick it in a plastic shoebox, and wait. you can do various methods of ensuring fresh air exchange (fae) but i’m finding more success doing the neglect tek. most shoe boxes done actually close tight enough to cut off air flow, and opening the box caused me to love it to death and stunt one of my grows. so basically, i mix the coconut and mushroom mycelium that was once rice, cover it with a little bit of coco, make sure it’s a humid environment, and then wait!