Growing a black tea mushroom
If the tea mushroom needs you only for a delicious drink with a fitting effect, you can grow tea mushroom only from black tea. You will need a three-liter bank, gauze fabric, brewing kettle, boiling water, sugar and large brewing black tea. Moreover, the welding must usually be, without any additives - the cheaper, the better.
The first thing you need to do is to be very thoroughly to wash the three-liter jar, which will become a place
Residence of your mushroom. This is a compulsory requirement, as the tea mushroom loves purity very much. And otherwise, he will die, never have time to grow. And one more very important point: in no case use for washing cans synthetic detergents - quite ordinary food soda.
In the brewing kettle, place five tablespoons of black tea and fill their half liters of steep boiling water, leave until the wood can be cooled. Then add 7 tablespoons of sugar to the welding of 7 tablespoons, thoroughly monitor and strain with the help of gauze tissue. Pour a sweet strong welding in a three-liter jar, cover it from above with a marrying cloth and put in a warm place for about a month and a half.
Somewhere in a week and a half, a strong acetic smell will appear - this is completely normal, you will have to suffer a little. After 5-6 days, the smell will almost disappear, and a thin film is formed on the surface of the liquid - this is a tea mushroom. Every day he will be thicker and thicker - the growth of the mushroom does not stop all his life.
Growing mushroom made of rosehip fruits
If the task of your tea mushroom is not only the removal of thirst, but also care for your health, it is best to give preference to growing rosehip fruits. Such tea mushroom is a real find in the cold season, in the flu season and colds, as well as in the spring, when avitaminosis is activated. The principle of growing the same as from a simple welding, but there are their nuances that we will talk now.
To begin with, you need to prepare the infusion of rosehip. To do this, you can use both fresh and dried fruits that are sold in any pharmacy. Place the four tablespoons of the pitchfish in the thermos, pour half liters of steep boiling water and cover with a lid, leave for five days.
After the infusion of a rosehip will be ready, you can proceed directly to the cultivation of the fungus. Wash the three-liter jar, break the infusion of rosehip and pre-cooked welding - at the rate of the tablespoon of large-grained black tea on a glass of boiling water. Add 5 tablespoons of sugar and blend thoroughly, leave for a day.
After straining with gauze tissue, rinse the jar and again with infusion in the jar. Cover the bank with a marlevary cloth, pre-folded in several layers and put in a warm dark place. Next, the process will develop according to the standard scheme - about two weeks a strong acetic smell will appear, which will soon disappear. And the mushroom itself is formed in one and a half or two months.
Tea Mushroom Care
Growing a tea mushroom at home from scratch is still half of the case. The second is no less important half - the correct home care. Otherwise, you risk getting not a delicious drink, but something resembling vinegar. And even worse - tea mushroom grown with such care will just perish.
By the way, there is an excellent tea mushroom health indicator - it should always be on the surface of the water. If your mushroom fell to the bottom, or after the welding is rapidly refuses to pop up - very high probability that he fell ill. If the tea mushroom is sick, you made a nestope in care. So, it must be treated, and in all cases without exception, one is purity and correct care.
Liquid volume
As you remember, in initially a small amount of fluid is in the bank - about 0.5 liters. But when the mushroom has already grown, fluids should be much more - about three liters. It goes without saying that tea mushroom you have no object of scenery and you will drink it. So, do not forget to regularly add liquid.
To do this, you can use a fresh welding - pour it with boiling water, cool down and add sugar, then recover in the jar. Sugar should not be very much - no more than two tablespoons per liter of liquid. If necessary, it is better to add sugar into a cup with a drink.
Very many people do not fake brew - add it just like that. There is no harm for the fungus in this, just you will then not be very comfortable to drink a drink. But harm will not be only if all sugar is completely dissolved - the tanks of the sugar do not have to be in contact with the surface of the mushroom.
Bath day
Once every two or three weeks be sure to sue a tea mushroom a bath day. Mushroom himself very carefully remove from the can, put on a wide plate, trying hard not to deform. The liquid in which the mushroom was located, thoroughly, with the help of marlevic tissue and break into a clean three-liter jar.
Place the plate with the mushroom in the sink and neatly rinse with warm (but not hot) water, leave in the air for a couple of minutes. Then also carefully shift the tea mushroom to the jar and cover the marvelous cloth. Everything, the "bullhead" of a tea mushroom on it is over. It would seem that a completely simple procedure, which is very simple, namely, thanks to her, your tea mushroom will be healthy.
Otherwise, the fungus will start to hurt - first it will acquire a brown shade, and then we will begin to settle down. Save such a mushroom is very difficult, and in most cases it is easier to grow new. A drink from such a tea mushroom is not recommended to drink a drink, because it not only loses its benefit, but moreover, it becomes dangerous to health. Remember that infusion of tea mushroom should always be exclusively transparent.
Storage of tea mushroom
Another necessary condition for the health of the tea mushroom is its proper storage. First, the temperature is quite high, it should only be when growing tea mushroom. Then the optimal temperature should not exceed 18 degrees. Secondly - illumination. For the normal life of the tea mushroom, the light is simply necessary, and the light day should be at least 8 hours. But direct sunlight should be avoided, so do not repeat a very common mistake - do not place the can with tea mushroom on the window sill.
The use of tea mushroom
You can not at least briefly do not mention the beneficial properties of a tea mushroom - after all, not in vain, in the end, do you take it with him?
Metabolism and immune system
The first thing worth saying about vitamins. There is much more useful substances in the drink from the tea mushroom than in the most expensive vitamin and mineral complex. Vitamins, minerals, coal, dairy and other acids, minerals, enzymes are far from a complete list. Therefore, there is nothing surprising that the drink from the tea mushroom is the most positive way affects the work of the immune system and normalizes the metabolism.
Digestive tract
You are tormented by gastritis, colitis, ulcerative disease of the stomach and duodenum, dysbacteriosis? Only one glass of a drink from a tea mushroom, drank on an empty stomach can improve the situation in just a week. And its regular use contributes to complete cure. By the way, the drink very well eliminates even the most severe heartburn.
As you can see, there is nothing complicated in the cultivation and care of the tea mushroom.
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