- This is a kind of substance, a symbiosis of yeast fungi and acetic fermentation bacteria, living in a tea solution.

The upper part of the mushroom has a light color and is very dense in consistency. But the lower part consists of hanging rags and threads. It is this part of the tea fungus that is responsible for turning ordinary tea leaves and sugar solution into an unusually healthy and healthy liquid.

To grow tea mushroom   at home is very simple. And today will tell you how to do it correctly.

Cooking tea fungus is very simple, really quite a long process.

We will need a 3-liter jar in which we pour the tea solution (ordinary tea, which you yourself prefer to drink, is not strong, well, not weak, of course) and put the jar in a warm place.

Now it remains only to observe, for 1-2 months, how miracles begin to occur in the tea solution.

First, a thin film begins to form on the surface of the solution, which will eventually become thicker and thicker.

If you do not want to wait so much time, this process can be accelerated. To do this, sweeten the tea solution, and the bacteria will begin to multiply more actively.

When Kombucha gets stronger, it can already be used to prepare a magical infusion.

Cooking infusion of Kombucha.

First, prepare a tea solution: 1 liter will need about 100 grams of sugar and 2 teaspoons of tea leaves. Brew tea for 15 minutes, then add sugar, mix thoroughly, so that the sugar is completely dissolved.

And as soon as the tea solution becomes room temperature, pour it into a clean jar.

If the mushroom is still young, then add a little old infusion, which contained the kombucha

Then we take out a mushroom, wash it in warm water and place it in a fresh tea solution. Cover the jar with gauze folded 2-3 times and place in a dark warm place. If you prepare an infusion in winter, then it will be ready in 5-7 days, and if in the summer, in 3-4 days you can already use it.

As you see grow kombucha  not at all difficult. Just remember that this is a living organism and it requires care.

Care for kombucha.

Kombucha should be contained only in glassware, and the ideal home for it will be a 3-liter jar.

Jar of Kombucha should be stored in a dark and warm place. Protect it from the cold and the sun. Cover the jar with gauze so that the mushroom can breathe.

In no case on the Kombucha pour in hot tea solution. It is impossible that not dissolved sugar or welding got on a mushroom. Therefore, first make a solution and then pour it into the jar.

After you have grown the kombucha, you will have to regularly arrange a “general cleaning” for it. Each time, after you have prepared another healthy drink, remove the Kombucha and rinse it thoroughly with water.

A ready infusion of tea fungus is perfectly stored in a glass container in the refrigerator.

Read about how to grow Kombucha at home in 2 ways: on the basis of black tea and on the basis of rose hips.

How grow kombucha at home  depends on what kind of drink you expect to receive. If you just need a refreshing tasty restorative drink, then grow kombucha at home  can be based on black tea.

How do you decide to help your body with Kombucha or BADAH better consult with your doctor.

How to grow kombucha at home from black tea

Take a 3-liter jar, gauze-based cloth (gauze), a teapot, sugar, large-leaf black tea without additives, boiling water.

Rinse the 3-liter jar very thoroughly.

Kombucha is whimsical to "living conditions" and loves clean dishes. Otherwise, it will not grow, but will simply turn sour and die.

Use a baking soda, not synthetic ones, when washing the jar. detergents. Rinse the jar well after washing.

Put 5 tablespoons of tea leaves into the teapot and pour 05 liters of boiling water.

Then leave the tea to cool completely in the kettle.

When the tea leaves cool, add 7 tablespoons of granulated sugar to the kettle. Mix well and strain the resulting sweet strong tea leaves through gauze fabric.

Then you need to pour the resulting sweet brew in a 3-liter jar, and cover with top gauze and put in a warm place for about 6 weeks.

After a week - one and a half, you will feel that the jar smells of vinegar - this is a normal oxidation process. When it takes another 5 or 6 days, the smell of vinegar will practically disappear, and you will find a thin film on the surface of the decoction.

This film is the originated kombucha. Every day the layers of the fungus will increase, so will his whole "mushroom" life continue. So you grow kombucha at home alone from black tea.

How can you grow Kombucha at home from the hips

Drink from tea fungus on the basis of rosehips has an excellent stock of seasonally useful colds and SARS trace elements and will become a real helper to your body and the health of your close people.
The principle of growing kombucha at home based on rose hips is the same as the principle of growing kombucha at home based on black tea. However, there are some important nuances that we will tell you about right now.

First of all, you need to buy hips, which are probably in each pharmacy. Take a thermos and pour boiling water in the amount of half-liter 4 tablespoons of rosehips. Close the thermos lid tightly and leave for five days.

Then prepare the brew: 1 tablespoon of large-leafed black tea for 1 tbsp. boiling water + 5 tbsp. spoons of sugar - mix everything thoroughly to dissolve the sugar and pour it into the jar to the dogrose - mix again. Next, the resulting infusion is left for one day alone in a warm place covered with gauze so that trash does not accidentally get there.

When the day has passed, strain the infusion through cheesecloth, rinse the jar with boiled water and pour the infusion back into it.

Cover the jar with a clean gauze cloth, which is pre-folded in several layers. Leave in a warm dark place.

Further, everything will happen already on the famous chain. After about two weeks, you will feel a strong smell, like the smell of vinegar, which will soon disappear. And after 1.5-2 months, you will see a young kombucha grown at home.

Kombucha Care Tips

Grow kombucha at home  - not your whole task yet. There is another equally important part of this process: proper care for kombucha.
Otherwise, the processes occurring inside the banks can go the wrong way and instead of a tasty, invigorating drink you get an unpleasant acidic liquid. And so diligently grown at home kombucha can completely die.

The most telling indicator of Kombucha's health is its buoyancy.

That is, if Kombucha suddenly began to sink from the surface to the bottom of the jar, if after you add a new batch of tea leaves, he does not want to float on the surface on his own, then it means that he “feels” he doesn’t matter and it’s time to take urgent action on his "intensive care".
If your kombucha suddenly became ill, it means that you are doing something wrong. The only true cure for Kombucha is to keep the “mouthpiece” clean and the right follow-up care.

Keep track of the volume of fluid in the canister Kombucha
When your kombucha grows up, instead of the primary half-liter of liquid, it will need much more, about 3 liters.

In addition, you will pour a drink. Therefore, do not forget to add liquid to the mushroom every time you pour a tea drink from a can.

For such purposes, you can use a brew that has already been used. It is necessary to fill it with boiling water, cool and pour sugar around two tablespoons to 1 liter of boiling water — mix thoroughly so that all the sugar crumbs are completely dissolved.

If the sugar does not dissolve completely and falls on the fungus, it will not like it very much.

Water treatment for the health of Kombucha

Rinse out the mushroom every two weeks. Carefully remove it from the can and lay it on the plate without deforming it.

Then rinse gently under lukewarm water in the sink. Then gently place the mushroom on a plate and leave it. “Take an air bath for about two minutes. Meanwhile, strain all the liquid from the can through a gauze cloth into a clean container.

And rinse the jar well with water. Then drain the filtered drink back into the jar and put the Kombucha, "carefully" covering with gauze folded in several layers.

The liquid in which the mushroom floats should be clear, not turbid. The mushroom should not be brown. Otherwise, such a drink can harm your health, instead of the expected healing effect. Thanks to the regular washing of the mushroom, you keep it healthy and will enjoy the Kombucha drink for a very long time.

How to store a jar of kombucha
While you grow kombucha, the temperature should be about 22-25 degrees, and then, when the mushroom has already “gained weight”, the jar with it should be placed in a place where the temperature will be about 18 degrees, that is, not too hot.

At the same time it is important to remember that the light of Kombucha is necessary for life. For this, it is impossible to put it in the closet. However, be sure to note that putting a mushroom on the window sill is a mistake! In direct sunlight, it will "boil" and get sick.

To grow kombucha at home  - it is not necessary to do something extraordinary, everything is quite simple. All that is required is compliance with the formulation and technology of preparation, and then proper storage.

Called tea kvass, then you need to have a tea (it’s also Chinese) mushroom. The easiest way is to take a part of it from someone and place it in a nutrient medium, as a result of which a new mushroom will start growing, and you will rather quickly get a tasty healthy drink. But if there is no such possibility, then you can grow tea jellyfish (as people often call kombucha) on their own. However, you have to be patient, because the growing process will take 1.5-2 months.

The tea jar should be closed with a lid and left alone for a week at room temperature. Capacity should be put in a moderately lit place (not in sunlight or in darkness). In a week, a thin unclear film should appear on the surface of the nutrient medium. If this happens, then the growth of Kombucha has begun. In this state, the jar of solution must be left for 1.5-2 months. During this time, the tea jellyfish will grow, and it can be placed in a large jar for making a drink.

Before moving the mushroom to a new jar, rinse it with warm water. Ideal for preparing a drink fit three-liter jar. It is necessary to fill it with 2/3 fresh sweet tea, after which you can put a young Chinese mushroom there. The neck of the jar is recommended to cover with gauze, folded in several layers.

However, few people are engaged in the independent cultivation of kombucha. In most cases, it is propagated by splitting a large mushroom into several. It is possible to divide a mushroom stratified at the edges, the thickness of which is several centimeters. If the mushroom is young and still very thin, then it is better to wait with the division, otherwise you can injure it. It is also not necessary to cut off or pinch off a piece of fungus, damaging its structure. From a small fragment of a mushroom, a new one usually grows over time, which takes the form of a container in which it exists, but sometimes a Chinese mushroom dies.

Fat mushroom must be carefully divided into several plates in places of separation. If the mushroom is ready for this separation, then the layers are separated from each other without effort. If you need to make efforts to separate the layers, then you should not tear the mother fungus, you should wait until it grows up a little and becomes thicker.

Sometimes tea jellyfish are divided independently. In such cases, the mother fungus sinks to the bottom of the tank, and a thin film floats to the surface of the solution - a young mushroom.

Each separated layer should be washed with water at room temperature and placed in a separate jar with fresh nutrient solution. It is necessary to shift the mushroom very carefully, trying not to tear it. The first few days he may lie at the bottom of the jar or swim in it vertically, but then he will float to the surface. Immediately to get tea kvass will take a little more time.

There is another way to divide the kombucha, which, in fact, is the cultivation of a new tea jellyfish in the already prepared tea kvass. Drink, prepared for at least 5-6 days, you need to put in a clean container, cover with gauze and leave alone for several days. After some time, a thin film will appear on the surface of the nutrient medium - a new Kombucha. This is because in the finished tea kvass in a small amount  there are microorganisms (yeast fungi and bacteria), of which the fungus consists.

It is not difficult to care for tea jellyfish. The best house there will be a glass jar for her, because she needs light. Every 3-5 days it is worth pouring half of the resulting drink out of the can, and then filling up the volume of liquid. Only cooked sweet tea can be poured into the jar; in no case should you pour tea and sugar directly into the container or on the mushroom itself. You can drain all the finished tea kvass, and then lower the mushroom into a new nutrient medium, only note that the preparation time of the drink in this case may increase slightly. For the preparation of a nutrient medium, you can use both black and green teabut without flavors and essential oils. If you prefer, you can substitute sugar with honey, but the taste of the drink will differ somewhat from the traditional one.

The neck of the jar should always be covered with gauze, folded in several layers and secured with an elastic band or thread. This is necessary in order to prevent insects from entering the container. In addition, pouring a drink through cheesecloth, you do not have to filter it further. It is impossible to close the jar with a lid or plastic wrap, since the fungus needs air for its vital activity.

If the fungus has become very thick or its surface has become brown or brown, it is necessary to separate it. One new layer should be carefully, trying not to tear, rinse with clean water and place in a container with fresh nutrient medium. Even if there is no need to divide the mushroom, it is recommended to wash it once a month.

Video on how to grow Kombucha at home with the transfer of "Housekeeping"

Quite a lot of people in Russia prefer to quench their thirst in the summer heat not only with a tasty drink, but also with a healing one. We are talking about Kombucha and the infusion on it, which is prepared at home by almost all housewives. But there are those people for whom such a wellness program can become unattainable due to ignorance of where to get the Kombucha itself. In fact, everything is simpler than simple, Kombucha is grown personally with the help of certain instructions and conditions. To do this, you just need to be patient and, after a successful experiment, the grown mushroom will begin to “bear fruit” on its own with new mushrooms.

Initially, adherents of a healthy lifestyle are interested in the question “is it possible and how can one grow kombucha itself”. The answer is obvious - perhaps in order to enjoy a healthy and tasty drink in the future, kombucha can be gradually recreated from ordinary tea brewing.

In addition, not only black tea, but also wild rose can serve as a starting capital. In order for the kombucha to be formed as soon as possible and retain its valuable qualities as long as possible, for this it is necessary to strictly follow the cooking instructions and take care of them regularly after its appearance.

In the nation, a cooked tea mushroom cannot surprise anyone as soon as it is not called, either tea kvass, or tea jellyfish. But the best thing to call Kombucha kombucha, this term is used on a global level.

Already many European countries have highlighted kombucha in front of typical carbonated drinks and kvass in terms of benefits and taste. Visually, a combucha is a film on top of a liquid, consisting of many layers. For physicians and scientists, a kombucha is a symbiosis of bacteria and yeast-like fungi of sweet tea.

Black tea kombucha - grown at home

To grow Kombucha at home from scratch, it is enough to stock up in advance with props of tools and ingredients and follow strictly the recommendations.

So, for the preparation of Kombucha in the home will need:

1. three-liter glass jar;
2. teapot;
3. tea leaves;
4. boiling water;
5. gauze bandage of several layers;
6. sugar (honey or fructose).

In order for the fungus to form correctly and quickly, you should choose tea leaves with no leaves and no additives. As practice shows, the cheaper tea will cost, the better it will be Kombucha. If there is dust in the tea pack, it is better to give preference to another grade.

Instructions for the preparation of Kombucha:

1. Pre-clean the dishes for growing the mushroom from dust and pollution. If the bottle is not clean, on early stage  Education Kombucha most likely die. It is not necessary to wash the bottle with chemicals for washing dishes, it is better to use the old way - sponge and baking soda.
2. The next step is the preparation of tea brewing. About 5 tablespoons of tea leaves are poured into the kettle for such purposes, which are filled with half liter of boiling water. In this state, the tea should be infused until it has completely cooled. You do not need to fall asleep tea in spoons with a slide, 50 grams will be enough.
3. As soon as the tea leaves are cold, 70 grams of sugar is added to it, which must be thoroughly stirred before final dissolution.
4. Broth is filtered using gauze or a metal strainer. Tea drink is placed in a three-liter jar. After that, a dense layer (preferably several layers) of gauze is applied on top of the jar.

This tea drink is sent to a secluded place for 6-7 weeks. If after 1-2 weeks you will feel an unpleasant vinegar smell, you should not just worry. This phenomenon only signals the beginning of fermentation, during which the fungus is formed. After a few days, the smell will gradually disappear, and a thin film will form on the surface of the drink. And each new day will thicken this layer until a good kombucha is formed.

Rosehip Kombucha - grown at home

As practice shows, properly prepared Kombucha from has a large list of useful properties. And if the fungus on the basis of tea brew is grown to produce a tasty thirst quenching drink, then the fungus on the basis of rosehip will become a truly healing drink. Few people know how to properly prepare the kombucha from the wild rose, an indispensable tool in the off-season and cold. This drink will strengthen the immune system, fill the body with vitamins and nutrients. In fact, the cooking technology is almost identical, with the exception of a few items.

1. Prepare the infusion based on rosehips. It can be either freshly picked or dried for the winter bush berries. In a thermos stack 4 tablespoons of wild rose, after which another half-liter of boiling water is sent there. Hermetically sealed thermos with rosehip should be set aside for 5 days.
2. After that, the infusion is poured into a glass jar, which, respectively, need to be washed. There also send 2 tablespoons of large-leaf black tea (10 grams of tea per cup).
3. Following the brewing, 50 grams of sugar is sent to the infusion, the liquid is thoroughly mixed until it is dissolved. Infusion should be set aside for a day.
4. Once the day has passed, the liquid in the bank should be drained of sediment. After that, the bottle should be rinsed again and put into it an already clean infusion without raw materials. After that, the jar is covered with several layers of gauze and put in a secluded warm place for as many days as indicated in the previous recipe.

Usually, the process of origin of Kombucha on such a basis does not differ from the previous version; after 1.5-2 months, a large and useful Kombucha can be found.

Care kombuchey

Kombucha, as it was said earlier, that the so-called Kombucha is called, needs not only the proper cooking process, but also regular care. If you do not adhere to the recommendations for caring for him, the mushroom will spoil, and a drink based on it will have an unpleasant vinegar flavor. Sometimes, because of ignorance, inexperienced housewives simply ruin their mushroom.

A healthy Kombucha will surely be located on the very surface of the liquid, in no case falling below. If such an unpleasant incident nevertheless happened, the hostess should take care of the treatment of the fungus. For this, he needs to create all conditions of purity and sterility.

So, experts suggest that you familiarize yourself with several recommendations on how to properly care for Kombucha:

• If initially Kombucha occurs only in half-liter of water, after a while and in the process of its growth the volume of liquid must be increased to 3 liters. To do this, you can take the already used tea brewing. It is again poured boiling water and sweetened with sugar (up to 2 tablespoons per liter of tea), as indicated in the instructions above.
• It is impossible to consider as erroneous the decision of the hostess not to filter the infusion from the tea leaves. The whole technology of preparation will not suffer in any way, just such a drink will not be very convenient to drink later.
• Inadmissible direct contact of sugar with Kombucha, because of this, the fungus will simply get burned and start to hurt, or die at all. Therefore, the liquid with sugar must be thoroughly mixed in order to dissolve the grains and only after that pour it into the mushroom.
• After the formation of the fungus, at least once a month it should be rinsed under running water. It is very important to get the mushroom carefully so as not to damage its integrity and structure. It is placed in a flat plate to rinse under the faucet. Then the mushroom must be dried for 2 minutes in the fresh air. The mushroom is placed back in a tin of infusion.

If chlorinated water enters from the tap, it is preferable to rinse the kombucha with filtered purchased water. If you do not adhere to such tips, after a while the mushroom will begin to change its shade, exfoliate, showing the person his illness. A drink based on a sick fungus is not that it is not beneficial to the human body, it can harm it.

Kombucha storage

For the birth of valuable valuable Kombucha, it needs specific conditions of detention and subsequent storage.

1. The air temperature is no more than 25 degrees and a dark, secluded place. If the temperature in the air drops below +17 degrees, the fungus will begin to lose its activity and will begin to overgrow with algae of a blue-green shade. Direct sunlight and at all disastrous for him.
2. To use the drink you need to prepare in advance two glass jars. In one mushroom is grown, and in the second the finished drink will merge. If it's summer, you need to pour the infusion every 3 days, and if winter - after 5 days. To store the finished drink need a refrigerator. If you do not replace the drink with fresh infusion in time, a film will be visible on its surface.
3. The thickness of a full-fledged Kombucha should not exceed 4 cm. If the mushroom thickens, it is enough to peel off a piece of it and place it in another jar. In this way, spread Kombucha.
4. The most valuable and nutritious - the lower layers. To saturate the fungus "usefulness", it is enough to add to the infusion of herbs, for example, nettle, birch, blackberry, plantain and more. As a basis, you can take tea leaves green tea leaves.
5. The age of the drink should be no older than 1 month. After this border, the drink will accumulate vinegar in itself. If the drink has become unsuitable for consumption, it can only be used externally for various purposes.

For drivers of cars you need to be careful with the use of such a drink, since it contains ethyl alcohol.

Kombucha from apple vinegar

To prepare this variation of kombucha, you need to put a bottle of apple cider vinegar in a secluded warm place and forget about its existence for 2-3 months. If a cloudy precipitate is visible at the bottom of the vinegar, it means that you can start cooking Kombucha. To do this, prepare a sweet tea tea, which is added to apple cider vinegar.

As soon as the ingredients are mixed, the liquid should be left for several weeks to infuse. After 1.5-2 weeks, the first film forming the mushroom will be noticeable. The longer the liquid will stand, the more this film will thicken, turning into a good kombucha. It is very important to choose high-quality vinegar, which will not include flavors, preservatives and other additives.

This drink will have a delicate spicy sweet-sour taste and a pleasant aroma. It is useful to use this infusion on tea fungus in the period of vitamin deficiency and lack of an organism in minerals and microelements.

Practically each of us knows about the beneficial properties of Kombucha. And many are wondering: "How to grow Kombucha at home from scratch (video)?" He also has several variants of the name - tea jellyfish, or for example a Japanese mushroom. Why exactly Japanese? There is a belief that for the first time it began to be used in Japan, after a while the drink spread, first throughout Europe, and then reached Russia.

Even small children know about such a drink. It has a sweet and sour taste, which in addition to everything else is slightly carbonated. And sometimes many moms do not know how to properly grow a mushroom at home. We understand this issue and share with you a few step by step instructions.

But, before we do this, we will consider under what diseases the use of the drink and all its possible harm are recommended.

Pros and cons when using a drink in human nutrition

Apply tea drink at various diseases. This is considered a treatment. folk remedieswhich sometimes many doctors reject.

• if there are various unpleasant situations with sleep;
• frequent pains in the head;
• pressure is unstable, due to which it is normalized.
• manifestation of various stressful and depressive states, with a breakdown;
• manifestation of chronic diseases of the nasal cavity;
• manifestation of sore throat, including sore throat;
• if the work of the digestive tract, cardiovascular system, urine of the excretory system is not correct.

As a preventive measure, it is recommended to use half a liter of drink daily. It is best to do this on an empty stomach half an hour before the meal. Why exactly? Once in the stomach, it begins to act actively, due to which appetite is awakened, fatigue is removed and energy appears in the human body.

Having taken a drink at night, you calm your irritated nervous system, due to what happens proper preparation  body to sleep.

By consuming it regularly, you provide beauty not only external, but also internal. Your hair gets a beautiful natural look, nails no longer exfoliate, the skin becomes smooth and elastic. Here are some useful properties  Kombucha has, and how to grow it at home from scratch, we describe below.

In addition to the positive qualities, there are also negative sides, especially for the organism. Do not forget that the composition of the drink contains a large number of various organic acids, yeast, which perform the role of fermentation and secrete sugar substances.

It is safe for a pregnant and lactating woman, if she is completely healthy, and then the reception should be carried out with caution. The drink can be included in the diet of children from about three years. At an early age, it is not recommended to give a drink, as it begins to ferment in the stomach, due to which increased gas formation occurs, and not all babies can cope with this ailment on their own.

Also, it is worth refusing reception at the following diseases:

• if the acidity of the stomach is considered increased;
• with an ulcer;
• at diabetes  any degree;
• with various fungal diseases, for example with thrush.

Do not forget about such a contraindication as intolerance to any components. If at least one of the above signs you have present, then the best would be to completely refuse to take such a therapeutic drink, in this case it will only negatively affect your health.

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Grow mushroom at home

Now let's talk about how to make Kombucha at home from scratch using video.

To grow tea jellyfish, allowed in several ways:

• using black tea leaves;
• applying the hips, for the decoction;
• on natural juice from apples;
• on a natural beer drink;
• using green tea;
• on red tea;
• on broth medicinal herbs.

Let us examine in more detail each of the cooking options, after which you decide which method suits you best.

Method number 1

Take the following components and inventory:

• can with a capacity of three liters;
• a small piece of clean gauze;
• boiled hot water;
• granulated sugar;
• large leaf tea;
• brew maker

So, some organizational points and tips. Tea is best to use the most simple, without various additives. You should not buy expensive tea leaves, sometimes cheap is much better. Take a glass jar, but in no case plastic. Answer the question: “How to make a tea mushroom at home from scratch?”, The step-by-step process described below will help us.

Step-by-step instruction:

First of all, you need to wash the jar with soda solution and a sponge (it is undesirable to use chemical detergents, especially with any flavor). Also, it must be perfectly clean, that is where the fungus will live and develop. If cultivation will take place in a dirty and poorly flushed jar, then as a result, it will die, without having lived and served you.

Spend similar actions with the teapot. After rinse it with boiling water and pour 100 grams of large-leaf tea into it. Then we fill them with water in a volume of up to 0.5 liters. Cover with a lid, and then you can cover with a towel or shawl. Let it stand for 30 to 50 minutes. During this time, the tea leaves will cool slightly.

After the necessary time, we filter the finished brew in a small saucepan. Spread sweet sand (0.14 kg) and stir until it is completely dissolved.

Pour the finished sugar brew into a clean jar, cover the neck of the jar with a small piece of gauze and fix it with a regular rubber band so that it will not go away. Capacity with the prepared composition is required to be stored in a warm room for about one and a half or two months.

After about 2 weeks, a specific vinegar odor may appear in the room where the drink is located. Its manifestation is completely natural, so thinking about the fact that it is soured is not necessary. At this moment, the fermentation process takes place, and the time of formation and cultivation of kombucha at home from scratch step by step photos.

Such a smell can be within a week, and basically it disappears, and a thin, slippery film appears on the surface, which is considered the body of a new Japanese mushroom. Do not think that it will remain so. No, with each week, you will notice how the fungus begins to grow in size.

Method number 2

Using this method, you strengthen your body and saturate it. necessary vitamins  and substances. Consider how to grow Kombucha using dried rosehip berries. This drink is recommended to use especially in the autumn and spring periods, when there is a rapid growth of various viral diseases. The process of growing is identical as in growing with simple brewing, although there are some nuances, which are discussed in more detail below.

Take the following components:

• dog-rose fruit;
• granulated sugar;
• three liter glass containers;
• thermos;
• large leaf tea;
• a small piece of gauze;
• hot boiled water.

First of all you need to make broth hips. For this drink, apply dry berries 80 gr. Pour them into a thermos, and pour 0.5 liters of hot boiling water. Close it tightly and leave to infuse for five days.

Strain the broth in a well-washed jar, and heat it slightly. We pour it into 2.5 st. l brewing, and 1/2 cup of granulated sugar. Stir until the product is completely dissolved in the liquid. Close the neck with gauze and remove for 24 hours in a warm room.

The next day, we filter the finished refueling. We wash the jar again with soda solution, and pour the finished tea leaves into it. Again, cover with a piece of gauze and tied with a rubber band, put in a warm inaccessible place for 1.5 months.

As you can see, the instructions do not change, just use the infusion of berries, which is then poured into brewing. Following all the above instructions, you will not be able to grow Kombucha at home from scratch, and we have described above how to do this, also in addition to step by step instructions  You can see the video lesson.

Method number 3

Take:

• natural apple juice - 0.5 liters;
• a small glass container of 2 liters and 3 liters;
• a piece of gauze folded several times;
• elastic;
• black leaf tea - 70 grams;
• granulated sugar - 80 grams.

Apple juice in its natural form is poured into a container with a capacity of two liters. We cover the neck with thick gauze and clean it in a warm room for two months. During this time, a thin film is formed on the surface, which will indicate the presence of a Japanese mushroom body.

We start the preparation of a sweet drink from black tea leaves. It is in this composition that the development of the body of the fungus will occur. Dry tea leaves are poured into a thermos and filled with boiling water. After we close and remove to a dark place for 24 hours. During this time, it will fully infuse, filter through a small strainer.

In a glass container with a capacity of three liters pour the tea leaves, pour the sugar and stir until dissolved.

Then we get the resulting jellyfish in the juice and shift it into the prepared liquid. Marulku and covers in a warm inaccessible place for 24 hours. After pouring the resulting drink and use it for its intended purpose. Here it turns out how easy it is to grow Kombucha at home and from scratch (photo tutorial in the article).

Method number 4

The preparation of the drink is carried out in an identical way as previously described. We will write only in what quantity and what products will be required for cultivation. In a glass container mix 1/2 cup of real beer, enter 1/2 tablespoon of wine vinegar, take sugar in the amount of 1 tsp. All mix and cover with gauze, removing in a warm place. As the body of the fungus in thickness became more than three millimeters, we shift it into a sweetened tea infusion and grow further.

You do not have time to grow a mushroom from scratch, then you can simplify this process by purchasing a small piece of medusomicete. Then the growing process becomes much easier and faster. Consider one such example by preparing a herbal drink for tea jellyfish.

Herbal collection can be selected independently, depending on what you want to cure. For the intestines, for example, St. John's wort and chamomile color will be a good composition, or for the kidneys to use herbal kidney tea.

So, we take the selected composition in the amount of 1 cup, and fill it with three liters of boiling water. Capacity wrap and leave for a day. During this time, the grass fully infused. Pour the filtered infusion of herbs into a clean container, add 60 grams of honey, stir well. Carefully place the prepared mushroom piece into the prepared warm liquid. We cover with the breathing material, and we clean in the warm place. After about 3-4 days, the liquid can be drained and taken as intended.

Having considered only four methods of preparation, we can conclude that it is not difficult to grow it from scratch, and in almost every way the technology of preparation is repeated, only the additive changes.

How to carry out proper care for the Japanese mushroom?

As you can see, to grow kombucha from scratch at home (how to do this was considered above with step-by-step photos) will not make any work, the most important thing is to support its livelihoods. To provide proper care, to ensure that the body of the fungus does not die, or did not develop a not pleasant drink with a pronounced acetic taste.

Determining that a tea mushroom needs help is not difficult. His body has acquired not the natural color, it does not float, but on the contrary is at the bottom of its dwelling. These are the most basic signs that tell us about the death of the organism.

In the normal state, the body of the tea jellyfish should float on the surface of the water, but not to lie at the bottom of the container. How to provide medical assistance? It is important for him to be in a perfectly clean container.

From the step-by-step instructions for growing tea jellyfish, it becomes clear that at the initial stage of its development it is only half a liter of liquid. As you grow, you need to increase the amount of water. It should be in the aquatic environment, but not the opposite.

You can use the brew several times, just fill it with boiling water. Speaking about granulated sugar, it is also necessary to be careful with this bulk product. Do not use more than 40 grams per liter of water. Stir it up until it is completely dissolved.

For convenience while drinking, it is recommended to drain the tea drink. Without doing this action, no harm will occur.

To prevent mold on it, it is necessary to wash Kombucha at home two or three times a month (see how to grow from scratch in the article). Choose any convenient day, begin the process of making water procedures for your fungus. Water for washing should be boiled and warm.

How to perform this action? At the very first stage it is to get the body of the medusomicete from the habitat, we do it carefully. We spread on a clean large and flat dish. Then we rinse under water, and leave it in the fresh air for about 4 minutes. Now feel free to send it back to your habitat. There is no difficulty in this matter. But, these are the most basic and necessary actions to maintain the purity of the tea jellyfish.

Now let's talk about the liquid in which the body of the fungus is being washed. Vodichka must be filtered, but in no case from the tap. It is impossible to take liquid from the crane, as it contains such an element as chlorine. It can have a detrimental effect on the growth of a microorganism. In no case it is impossible to put a formed organism into a hot drink, it will simply die.

The bank in which the organism will live should be taken only in a glass transparent form. In no case, no plastic, or enameled.

Installing a jar with the body of a jellyfish is necessary in a warm room, but at the same time the temperature in it should not exceed more than +25 degrees. And while it should not fall on the rays of the sun.

Not observing all the above rules for the care of Kombucha, you will find it to death. If he began to exfoliate, change color, bend, or worse than that, the bottom of the ass, then these are signs of a sick body. To use a mushroom drink in such a state is extremely dangerous. And we discussed the question of how to care for Kombucha at home, and how to grow it from scratch was described above.