Icebergs are one of my favorite strains. I personally harvested these spores and put it into grain in a very unique way just to see what it would do, and this bin grew regular icebergs as well as some that reverted into Thai Lipa Yai. Both genetics grew in the same bin. I am amazed on a daily basis. I have already harvested the majority of the brown ones.

I just got this in, it is liquid culture APE. I’m not sure about the color.

Making an outdoor bed was super duper easy and took very less time compared to the bag cultivation. Photo of indoor bag of pink oyster for comparison. Now gonna clone these mushrooms and make grain spawn.

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Growing some 2191 oysters and I’ve got these little patches on top - cause for concern/anything I can do about them?

Hello, this is my first time growing lion mane, outside the bag they look weird and darker in colour but inside the bag they seem better. My temp is between 16 and 18c and humidity between 80 and 88.

When you receive four swabs, they usually come to to a pack inside the packaging they come from the manufacturer, but the normally people also will stick that package inside of a Ziploc type bag. Does anybody know where I can locate those bags or the size of them?

Spawn to bulk about a week ago with uncle bens, had the lid closed for a few days but flipped it to allow more FEX. Leaving on a shelf in my closet temperature about 70-72°C. Anything I can do better? And how long until pins form?

So I’ve cultivated actives for two or three years may be a little longer, but my wife got me a portobello mushroom spore syringe for Christmas. I’ve done a lot of reading and research and it seems like there really hasn’t been anyone to come up with a Tek that works. I’ve read one page saying one thing and another source saying the complete opposite. However, I did find a gentleman on YouTube climbing he has successfully cultivated them at home. I plan to try his method, but would like to know if anyone has any experience or advice they could give me so that I can hopefully be successful at this?

I don't really know if this is the place for this and if it isn't pls help me find the right place but Ive been doing research for weeks on a strain of mushroom called envy super strain I think it is a cross between penis envy and kou samui super strain but I could be wrong I can only find limited information on this particular strain and no pictures of the "envy super strain" I assume it is called something els by the majority of people that's why I included it's genetics asfar as I can tell anyways

I'm new to this....this jar has been slow to colonize. Now I'm noticing the light brown fuzziness in the middle of the picture. Confirm it's contamination? Thanks.

I've recently started attempting to grow my own mushrooms, and I got the agar, LC and everything in between pretty much dialed in. however, I've been having problems with the grain spawn part as that is the only thing I've been purchasing premade.

on the 6th of December I have inoculated 4 bags (pictures below) with 10cc of LC, previously tested on 4 agar dishes with absolutely 0 contamination. one bag has absolutely BLOWN UP, as it heavily condensed not even 24 hours later. it rapidly started colonizing, with white foam forming on top for the cake. on the 10th of December I did a break and shake as it was grayish-white all around and left it as is. the other bags have NO SIGN of colonization at all.

today, I've noticed that something is peeking out of the bag on part where I taped the hole through which I've inoculated the grain and I am wondering if this is okay or if it might be something potentially dangerous. I suspect that I might have mistakenly missed the hole and taped right next to it, exposing the mycelium to the hole and allowing it to grow through, but I have no idea.

the SAB temperature varied from 23.5C to 25.5C, which might explain the intense condensation, but I don't understand how that much of a difference can happen. hope that one of you could shed some light on this. thank you very much in advance!

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So I have Shiitake, Lion's Mane and King Oyster culture syringes that I'm about to inoculate into sterilized jars of rye grain however I'm finding it hard to source hardwood pellets where I'm located in Ireland.

These are the kinds of results I'm getting on Google: https://toplinegroup.ie/collections/10710-pellets

Either it's not specified whether or not the pellets are soft or hardwood or when it is specified the wood is sourced from pine and spruce which I've read is not suitable to get mycelium to grow because they have anti-fungal properties. I've read that cedar is especially inappropriate.

Would getting straw from a pet store be my best option or can I chance it and try the pellets that are widely available at my local hardware shop?

So I’m experimenting with new methods. I somewhere read that people are no longer using a lid in a monotub after colonizing the substrate. Is this true? I’m planning for it to go in a boom room when ready to fruit. What are people’s thoughts or opinions?

So I’m trying to decide what’s more efficient long poly tubes hanging from the top of the tent or to use shelves anyone got any suggestions?

I'm a first timer....I inoculated my grain jars and they colonized quickly. Without thinking of saving the strain, I used all my jars in the monotub. Now I wish I had tried to multiply those spawn jars. Can I cut some mycelium out of the fully colonized monotub and put that into grains again? What is the best way for a beginner to save these genetics?