I’ve had this tub in fruiting conditions for about 6 days, have noticed lots of myc growth but it just looks…. Dustier than I expected? It smells like dirt.

Not sure if I’m seeing pins or just exposed mycelium. I can see little beads of water on the sides of the linear and some MINOR condensation on the roof of the tub, I don’t THINK it’s dehydrated but I’m still quite new. Does anything look suspicious?

I've grown these before but I often get yellowing. I did something right this round. The temps have gone down recently so maybe that's a factor.

I grow in bags and then they fruit in a tent with a humidifier.

Hi there !

I’m having trouble dehydrating my Hawaiian copelandia. I’ve put them at 40°C for 36 hours in my airfryer on dehydrating mode (which always worked really well with psilocybes), then in a jar with a few desiccant bags, put in a shoebox in my wardrobe. Yet, I’ve already had to dehydrate them twice more since I’ve noticed that a few shrooms started rehydrating themselves. I’ve noticed while opening the box to put more dehydrated shrooms. Each time I put them again in the airfryer for at least 24 hours at 40°C, cleaned the jar, threw away the desiccant bags, changed the jar and added bags.

What am I doing wrong ? Is there something I don’t know and should be aware of ? I planned on keeping them for a long time but it wont be possible until I solve this issue …

So my local hardware store has been out of standard five gallon buckets for over a month now. I was wondering if anyone has used their pressure cooker in place of a standard 5 gallon bucket with the bucket tek for sterilizing their substrate. I'm using the standard 650g coir/2 qt vermiculite ratio with 5 quarts of boiling water. My only concern is that the tiny vent on top will prevent the necessary pressure that would normally build up in a bucket with a sealed lid on it. Thanks in advance!

Been trying for months to get a successful second grow. I’ve tried broke boi, which worked perfectly the first time but has now failed every time with wet rot, uncle ben’s which has shown no progress, and now Ziploc tek. Only one of the bags has shown contam so far, but I’m not super confident. Should have some injection ports and filter stickers delivered today to modify my jar lids, and I just bought a pressure cooker, so hopefully that’ll help. Wish me luck, y’all.

This is my most beautiful colonization yet. Bull Head 7 days from S2B 🤩🤩

Once the grains are fully colonized with mycelium and all that is left is the substrate above, is that the time to cut and introduce fresh air(doing “hoodie tek method”) Last time that i did an AIO bag it had side pins and I didn’t properly shield the grains from the light and no rubber bands so i ended up just putting the contents in a small shoebox tub. Worked well but i reall want to run the bag till harvest. So again when do I introduce fresh air? Once the substrate is 50% colonized?,75,100? Now? Photos forthcoming. Thanks for any advice

I'm fairly new to the space, but in reading from the subreddit and other forums I feel like I've read a lot of info that to me doesn't quite make sense.

In particular I feel like I've seen a lot of issues chalked up to bad genetics - is this really as common as made out? What particular in genetics goes bad?

Also, i got interested in the difference between rhizomorphic and tomentose mycelium. Nutrient availability makes a lot of sense in to which stimulating either phenotype, but also seemed a lot of people were talking about need for multiple transfers/ passages for clonal selection needed to induce either growth type.

How much info do you see that is based in fact vs. colloquial?

Lil baby GT :) I thought this bag would fail long ago!

going real slow compared to my smaller tub.. should i pick out the current shrooms? leave it? not sure what to do here

So I think I have everything I need to get started but I'd like some opinions.

I just ordered golden teacher liquid culture from magic spore labs and a monotub complete kit from Midwest grow kits. I also ordered a strip light kit.

I have a small grow tent that I used to start seedlings in (24x16x20), clip fan, heated seeding mat, and ac infinity humidifier and a smart outlet for the lighting.

Is there anything else I might need to create the best environment possible?

I also have a few questions.

1. If I keep the humidifier set to 85% do I need to mist the mushrooms daily?
2. My heat pad can be set from 75-95f, what is the ideal temperature I should be maintaining?
3. When should I add the lighting and is it a 12 12 cycle?
4. Should I keep the fan running throughout the entire process or just during fruiting?
5. Any specific tools needed for harvest?

Thank you for your time and help.

I did a solution of distilled water with 4% honey for LC, it was clear but when it came out of the PC it looks like this. What happened here?

I have a few bags of rye grain that I inoculated with spore syringes about a month ago. A couple have minimal mycelium growth, while the other has none so far. The grains seem kinda dry to me so I'm thinking about sterilizing some water, maybe with a bit of gypsum and or malt extract dissolved, and injecting a couple cc's into the grain bags to see if that triggers some growth. Anyone ever tried this?

I got an inoculated grain bag ready to go, and I've had this sealed bag of soil for a while now. I was getting ready to put the grain and soil in a box but my soil smells really sour, and like old fruit. I did a bit of googling and saw that it's a sign of unhealthy and not well drained soil, which makes sense. I just want to know if I'm able to still use this soil to grow my mushrooms or is the soil bad

(First time grower)

How many weeks does it take to start seeing mycelium?

I inoculated 2 bags. Left with LC (specific substrate for liquid culture) and right with spores (substrate is called TEK-something). Temperature is in image. After 1 week, there is no mycellium growth at all. These are both P. nats. There is no mold or anything inside bags.

When I search for answer I get people saying "I see growth after 3-4 days", and others say it takes 3-4 weeks to see growth. What is the more precise answer?

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(First time grower)

How many weeks does it take to start seeing mycelium?

I inoculated 2 bags. Left with LC (specific substrate for liquid culture) and right with spores (substrate is called TEK-something). Temperature is in image. After 1 week, there is no mycellium growth at all. These are both P. nats. There is no mold or anything inside bags.

When I search for answer I get people saying "I see growth after 3-4 days", and others say it takes 3-4 weeks to see growth. What is the more precise answer?

https://preview.redd.it/nzoorv8s400e1.png?width=2259&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d74f6cbe2b59de07618145d376b34c5d21d43c6

(First time grower)

How many weeks does it take to start seeing mycelium?

I inoculated 2 bags. Left with LC (specific substrate for liquid culture) and right with spores (substrate is called TEK-something). Temperature is in image. After 1 week, there is no mycellium growth at all. These are both P. nats. There is no mold or anything inside bags.

When I search for answer I get people saying "I see growth after 3-4 days", and others say it takes 3-4 weeks to see growth. What is the more precise answer?

https://preview.redd.it/goeec86g400e1.png?width=2243&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b1ad9b6e2518dbc53c99b131afcc48f1fad258d

See title. I injected 2 bags and forgot about them for a year lol. They’re covered in mycelium, no contam. Should I still send it? Or do they.. expire?