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Practice makes perfect. I've had minimal success with this technique until I learned how to use the pressure cooker properly. Only adding enough water so that the PC is almost dry when the 1 hour time is up. Previously, I was adding too much water to the PC because I didn't want it to run dry...

After rereading the procedure I realize that I skipped the "rinse after boiling" step. I assume this was the culprit and caused all 12 jars to stall and eventually contaminate. It is exactly as stated above: shook, stalled, contamination. Took about 6 weeks to get to that point. Round 3...

Cool, thanks. And I most certainly WON'T be smelling it.

I've got this at the bottom of the jar: Mycelium growing higher up but VERY slowly. I'm thinking the medium is too wet to see this batch through... What's the concensus?

Quick question for Canndo: Referring back to your procedure - why not leave the lid on the jar while mycelium colonize the coir/verm? This would seem logical as they like co2 and up until this point we've had the lid on to promote growth.

Canndo - here is a long overdue response to your request. With regards to improvement, I was referring to my own inability to read the instructions carefully. For example, I drained the popcorn overnight after boiling but neglected to roll it on a towel to absorb external moisture the following...

That isn't part of this tek

What holes?

Started w/ 10 and lost 8. I've identified some areas for improvement when I do round 2. Plan is to use these spores to inoculate

#boom

Flush #2 coming up...

End of the first flush from 1 jar. Not bad for a first attempt... It'll probably be about 6-8 grams dry. These picked much easier and didn't pull up the mycelium from underneath. I'm surprised by how small the caps are - range from dime to quarter size (b+ strain). This is their normal size...

I did a case of jars, yes. However only two made it - one is fruiting and the other is getting close. Thanks for the tip on spraying. I did notice that the mass of the substrate shrunk considerably and pulled away from the sides as the first jar started fruiting. I poured water down the side of...

Canndo - allow me to clarify... I'm not surprised that it worked so much as that it worked "for me" . I've never had a green thumb, however none is required for a fungus!! Regarding harvesting - I attempted to twist and pull out the large mushroom shown here and ended up pulling out a large...

This looks to be an unqualified success - thank you for the tek Canndo. I'm grateful. I was away for work the past 3 days and returned to this. My wife was kind enough to assist w/ turning the light on and off in my absence (thanks baby)! 1) the mushroom leaning center from the left - can...

Sounds good - thanks!

These look like stems w/o caps. I was expecting to see brown pins first and then caps at the same time as a stem... I was away for the weekend and jars were in dark for that time. I'll see how they develop in the next couple of days.

Some sort of contaminate here. Orange fuzz and turning red in one area where in contact w/ the glass. What am I seeing?