how to grow mushrooms the easy way
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Also. Forgot to mention. If you can identify the contam. Do a shrooms then contam google search. In some instances such as cobweb mold (mucor). Some growers would suggest burying the jar/sub in a yard somewhere. Due to the fact that nature would take care of the contamination. A you could still get fruit.
canndo
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Missing the main thrust herehe no contact, throw it away unopened.
This is a modular process designed to endure losses. The fact that there is no glove box and no fruiting chamber has your house vulnerable to contamination.
So no, don't try to save stuff. I assure you, half a quart jar used in this way, just one, will yield more than six of those little brown rice pucks, and many weeks earlier. Start to finish can take as little as three weeks.
canndo
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Now here is another thing. This method of constant shaking ensures complete colonization very quickly. You don't have to guess.
Secondly.
So long as you have each kernel surrounded, you can get a jump on casing. You need not wait to get super colonization or "knitting" (where the mycelium is so dense the kernels are embedded rather than coated).
I have a suspicion that early casing actually encourages invasion of the casing.
VTMi'kmaq
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I'd like to give you props for being so diligent with your quest........my journey was amass with procrastination,opiates, and massive pain.........ive broke out of that cocoon and found myself knee deep(quite literally at times) in fungi of all types. I love the idea of blue oysters producing co2 for our grow rooms! wonderful symbiotic relationship there i truly love to see indoors/controlled environments
canndo
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Sounds like I'm real close to applying my casing layer then, I shook those up HARD maybe 4 or 5 times, which I think may have killed some of the other jars. Maybe I'll put the casing on today, and I'm just going to toss the jars, they don't cost much anyway
You cannot kill mycelium by shaking, no matter what others say.
I commonly put far more fragile mycelium than the one you are working with in a blender, on high, for fifteen or twenty seconds.
That, by the way, is how one makes the best liquid culture.
Greenunity
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I've been thinking I might be having issues cause my room is too cold, trying to keep it at 25C now instead of the 22 it was at before, so we'll see how it goes.
Gmz
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The mycelium growing up through the dirt looks really weird, like it's growing straight up and developing little white balls on top. Doesn't look like anything like the pictures I've seen, maybe because the pictures i've seen are so far away I don't know, just has me a little worried. They all smell like delicious fresh mushrooms tho 
. My South American spawn bags are finally blasting off, one of them was contaminated with nasty ass green mold, looking forward to trying out a monotub 
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Edit: Here's a pic of one of them
I don't know, just has me a little worried. They all smell like delicious fresh mushrooms tho . My South American spawn bags are finally blasting off, one of them was contaminated with nasty ass green mold, looking forward to trying out a monotub .Edit: Here's a pic of one of them
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The mycelium growing up through the dirt looks really weird, like it's growing straight up and developing little white balls on top. Doesn't look like anything like the pictures I've seen, maybe because the pictures i've seen are so far away
Edit: Here's a pic of one of them
Good work man. You're going through the motions and steadily learning the process. You're probably beginning to notice that with this game. You can never judge a book by its cover. The best looking jars can get totally f*cked, or be the slowest. While the crappier looking ones can turn out to be the best.
Good luck. Post more pics as you go please.
toaster struedel
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Wouldn't the easiest way be, injecting spores into a bale of hay, feeding it to a horse or cow. And let nature take its course.
