how to grow mushrooms the easy way

Canndo,

Would you mind speaking a little bit to specifics after casing? In your original tek there is no mention of light hours, fanning in oxygen or ideal temperatures.

Once mycelium runs up into the casing, it seems common knowledge is 12 hours of light, a drop temp of 65f to set pins and 75f thereafter for fruiting.

Do you have specific thoughts or an opinion on this as it relates to your tek?

Thank you.

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

What am I seeing?

nicemarmot said:

Canndo,

Would you mind speaking a little bit to specifics after casing? In your original tek there is no mention of light hours, fanning in oxygen or ideal temperatures.

Once mycelium runs up into the casing, it seems common knowledge is 12 hours of light, a drop temp of 65f to set pins and 75f thereafter for fruiting.

Do you have specific thoughts or an opinion on this as it relates to your tek?

Thank you.

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This is an easy tek. I mentioned no need for fanning as the plastic bag tent has openings on the side naturally.

Ambient light is fine.

Temperatures are regulated by keeping them in the box the jars came in.

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

What am I seeing?

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Doesn't matter, put the cap on and Chuck it.

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.

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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.

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Yeah. You have pins man. The first growths almost always look deformed. But you definitely have shrooms growin. If they grow out. You'll have a nice trip for the weekend. Congrats.

The deforms are just as great as the regulars.

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Yeah. You have pins man. The first growths almost always look deformed. But you definitely have shrooms growin. If they grow out. You'll have a nice trip for the weekend. Congrats.

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Sounds good - thanks!

Sorry didn't want to read 24 pages I have to go to work but what's in the syringe

Wait is it the spores where do you get spores Im a noob

Lol.

Spores are how the orgganism serially reproduces. It is genetic exchange. They are not seeds, as the seed inherits the genetic exchange that happened when the flower is pollinated.

Two Spores germinate and grow, if they are serially compatible they form clamp connections which allow the two to eventually make that exchange.

The Spores are quite small and there are thousands to millions in the syringe.

You may see clumps in the sterile water, or you may not.

Spores are usually what impart color to fungi imperfecti. (mold) and in the grilled mushrooms there are structures on the gills that bear sets of Spores.

Many mushrooms exert huge pressures on the Spores when ripe and they shoot off under hundreds or thousands of gs of acceleration.


The oyster varieties I am working with are white. There are so many that they can collect on your growing area or equipment and may give you respiratory problems.

The Spores you are looking for are purple brown, purple black or, perhaps red.

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 you see the mycelium growing up the stem? This seems odd to me...

2) in general the mycelium continues to accelerate. It's growing up and seems to be reaching out. More FAE?

3) I'm seriously astounded that this is actually working...

The fuzz means every thing is OK. Maybe a little too moist bit it is obvious that you did well.

Now why did you doubt it?

nicemarmot said:

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 you see the mycelium growing up the stem? This seems odd to me...

2) in general the mycelium continues to accelerate. It's growing up and seems to be reaching out. More FAE?

3) I'm seriously astounded that this is actually working...

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Looks incredible man! Great job brother! Looks like you and your wife are going to PaaarrrTaaayyy!
For Christmas.

I fanned mine every day after lightly misting them, probably not necessary but didn't seem to have any negative effects. I picked and dried my last mushroom last week and buried my cakes . They grow for a long ass time

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 chunk of mycelium and pins. Clipping w/ scissors is a better way to go? It's difficult to get into the jar...

nicemarmot said:

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 chunk of mycelium and pins. Clipping w/ scissors is a better way to go? It's difficult to get into the jar...

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Wow. Nom nom baby.

Some strains do better than others when you have to get them out.

Also, packing the casing a little helps.

You can patch it now or just wait, you will get plenty more. Now is the time to start spraying at least once a day.

You did do a case of jars, not just one, right?

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 the jar to saturate it, let it soak for an hour and poured it out. This was right about the same time that I harvested in the photo above. The ironic thing is that internal humidity was good given all the mycelium growth on the stems...

Anyhow, all seems to be well. I will let the "bald spot" repatch itself rather than adding more casing. The strain is B+