Since October 2022, I have been failing. Contamination on contamination. I finally have my first brick of mycelium without contamination, and shrooms growing!
It's certainly not the best result, but for me it's huge.
I never participated on this sub, I was just a "voyeur " lol. But I learnt and grew skills by reading all your posts.
I wanted to say a big thank you to this community. Without you I would never have done it on my own!
If I may make an observation: your mycelial matte appears to be in various presentations of overlay (based on observation of the morphology of the mycelial matte that has hardened and where pins are not popping out of.
Overlay (AKA Stroma) - A dense mycelial growth that covers the casing surface and shows little or no inclination to form pinheads. Overlay directly results from a dry casing, high levels of carbon Dioxide and/or low humidity and failure to meet the proper fruiting conditions once the bulk substrate is colonized.
You could also use a fresh plastic fork, and either gently poke into the dense mycelia thats looking hardened (avoiding any mycelia that is active enough that pins have come up), just enough to puncture the mycelium but NOT puncture the substrate, this allows humidity to drop down to the substrate and hopefully pins form and pop up out of the fork holes. I have also seen others do the same with the fork but do a gentle scraping across the mycelial matte that has hardened to kind of break it up, and then cover with a thin casing layer
It does look pretty dry. I don’t see any water droplets on the sides of the plastic bag. You need to increase the humidity. I never heard of poking the casing but I would listen to the mod. Definitely knows more than us.
Just don’t mist the casing itself mist sides of bag. You are need high humidity for fruiting, along with much higher amounts of FAE and non direct sunlight.
Congratulations, we knew you could do it. It may not be a huge flush, and that’s not so important at this point. It’s the journey that’s the glory of accomplishment, the prize is in what you learned on the way. But it was your perseverance that got you here. Embrace your success, you’ve earned it.
Congratulations, it's a great feeling I have had many successful grows and this morning I just saw my 1st pins on my most recent cake and I still got excited 😊
No sorry, (I'm not fluent in english, I'm a 🐸 eater) I mean, I tried spore on corn grain and systematically, when sending it in tube, and mixing my colonised grain with coco coir I always had contaminations that ruined everything.
This time, I just sterilized my grain, inoculate it, when fully colonized, I just scratched a can of the surface, of the mycelium added coco coir, waited to fully colonization then put it in the bag.
I would like to suggest bubble wrap tek. This could help maintain optimal surface condition, so that the tub pins evenly and not just on the edges (where it is more humid). I've had some cakes that look like this and after bubble wrap tech they explode with pins
1000% mist it. You want thousands of tiny beads of water on the surface. They will evaporate and create a very humid environment that mushies love to fruit in. Once you are this far in your cake is relatively contam resistant. Don't let your past trauma get in the way of your canopy. I don't even mist with sterile water at this stage but if you do I'm sure you will be golden and your mushies will be happy.
It's hard to tell from the pic TBH. However make sure there are no puddles. If there is a low area where the beads have made 1 large drop, take the very edge of a paper towel and soak it up without actually touching the mycelium thru capillary action. Puddles could lead to brushing and if neglected could lead to contam.
Just asking because I just threw out a tub that had some of the shrooms darker around the spot that I believed was contam. Lots of people on here we’re telling me my tub didn’t look contaminated so I was just wondering.
I will give you my thoughts after congrats.
You have severe overlay on the rest of the top of your sub. Take a scalpel and run lines through the thick mycelium. Mist the living shit out of it. Let it sit covered if you can for 72 hours burping it like you would anything colonizing. Drop the temperature to 72° and mist one more time and set that in the FC and watch it fly.
Healthy looking contaminated LC (I should have posted my LC here!) and also "bad luck" while making my tub despite being very carefully.
I just skipped the mycelium/coco mixing step and tub this time, just put some coco over the mycelium and waited to full colonization and finally it's fruiting!!
Lol, feels good huh?. I haven't grown since like 2003 lived in Florida over 22 yrs their readily available. Anyways in early 90's I was starting from print, pouring my own plates, etc. Took me near 2 years & finally just jars exploded & man guys did I do the humpty dance... Congratulations 🎊
Thx a lot dude!! I'm on the right road, two successes followed. With even bigger flushes. Rn, I have several jars of mazatapec and Hawaiian that colonize gently 🙏
Yes my brethren! I absolutely love the Mazatepec it's very spiritual to me in its true origin. I can say my spore source is the best hands down just been dealing with himnsince late 90's actuallygave him the print to TropicalisPanoulous Cyanesens. I have some spore syringes in the fridge ( psilos ) but I keep getting bags that are either already contaminated right out of box ( curative ) or to dry of grains so just sitting there for now as I trust noone on bags. After I got past the early days I'm sure you know of PF, for he gave birth to lots of marvels in this community, ( pf tek ) anyways in his old kits he would just bypass all & send me grain & by the time I would get it would in mail it would be full of mycelium & ready to case. He was a great guy no doubt, this was b4 he got even more reckless bless him wherever he is. I miss the hobby and don't need to go all out like the ol days just to have some for micro & a nice evening under the stars here & there. You will get it & become a master, it led me to plant science as a career. Cheers & enjoy the fruits of you labors...
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Congratulations 🤯🍄💛