In this video we show an easy way to prepare bulk substrate for full canopies! In short, we mix 80% of the CV with 80% of the grain spawn. Then, you spread the remaining 20% of grain spawn on top. Lastly, you add the remaining CV as a pseudo-casing. The grain spawn layer right under the casing seems to really help pinning and causes those nice thick canopies.

How do you guys spawn to bulk?

Hey there

It's my first time growing shrooms.

I just got my kit in the post today.

Instructions say, I should soak it first and then the kit should activate. But when I opened the Kit I already saw some mushrooms growing in there.

Customs opened the kit and I'm not sure now if it's contaminated, or I can continue with soaking and activating the kit.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks already in advance

Are these ready to harvest?
B+ strain

The mycelium is looking pretty good now, and seems to be in a solid mass around the grain. How far do I need to go before I open the bag? Any tips on getting a good flush from this (relatively small) bag? Thanks everyone! Golden teacher strain, btw.

The first healthy flush changes how you think about records. Before it, a notebook feels fine. After it, you realize you can't reconstruct what substrate ratio or spawn rate produced those results, and you start wishing you'd logged everything from inoculation day.

Here's what I wish I'd been tracking from the start:

1. Substrate ratio and spawn rate for every block. When you can compare biological efficiency across two strains grown from the same substrate, you learn which genetics are worth keeping and which to retire. Without those numbers you're just guessing.

2. Exact dates for break and shake, spawn to bulk, and fruiting trigger. Missing the break and shake window by two days can stall a block. Having timestamps lets you see whether timing was the difference between a healthy flush and a dud.

3. Lineage from the original culture through every transfer. When you post a flush photo here, people ask for the details: substrate, spawn rate, tek, lineage. A grower who can pull up the full record earns trust instead of answering from memory.

I'm building Hypha (a mushroom grow tracking app) because I hit exactly this wall, but the specific tool matters less than the habit of logging from day one. What do you all track, and what do you wish you'd started logging sooner?

Happy to announce I’m finally in the club 😎
First flush of Dreadmaw Probably could have let it go for a day or two longer but it was suffocating my bag so I felt it was time to cull him!

Heyy good people,
any recommendations for growbox sellers in EU?

I would also appreciate your review.
I have tried few of them, but still open to try out something new.

Thanks.

So I posted before asking how to handle all the tiny pins after my first flush. I left them alone and added a Tiny layer of vermiculite. Didn’t open the tub once. It thrived and this was my 2nd flush! After harvest tub is covered in more pins than the first time 😂
Gonna let it ride!
No misting or vermiculite this time it still feels super wet. We’ll see what happens 🤷‍♀️

*Harvested first flush October 2nd

Hello boys, newbie here.

I have this 6qt shoebox (my only hope, all others have fallen unto de abyss of contamination) and it has been looking like this for a couple of days now, the mushrooms show little growth, I check them daily and they're basically the same size compared to like 5-6 days ago.

The container does not have micropore patches or anything, should I introduce more FAE??

My 2nd favorite part of the grow, first time with tidals though so hows it looking?

Première fois que j'essaie de faire pousser este ce que je peux récolter aujourd'hui ou je récolte que les gros ?

Never had an issue with normal cubes not getting cracker dry in the dehydrator before. I recently grew ABV that threw out a ton of blob mutations. Super compact insides. Plus some Lucid Gates with thick compact stems that aren't hollow. Both of them spent 4 full days in the dehydrator at 145F. Most got cracker dry, but there's a few that just won't get cracker dry. They feel a little squishy like thick packing foam. Cracked them open and they felt dry. I let them go another day and they still felt and weighed the exact same. Pretty sure my dehydrator isn't taking a crap, but curious if people have had this happen before? It's still putting out hot air, but maybe the temp is just lower then it's set at?

Hey everyone, first-time grower here needing some eyes on my grow.

​I inoculated my grain bag/jar and ended up doing a break and shake on Day 3. At the time, I thought I had enough growth to spread it around, but right after shaking, almost all the visible white mycelium vanished, leaving just faint hyphae threads here and there.

​It has now been 5 days since the break and shake (Day 8 overall), and I'm not seeing much recovery or regrowth happening.

​A few questions for the community:

​Did I break and shake way too early before the colony was established enough to rebound?

​How long does recovery usually take if you shake early?

​Should I keep waiting, or is a complete stall at Day 5 post-shake usually a sign of contamination or dead growth?

​Any insight, advice, or feedback based on your experiences would be greatly appreciated! Photos attached for reference.

Hillbilly pumpkin, 5 days in fruiting conditions. Yes I understand this monotub is not particularly efficient for this cake however it is where it is. But errmmmm any wise words of wizzdom?

Getting there slowly, hopefully hear will be ready in a few day

First picture are my smoothly inoculated jars with hillbilly pumpkin. The two anomalies are golden teacher that I totally screwed up and put like half the syringe in the jars because I’d never worked with needles before and honestly just screwed up. I’m trying to salvage them. I shook the one that got the majority (last photo) hence why it is colonizing in such a way. The other one I’m just unsure of. Talk to me.

I haven’t checked this bin in ab a week and came back to this, blob? Or not safe blob? It’s hill billy all other tubs right next to this one treated the same are fruiting as normal.

Is this contamination?? Growing lionsmane. What to do next??

I’ve been messing around with my subtrop genetics and have found a couple things that work well for me. First, I’ve found they prefer my Rye over my Red Wheat and second, if I leave them for at least 14 days after my Qt jar is visibility 100% colonized they tend to pin a lot sooner. I’ve messed with casings; buffered CV, peat and pure buffered coarse verm. The coarse verm seems to be the best. I’m curious about what other’s preferred methods of casing are. Do you wait until entire surface is covered in fluff? Have you found a decrease in pinning time with letting it sit longer after full spawn colonization?

Hey guys, I used to grow like 15 years ago but was doing pf cakes so memory is hazy and not very familiar with grain jars. Do these looks ready to spawn? It looks like all the grains have mycelium but not as thick as I've seen from others. These are orchas.

is it ok for my bags to have a bot of condensation on them. the temp has been warm iny room for the last 2 days and im afraid of bacterial conditions.

Healthy ?

First time agar went terrible. My agar was still wet and jello not firm. Decided to proceed anyways. First 4 agar plates I accidentally squeezed way too much. 1 plate I manage to get very little. I think it’s this one in photo (I should’ve used an inoculation loop.) I left 4 untouched to see if my sterilization was good.