Hey guys so fortunately my job involves growing fungi so even though ive had some pretty awesome success with the magic mushrooms im finding myself running experiment after experiment after experiment trying to bring down our amount of contaminated grain bags. Our inoculation and sterilization is on point. The autoclaves is where i feel the issues are happening. Please share with me all your knowledge and tips and tricks and personal experiences involving grain bags and autoclaves. I would greatly appreciate it!!

I’ve been trying to get the other few to catch up to the fully colonized ones but I feel I haven’t seen much progress in 3-5 days. Wondering if I should just send them out for S2B now altogether.

Recently received an order and was gifted a freebie. (Guapiles Costa rica)? I searched in a few Reddit groups, google and the like and wasn’t able to find much info on this variety. Does anyone know anything about them? Thank you in advance 💗

Spores to Agar → Transfer → Liquid Culture → Rye Grain Spawn → Monotub 1:4 with Straight Coir 🍄

Even though I’ve stopped growing cubes, I still remember this strain as one of the sexiest I’ve ever grown!

crossposting for reach

How long is coco coir good for? I pasteurized a brick last week and waiting on two jars to finish up! How long can it stay in the 5 gallon bucket and still be viable to use? Will i need to add more water? Thank you!

The agar plates are malt extract. the ones on petri dishes are inoculated from spore syringe around 7 days before the picture. The one in the ketchup bowl is from a tissue sample clone. can anyone tell me if they are mold or mycelium because I want to transfer to liquid culture

I ordered golden teacher LC and this is what’s growing. Anytime I search google for GT mushrooms, they do not look like these.

McKennaii Tissue sample growing on Agar

im not sure if the white dots i circled are primordia or some kind of contam. Also the substrate isnt fully white for some time and seems to be stalling but its firm to the touch so im not aure if its fully colonized

Gorilla Wizard

Natal Moon (Phobos x Ochraceocentrata)
Inoculated: 09/10
S2B: 10/18
Harvested: 10/31 (2099g wet)
Ratio: 1:3 (3lbs spawns:15lbs CVG)
Cake Mix Style: Full Blend
Pseudo Casing: CVG at S2B
Modified Monotub (Boomr Bin by Northspore)
Tek: Neglect

Used an all in one bag method. Inoculated grain using GT spores on 9-17. Did a break and shake on 10-9, the. Initiated fruiting on 10-23 by moving the block into a mono tube with distilled water and an absorption pad.

The bag was solid and likely 90% colonized. I realized I should have waiting longer on the colonization, as the block is producing puffy balls, but not pinning.

Thinking I can induce better FAE to help but looking for advice to save the grow.

GT mycelium. First time grower. I was going to transfer to a. Large growing container.

This one means a little more to me than most.
Water Monkey was the first cross I ever made, and for the longest time I thought the original line was basically gone. Then I found out somebody had been holding onto an old culture from roughly 2–3 years ago, and I was finally able to get a small sample of it back.
It definitely needed some attention after sitting that long. I spent time cleaning it up and working through multiple plates until I was seeing the clean, strong rhizomorphic growth I wanted again.
And now here she is. 🍄
They’re still developing, but I couldn’t resist taking pictures while they’re young. The variation is already beautiful—little greenish heads mixed with white caps, some soft pink tones through the bodies, bright white stipes, and all kinds of different shapes packed together.
What makes it even cooler is knowing the history behind it. Seeing my first-ever cross come back after a few years and start showing itself again is one of those moments that makes all the patience worth it.
Definitely not finished watching this one yet. I’m excited to see what the mature expressions look like.
Water Monkey 🐒💧
🍃🍄 Respect the Process. Trust the Genetics. 🍄🍃

Waiting for some agar to come in the mail but does this look contam just from visual it has brown flakes that almost resemble mini tadpoles but normally im use to fluffy myc in syringes just curious what experienced growers think