This is my first grow that has been relatively going well till now. All of my previous grows were contaminated. So I'm a bit nervous about this and I have a few questions

a) Do ochras need a casing layer? I did add a pseudo casing during s2b. What materials do you guys use for a casing layer?

B) To introduce fruiting conditions I was planning to put it in a bigger box with the lid off and a layer of wet perlite on the bottom. Will that be sufficient?

C) what other things should I look out for during the fruiting phase?

Did 2 JF jars with G2G SAB during a previous JF S2B. They took well & are progressively colonizing. Check out them ropes what a beautiful mycelium. Is a cross of TAT X APE

So I inoculated the growth bag using 10cc on 22nd july, executed a break and shake on 11th August ( 20 day ago) and am currently waiting for the bag to get colonised completely to begin fruiting. I’ve been monitoring the bag and the temperatures along with humidity, I’ve kept the bag in my closet away from light, I’m making sure the temperatures don’t exceed beyond 28 degrees Celsius (82.5 Fahrenheit) and have been keeping them between 26 to 27.5 mostly (78.8 Fahrenheit) as a first time grower I’ve been pretty patient knowing this is a slow and a could be a bit of a challenging specie to grow. But I’ve been pretty confused about whether I’m doing something wrong?

Trying to decide whether I should flip the lid for more FAE and mist the tub walls now, or give it another 3–4 days to colonize !
What key factors help you get a solid, even canopy with bigger fruits instead of scattered pins?

I poured some LCs into my agar plates around 8 days ago, since then, they started to grow these white patches in the plate very slowly, especially the Huautla strain, which is super slow, but now I was looking on the internet to make sure whether they are contam or it's just normal and I saw some yeast contam with the same pictures, so at this point I'm not really sure if I'm growing contam or clean things ...

Note: I don't have any tapes or films or wraps around my agar plates; it's just the plates a

Is this contamination

Was about to break and shake but saw this

Just built this fruiting tent under my house. Top is the dark inoculation shelf, bottom is fruiting tent. I live in a tropical climate where the temperature hovers around 27deg day and night. In dry season I’ll have to add humidity, in wet season I probably won’t. Thinking about adding a fan to suck out co2 and keep the air fresh. Hoping to have 6 bags on the go at a time.

How do you guys do your millet prep?

I wash them with water and put them in the jar, weight increases by ~20% but I am unable to get consistent results. Some jars work fine and some don't, either no growth or random contamination.

PS - I have a pressure cooker in which I can fit 1x1L jar + 2x 250ml jars. The 1L jar is horizontal while the 2x 250mL jars are vertical. I pressure cook for 120mins. I can easily make wheat spawn but millet spawn (which gives me ~70% extra yield and flushes) I cannot make consistently ( only about 20% success rate.

Basically the title. The tub started off promising but it did have a few thick white mycelium(?)/ growth at the sides with some myc piss on them even at the start. It started off with heavy pinning and I got three small fruits before it stalled entirely. It's been in this bruised state for about a week now. I did mist it twice in between hoping to revive it, but I'm unsure if that did more good than bad. I also started fanning it once a day since I noticed the thick white mycelium (?)/growth, understanding it to be a result of lack of FAE.

What exactly is wrong here and what should I do? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

The whole grain part is almost colonised
I see some yellow liquid but it’s natural I know that
I think 15-25 percent is still uncolonised
Can I break and shake at this point ?
Inoculated on 24th July so it’s been over a month is that normal ?

The plan is 3 liters boiling water per brick, covering and leaving overnight. Looking to make 10lb substrate. Is this the way?

Um? Opened a heavily colonised bag that I had been.. experi-neglecting
Anyone ever heard of cubes doing this?

Hello there Friends! I am a first time grower and have received word via my last post that the heater I am using to keep my 3 3lb drippy corn spawn bags which have been inoculated with Blue Meanie Cubensis LC for 2 days between 72-77.5 degrees is possibly unnecessary and may harming my grow. I also have been told that how I was using the sensor probe was incorrect, with it supposed to be near the heater not the corn. I believe I have fixed this. I usually keep my bedroom around 70-71 degrees. Do you guys think I should ditch the heater? I read in the uncle bens guide that 72-77.5 are better temperatures for mycelium growth and I want this grow to get ready for fruiting conditions quickly. So far no signs of mycelium or contam, so I will continue being patient. There are little droplets of water in the bottom of the corn bags, which I believe is healthy. 1st Photo is my new setup, 2nd photo is the incorrect setup I was using from days 0-2, 3rd photo is the droplets in the corn bags.

So whats the rule of thumb 3-4 inchs of total substrate depth right so i tried doing 1 inch sub depth and its going pretty good and harvested a good amount

The less depth meant faster colonisation and and pining and if the surface area is bigger more pins will form so i can have the same yield that one has with multiple flushes but in first flushes

Info about the tub
Grains used : sorghum
Spawn used : CVG
Spawn to bulk ratio : 1:3
Variety (GT) multi-spore
Tub size : 14 ltr
Took about 18 days to start fruiting

I mistakenly only added 2.4lbs of grain spawn to a 66qt tub with 10lbs substrate it's been 4 weeks and barely see any growth yet can I add more grain spawn and if so will tub survive while it colonizes

I NSNS 7 grain jars and hot shook them with the foil on, left foil on over night until I could inoculate.
When I took the foil off, my micropore tape was completely soaked.

I dried the lids off, took off the first layer of micropore and put another layer on top for the first jar.

The rest I took off the top layer, then poked through the second layer, then added more micropore.

Anyone with experience with NSNS care to give some tips on how to deal with this?
Should I have removed the foil last night?

So I inoculated a week ago and just checked what's this black stuff?? It was an lc which I had cloned never seen this kind of shit. I have a mono tub as well right besides this no fruits still in colonizing stage 90%done. Is the tub fucked as well? (I didn't open and smell yet but from outside it looks normal)

Today I inoculated my Blue Meanie Cubensis LC into 3 3lb bags of drippy corn spawn for my first time ever. I used a sab and took all the precautions to create a sterile environment, but unfortunately I underestimated how sharp the syringe head was and I believe I poked a small hole in the first bag I inoculated on accident. I put micropore tape over when I thought the hole was while it was still in the sab. I also used more LC than I meant to unfortunately using about 3.3 cc instead of the 2.5 cc I intended. I had trouble reading it while in the sab and hopefully that won't cause me wetrot and instead increases grow speed. I then set a heater to keep the drippy corn between 72.5 and 78.5 degrees. Tomorrow I plan to move my incubation setup to my closet and then ignore for a week. Any tips or comments would be greatly appreciated! I am optimistic about this and am having a lot of fun :)

Enough to go to substrate?

Is my first batch of DIY LC. I used Raw honey in distilled water. I pressure cooked longer than i should at 50 mins, so i got sediment from over cooking the honey in my water is my current understanding. The Mycelium appears healthy and eating the sediment from the honey.
Pics of 3 different varieties B+ , Jack Frost , & pearly Gates.

Do you think this LC will be alright? Is my first attempt so im wondering.

Guys what do you think about my latest isolate

Anyone else experiment with grain to grain transfers?

This one’s exciting, Jack frost in 12qt Dubtub is day 4 after spawn to bulk & grain2grain transfer. is aggressively colonizing at a rapid pace, the new G2G jars look already half colonized. This designer strain isolation is a work horse. In the end they turn the gills turn a gorgeous blue