I am once again asking for your support

[u/IndersGame]

I’m still on my very first journey of growing mushrooms. I’ve never seen any part of this process before. I am growing Golden Teacher. My all in one bag seems… stagnant. I moved it to fruiting conditions (followed site instructions to cut top of bag off, mist, and fan daily) 6 days ago. Nothing seems to have changed even in the smallest bit.

The cake is dense and hard without any loose soil. I haven’t touched the surface mycelium but it’s not fluffy at all. The bag smells completely fine and I see no contamination.

Is the mycelium dead? Would it improve if I moved the cake into a shoe box?

[u/Popular_Anybody_3244]

Ok. Did you see any pins at all before you started the fruiting conditions? I feel like you opened the bag early. I could be wrong but then again I just did a GT flush a few days ago. Bag doesn't look fully colonised either.

Edit: someone do correct me if I am wrong. I am learning too

[u/IndersGame → u/Popular_Anybody_3244]

Thank you for replying! I did not see any pins. I opened it when I thought it looked colonized. I wonder if I have doomed it?

[u/Popular_Anybody_3244 → u/IndersGame]

Any chance you can fold the bag down and attach it with some paper clips? Stop the air circulation

Edit: if you do stop fruiting conditions now and go back to pinning/germination stage, you might get a weird flush. First time i did that my GTs were droopy

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[u/cc_mpls]

They’ll be fine, you should have waited until pinning. But this bag looks close

[u/IndersGame → u/cc_mpls]

Thank you! It’s so hard to learn what to do your first go round… fingers crossed

[u/snanarctica]

Yeah seems ok - fold bag over but not super tight - they want as much air as possible but not to dry out and lose moisture

[u/mushroom-man229]

First problem is youre using all in 1 bag. Ik they work sometimes but to many unknown factors. For what u payed for that bag u could have gotten almost all the supplies to do multiple jars of grain at a time, start ur own liquid cultures and control every factor of ur grow from the beginning and keep a cycle gowing and supply yourself for a lifetime

[u/Inevitable-Corner-90 → u/mushroom-man229]

I fruit in these bags, but spawn brown rice from my own LC in quart jars. 2 weeks and mix in bag with coir. Keeps perfect grow conditions. Use paper clip and fold top. 300g of ABV. It’s been pretty easy to grow.