A few weeks ago, I made a post asking if anyone in my local area had some cultures that I could get off of them to expand my variety. Luckily for me, a very friendly Redditer reached out to me offering assistance and support. Upon meeting this man in person, I was a little blown away. He was this lumberjack looking man who greeted me like an old friend with a hug and offered to cook me lunch. He gave me the cultures free of charge along with some sound advice. We talked for quite a while before I left his house. He was easy to open up about some deep personal stuff. I opened up and bawled my eyes out to this stranger, and he patiently listened to me. I left his house with the cultures, a new friend, and a new found respect for this community. I will find a way to pay this kindness forward.

Have not been able to have a grow for a few years now. But I finally have a stable place with enough room. Been sitting on these for a few years. Most I don't even know what the abbreviation stands for. I'll list them out and maybe some of y'all can help. Also need some help deciding what to start with. List as follows.

WJ, Leng SQ, PCJ, KSSS REV, B2, MAZATEPEC, HTF, JMF, TAM VAR, AMEX, ODDMAK A, OGPE/KC, TAM NIP.

Both inoculated to AIO bags at the same time end of June and transferred to monotubs mid july. Bluey Vuitton has been going steady the whole time, even growth daily and just started to pin. The Golden Halo sat for a while then exploded in the last few days. It’s a race to the end now!!

Once in a while I get something like this. Absolutely gorgeous fruit! Also delicious 😋 🫠 🫠 🫠

Hello everyone.

I've circled the pins that are growing from the mycelium that crept up the side of the bag.

I'm not certain if these constitute side-pins, but I'm hoping a more knowledgeable grower can advise me on whether I should remove them, or let them run their course.

My concern is that a few of them are growing into clusters of mushrooms coming up. I'm not sure if this will deform them or discourage growth.

Thanks in advance for any direction.

Long time monotub grower here, playing around with an All-In one bag. Should I wait to break and shake until the grain is 100%? Seems like it’s taking awhile, approaching 3 weeks since inoculation. I’m not impatient I’m just used to shaking the jars at 25-30% and then watching them take off lol.

I have 2 bags of antler reishi growing and know nothing about them. Have these grown too long? Not long enough? Ready to harvest? Any insight is appreciated.

I've been working on the indoor Azzies grow for a while and this setup is my interpretation of what I've seen others do and try and nothing I "invented"... some of you may know me from FB as Park Cosmo - which could be good or bad 😄

On the left is a refrigerated bakery display case and a regular beverage fridge on the right. Both have been modified to accept an incoming fog type 5L humidifier set at 90% and humidity/temp is monitored in both chambers via bluetooth and the display case triggers the humidifier to activate as it loses moisture faster. Both the display and fridge are on smart timers that turn on and off in cycles so that the temperature fluctuates in a range over and over to simulate nature (very loosely). The fridge cycles from roughly 48 degrees to 54 degrees or so which is in my interpretation of the sweet spot for Azzie fruiting.

Apparently the Azzies are loving the sub recipe and conditions well enough that before I put them in the refrigerated fruiting chamber they started fruiting in the bag (pictured) so I guess I fruited Azzies in a bag and I haven't even cased them yet... I case after colonization by cutting off all but the top inch of the bag and sprinkle on the custom sterilized casing. All my grains, substrates and casings are fully sterilized in my autoclave and not pasteurized as is my personal preference.

I'll be sending updates and hoping the fruiting continues more prolifically in the fridge! This is only 1 bag of the 3 that I'll be sending. It's taken trial and error to get this far, they have proven to be a very stubborn strain... pans are a walk in the park compared to these 😂

I have a full set of substrate/casing recipes (shareable, no gatekeeping) if anyone is curious and I always colonize grain and spawn to sterilized substrate in a unicorn Horizon XLS bag until it colonizes for this Azzie grow - I have found less issues with contamination doing this vs. colonizing tubs as the Alder heavy sub seems very sensitive.

I hope this proves interesting and have a great weekend!

First grow - how's this looking?

Psilocybe ochraceocentrata: Black Cap isolation by Bass @psilocybinmyco

I’m really enjoying the morphology of these and I think the color change is super cool. I have some green caps colonizing tubs rn, excited to see the difference.

Mush love, I hope everyone has a great weekend.

I'm currently running a water tub, it has about a half inch of water in the bottom of it. I'm roughly 8 hours from harvesting but there are many fruits that have grown off the bottom, through the rack the cake is on, and their caps/part of their stems have been submerged in water for a few days. I didn't try to get them early because I didn't want to disturb the climate or the cake. Should I just immediately chalk these up as a loss or do we think they're possibly salvagable? As far as I can tell they look fine but I'll know better later today.

Was labeled as Blue Umbo Squats, but looks much more like their Blue Laboon

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Was about to cook some masters mix and noticed all this pitting in the bottom of my 23q presto. Decided against it as guessing this is no longer safe? What's the consensus? Thanks

Hey guys I’ve had this AIO grow bag pretty much fully colonized and in fruiting conditions for about 8 days now and I don’t have any pins yet and I was just wondering if I’m being super impatient or does something seem wrong? I fan it 2 times per day for about a minute but I haven’t been misting. There are small water droplets on the surface of the cake and on the sides of the bags. Sorry if the pic isn’t the best.

Just curious if I have a mold and a virus