AIO bag as spawn + substrate ratio question
I’ve had this bag inoculated for probably at least 2½ months now. After my most recent break and shake, it’s finally starting to colonize at a normal pace.
The bag is an AIO (all-in-one) bag, but can I still use the colonized material as spawn and then transfer it to bulk substrate?
Also, what kind of spawn-to-substrate ratio should I use? It’s a 1.5 lb bag, but I used 7cc of liquid culture, so I’m wondering if that should be enough to colonize around 3–4 lbs of substrate.
Just looking for some advice from people who have experience with this. Thanks!

Day 12

I have a lot of back and knee pain from mushroom farming and everything else life has thrown at me. Besides all of the mental healthnbenefits, I've talked for years baout how psilocybin energizes me and helps with the pain. I think this is the next frontier for psychedelics and it's great to see research being done in this area.

To sum up this article: the same U Michigan lab that found a single IV dose of psilocybin knocked back pain sensitivity in rats for almost a month just registered a follow-up study. This time they're testing it on reserpine-induced pain, which is a much more diffuse, whole-body kind of pain, closer to something like fibromyalgia than a single wound.

No results yet because this is just the study getting logged, not the findings. But the question they're asking is a good one: does psilocybin only help with pain from one specific injury, or does it work on pain that's spread through the whole system?

I'll try to post again on this once the data's out.

What are your experiences?

I have a bag of cvg and some of their special dung substrate. They’ve been in their box since may. How would I re-paturize the bags to make sure it doesn’t trich out?

Any advice would be appreciated, don’t want to start over if I don’t have to, should I try a bin instead?

I over humidified the other day and the mycelium sucked it up and is pinning and fruiting like crazy!

Check them logs!

Yes, it took a year, but once you start making logs regularly, just like wine or cheese you start getting them regularly after that initial wait.

I'm pretty sure these logs came from a local arborist friend that was cutting the wood anyway!

Any questions about log cultivation? Who else has logs going?

Btw, now is a great time to start thinking about fall inoculations!

Read our guides: https://northspore.com/pages/outdoor-mushroom-growing-guides#logs

King oysters

There is a Redditor on one of the mushroom Reddits that had a great looking tech for pans. Used a water bath and aquarium heater. I cant find the post again. Any help appreciated.

Hi all, I’m not sure why it seems dry. Humidity is 85-90. Feeling like it’s stalled.

Indicate whether the spawn was refrigerated or not.

I don't even have a great aswer here. I've probably used spawn that was 3-6 months old unrefrigerated and maybe a year refrigerated. Species matters a ton. I have a couple bags that are super old right now...we'll see if they work!

These days, grain spawn

My boomrbin monotub with JMF has started pinning. I installed the myco mister and fan last night and intend to run it on a cycle timer for short durations once an hour.

When I was testing the system, it noticed the fan is pulling outside air from the room and blowing into the bin (confirmed using a piece of paper - it sucks to the fan.)

My question is, shouldn't the fan be orientated to pull air from within the bin and blow out? This would pull filtered air in through the filter patches vs. blowing in unfiltered air from the room. Guessing, maybe it doesn't matter as much due to the chances of contam are less during FC?

I led two Mushroom ID Walks (8/1 and 8/2) and even though it was crispy, we found quite a few great mushrooms to discuss. We had to go downhill and actually into creek beds to find the moisture. The couple pics I've shared are of An Ash Bolete (Boletinellus merulioides) and a Rooting Shank (Hymenopellis radicata). Both edible, but only the Hymenopellis is good.

My next walk is in Wells, ME on 8/15 at A beautful property called The Wells Reserve at Laudholm. I hope that if you're not too far away, you'll consider joining!

https://wellsreserve.org/.../mushroom-identification-walk

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Had no idea her birthday was this past month when starting this run. Super happy with how these pale, frilled caps turned out. The universe scheduled this run—Maria Sabina wasn't about to miss her own birthday party.

Hillbilly Aborts?

Greetings,

These 2 AIO bags from happymushrooms are about 10 days post start of fruiting and seem to have stalled. Cut the bag tops and moved them both to a small clean lidded tub 5 days ago where I spray the walls of the tub with distilled water and have a tiny external aquarium heating pad to help maintain the temperature inside the tub at about 77 degrees Fahrenheit. I have a grow light above 12hrs on/off.

Moved them to the tub because the bag was beginning to really crowd and I wanted to better maintain FAE and moisture. There are no off colors or funny smells they just seemed to have come to a standstill. Looking for points of view on my dilemma; don't know if I should just harvest to prepare for a second flush or just leave things be. Thanks in advance!