Your temps sound just fine. They do not have to be "cold shocked" with the exception of some very exotic strains from the Pacific Northwest. A help in some instances is to make a little more moisture available by doing the double ended casing tek found at www.fanaticus.com if they seem to be stalled. Quite often, when doing PF-Cakes using the PF-TEK, moisture content can be low in the cake itself. All the humidity in the air can not change the fact that your cake is a desert in the middle if you didn't use enough water when mixing the substrate

I am a PF-Cake fanatic (I'm too lazy to case) and I just use the Perlite Humid TEK for my humidity needs and set the cakes directly on the perlite. They never starve for water this way and have been known to send out mycelium throughout the perlite!

Give them a few more daze and then, if they still havn.t done anything, try the double-ended casing tek to get them going again

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[This message has been edited by Wasted Spores (edited April 26, 2000).]

Use a 1/4-inch drill bit (be sure to flame sterilize it first) and, with your fingers, drill a hole about half-way down into the center of the cake. Insert a clean straw (don't re-use one from McDonalds) into the hole and then fill the straw with fresh distilled water. It may take a few hours to as long as a couple of daze for the water in the straw to be absorbed as the mycelium is very dense in the cake. When you see your cakes start pinning, stop filling the straws (but leave them inserted in the cakes for later use).

I have seen cakes continue fruiting this way longer than most casings and they will continue fruiting until all nutrients in the cake have been exhausted

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"Cut the head in half using a bandsaw and scoop the brain out... Blast the brain out with water or air... Suck the brain out through a hole in the head..."

hey, THANKS again for any help,

bach