So, I decided to do 8 pint jars with rye grain, 2 jars each of lions mane, gold oysters, pink oysters, and one type of cube, treasure coast. Most of the guides I find here outside of pf tek seem to cater to people with.. I guess more experience in this?I'm a noob and I just wanted to ask a few questions to clear some things up and make sure I'm on the right track.
First thing I noticed, do oysters just grow extremely well on rye or something? Like damn man, when I did pf tek it took a solid week to see any growth on half pint jars. Within 7 days the gold oyster jars look like santa barfed winter all over the land. The others are how I thought it would be, with some mild growth spots popping up all over. But the golds are lightyears ahead, the pinks are doing great too. Which leads to my next question;
Is it normal for the pink oyster mycelium to be pink?? My first thought was that it was contaminated, I was super bummed but after looking it up I think it's normal for it to turn pink? Thats awesome if true. When I had jars contam in pf tek it was in patches, but the pink has spread to all corners of the globe in these jars. Which is reassuring, I guess.
Ok, so moving forward. after these jars are colonized, can you fruit these like pf cakes in a shotgun fruiting chamber with perlite and all that fun stuff? I'm not sure I'm ready to try bulk spawn. Mostly because I'm not really sure what that even means. So can I just slide these out, dunk em in water for 24 hours, and throw them on foil in a fruiting chamber? Or do they have to be done differently because grain? do I still role them in vermiculite?
Anyway sorry for the long post. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks friends!
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I find grain colonizes faster than cakes in general. Grain jars are more arid and less compact than cakes.
Grains don't hold moisture very well on their own so they tend to dry out faster. For best results, mix grains with a substrate that can be colonized and hold moisture well. If you try to dunk and roll those grains, they will just fall apart. Just putting a casing layer on top of grains doesn't work as well as mixing them in substrate, either.
You can mix those grains with a bulk substrate in small trays or pans, let them colonize, and then fruit them in your SGFC. If you do this, I suggest also using a casing layer and, if your trays are covering a lot of the perlite, putting something under the trays to lift them off the perlite.
I know cubes can be done this way. I know oysters can be done in a SGFC, but I don't know about trays. I don't know anything about growing lions mane.
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