Shroomspective said:

How long are you storing? I've had grain jars in the fridge for a couple of weeks or more waiting for other jars to finish with no issues, they puff back up after 24 hours back at room temp. My experience is that growth stops in a fridge, or if it is growing its extremely slow, as in no change over months. Hence I only put 100% jars in. Plus fridges are dirty too, with bacteria and mould, so you don't want uncolonised grains in them ideally

Long term I've had master jars in the range of 2 years which still produce viable growth when put back to agar

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Slit Sniff said:

Shroomspective said:

How long are you storing? I've had grain jars in the fridge for a couple of weeks or more waiting for other jars to finish with no issues, they puff back up after 24 hours back at room temp. My experience is that growth stops in a fridge, or if it is growing its extremely slow, as in no change over months. Hence I only put 100% jars in. Plus fridges are dirty too, with bacteria and mould, so you don't want uncolonised grains in them ideally

Long term I've had master jars in the range of 2 years which still produce viable growth when put back to agar

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To answer your question I've had some jars in there for maybe 2-4 months. I use one or 2 jars every 6 weeks as an LC to inoculate 60+ jars and lately it has not gone well. The jars look 100% and solid just as they would when my grows go well, but after about a week of the bulk sub being in a tub or goes bad at ~2 weeks after spawning the bulk and jars together and put in my GH they start to show green. 1/3 of the time I still get a decent flush before the subs are taken over by mold.

This is the story of my life and the last 6 months of my grows.