mycopanda said:

If there s not enough substrate volume compared to the surface area you have expose 

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N e r o said:

mycopanda said:

If there s not enough substrate volume compared to the surface area you have expose 

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This.  The substrate looks very loose.  Also there's  some suspect dark spots on the top left of the third picture.

From what I recall, lime baths don't work great on woods like they do on straw at preventing contam.

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N e r o said:

mycopanda said:

If there s not enough substrate volume compared to the surface area you have expose 

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This.  The substrate looks very loose.  Also there's  some suspect dark spots on the top left of the third picture.

From what I recall, lime baths don't work great on woods like they do on straw at preventing contam.

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N e r o said:

mycopanda said:

If there s not enough substrate volume compared to the surface area you have expose 

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This.  The substrate looks very loose.  Also there's  some suspect dark spots on the top left of the third picture.

From what I recall, lime baths don't work great on woods like they do on straw at preventing contam.

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N e r o said:

mycopanda said:

If there s not enough substrate volume compared to the surface area you have expose 

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This.  The substrate looks very loose.  Also there's  some suspect dark spots on the top left of the third picture.

From what I recall, lime baths don't work great on woods like they do on straw at preventing contam.

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N e r o said:

mycopanda said:

If there s not enough substrate volume compared to the surface area you have expose 

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This.  The substrate looks very loose.  Also there's  some suspect dark spots on the top left of the third picture.

From what I recall, lime baths don't work great on woods like they do on straw at preventing contam.

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N e r o said:

mycopanda said:

If there s not enough substrate volume compared to the surface area you have expose 

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This.  The substrate looks very loose.  Also there's  some suspect dark spots on the top left of the third picture.

From what I recall, lime baths don't work great on woods like they do on straw at preventing contam.

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You have a point I did not think about this, although its pink oyster which is well known for out competing molds on agar... so why not wood?  This is an extremly aggresive oyster species, although I agree with the loose packed observation. Although this could just be a facade to our eyes. Either way let us know when you find out the problem... though even with a contaniment I don’t see why it would do this, because it’s such an aggresive species that I feel like it would flush fine regardless, but then again this is mycelium that was spent right? Which could explain it’s confusion be ause you usually add the spent mycelium to outside patches not re inoculate another inside grow container, and you also streched it out after  and took it to another generation, and we dont even know what generation the original cultivator made that bag from.... so I feel there are alot of factor at play here, though Im intrigued to see what the problem is.  Could be many things

skibulk said:

I didn't "pack" the chips. You're saying it would have been better to do that?

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dmtcorey said:

i tested some oysters i cloned from the store for the first time and had the same thing happen ,they didnt like the bins and grew all stem no cap so i just left the freezer bags stuffed with straw sitting out some of them fruited and some dryed out and after i payed closer attention and started putting freezer bags over the clusters like a dom they started preforming better !

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