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Lions mane bag pinning early
#26897053 - 08/24/20 12:25 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hey guys, I am having a problem with 2 out of 3 lions mane bags I made. 2 of them are starting to pin before full colonization on the top of the bag. For the substrate, I used the masters mix. They have been incubating for 13 days now. They do get a little bit of light from the room, but not much, and not long through the day.
This happened to a oyster bag of mine that I made previously, and I ended up cutting the top off the bag and it fruited just fine. With the lions mane, I'm really trying to achieve folding the top down and flipping it upside down with 2-3 small slits in it.
I saw a video where someone said to put the bags in a walkin cooler, or lower temp to slow the growth down, which can make sense, but I'm wanting my bag to fully colonize as well before flipping it upside down... I will definitely try and get the spawn mixed more thoroughly next time
Does anybody have any opinions on what I could do or should do at this point?? Thank you!
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Re: Lions mane bag pinning early [Re: Powfuu]
#26897400 - 08/24/20 03:57 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Unless you used too much water, it probably is colonized and ready to fruit. It's just really thin wispy mycelium that's hard to see sometimes. You don't normally wait till it's all thick and bright white like that, you just fruit it when it starts pinning (or better yet, get your timing figured out to fruit it just before that). Shouldn't be more than 7-10 days to colonize and pin usually.
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Re: Lions mane bag pinning early [Re: Forrester]
#26897520 - 08/24/20 05:18 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thank you for that feedback. When I read about colonizing times on 5 lbs bags online, I usually always see that it takes a month about for a bag to colonize, and like 2 months for shiitake and reishi for some reason.. that's from suppliers. that's awesome to hear that it should only take 7-10 days. Another thing that threw me off was that my grain spawn was thick white, it only got thick white on agar after a transfer though. But maybe I let my grain spawn sit to long as well then.
Another thing, I believe I put a bit to much water in the bags, would you say that as well? I notice there is mycelium, even thin everywhere but the bottom. I did less water in 6 bags I have steralizing today, and I felt pretty good on the looks of them.
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Re: Lions mane bag pinning early [Re: Powfuu]
#26897553 - 08/24/20 05:35 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes those do look like there's a bit too much water to me as well. I think you'll do better this time with less water.
Also yes on the grain spawn, if you let it sit too long it will thicken up but you want to try and spawn it while it's still thin. When it gets all white like that it's usually actually fruit you're seeing, no longer just mycelium.
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