Hey all! Hope everyone is doing alright. This is my first time posting on this site although I've been reading for years so any and all advice is greatly appreciated! I've recently decided to begin my journey on mushroom cultivation now that I have the means and am thoroughly enjoying learning about mycology and how beneficial all mushrooms are for everything. I'm using the BRF tek right now and it's been about 2 weeks since inoculation of 12 pint size jars with one beautiful spore syringe of P. Azurences. I did some research before obtaining the syringe online as to the vendors and reviews of such and the potency of the strain but neglected to do thorough enough digging to find all the problems associated with growing these strong lil dudes inside, especially on a low budget. I have a 1 bedroom apartment with my girlfriend,a dog and blind(named stevie wonder) cat, so sterility and disturbances have been on the forefront and my best decision is our bedroom closet for spawning and ideally fruiting but now I don't think that's the case. After reading about where they thrive and how to even cultivate these mushrooms successfully indoors I know now that most likely won't work and if it does it'll be totally lackluster results. So I've decided to continue colonizing my cakes in the jars(obviously) and in the closet but now I'm thinking that adjusting my refrigerator temp is going to be the best result in a successful harvest. Aside from that I'm also thinking of breaking some cakes up and making a sort of makeshift monotub with a styrofoam cooler and putting that in the fridge as well, originally I was just going to do the SGFC as I've read that jars do best as whole cakes after you remove them but I now know that the species I've selected is a wood lover so I'm thinking the monotub with an alder wood chip top layer is going to do the best for the yeild. I'll be shooting for between 44-50°f inside the fridge as this is the ideal temp for their fruiting range from things I've read. I plan to try and cold shock the jars before putting in the fridge. Going to be difficult to try and recreate their climate and I'm not sure I want to try a casing layer with outside debris from the woods, but I've read about the microdudes that could be a possibly huge factor that just exist in nature. Looking at it now I definitely realize this may be foolish as my first ever attempt on any sort of mushroom cultivating, but I am trying different experiments on my own from things I haven't read online that I'm thinking might be beneficial. Which has proved incorrect slightly as I inoculated 12 jars, 6 have definitely began to colonize very nicely, the other 6 I don't believe will colonize but I may be wrong and one of the latter group has become contaminated so I've removed it but am still watching the progress. But I intend on attempting to fruit directly from the BRF cakes,as well as make a substrate with coco coir and top with alder chips and put that in a styrofoam cooler, possibly also have one with a more SGFC method with a plastic tub because I don't think I want to make many holes in the styrofoam cooler because I want to try insulating the temperature and humidity inside. All of which will be inside my refrigerator (which my girlfriend is not happy I'm commandeering) that I will have thermometers in. I'm going to remove food and such to avoid contams and thoroughly clean the inside of the fridge. I plan to test out whether the back of the top of the front of the bottom of the shelves in the fridge will make a difference. I am hoping I atleast know surface level knowledge on mycology but I know that isn't true so any words of wisdom will be awesome! Thanks guys! https://files.shroomery.org/files/20-46/503614423-IMG_20201110_142048.jpg
Edited by Onemushh (11/10/20 07:02 PM)
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