Your pins are forming near the wall because that’s where your Relative Humidity is at the right conditions for fruiting... get a cheap humidity / temp measuring unit (like $10 at home improvement stores). Also,what tek for your fruiting chamber are you choosing? I would drill 2 2 inch holes on each long side and 1 2 inch hole on each short side. Stuff them with polyfill and drill them higher than lower. Stuff with polyfill for fresh air exchange. Another question, are you invoking proper colonization conditions after mixing spawn jars with substrate or are you just placing directly in fruiting conditions. During colonization I believe you want it dark and also with no air exchange so that your gasses build up evenly across surface and spur pinning. Then, about 10 days into this dark environment with no air exchange They will receive light, oxygen, fresh air exchange, as well as a slightly lower temp. These conditions combined will spur fruiting. A technique that would suffice to do this is place your entire fruitiong chamber inside of a big black trash bag and tie it off for 10 days. Either way you’ll want to cover the bottom of your fruiting chamber where the substrate is so that light only comes from the top, you can just tape off the bottom with black duck tape. OR another method would be to place a black trash bag lining the bottom of your container sufficient in size to hold all your substrate. So cut maybe a 2-4 inch chunk of the bag and place it in the bottom of your tub, this makes for easy removal and cleanup of cake as well as will not let light in to the sides stopping your side pinning problem half way. If you do this method you can just cover lightly and evenly the top of your cake with sterile foil or more black plastic, leave it about 1 inche above your top layer. This is equal to putting the whole chamber in the black bag and tying it off. Remove this layer about 10 days in (most preferably when the sub is nicely colonized, at this point it’s your choice to Case or not, I have been taught to bypass the case, as long as we can keep humid up. other half Of solution will require you to keep an even humidity/ air exchange across your cake. After colonization of top of sub taking out from bag or removing top layer cover Will kick it into fruiting. At this point we want to keep relative humidity in the fruiting room above 95% at least. 100% humidity in your fruiting room will most likely keep your entire cake in your fruiting chamber / tub at the right spot. If you have no rent / room to keep your tub in than you’ll have to do extra to keep your tub inside at the proper humidity. Stay up on misting Especially if you don’t add a case layer... about once a day with a high humidity already in the room should suffice. Dry room means you’ll have to mist more. You want as small of misty droplets to rest over the cake as possible, before they bear up and poop into standing water. That’s too wet. NEVER mist directly, mist upward And let fall down softly like a blanket of moisture. Stop before water beads together!!! Waft it a few time with lid to spur evaporation if you got the time to tend. Though your polyfill holes you drilled should be plenty of fresh air exchange. Keep your substrate even when you lay it too, if it got lower towards the side of the tub that would be right where the heavier gasses flow to, build up, and cause pinning... hope this helps. Look up fruiting chambers and follow one for bulk substrate. Also look into no case layer if you can set up in a nice and humid tent or room.
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