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bluelune
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Best practices for improving yields of Agrocybe Aegerita?
#28384824 - 07/04/23 12:54 PM (6 months, 22 days ago) |
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Wondering about a few things:
1. After harvesting first flush, based on what I've read of environmental conditions conducive to rest, I'm planning on simply returning the block to the incubator for a week or two. Wondering if dunking for some number of hours to rehydrate would be of any benefit prior to returning to fruiting chamber.
2. Not sure how to encourage pinning over the entire top surface of the block. They clearly preferred one area over others. Maybe simply rotating it once a day or so?
3. The tallest of the mature aren't much more than a couple inches, and some are mutants. Hard to say whether this is in response to fighting contam, or just a weird strain. I've not seen any obvious contam, but small areas on the bottom of the blocks remained uncolonized at the time that I removed them from incubation. Maybe I should've let the mycelium expand further on agar for better strain isolation?
Backstory: two blocks involved. Both are comprised of supplemented sawdust that was inoculated with rye grain spawn at a "take no chances" ratio of nearly 1:1. Main difference is that I applied a ~1/2" casing layer to one of them in the form of coco coir + gypsum + lime, for the sake of comparison. Also, removed the remainder of the plastic bag from the non-cased block a few days prior to harvest to avoid pockets of CO2 around pins forming on the side. Pinning on the cased block was comparatively delayed, as the mycelium had to grow through that layer; appears it may exhibit better pinning distribution, though too soon to say if it's worth the effort.
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Stromrider
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Re: Best practices for improving yields of Agrocybe Aegerita? [Re: bluelune]
#28385105 - 07/04/23 04:13 PM (6 months, 22 days ago) |
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Don't take it out of the bag. Leave it til it starts pinning on top and then cut off the very top of the bag. If you want to grow them out of a growroom environment just cut several inches of the corners off the top of the bag. Theyll do fine on the counter top that way. They don't need much fresh air
I don't second flush anything especially pioppino. You just get huge tough mushrooms.
AA-CNS strain from Maine cap and stem is by far the most tender pioppino I've found
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bluelune
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Re: Best practices for improving yields of Agrocybe Aegerita? [Re: Stromrider]
#28385799 - 07/05/23 10:09 AM (6 months, 21 days ago) |
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Quote:
Stromrider said: Don't take it out of the bag. Leave it til it starts pinning on top and then cut off the very top of the bag. If you want to grow them out of a growroom environment just cut several inches of the corners off the top of the bag. Theyll do fine on the counter top that way. They don't need much fresh air
I don't second flush anything especially pioppino. You just get huge tough mushrooms.
AA-CNS strain from Maine cap and stem is by far the most tender pioppino I've found
Thanks for the tips, didn't realize growing in bags on the counter was an option. Will keep AA-CNS in mind.
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