mush_monkey said:

I inoculated this jar on Feb 10th. Shagen once 4 days ago.



It's only 200 ml of hydrated parakeet feed. It's starting to show some signs of bacterial contamination (you know, like droplets around seeds).

It's less than two weeks since inoculation but it's a small amount and I hear that millet never colonizes fully. Would you send it (to a 1.4 liter bucket) or wait and risk increasing contamination?

Thanks in advance!

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cybork said:

tree frog said:

The last stage. It should be completely composted.

And generally folks don't use compost as casing, it does work. But most folks will use peat because it is superior.

Compost is good for substrate though.  Especially for Pans etc.  Really not necessary for cubes, and probably not worth the effort tbh. But it does improve fruit morphology (bigger, meatier, etc.)

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Great! Thanks.

Do you happen to have a good referral to page about substrate for pans with compost?

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cybork said:

Anyone any idea which compost in what stage in the process is best to use for casing or something else?

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Smellyhobbit said:

If you’re mono is super wet you need to let air do its thing. Depending on the size of your holes you should just open them up.

If you’re like Mike and have huge holes I’d keep the filters, but if they’re like 1/4” holes do not cover them

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callmehippie said:

How much of a plate am I supposed to use to inoculate a qt? And what is too much?

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CosmicIguana said:

If I got some mutated mushrooms (in a very nice and good way).
Cloning them will have same mutated traits ? (like different stem, or hat looking cap) ?

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Dkeppel said:

I have tried unpasteurised compost and it did not end well.

It's not hard to pasteurise some compost, I put the compost in a ziploc leaving a crack and put it into the IP on top of the trivet, and leave it on the keep warm setting overnight.

The keep warm setting on a IP or Rice cooker holds it within pasturisation range but be aware you need the compost to come up to temperature.

You don't have to do that, you could load the compost directly into the IP but I prefer steam pasturisation because the compost comes out with the same moisture content as I put it in and the ziploc helps reduce smell.

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Dkeppel said:

These might interest you:

tree frogs AIO jars ©

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mike-ologist said:

Sawdust spawn Question:
This is gonna be my first real try at using hwfp for spawn, and most of what I'm reading says to use grain spawn to inoculate the sawdust spawn.

My question is: is it feasible to go from agar straight to sawdust?

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mike-ologist said:

Wood loving species can better acclimate to the final substrate by being introduced to sawdust spawn prior to spawning it into supplemented sawdust sub.

It also dramatically increases surface area and Number of inoculated particles. I may just do some experiments this weekend!

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