StrontiumBob said:

Hey everyone.
First time grower here. I started on 6th January with some PE spores on standard BRF cakes. It seemed like forever before the jars colonised and thought they had stalled. After a quick search I wondered if there was CO2 build up and inverted the jars to let it out. Eventually they restarted and birthed them in a staggered way as each of the 12 seemed to fully develop.
Now the first 5 have started to produce and I am so excited.





I placed the cakes upside down on the wider end, but the baby shrooms seemd to be growing from the bottom, so I have now flipped them and seen 3 other cakes are developing babies.



Thanks for all the great advice here.

Bob

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Phaethon said:

Bummer. That's the model I have, and I'm going to be sad when it bites the dust. When it does, I'll probably take it apart to see if it's salvageable (any component other than the controller board).

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KlarnEvil9 said:

My trusty sous vide may have made its final run...


Had 3qts of Pan substrate pasteurizing last night, only about 30 minutes left on the cycle when I heard it flatline. Looked like the circulator stopped spinning, so I covered the pot with a towel and went to bed. But I have gotten my $'s worth x100 out of it, so time for a new one!

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Couldn't be any worse than my POS jule(?) or the slow cooker, trust me on that. Once i got used to PC (manure based) substrate runs, there was no going back. As long as the spawn is flawless, the empty slate (sub) will colonize nicely. I've had blocks dumped outside never molding out even after 2 or 3 months, no joke. Ironically, when i do get mold (a rare sight nowadays, sadly) its from straight up coir lol My bucket prep blows 100%

ps,
For some reason, my post doesn't seem to express what i was trying to say? I meant to say i'm sure your sous vide was much better than mine, also the fact that i'm really bad with such gadgets. Japanese clogging my English vocabulary as always.

cybesa said:

Glad to hear you are back even though I do not know you at all!

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Truly appreciate this

astra said:

Update March 9th

MiB Ginger Pans proving to be resilient, even the lone tray that was left out of the FC (tray #9) seemed to be doing OK with less than ideal conditions, kinda reminded me of enoki for some weird reason.

Having harvested the first wave while most of the blocks were literally floating in water was entertaining to say the least.







Pan Bispo nicely colonizing 9 trays.

Minami Okinawa's fully colonized, lost 1 of 2 trays to mold (yep, the ugly embedded kind that won't show up until after the tray is pretty much ready to fruit). Sneaky MFer

Outdoor TTBVI still on agar, after 2nd round lol

Semp jars fully colonized and consolidating, maybe one more month before first one is sent to bulk? We'll see...

Rip GFK colonized jar.. ran out of coir, waiting for new batch to arrive yikes

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I'm fairly certain this is the first Pans I've seen go back to spore. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Otherwise, you've done the thing.

Astra might be First Pan Fruit.


Lagm Tax:
I havw been super busy lately so unfortunately I have nothing to add even though I have a bunch of stuff going on for it

Dala said:

Those look great!

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Kloakk said:

10.03.25.

Second flush of x7x+ coming in.

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DV8DUG said:

3-10-25

Been harvesting for a few days now. Here's some totals...

P. Cubensis var. KSSS
Tubs: 5 shoeboxes
Flush(s) to date: 1
Dry weight totals: 95 g.

P. Cubensis var. JFPE
Tubs: 4 - 20 quart and 2 shoeboxes
Flush(s) to date: 2
Dry weight totals: 233 g.

Pan Cyanescens
Tubs: 2 shoeboxes
Flush(s) to date: 1
Dry weight totals: 3 g.

P. Cubensis var. Leucistic KSSS
Tubs: 1 shoebox
Flush(s) to date: 0
Dry weight totals: 0 g.

+~+~+~+~+~+

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