humble student said:

Did I screw-up the shrooms on this cake?

Yesterday morning, 6/11/25, I felt that I needed to harvest the shrooms on this cake (I didn't know because this is my first cake ever to fruit).










I didn't have time to do it then, so, ten-and-a-half hours later, when I returned, most every shroom had turned a darker color; they looked like they were going bad. I harvested all the fruits on the cake, cleaned them up, and put them in the dehydrator.

My concern is that I waited too long to harvest, and the shrooms are no good?

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callmehippie said:

LyleChipperson said:

LyleChipperson said:

I didn't have enough SFDs to make proper lids for drying grains for storage so I just ran a test batch of grains in glass petris. Initially I wrapped them but that was a pretty obvious bad move, so then I unwrapped them and put them in my dehydrator while I was using it to dry some mint on the racks above the plates. In 48 hrs they were completely dried.

I just transferred the dried grains to sterile cryovials and put a single grain to agar to check for contaminants so I'll have some results soon.

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Looks good so far, maybe the glass lid was heavy enough to not allow the dehydrator air to get inside the petri. I'll do another trial today with a different culture.

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I'm very interested in this I wanted to try it as well. Hope you have good results. Could you try a plastic dish as well?

I was considering using a jar lid and covering it with some Tyvek and putting the grains inside there to put in my dehydrator.

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Test plate still looks good



I don't have free plastic dishes as I just poured a sleeve and I won't need new ones soon, but I doubt that they will work as well. They are so much lighter than glass that I don't think the lid will be able to keep dehydrator air from getting in the dish.

It's worth a shot though, you're not losing anything except running the dehydrator for a couple days. A wrapped plastic dish could end up working better. The jar with tyvek could also work, so maybe try all of these at once and look for a winner.

LyleChipperson said:

callmehippie said:

LyleChipperson said:

LyleChipperson said:

I didn't have enough SFDs to make proper lids for drying grains for storage so I just ran a test batch of grains in glass petris. Initially I wrapped them but that was a pretty obvious bad move, so then I unwrapped them and put them in my dehydrator while I was using it to dry some mint on the racks above the plates. In 48 hrs they were completely dried.

I just transferred the dried grains to sterile cryovials and put a single grain to agar to check for contaminants so I'll have some results soon.

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Looks good so far, maybe the glass lid was heavy enough to not allow the dehydrator air to get inside the petri. I'll do another trial today with a different culture.

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I'm very interested in this I wanted to try it as well. Hope you have good results. Could you try a plastic dish as well?

I was considering using a jar lid and covering it with some Tyvek and putting the grains inside there to put in my dehydrator.

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Test plate still looks good



I don't have free plastic dishes as I just poured a sleeve and I won't need new ones soon, but I doubt that they will work as well. They are so much lighter than glass that I don't think the lid will be able to keep dehydrator air from getting in the dish.

It's worth a shot though, you're not losing anything except running the dehydrator for a couple days. A wrapped plastic dish could end up working better. The jar with tyvek could also work, so maybe try all of these at once and look for a winner.

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chillshroom said:

When making grain jars, why is excessive moisture/wet rot a concern? If the jar is properly sterilized, I would think no bacteria can grow in it regardless of moisture levels (like with canned veggies), and if mycelium can grow in liquid culture drowning that can't be the worry. What's the concern?

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noomer said:

I'm colonizing a bag of grain right now and its mostly covered in mycelium but there is some loose grain floating around in there. is that something I should worry about?

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Quote:

Ingrédients
Agar-Agar.

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DPESH MODE said:

Is this yellow tint drying or bacteria contam?

"Nutcracker" FC 5/24 from an AIO, only one pin formed 7 days ago & looks like it'll abort. Transferred to SGFC yesterday..  first grow so technique needs some work

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