Kloakk said:

Smellyhobbit said:

I’ve been putting off streaking my bisporus because I fear failure. And i crave the bisporus experience. I must make it happen.

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Do not fear Bispo, it's pretty forgiving, both in cult and experience. I don't know if y'all been listening to tree, and I know popcorn is not very popular here, but I got okay results with only coir when I used popcorn.

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I have a bunch of plates I'll snap photos of tomorrow Smelly, so you have an idea what you're looking at.  Axman posted a gorgeous plate recently as well.

@kloakk, great data point on the popcorn!  I had a suspicion, as a paper stated they like maize powder as a nitrogen source.  Weight in water when properly hydrated I think is another data point.  We run pans on low nutrient agar.  When you factor in the water weight, corn has less sugar per gram than many other hydrated grains.  And the sugars seem easy for them to digest, too (from the study).  Though, I haven't compared nutrient data on other grains.  I'll post some colonized popcorn photos from current projects tomorrow, too.  Been participating in some discords grow alongs, so have a lot of photos I can share

ThurmanMurman said:

I'll bust all over my grow room if I can achieve even that. Ive been swimming upstream the last couple months so my cultivation confidence isn't great right now.

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Yeah man I've seen you struggle a bit with cult lately But man, it also seems that you've had a lot going on besides cult and some of that stress will find it's way in to cult and affect it 😭 If I have learned anything about you through your posts though I know you'll bounce back from this as soon as you can get just a little time to catch your breath between the curveballs life been throwing at you

tree frog said:

@kloakk, great data point on the popcorn!  I had a suspicion, as a paper stated they like maize powder as a nitrogen source.  Weight in water when properly hydrated I think is another data point.  We run pans on low nutrient agar.  When you factor in the water weight, corn has less sugar per gram than many other hydrated grains.  And the sugars seem easy for them to digest, too (from the study).  Though, I haven't compared nutrient data on other grains.  I'll post some colonized popcorn photos from current projects tomorrow, too.  Been participating in some discords grow alongs, so have a lot of photos I can share

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I'll admit I've been lazy lately and have been running my pans on 1,6% DME plates as that is my standard plate strength

I think I read the paper on maize powder when you shared it, and it's kind of crazy really. I actually did compare the ingredients in popcorn and wheat and there is not a big difference at all, and the popcorn I use is a big grain, but pans still seem to love it and do very well on it, for reasons I don't fully understand

It is kind of great though because popcorn is easy to source and prep, it doesn't get sticky even if it burst. The only popcorn grains I discard before PC'ing are the once that split in half, and even with burst grains it's easy to break&shake, so I'm fine with pans liking it

I have too much going on and too much I want to try, but one of them is to add maize powder as a food source, have no idea when I'll get the time for it though. Today I'll be inoculating 4 jars with MiB RS and that will hopefully be my third pan to fruit. And if the T1 look okay, Oregon will go to grains in a week


And I'll love to see your recent grows, always eyecandy.

Puduwoke said:

My second round of TTBVI looking much better than my last round.

Never seen this kind of contam before though. Smell so bed shrooms still popping up though

Not showed the in photos but today 8 days after casing I got my first ever Bispo pins popping up. Very exciting!

Does anyone know what kind of contam all those bubbles are?

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I've seen dense WHITE mycelium clumps before with cyanescens, usually not too difficult to break apart but it looks nothing like that in the photos at all.
Plus it smells good and like mushroom mycelium.

Is that normal weird growth behavior for bisporus?
For the species bisporus to love brown blobs that smell bed and rise to the surface?

Puduwoke said:

First Bispo pins ever keeps growing. Got 2 trays and a shoebox that's a few days behind. Really excited to see them mature for the first time

And my TTBVI trays looking good even tho it has some kind of contom. Also a few shoeboxes looking decent

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Awesome work mate! I knew you could do it