tree frog said:

I think they want more evaporation.  With a JCM this can be done with a fan on a timer.

Essentially, I think what's happening is they're getting large enough for spores to start development, but without evaporation they can't cool off enough to protect the fragile DNA.  The colony gives up on those and starts to digest them.

Anyway, the aborts will get more mushy if you wait to harvest.  But you have a lot of healthy mushrooms that will likely perk up if you can get some periodic air flowing in the chamber.

Up to you if you want to go for bigger caps with some adjustments or harvest now.  Personally, I would use the abort flush to dial in my process and harvest it later.

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I think that’s prob what’s happening with mine then too.  I thought they were drying out but sounds like maybe the opposite.  It’s really happening hard in my new jcm which is a little shorter than my first one and I was keeping the drip shield in it even tho I didn’t need to (not a whole lot of condensation during the summer). The thought was that it would help suppress that environment near the trays but maybe it’s doing too good a job.  I’ve removed them in both chambers and I’m going to have a box fan in the room on a timer for a 30 min every few hours to see how that does. 



Bsrs clone put out a weaker 2nd flush than I was hoping but they’re pretty and dropping nicely which is what I’m after atm.

hardhead43 said:

Just posting this up...may just be a cautionary tale of what not to do.  TTBVI grown with liquid fertilizer and coir.  No crap.  No vermiculite...No nothing.  Cased 1/2 of it with pasteurized field cap verm that had been sitting in a bag (sealed) for a month or more.  Left other half uncased because looks like a lot of pins forming anyway.  Increasing FAE and misting sides.  I've had TTBVI abort if I misted them directly when they were tiny.

Thinking I might mist half of the uncased side directly....After all the goal here is to make some abuse resistant, neglect friendly TTBVI.  May be headed down dead end road as noted by treefrog due to sterility and genetic bottlenecking, but I did not know this and already got this party started.

Will keep you posted.

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fahtster said:

I’ll lyk how it goes.  I think removing the drip shield is going to have an impact too.. the lid has a lot of holes in it and there’s an adjustable gap between the lid and rim so there’s going to be a lot freer air exchange

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Definitely seeing an improvement after removing the DS and adding a fan in the room on a timer