lostsoul1976 said:

So pulled the first flush not huge, but I left a bunch of small ones and there’s already a better pin set coming up.  But I’m calling this a success.




🥳🥳🥳

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It is a success, even though it's not a huge flush, the fruits look real healthy so you did good my man.

el boso said:

Rip the band-aid off and tell me my jars contaminated. Serves me right this jar was sterilized with my instant pot

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Kloakk said:

lostsoul1976 said:

So pulled the first flush not huge, but I left a bunch of small ones and there’s already a better pin set coming up.  But I’m calling this a success.




🥳🥳🥳

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It is a success, even though it's not a huge flush, the fruits look real healthy so you did good my man.

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lostsoul1976 said:

Thank you sir. Much credit goes to knowledge gained from members like yourself and other on this site and especially this thread.

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Thank you and I feel the same way, everything I know about mushroom cultivation I learned here or from my own failures

Kloakk said:

What species, how old and can you take pictures of the whole jar?

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Bisporus, I'd have to say a month, it's cold down here so it's been a while.

el boso said:

Kloakk said:

What species, how old and can you take pictures of the whole jar?

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Bisporus, I'd have to say a month, it's cold down here so it's been a while.

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Not the best pictures I've seen there boss That said, I would send them, do 1:2 just to increase chances if it is a little bacterial

lostsoul1976 said:

Not really a second flush. I let these grow out and only picked the biggest ones from the first harvest. Did the same with this one. So maybe flush 1 b.



So 28g wet so far.
Also I figured out you kno when they’re done when you can just push them over and they break off perfectly at sub level.

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hardhead43 said:

Some TTBVI action.  Grew these on pasteurized coir/manure/verm/gypsum.  First time I did pasteurized.  Actually seems much less fussy than sterilization.  Just growing in humidity domes and misting twice daily.  Cased with pasteurized peat moss verm pH 9 with lime and pH meter. 

Now I have a dilemma.  Looks like stars are going to line up for me to trip this weekend and want to take a good solid dose.  Want to give fresh a go.  About 700mg of dried TTBVI is my sweet spot.  How many grams of fresh 7? 10?  1g dried was a bit much of TTBVI....so maybe err on the lower side 7g fresh sound right?

Or do I just go with 20-30 grams of fresh ochras?  Decisions decisions.....

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Nice fruits dude

Kloakk said:

Not the best pictures I've seen there boss That said, I would send them, do 1:2 just to increase chances if it is a little bacterial

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el boso said:

Yeah haha! Morning photography isn't my strongest suit. So I'm gonna ask a second time, because I know I've asked before, so apologies for the double up. What's the spawn to bulk process. Or is there a specific tek you follow. I wanna do 50/50 cow manure/coir. Can you do pseudo casings with pans, I know that's how I grew my old TTBVI'S however, I always had lack luster fruit.

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el boso said:

Edit: I read over Babas manure tea pasteurisation method, and Tree Frogs pest casing method - should I follow those two?

My brain is telling me this is the method I should follow, please correct me if I'm wrong

Step 1 - make 50/50 cpoo/coir substrate @ FC (Baba Yaga's pastursation tek)
Step 2 - s2b using my spawn and the substrate @ 1:2 ratio
Step 3 - put in shoeboxes, compress, place lid on and allow to colonize until surface is 100% colonised with myc
Step 4 - once fully colonised case and place in dreamer tub (Tree Frog casing method)

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el boso said:

Awesome!

I have an instant pot that I can put on suis vide mode @65C for 2hrs instead of the cpoo tea method. If so would I just put the manure + coir in jars and then "cook" them for that time

I'll probably go 30/70 like you recommended and I have cow manure compost not cow manure sorry for the mistake

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I see, well with cow manure compost 30% seems to be where I get the best results, and I would think that the cow manure compost is at field capacity out the bag so then just hydrated coir as usual and mix them 70/30. Then pasteurize, don't pasteurize just the cow manure compost, coir has plenty of nasties so make sure you mix first, then pasteurize.

And no problem using your insta pot, but you need to pasteurize for 2 hours AFTER the core of your substrate reaches 65°C. I use spawn bags and steam pasteurize substrate and casing. So I'll fill my bags, compress lightly and then put a temperature probe in the middle of the bag to monitor when the core hits 65°C, when it does I set a timer for 2 hours, or if it is late, just leave it until the next day.

el boso said:

Great! I'm gonna use my instant pot and measure temp of substrate and once it hits 65C I will set a timer for 2hrs. I will set my instant pot to 24hrs so it doesn't turn off.

I've had a problem once where I left it to 65c overnight and it smelled foul the next day, probably because the bags were sealed and there was zero air exchange.

Thanks for all the help I will see if I can get some going tommorrow

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When I pasteurize I set the temp to 70°C and turn it back down to 65°C when the core is at 65°C. My bags have some air exchange, but it ain't much.

I haven't had a problem with anything going sour yet, but I am looking for something better then bags, because they're expensive(even though I use them several times) and because I would like to easily be able to stir in fresh air during pasteurization as well. I really like the metal container Mico Zapotec uses, but can't seem to find one where I live.

So what I'll try next will be 5L PP5 buckets with lids and pull them out several times during pasteurization to introduce fresh air. I have no clue if it'll change anything, but I want to get away from bags

Looking forward to see how it pans out for you

lostsoul1976 said:

Also I figured out you kno when they’re done when you can just push them over and they break off perfectly at sub level.

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Pansun said:

lostsoul1976 said:

Also I figured out you kno when they’re done when you can just push them over and they break off perfectly at sub level.

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Really? I saw this lifehack for harvesting on myvophilia channel but didn't know that this is indicator of their maturity too. So if they are not ready and not mature they won't break that easy?

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Oh they'll break before they're ready

Pansun said:

Sorry for your loss. I would eat him right away

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Thanks man, but I'll think I'll leave him there for the others to get comfortable with what is coming for us all For them it'll come tomorrow