The Tao said:

Check the SAB for spiders(I work in the basement), load the SAB, wash my hands and arms up to the elbows, dry with paper towels and get to work.

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tinkscat said:

This is my first 2nd flush and I think i overdid it with the misting.

The mushrooms are pretty wet inside. The inside of some of the caps are dark blue/black and spongy. Are these safe to consume or starting to rot inside?

They smell ok, but the first flush did not have this much water in them and the caps were white inside.

Thanks

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Synack said:

So I'm making the switch to agar and self-prepped millet jars. I did ~18-hour soak on the millet, drained 15m in a paint strainer bag, loaded wet, and 120m PC cycle (mix of pint and quart jars). I put a 1/4-plate wedge of what seemed to be a clean T1 transfer of RustyWhyte from a clone plate into this pint jar on 9/7, so it's now 8 days later. It's not that the growth is stalled, it does seem to be growing each day, it just seems very fucking slow, which is worrying me. I have some PE that I also put to grain about the same time which is also slow, but it's PE so slow feels normal. But RW doesn't seem like it should be super slow? (I wish I had remembered to take pictures of the plates before I put them to grain)

Should I be worried or STFU and LITFA?

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Stipe-n Cap said:

Shake it to speed up colonization. If it stalls thats a problem, if it recovers it will speed things up.

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Thanks Stipe. Will do. I've been hesitant to shake "too early" because then I won't see that pretty myc bloom taking over like half the jar from the single source

How slow a recovery is too slow? I've shaken mostly-colonized jars/bags and had them recover in a couple days, but this being only like 10% colonized, not sure how quickly I should expect it to go?

tryptkaloids said:

tinkscat said:

This is my first 2nd flush and I think i overdid it with the misting.

The mushrooms are pretty wet inside. The inside of some of the caps are dark blue/black and spongy. Are these safe to consume or starting to rot inside?

They smell ok, but the first flush did not have this much water in them and the caps were white inside.

Thanks

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That black splotchy look is likely a pseudomonas infection. Eat at your own risk. Some say a dehydration course or making tea will make it safe. Anything affected as much as the pictured fruit id probably personally discard.

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Tropical said:

Any great post about when to transfer agar / when to expect it and such ?
I've found some threads but they show what to expect visualy, but not much about anything else.

Ty

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Tropical said:

With this tek : https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28649340/fpart/all
I have steel lids, he advises 2 small holes. But how small ?

thank you !

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