tryptkaloids said:

Just wait

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Cakewonder said:

whats your opinion in this pinset? Is it any good?

I dunked the sub for 4-6 hours.

I am not sure what they used for substrate...looks like either sawdust mixed with hay.

Okay so what are pooples experience with edible mushroom blocks like these?
I had ONE before, but when cut open it was full of mold. Can anyone give some pointers?

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dinosaurs said:

it seems that squat melmac did *not* like a hard-packed substrate.  over the last year my squat mac shoeboxes have very consistently produced ~500g from first flushes and these look like they're going to be somewhere in the 300g range.  so far the optimum conditions for these guys seems to be wetter, looser coir, a typical top layer, and then a pseudo-casing of nearly muddy coir when the substrate is colonized and it's starting to knot.  that pseudo-casing for some reason really instigates clustering (at least with this particular variety).

I've had fun trying to min/max these squat mac grows.  they are charming and smelly little mushrooms.

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fruit from today's harvest and very typical of this variety.  they seem to average around 40g wet, which dries down to around 2g.  little water balloons.



from an upcoming tub:



replying to myself to provide what may be useful followup on my packed-substrate experiment with squat mac.

harvested those tubs today and my estimates were pretty close.  one was like 350g, the other was around 250g.  either way, well short of my typical harvests from this variety.  again, this substrate was hydrated at dry coir x 4.35 and when I harvested I noticed two things:

1.) picking them sucked and ripped huge sections of the substrate out vs a loose and evened substate at s2b. 

2.) the exposed substrate was very dry, no doubt contributing to the shitty yield.

so given the above, I think I'm done with packing my substrates.  even if I resolved issue #2 by hydrating the coir more, issue #1 would likely still exist and was annoying as hell.

I dunno if it applies to all of the fat varieties, but for the particular squat mac genetics I have, loose pack wet coir + top layer + wet coir layer at full colonization gives the best results by far.  next experiment will be spawning without the top layer and just using the "pseudo-casing" layer at full colonization.  I want to minimize the amount of energy this mycelium spends on populating redundant non-nutritious layers.

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Agar Wedge said:

Had to disassemble and clean my ultrasonic humidifier. the fan was screeching when I turned it on. The old oyster mycelium had taken up residence in there at one point or another



Got that cleaned up, no more screeching

Straw sprout growing along with x7x+ they appear to be giving him space, maybe even half the shoebox

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dinosaurs said:

dinosaurs said:

it seems that squat melmac did *not* like a hard-packed substrate.  over the last year my squat mac shoeboxes have very consistently produced ~500g from first flushes and these look like they're going to be somewhere in the 300g range.  so far the optimum conditions for these guys seems to be wetter, looser coir, a typical top layer, and then a pseudo-casing of nearly muddy coir when the substrate is colonized and it's starting to knot.  that pseudo-casing for some reason really instigates clustering (at least with this particular variety).

I've had fun trying to min/max these squat mac grows.  they are charming and smelly little mushrooms.

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fruit from today's harvest and very typical of this variety.  they seem to average around 40g wet, which dries down to around 2g.  little water balloons.



from an upcoming tub:



replying to myself to provide what may be useful followup on my packed-substrate experiment with squat mac.

harvested those tubs today and my estimates were pretty close.  one was like 350g, the other was around 250g.  either way, well short of my typical harvests from this variety.  again, this substrate was hydrated at dry coir x 4.35 and when I harvested I noticed two things:

1.) picking them sucked and ripped huge sections of the substrate out vs a loose and evened substate at s2b. 

2.) the exposed substrate was very dry, no doubt contributing to the shitty yield.

so given the above, I think I'm done with packing my substrates.  even if I resolved issue #2 by hydrating the coir more, issue #1 would likely still exist and was annoying as hell.

I dunno if it applies to all of the fat varieties, but for the particular squat mac genetics I have, loose pack wet coir + top layer + wet coir layer at full colonization gives the best results by far.  next experiment will be spawning without the top layer and just using the "pseudo-casing" layer at full colonization.  I want to minimize the amount of energy this mycelium spends on populating redundant non-nutritious layers.

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Smellyhobbit said:

Johnny wasn’t struck by lightning, he had oyster mycelium growing on his floppy disk

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dinosaurs said:

I've grown these guys for a year to the tune of probably a hundred tubs by now off LC and agar.  my "conclusions" (I wouldn't consider them that at this point) are limited to this variety, and perhaps those of a similar morphology.

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tryptkaloids said:

dinosaurs said:

I've grown these guys for a year to the tune of probably a hundred tubs by now off LC and agar.  my "conclusions" (I wouldn't consider them that at this point) are limited to this variety, and perhaps those of a similar morphology.

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My point is it may be limited to that culture, or even a dominant strain within that culture (true use if the word strain with mushrooms) not neccesary true to that variety as a whole

I encourage the same test with multiple ms cultures

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