markh said:

I shot Azure LC into 5 two qt jars of alder shavings on 1/27/26 and nothing happened for a long time. I assumed it was no good, but then I noticed some fuzz showing in one of the jars a couple weeks ago and this is what it looks like now. Does this look like myc, or is it something else? There is some showing throughout the jar but the top seems to be going arial.

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bloodssonnew said:

Any ideas on what I could do wit dis azuresence woodchip n grain jar 5050 mix is whole brown rice n boil pasteurized birch chips I'm thinking straw jars orore birch woodchips jars just idk which would be smarter trying to avoid mycelium becoming lazy

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I'd avoid the straw. Stick with chips of various flavors. Most hardwoods will work, but preferably Alder and Fir. That's mostly what they are living on in their natural environment. Don't worry about them getting lazy.

el boso said:

My subaeruginosa had fully colonized this sterile woodchip. How should I proceed?
Should I mix in some soaked woodchip or should i sterilise more and add this like a g2g.
I'd prefer to add to regular soaked woodchip and I can do it at a 1:1 or 1:.5 ratio I'm not fussed how long it takes.

If I can soak and add this. What's the procedure for soaking?

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Severance13 said:

Hello, so I've been trying to successfully establish outdoor beds of any wood lover including wine caps to no success. I used fermented chips over the course of like 6 months with few different species and every single time I got trich or inky caps by the second expansion. Along with fungus gnats. I think my chips, since they're from chipdrop, aren't ideal. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have a nice digital temperature adjustable kettle with a bazooka filter that I normally use for processing grain that I could probably throw those guys in and heat pasteurize in there, though i also tried that with the warm setting on my crockpot as an experiment and that also failed. I also didn't use lime in the fermentation, so maybe that was the cause of issues? Or maybe my spawn was bad

I'm starting more allenii spawn and kind of at my wits end in analysis paralysis.

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Just stop fermenting them. Lay out spawn in a bed of dry, untreated, natural chips, hit it with the hose once, and call it a day.