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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: brominegeek93] * 2
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Jars, tubs, bags all work well for reishi. Maybe your culture or substrate has a problem, reishi is usually pretty aggressive and not too slow.

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: deadmandave] * 2
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Am I looking at healthy Golden Oyster myc here? 1.5% LME agar.



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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: ThurmanMurman] * 1
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Looking good!:smile::mushroom:

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: Agar Wedge] * 1
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Agar Wedge said:
Looking good!:smile::mushroom:


Hell yeah, thanks dawg! This is from a wild clone, so I guess I did it!


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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: deadmandave]
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It got colonized very fast. I think the trich appeared later on when I sprayed water into the tub.


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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: ThurmanMurman] * 1
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:highfive:

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: Agar Wedge]
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Is there much point in doing future transfers if the LC test plate is clean? Or can I send it to grain.

Ttbvi.


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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: Myndful]
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I feel like my lions mane is really yellow. I tried fanning it a few times a day, I spritz it twice a day with some water. Idk, it seems off :/

The pictures make it look not so bad, but in person it's pretty yellow/tan

Any way to save this?

I'm working on getting LC together next so I can do grow bags, but I was excited to get some lions mane so I threw it in an unmodified tub with HWFP and oat bran

Edited by jeffreykite (08/24/26 05:51 PM)

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: jeffreykite]
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Lion's mane likes a ton of air and humidity, and it doesn't love being directly misted. Fruiting from a small slit in a bag makes nicer round fruits compared to fruiting on a big surface.

Not sure you can do much but ride that one out. Keep it humid without too much direct misting, make sure it can get some air (open any holes you might have already made on the tub, or leave a gap in the lid, and have some air circulating around it).

You don't need LC to do bags. You can inoculate them with grain spawn.

I never got good results in a tub with lion's mane. I've seen decent pictures of wood-based jars fruited in a tub, but I think it requires a bit more humid air than I have inside. A humidified tent with like 6 full air exchanges per hour does a lot better.


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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: Phaethon]
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Hello. I've got 2 jars of colonized grain with Pleurotus Pulmonarius - phoenix mushroom.
I'm planning to fruit them in some coffee grounds and straw.
what volume ratio of grounds/straw would you recommend? how much spawn per substrate?
Do they need a lot of fresh air and humidity? I only got a 40l tub without any active air exchange that I'm planning to put the grow bags in.


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When my bird was looking at my computer monitor, I thought, "that bird has no idea what he's looking at." And yet, what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can't really panic, he just does the best he can... You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do.

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: ihansterx4i]
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Hello, I tried growing pink oysters with saw dust pellet in a grow bag with an air filter. However, it has been 25 days since spawn to bulk and the mycelium has not fully colonized the substrate yet. I got this all in one grow kit and followed all the instructions but as you can see from the photos attached colonization has stalled or stopped maybe?

This is my first time growing mushrooms, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.





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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: speedspawn]
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That's almost assuredly sharing a living space with a competing mold. Did you S2B in front of a flow hood, or in a Still Air Box, and how did you inoculate? What's the temperature of your incubation environment? There's a lot of factors that could be at play, knowing some of this might help us narrow down the culprit.

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: LRMF]
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Yall ever send an oyster sub outside and had it fruit? I gave my step bro a blue oyster bucket that did pretty poorly in his basement, so I'm wondering if he could try removing the intact sub from the bucket and super spawning outside and maybe get something when it cools off. He lives a good ways away, which is why I'm wondering about a hail mary and not just giving him another to try out.


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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: ThurmanMurman] * 1
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ThurmanMurman said:
Yall ever send an oyster sub outside and had it fruit? I gave my step bro a blue oyster bucket that did pretty poorly in his basement, so I'm wondering if he could try removing the intact sub from the bucket and super spawning outside and maybe get something when it cools off. He lives a good ways away, which is why I'm wondering about a hail mary and not just giving him another to try out.


I've dug holes and buried spent buckets in wood chips and sawdust and got some fruits out it.  I also took am old bucket grow and added it to the wood pile like another piece of firewood dreaming it would transfer and grow the whole stack into a great big fruiting block - nothing came from that, too dry

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: MetalPro]
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Trying to grow oyster. First time working with bags. I don't have a bag sealer, so I just sloppily taped the bag, thinking it wouldn't be too much of an issue due to high grain/bulk ratio.
As you can see there is trich forming in the top of the bag. could the culture still have a chance fighting the mold?
Any tips on working with bags appreciated.




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When my bird was looking at my computer monitor, I thought, "that bird has no idea what he's looking at." And yet, what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can't really panic, he just does the best he can... You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do.

Edited by brominegeek93 (09/24/26 08:23 AM)

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: brominegeek93] * 1
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Look into getting mushroom bag clamps. They aren't very expensive, and I'm pretty sure they're reusable. Otherwise, a cheapo impulse sealer on Amazon shouldn't run you more the 35 - 40 USD which is decent enough for hobbyist use.

A high grain to bulk ratio can work against you, too, by providing a robust food source for fungivore competition like trichoderma, which could have been lurking in the unsealed substrate bag prior to your S2B process. Clipping your bags, at the very least, after the pressure cooking or S2B process will definitely help control and minimize future contamination events.

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: LRMF] * 2
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Hmm not sure if high spawn ratio can ever be risky. If the grain spawn is healthy it should be covered 100% in mushroom mycelium which has an active immune system. Trich spores landing on a living healthy mushroom culture usually don't stand a chance.

Another option is zip ties, regular or reusable. I've used them for a few years. I have an impulse sealer and use it for all my bulk substrate bags but I like zip ties for spawn bags because it's easier to open and close. No cutting.



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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: deadmandave]
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Nice I’m glad this post stayed and continues on. So I have these bags if reishi and have ti leave for two weeks. Am I going to come home to a huge mess of spores? Can I park them in the fridge like cubes to halt the growing till I get back?


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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: ihansterx4i]
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Reishi take forever. You should be good for two weeks. I would say more in the ball park of two months.

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Re: Ask quick questions [Re: JW123]
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Wow really? I feel like this reishi has been super aggressive up until now. Is it just the fruiting phase that takes a while?

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