DV8DUG said:

No worries... They put those safety blow-out things on there for a reason.

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Rasmodius said:

yeah I'll babysit a bit for the first 20 minutes or so after it's at pressure, but once it's holding, I'll run to the grocery store or whatever, turn my back on it a little.

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homeontherange said:

Hi, first time grower here, does this look ready to start fruiting? It's definitely reached pretty much full coverage on the surface, but on the bottom and sides there's still what look like gaps. But it's hard to tell with all the condensation and the vermiculite being all glittery.

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callmehippie said:

I went to pick up my kid from school when I got back I was climbing up to 20 psi.

Fortunately that's still not really an issue for the thing but it did Scare me.

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tryptkaloids said:

nobody could id bacteria through mycelium. Even without the mycelium in the way its a niche art and i can only think of 2 people who could id bacteria by itself on a plate

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usually true but here wet bubble / mycogone is an exception. real distinct looking.

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homeontherange you're already knotting up in there, it's definitely doin the thing

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marx, damn. scary stuff. glad you and the fam are okay!

Rasmodius said:

I'm team mist, at least in this case. The job is to create the right humidity and surface conditions. If you can do that with the coir and the tub from the beginning, then great. But if it needs a hand along the way, that's cool too.

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Thanks Ras, I'm looking at two 1/8 inch pins and a field of primordia and thinking,, is my misting causing primordia NOT to turn into pins? is this when I LITFA.

What looks like it should be an absolute field of mushrooms isn't taking off the way I'd expect. Maybe im just hovering too much.

tryptkaloids said:

If anything, drying out is more likely to keep primordia from maturing.

How are you keeping the lid on that thing?

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Flipped lid with stick tack spacers, about a 5mm gap all the way around. And I control FAE with MP Tape. More FAE = less tape.

Bigworm said:

Surface conditions are important, how you get them is not. Mist if you need to don't mist if you don't need to, increase fae if you get big droplets. I mist if it looks dry, and will continue until the primordia turn into decent size pins.
The idea of a property dialed in monotub is to dial it into your environment. No one can tell you how to do it exactly unless they have the same environment as you.
Properly hydrating coir will help you dial in easier. The ideal FAE is what you need to work on to get it dialed in perfectly. It may take multiple tries with hole configuration, amount of holes, or using different hole sizes to get it where you need it.

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