LentinulaEdodes said:

^Hope that it is doing well, I have fruited Grifola frondosa before and it looked nothing like any of the pics so far.  I only had 2 blocks out of 12 fruit, the rest became smelly and contaminated.
And pokermush, that definitely does look like mold on the last pic, it's green!  Is it somehting with the colors/my monitor?  Those pins are nice too, but I believe they have aborted, have they not?

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Hi Lent,
I'm sure it isn't mold. It is a gray color, and close-up it doesn't look like mold at all. Something about the picture just makes it look a bit like mold.

I removed the bags after reading the advice in this thread: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6282292#6282292

I may have killed the maitake in the picture though. I put them outside on New Year's Eve to cold shock and they froze. Oh well, may just turn in to an interesting experiment.

I have a couple smaller blocks that are looking really good, and these I am incubating in a bin that can also serve as a fruiting chamber without disturbing it too much. I can just move the bin to a colder place when it's ready. I'll post results when I have them.