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Advice Needed - Blue Oysters Fruiting Inside Bag
    #7786827 - 12/21/07 07:32 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I have a 5-pound straw bag containing blue oyster mycelium growing in a plastic tub of perlite with many holes drilled for air exchange. Bag has small holes (about 1/8 inch diameter) for mushrooms to grow out of. Harvested the first flush just over 2 weeks ago - it was a rather small flush at about 5 ounces. I continued misting regularly but after almost 2 weeks there was no second flush. I noticed that mycelium and stem remnants from the first flush seemed to be blocking most of the holes, so I cut several larger holes with a scissors several days ago. Today I noticed that the bag is starting to pin again - not from the new holes I cut but from several of the smaller holes that had appeared to be blocked. But I also noticed something else. Apparently large mushrooms grew inside the bag away from the air holes. They are mostly stem, about 1/4 inch wide and about 2 inches long each, and there are about a half dozen of them pushing against the bag. They are only visible upon close inspection due to mycelium on the bag surface, but they can be easily felt. Presumably that is why my first flush was smaller than expected, and why the 2nd flush took so long to form.

My question is this - what should I do about the mushrooms trapped inside? I'm thinking I should probably do nothing now since the bag is pinning and I don't want to disturb it. After harvest, should I cut holes near where the mushrooms formed? Should I remove the plastic and clean off the old mushrooms?

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Re: Advice Needed - Blue Oysters Fruiting Inside Bag [Re: AmericaOnLSD]
    #7787997 - 12/22/07 03:25 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

You could remove the plastic, but it would have been better to do when they were first pinning. At this point they are probably pretty mutated due to high CO2. I'd leave it for the remainder of this flush... that is unless you can provide enough RH for the block if you remove the plastic... which is feasible b/c you are using perlite. Either way you will probably get deformed fruits if you remove the plastic. For your next block you probably don't need to keep the plastic on. On some eryngii blocks I made I didn't use perlite and had a really nice flush w/o using anything but a spray bottle.


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Re: Advice Needed - Blue Oysters Fruiting Inside Bag [Re: PitcherCrab]
    #7788063 - 12/22/07 04:59 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

the oyster mycelium probably will not hold the straw together if you remove the bag completely,
I would try to cut the plastic out from around the new pics


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Re: Advice Needed - Blue Oysters Fruiting Inside Bag [Re: tahoe]
    #7788174 - 12/22/07 07:23 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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tahoe said:
the oyster mycelium probably will not hold the straw together if you remove the bag completely,
I would try to cut the plastic out from around the new pics





it will hold together if its fully colonized. ive let them dry out a bit and rest and sliced the bag in two. they held together just fine even after a dunk.


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