u/ForgotTheBugSpray

First time grower here trying an AIO bag with APE LC. Please pardon any incorrect terminology here.

I’m just over 7 weeks into my first grow attempt. I have heard APE takes a long time. Now 2 weeks into fruiting and noticing a lot of surface buildup of condensation and metabolites.

When initially moved to fruiting, I misted and fanned the first four days or so. I stopped after noticing the condensation on side of bag was getting larger beads. I have not been misting or fanning for the last 10 days and have left the bag top cracked like this for FAE, and fully open the bag usually twice daily for a min or so to look inside. (Disregard the tub itself, it was just a place to put the bag in but I do not put tub lid on)

Not seeing other signs of green or moldy contamination that I’ve seen in other posts on this and other mushroom subs.

Is this build up of water and metabolites Stroma? Is there anything I should do or let it stay the course? I’ve seen mixed yes/no about forking in other posts. Anything to do about the large condensation on the sides of bag?

Other Details:
Inoculated 6/23
Break and shake about 2.5wks later (7/11-ish)
Moved to fruiting conditions 7/30 (~5wks after inoculating)

Colonization looked great. B&S after about 50-60% of grain was colonized, moved to fruiting after ~90% colonization of mixed substrate.

Colonization temps: 72-77 (avg 74), dark closet
Fruiting temps: 68-75 (avg 73), near north facing window

I’ve made a couple garden gates for our home, both were built square and flat. When first installed, they were flush to the rest of the gates, but have since twisted. The larger gate is 2yr old and takes some torque to close now. The smaller hog wire gate is only 1mo old and closes smoothly, just looks wonky.

For context:
- I live in the front range of CO
- Both gates do receive full sun. Smaller gate is full sun basically all day, larger is about 50/50. Backside of larger gate is shaded by porch cover.
- Both gates used pressure treated wood from Home Depot for the frame. The smaller gate has cedar cross supports and the hog wire frame is cedar.
- HD PT wood here is like thrift shopping, gotta really dig to find the treasure. Most of the wood was pulled mid stack, still wet when purchased.
- both gates are otherwise sturdy, no sag

Is it just that the PT wood was wet when purchased and built? Should I be using a different wood species? Trying to source other (but most likely more expensive) wood? What recommendations do you have?