u/trekktrekk

Several good jars of a propagated Oyster Mushroom from a syringe and one infection. Not going to use it right away.

1. good ones, leave as-is?

2. store in the fridge?

3. what about the molded one?

4. dump it in the yard and PC the jar/lid or dispose?

Currently on day 18 which is a few days after I would normally fridge them.

Never had this type of "stuff" on the top before.

Do I care about this? I have several that STILL do this. It drives me absolutely bat sh* crazy. I don't mention some things because the builder loves to gaslight.

Very starile this time and everything was looking good until I noticed this just now.

Even then, 1 in 7 isn't too bad and the reason I spread it out into multiple jars.

Mold?

These showed up on day 4?

2 different grain jars, oysters using a dry spore/seed.

The first one kind of looks like what I'd expect. Neither has been a quick growth like I'd expect from mold.

The second jar has me perplexed.

First timer

1. Purchased some dry spawn for blue oysters.

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2. Boiled, pressure cooked my jars at 15 psi for 90 minutes.

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3. Introduced a small amount of spore into the jars over a flame on my stove after using starsan to sanitize everything (outsides). Just a quick pop open put a little on top and try to mix it into the top of a little with a very light shake.

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4. Only used three of my jars to start with to see if this is going to work. Plan on just letting the sit on the shelf in my pantry.

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Question: My house goes from 72° during the day to 65° at night. Should I put these somewhere at a specific temperature? Should these go somewhere dark? {There seems to be what appears to be old information saying that it should go in the dark and others that say it needs light but not direct sunlight}

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Plan: if this works, I'd like to seed in the remaining seven jars and then put it in the fridge to store it until I get ready to use it. Perhaps I should leave it as a dry spawn until a few weeks before I get ready to use it?

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Ultimately: I plan on using cardboard and coffee grounds. That will be its own post I guess later once we get this started.

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TIA

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Is there anything to do at this point?

The first one is absolutely infested and I'm seeing one of the others has a few as well {they are in grow bags about 6' away from each other}

Got 2 nice ones off of it early last week and it slowly turned yellow and everything started falling apart.

No bugs that I can see, used a miracle grow liquid fertilizer and recently switched to a liquid 0-5-5. I only fertilize once every few weeks.

Seems to be getting enough water too {in self watering container but don't use that function}

Simple recipe, I just added 1.5 oz of Mango juice to the bottle.

Not sure how long this was in F2, I just use the plastic bottle technique to ensure carbonation.

Anyone utilize a spring-loaded bottle filler with an auto siphon? If so, how do you get the siphon started because I only have two hands hehehe

I've been using the non-spring loaded style for a long time and have to use a clip on the end to hold the bottle filler from touching the bottom of the bottle when I need to step away for a moment {left one).

Really like the spring-loaded better for this because it doesn't work unless you're pushing down but can't use it with an auto siphon, only a spigot.

Home builder agrees that it wasn't wide enough and said he would do a bump out to allow getting into the garage better.

The flags are where he sprayed a line of what he thinks they should do.

My concern is ensuring that it is indeed wide enough to pull a car into the driveway without having to do a three-point turn in the driveway.

The only way I could decide it would work is to simply pull the car into the grass and pull into the driveway but with the slope that's here that would be difficult to do safely.

Figured there might be someone in this group that didn't driveways and had a suggestion for width and length or design.

My other concern is that doing a taper would leave a small triangle of concrete that would crack, break, or weaken since it will be separated from the original concrete work.

New home, tripped over this piece of shim that appears to be falling out from beneath the entryway between the garage and the house.

Does this look okay? This void appears to be like this in the other doorway as well. Perhaps the shim is just debris? Or should there be more here? This shim is pretty much completely loose and not doing anything.