r/MushroomGrowers

Lucid Gates second time spawning (first one failed). Is this Trich or some kinda blue bruising? It’s strongly colonizing and smells normal.

Hi,

First time grower. I bought a ready made cake and put it to fruit . First round everything wa normal got about 18gr of dried Golden teacher .

So i did a 24 hour soak, 8 days alter I have 3 gint pins and nothing else. for context the big guy is about 7cm tall and 3 wide

Im using a mono tuba with uv lights , 6 vents with micropore tape, daily misting and a couple of FAE sessions.

Any tips to get more pinning?

Two jars of ochra inoculated 6/4. I am 100% sure that these are patches and is not bacteria. The rest of the jars are inoculated, photos show the single patch in each jar.

Would best bet be to use a isoed metal spoon to scoop out the uncolonized grain and do rest S2B or would it be best to wait the 2ish weeks before I’ll be able to do it again.

Surgery is tomorrow, so I’m running out of time for this cultivation!

I forgot to put a liner on the bottom, but the benefit of that is I just caught some contamination in the bottom corner of my box (bottom left of image 1) which otherwise has some great growth.

Is it worth trying to excise out the corner or just bail? I unfortunately rent so can’t throw it in the ground.

Thanks in advance for the thoughts/suggestions!

I think I mixed too much substrate (coco coir) with my inoculated grains. I also added a casing layer on top. It’s been a month and progress hasn’t changed much. What should I do?

Is it necessary to test on an agar plates before innoculating spawn? Would you be able to tell by looking at it whether its contaminated or not? IMO this looks like healthy mycelium.

The debris near the bottom is left over from pressure cooking, and has been there since the beginning.(see my previous post if curious)

Im proud of how this has grown in just 2 weeks. But its growing faster than I am ready to use it. Can I keep it in the fridge?

As winter slowly comes to an end down here in Argentina 🇦🇷, it's the perfect time to prep this golden enoki 🍄 to keep it going until next year.

​To do this, I prepped a PDA slant in a 50ml Falcon tube 🧪 and another tube with sterile water, then inoculated both with agar wedges from a fully colonized plate 🧫.

​The agar slant will sit in the incubator for a few days before hitting the fridge ❄️, while the sterile water tube goes straight into the fridge. Both techniques are great for preserving genetics 🧬 for years.

So I went down a white rabbit hole and grew some mushrooms. The first flush was excellent but the second flush looked suspiciously a little green/blue on the surface of things? I started in an all in one bag but could not control side pinning, so I moved to a makeshift tub with no holes and ran with it - just ventilated the lid a bit, lifted it daily etc. The substrate looks kinda sketchy and I guess my actual question is: Should I throw away this second batch? Thank you!

I’m a clean freak. This place is spotless, and I’ve still been battling fungus gnats all week.

So this week has mostly been cleaning, searching, cleaning again, and learning far more about fungus gnats than I ever wanted to know. Hopefully I’m getting close to the end of it, but they’ve definitely reminded me that a clean space is never something you get to take for granted.

I've tried to grow mushrooms in the past with limited success so tried again recently with a grow bag. A few days ago the mycelium hadn't fully colonised yet so I only checked up on it again today which seems to be a mistake bc I have no idea what to do now. Should I just remove it from the bag and allow it to keep growing and hope for the best?

Idk how but a plant sprouted in my tub. I also noticed ~a dozen little flys which i think are mushroom gnats. Can I remove the gnats or is the grow ruined and how can I prevent infestation in the future? Also are the mushrooms still edible with the gnats in the tub

Are these little things on this piece of straw bug eggs or are they the smallest pins I’ve ever seen? Also what are these little bugs running all around my winecap bed? Are they harmful? If they are, how can I get rid of them?

So I set out to grow mushrooms the first time and ended up with an extra syringe of Starry Night so that’s why I chose it first. Figured if I screwed it up I’d at least get another shot at it. I’ve learned a lot and here’s where I’m currently at.

So many pictures of beautiful grows around this sub and I thought about not even posting anything but figured I’d keep it real. At least next time I can show what I’ve learned out to good use. Lots of side pinning as you see; my substrate was under hydrated and I was late to get light involved. There’s already a second grow in the works about 10 days younger with hydration and light adjustments made for better results. Batch 2 showed its first pins yesterday and I’m pretty excited about it!

I’ve included a close up of some of the better mushrooms with their veils still intact but also the couple beat up guys with open veils. I’m going to hold off on harvesting the pretty boys a little longer but I’ve never been one to be patient and it doesn’t seem like it would hurt to take a little taste! Never have had these kind of mushrooms fresh and to my surprise, they just taste like typical grocery store mushrooms. Don’t really know what I was expecting, but something different was the assumption. Been a fun ride and I’m sure I’ll enjoy the trip.

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?