Going to retire this cake.

The 4th flush of Ochras has turned funky. I usually harvest some huge, dense, hard blobs from the other three identical monotubs, but this one surprised me because it's about 6cm, huge, and not dense at all. I was also surprised that the fruits have fibrous hyphae or mycelium growing despite good ventilation. It also seems to be pinning fast, even though it's the 4th flush.

Not as dense but still coming in, small spot in the clearing on the right has me a bit concerned about trich but did recently mist so hopefully its just bruising but that is how my pan tub looked before it showed up. 555g wet

2nd flush of my first Ochras is in the dehydrator now. On the right, a batch I picked last night and stashed in the fridge overnight while the rest matured a bit. I opted to pick all of the rest tonight as I'm leaving town tomorrow for several days. Total on 2nd flush is about 166g wet. All told, 1st and 2nd flush dried should be right about 1 oz... After picking these I did a "punisher" rinse on the cake to clean it up and see what the future brings. I'll set up a camera and watch remotely, and have my spouse pick if necessary while I'm gone.

Seriously. Is it ready to harvest or let it go a little longer? It's one tangled snake orgy...

Two syringes of ochraceocentrata liquid culture from two well known spore suppliers both injected into Northspore grain bags on the same day in identical amounts. Kept in the same room so same temp/humidity/lighting. Both transferred into identical monotubs with Northspore CVG at identical ratios on the same day. So everything identical other than different suppliers of same strain. Yet look at the difference! 8 tubs of each. Like to hear some ideas.

Not sure if ochras just have a different texture than cubes, or if maybe im letting them go too long, not enough fae or what.

Every time i run them they end up like this. Some split with blue fiber/strands inside. Some rip rather than coming loose from sub when pulled on then expose the blue fiber looking stuff. Its almost like they are rotting but that wouldnt make sense wighout fuzzy feet or going way too long. Very little if any spores dropped so going too long seems unlikely.

These started out as LC via FF that i grew out and printed then did mass germ into lc solution and used a syringe from that MS solution to innoculate this bag.

New grower here. Had a couple of tubs of cubes fall to contam first and got my methods fixed and have now had my first successful harvests of Ochras. First tub grew mostly straight, 4” ish tall, thin fruits on just coir. This tub was my second one on CVG and it fruited a bit quicker and has made taller, noodley bois. I liked the fruit with the nipple top.

Sampling these tomorrow night at a show. Can’t wait!

Had 2 paper plates like this. I love this mushroom!

This time they look like they're pretending to be pan cyans 😄

Should I case these? These are Natal Super Strain Ochras btw. I have never cased before, but I was just curious if any of you think doing so helps improve yield. I have them in a monotub, but I am actually going to move them to a grow tent with a fogger so I don't have to worry about misting daily

1st flush was full, 2nd and 3rd flush both had the same bare spots, wondering if there might be contam under there but I feel like it would have shown its self by now.

701g wet

A few of my rode bags have this yellow myc piss in them. I just lost a monotub to contamination and it started out with a lot of this as well (much worse than these). Just wondering if I should s2b since most are fully colonized, or wait, or not risk it.

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First try with these, from spore print to agar to rye grain to tub.... I pulled the ones that were most ready, will let the others grow a bit, they are bluing up good.

I only got like one solid flush from these guys. Plus a couple fruits here And there.

(First pic top-sider, 2nd pic bottom side of cake)

What can I do

A) in the future to prolong my first couple flushes going automatically

B) To bring this tub back to life. I think I've read about dunking cakes, flipping cakes etc.. I don't have Lyme or whatever tho

Thanks ochraceocentratafam 🙏

EDIT: thanks to you guys' freakin eagle eyes I have tossed this thang out due to the contam.

That being said I would still love to discuss how to get more flushes next time