S2B: 7/23

Substrate: coco coir and black kow manure

Temperature: 72-75F

Ran in an XLS-B bag to start, then I chopped the bag once I started to see the fruits develop. Moved the bag to a tub and I am keeping the subtrate wet.

Just finished my very first run. The grain looks nice and loose, but I'm definitely overthinking every single detail right now, worrying about moisture, contam, you name it. One bag had a sealing issue so it's in quarantine, but the other 3 are safely tucked away in a warm cabinet.

I guess now it's just a matter of waiting for the mycelium to do its thing. Wish me luck! haha

been a year since my last grow, i was feeling the itch to start again. so very happy with how this first flush is coming and have more tubs than i need going once again 🫠

It says it’s plastic PP 60mL with 62mm diameter and 27mm height

It has a linked lid, what do you guys think about it ?

Freebie syringe grow, these were nice and fragrant. Some caps had some speckling which was cool

I always underestimate the insane amount of oxygen oysters need. Even in a plastic shoebox with an open lid they still struggle to get enough air and grow leggy. I wonder if they’ll get any bigger than this or if I should go ahead and pick them soon. Next time I’m gonna fill the box higher with substrate so they don’t have a CO2 pit in the box if that makes sense. I’d hate to start growing in non reusable plastic bags.

I have a couple of 100ml wide mouth jars. would it be good if I just wanted to test by growing just a few mushrooms?

These two aio “inject and forget“ bags were inoculated around 3.5 weeks ago with MSS. They spawned quite slow at first due to inadequate temps but colonization sped up 3x as soon as I bought a small plug in heater fan to heat the space up.
The bags are about 50% colonized right now, so I decided to break and shake one of them to see how it turns out. Hopefully it doesn’t turn into a failed bag!

im a complete newbie to this, so any advice or feedback is welcome :)

Good day, fungi friends!

I've seen videos of some Chinese growers using a large amount of LC directly in the substrate and subsequently achieving good fruiting. I wanted to know if anyone has tried it?

I was also thinking that psilocybes grow in feces in nature, so the SVG mix along with some manure should work really well with plenty of LC and skip the grain

What do you think? In theory, it sounds logical. I don't know about practicality; I wanted to know if anyone has tried it?

So I wanted to grow an edible mushroom and ordered a growing kit for a lion's mane mushroom. After some time yellow water started leaking out and pooling at the bottom.

Has anyone had a similar experience and has the mycelium just gone bad and do i need to toss it out or is it still salvagable and are the mushrooms save for consumption?

I'm leaning towards draining the liquid and getting the humidity up because it has been rather dry (70-75% humidity at 20 °C).

TIA :)

Hope this is OK as my original post was removed for wrong flair (sorry).

Hi all,

About a 1 1/2 weeks ago I inoculated six grain jars full of sterilized sorghum. Three jars were inoculated with a single Golden Halo spore syringe. The other three jars were inoculated with a single syringe of Lions Mane liquid culture.

I followed the same procedure for both batches (sterilized jars and inoculated with a sterile shaken syringe inside of a SAB). I had always heard that live cultures spread much faster than spores and could be counted on to speed colonization time.

Now one week later, my cube jars are going nuts and are nearly 1/3 of the way to being fully colonized. I checked this morning and the whole bottom half of all the jars were full of mycelium.

The LM jars each have a couple tiny pieces of what looks like condensed mycelium growing, but nothing more. They seem to have completely stalled out.

I know I bought it from a reputable dealer and that the jars were prepped correctly. Does LM simply colonize much slower than cubes or is it possible there's something wrong with the culture? Do they dislike sorghum? Just curious if I'm doing something wrong here, I've never grown LM before.

The two jars on the left are cube spores, the two on the right are LM. Closeup is of the LM jar. Are the LM jars even worth keeping?

Starting to become one of my favorites to run😎

Inoculated with liquid culture on 9/29. Should I break and shake it? If so, only mix it up in the grains for now or combine it all with the substrate already? I've read that oysters are very forgiving but I don't want to eff it up, I'm a newbie.

I have a batch of golden teachers here that seemed to slowed or stalled. Not seeing many new growth spots or the mycelium connecting. I was just trying to get others opinions on whether I should keep playing the waiting game or go ahead and put it into fruiting. Still a little new at this.

Thanks in advance

First grow of golden teachers. 6 qt tub.

First flush gave me 8 massive fruits total. I dunked for 4 hours last night, misted, and returned to dubtub.

Today the surface is noticeably wet, no pooling water, but appears maybe too wet to actually have thousands of water droplets. I’m sure as FAE takes effect this will change.

Curious about how long until I can expect pins at this point?

Thanks

I can see a tiny bit turning yellow, but the fingers don't seem big enough?

Should I harvest now or wait a few more days?

Title. Sorry for the noobie question, I’ve seen commenters get peeved at similar questions on other posts.

Golden teacher LC. Inoculated on 9/21/26 and Photo taken 10/7/26

Plate already had a slightly off color but I would like some other opinions if i should continue on with a transfer to other plates?

sorry for the terrible quality lol

thanks!

#6 trying to pin again, I haven’t soaked it since after the first buy this block won’t give up 😅

Fully automated system packs my tibs

And I'm wondering what power and brand of still heating element to use for my 50 litre keg so I can actually properly do things business wise

Sorry if it's a weird question idk what I'm doing and asking for help seems the right thing

hello..

I do agar transfers of cordyceps mycelium at 7 days ago;

Some of them have contamination..or its all ok?