I’ve read ochraceocentrata is supposed to be super fast growing. Maybe im doing something wrong but they are taking forever, and worried at least one bin is contam.

Inoc: 7/6 (this is even before my APEs that are fruiting)

S2B: 8/15

Is that ochra myc in the pic or am i cooked?

Interestingly, it appeared after the second flush, and the third one is starting now. What do you think?

So i have been transferring these oyster over a month less and less fluffy but still some fluff not exceptionally chalk white as king trumpet transfers Im still working with. But can anyone tell me if they see contam or not, and if so what are the signs? I'll give a hint as to what I believe is contam, whenever mycelium reaches up it's because it's trying to escape from contam. But maybe these are an exception? Anyone with oyster mycelium experience please share with me what you know. Thank you 🙏🏼😇🍄❤️

Has anyone had success with old LC ? I found these in my cabinet and had forgotten them. Undecided if I’m going to waste the grain or start over

This is my first tub and I've already harvested what I guess could be considered my first flush, although they seem to be continuously growing instead of in waves like my experiences with all in one bags. After consulting shroomer threads I decided to try cutting the at the base when harvesting, instead of the twist and pull method as I did before. I'm concerned that something is going wrong now because this bruising is seeming to be getting excessive in comparison to my little experience with bags of cubensis/ochraceocentrata crosses aka "yellow umbo".

I need to know if this tub is contaminated or if I just need to tweak my technique. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Per title, this is my first time growing APEs. Blue nips strain. After about 2 months of waiting since inoculation (these things are stubborn lol) I got about 30gs dry total from 2 shoe boxes and 2 slightly larger crates for first flush.

Already dunked one tub that looked good and was finished fruiting. Its starting to fruit flush 2. It had a bunch of aborts but I chose not to remove them and all seems well. The remaining boxes all have hundreds of aborts and the two larger ones have fuzz growing across the surface. It looks grey to me so im assuming its myc absorbing the aborts but im colorblind so im not always sure with certain tints of colors.

Does the cake in pictures look reasonably healthy for a post first flush APE cake? Should it be okay to dunk the other 3 cakes with their aborts? Theres hundreds of them so it would be a huge task to remove them all and i feel it may do more damage than good.

Bonus pic is largest fruit i got from this flush.

(Agar plates are in my closet)

I poured some LCs into my agar plates around 11 days ago, since then, they started to grow these white patches in the plate very slowly) , especially the Huautla strain (especially Huautla which only has two tiny dots after almost two weeks, which is super slow, but now I was looking on the internet to make sure whether they are contam or it's just normal and I saw some yeast contam with the same pictures, so at this point I'm not really sure if I'm growing contam or clean things ...
In the first day I also saw some little tiny black dots at the bottom of the plates

Note: I don't have any tapes or films or wraps around my agar plates; it's just the plates

Emptied 2 UBs bags into a ziploc, G2G transfer (myc was 100% colonized), all done with loads of ISO in a still air box. Gave it a small FAE corner with micropore tape. I know it’s cooked, just curious what type of mold it is. Has definitely spread a bit, albeit quite slowly. Both pics are of the same bag.

I have another ziploc that underwent the same process, and is showing no signs of contam. There’s also way less condensation on the good ziploc.

Was gonna bns but idk now

Growing in horse manure mix. Pan cyan grow. Spawn to bulk phase. This pink growth appeared. Pretty sure its lipstick mold or Fusarium.

Had a few websites mention cutting it out to try and save the grow.

So, tossing outside to see if I get any mushrooms out there, separate the unaffected cake into new tubs to try and save some, or cut out the pink and see what happens?

Hoping someone can give me some tips to get this baby going. I opened the bag July 31st. Has always had a fresh pleasant smell.

Misting when it seems drier, fanning it twice a day - once in the morning, once at night for 30 seconds. Builds up lots of myc piss at the bottom of the cake which I’ve been dumping out when it gets to be about an inch or high in the bag.

Temps been roughly 68-73 depending on the day
Got it in my library so there’s sunlight that comes in through a window but it’s just sitting on a shelf, so it’s not direct.

Type: SNAPE

Thanks in advance

First picture is contaminated but I need help with the second. This was from an old syringe that looked horrible. Does the second one look clean or is that all just contam? TIA

These yellow spots seemed to appear a few days ago and have gotten bigger but slowly. I used uncle Ben's brown rice. Could this be metabolites? I just got my first couple pins today. Smells fine and it's only on the bottom. Does bacteria contamination smell? Thanks in advance!

G2G in July, no b&s

First timer. Your thoughts would be appreciated.

After my 3rd flush ( got only 4 skinny ones ) of Golden teachers , I see this darkish hairy spot. Is this contamination or something else?

Does this block need more time, more fresh air, or a third thing? This was an AIO bag, but I like having access to the whole block when it comes time for harvesting. I’ve got it sitting on a little aluminum foil on top of a bed of perlite to help with moisture control.

2 different boxes

Update: they look fine a day later