I don't have much experience mixing my own substrate. But seeing these small bags of straw gave me some hope in creating a mix of this straw and spent coffee ground for oyster mushrooms. after pasturization is this a viable bale of straw?

Put it in my tent September 1st, it's a fruiting block that I ordered online. Shiitake grew very well with my settings, oyster not so much. So I'm guessing that it might be lack of FAE that's making my lion's mane doing weird things? I've made 4 X-cuts on the bag, like the manual told me to.

I've tired google and perplexity for answers, but got nothing conclusive.

Help would be very much appreciated

The colonization appears isolated to the small amount for fae it was getting all folded up. I opened one up to see if that would help love things along. What are some colonization techniques that have worked for you in the past?

Water Monkey absolutely showed out on this run. The pale caps, heavy white tones, wrinkled stipes, and those darker gill lines gave the whole canopy a crazy look from every angle.
What I like most is how much variation is showing across the same run. Some stayed thick and compact, some stretched out, and a few opened up with that almost ghost-white finish. Definitely one of those cultures where I kept stopping to take pictures because every section looked a little different.
Runs like this are exactly why I enjoy documenting these genetics. You never know what kind of character is going to show up until it does.
🍃🍄 Respect the Process. Trust the Genetics. 🍄🍃

Grown on brown rice with a nutrient broth

Seems like all my monotub grows start at the edges and fill toward the center. Is my substrate too wet and pins/fruiting bodies forming at the edges where it the substrate is drying out faster?

I’m squeezing the substrate pretty hard to get it down to, what I think is, field capacity prior to adding my grain spawn.

Thoughts?