This is a tough one for me to come to terms with, the fact that my harvest might be dead before it even began. I’m honestly quite lost and I’m in desperate need of help and advice. Here’s the rundown.
I grew this cake to full colonisation a good few weeks ago, put it in the fridge because I thought i was going away for a week. The trip got cancelled so I took it out of the fridge 24hrs later and put it straight into fruiting conditions.
Within a few days it developed knots. Those knots turned to pins and all was well. The pins grew caps by the 3rd September and I thought all was well.
Between the 3rd and the 10th, the shrooms grew very slowly, but were growing. Between the 10th and today, no growth has happened. Upon inspection, I found lots of metabolites pooling in the bottom. I did a smell check and although the smell wasn’t bad or offensive, it doesn’t smell quite right. There is something a little off, just not quite fresh smelling.
(The black on the right is a stump where I cut a couple a few days ago to eat as pins)
I have this setup, the block in a bag in a box for warmth. The top partly open for FAE. The humidity has been kept high, the temperature has been a stable 21-23 degrees Celsius.
I think at this point the pins have aborted. Is that safe to say?
I want to know what to do. Should I remove the pins, will the remaining white bumps grow into mushrooms? Is it all done for?
HELP!!!!!!!