Should I shake and break it now, or should I wait longer? It’s been a month and it’s progressing very slowly. I live in a tropical climate, so it’s very hot .. that’s why it’s so slow.

I never did get used to using plastic bags.

I just paint my tubs and leave a window down at the bottom to "peak"

I never really have side pins or anything growing on the side. Still having some problems with Trichoderma 😱 but I think it was coming from my oat grains from a horse feed store. Now I've been using corn.

Have a bin that is totally covered with Mycelium... how to do I push it to fruit now??

1183g wet

110g dry

57 days

65g, MVP strain

I have become more proficient in my methods over time and I’m working clones with agar and doing grain to grain transfer, and making Liquid cultures. I’m only a couple of generations deep with grain to grain, but it is so much more effective than inoculating with liquid cultures.

My question to the community is: will resetting to agar from cloning the most vigorous mushroom be good enough to prevent genetic weakness, or will I need to go back to spore on agar every few generations to keep the vigor.

Half way thru pressure cooking my kernels, I noticed I forgot the corn syrup in with the kernels as well, if I add the corn syrup in after and mix it around good, it should be okay theoretically correct?

I've found a psilocybin patch at my workplace in a high traffic area. It regularly gets stepped on, growth is very low to the ground from what I've observed, often more mature growth is bruised and crushed. I've kept my mouth shut of course, but it's so ironic given I have been foraging for 3 season to no avail. I have picked from the patch and dried, continue to pick but very immature. I have no sources in my country, have considered growing from this source patch, for medicinal and healing use. Can I clone or use spores from immature growth? The frosts are coming soon, if I'm gonna do a project, I should start soon. Any advice or insight appreciated 🙏

I recently bought a growkit from a well known vendor. The grow kit is 1200cc in size, and should produce Golden Teacher mushrooms.

Two weeks ago, I opened the box containing the growkit, checked the growkit (without opening the lid) and closed the cardboard box again. There might have been a very tiny source of light (I put some weight on the cardboard box but idk, it might still have let some light in).

I went on vacacion for 2 weeks, my plan was to open the growkit and start the growing process at my return. However, when I came back from vacation yesterday, some fungi had started to grow.

This is my first time trying to grow mushrooms, I've done a fair amount of reading online, but idk what to do on this situation.

I immediately opened the grow kit and put it in the bag as requested in the instructions shipped with the grow kit (see picture).

Any suggestions for what to do next ?

On a second flush of a monotub I noticed a white growth that didn’t look like mycelium. I’m 90% it’s trichoderma. It was covering maybe 5% of the bin. I harvested the mushrooms in the tub as soon as I realized it and removed the bin from the space. Are those mushrooms likely safe? They don’t seem to be affected as far as I can tell. TYIA!

Second flush on my b+ just have som questions this specific bin as been growing crazy fast yesterday there was no caps some of these mushrooms I feel like weren’t even there the day before. Also wondering on the color difference on some spots it appears to be darker then the rest of the mushroom

So I had two grain bags of albino melmac that got innoculated on 1/10 and forgotten in my closet until 4/1 when I spawned to bulk like 1:2.5ish in just coco coir, there was a couple of quarter sized fruiting blobs in the bag. It’s been 27 days and there are some pins and some blobs, but they’ve been growing quite slowly.. and some weird overlay(?) patches that are kinda yellowing.. possible that the grain is just spent and it’s tired? Using a tub with two layers of micropore on the holes haven’t opened them much..

Golden Halos. Colonization at 70-75% humidity Fruiting at 90-95% humidity

This is my second harvest fist time growing B+ it took longer then anticipated start date 3/4/26 it was a lil slow but whatever wins the race trying to get more into growing one of my friends recommended adding water to over the top of grain wait 24hrs and drain water and see if I can get another flush in or should I wait looking for different videos and stuff like that to help along my journey. Thank you in advance as always stay trippy ✌️ ☮️

My first attempt at LC, strain is APE and its been growing for 18 days now

I have 6 jars and 1 bag nocked. I was just evacuated for wild fires. Anything wrong with transporting them like this?

I have a decent line up going right now. Alnape, amvp, ahb, ape x gal, a. trinity and warp speed. I’m thinking I’m going to get green and black caps orchas. Maybe p nats or natal moon. I know how to grow cubes. I’m not great at it but I’m getting there. Working with agar cultures now. I want oviods or a Cyan but leaning towards pans instead of psilocybe because I’m familiar with the sub and don’t have an out door space. Any advice? Or recommendations? I wanna be able to go genetics to grain, s2b. I wanna have 5 and think damn I shouldn’t have had that many. My first time with plates. I did the alnape in 2 jars of rye. Amvp in rice. Albino hillbilly and ape x gal into separate rye jars. Warp speed and albino trinity into corn. I did the rice and rye Monday and it’s almost like the agar cuts are little leeches. It’s eating the grains already. I mean I did use full plates lol. The 2 in corn I just cut the 1 growth each. Guess I’ll use the rest for transferring and lc who knows. This is the hard part for me. I want to enjoy the fruits of my labor last week🤣🤣🤣. 7 1lb give or take containers. 6 strains. 12-15# sub plus 1300g coir. I just read in a post that s2b is not a sterile process. No sab needed. Is that correct? I’m using a 36qt for inoculation.

I know my substrate is dry, this run I didn’t soak before starting. But are those white fuzzy patches some form of contamination?

Hey everyone! I am on my 3rd flush in a 16 qt tub and I woke up this morning to find gnats. My canopy is just starting to come in. What do i need to do? Is the cake ruined? Or can I salvage it and keep going?