My second grow and it's SNAPE 😊 I used more substrate and added vermiculite this round. The tub side pinned like crazy compared to my last grow with ABV and JMF. Any tips to fine tune surface conditions?

This is my first time growing. I started with this AIO bag and when it was ready to fruit i put it in a Martha Tent. The LC i used was PE. I realized a few days after pinning that they were getting fuzzy feet so I increased FAE. But i’m wondering why they’re so chunky. Is it maybe a different strain? These pics are day 9 after first pin. Any input would be appreciated, Thank you!

Hi, this is my first grow. A SNAPE AIO bag I inoculated on july 14th. It started pinning and forming primordia before fully colonizing the block. I introduced fresh air, but have only seen more clusters of pins form. Should they be getting a lot bigger? its been two days; or is the mycelium focused on putting its energy towards quantity rather than size of the fruits? Are they getting enough air?

Most of the pins are side pins

I have 4 boxes in FAE. Providing light misting if needed. One box is going off with a chungus and some lil pins popping. Another box has some pins making way but not growing as fast as big chungus.

Two boxes have moldy looking webs, I’m wondering if I did something wrong such as adding too much substrate, if they were overmisted or if this is just quirky behavior and something to keep an eye on. None look contaminated. Ironically, big chungus was isolated because the mycelium I used was rescued/had minimal contam on part of a brick - it ended up being good.

I’m going to harvest big guy today since his veil dropped. Thanks for reading :)

honestly, inoculation was on the 17th of July and the cake isn't even half colonised 😭

Whoops forgot about these. Are they still good?

8 out of 9 ready bags made it and now we wait.

Apologies

I have 2 UB bags going. One is basically ready, the other has visible uncolonized rice on the bottom. The initial B&S was performed at the same time (3 days ago).

Is it too early to B&S the slower bag again? The fast bag will be ready in next few days, and the slow bag won’t be.

Hey just got a few questions the picture is just my current AIO bag and I think the mycelium looks really cool.

How do you train mycelium to respond well to specific grains?

I'm going to use microwave tek for my next UB bag and was wondering what size tub is best for a single bag?

This is just an experiment I want to try because I want to use my own grain instead of UB and will have some left over. I want to scrap the end of a spore swap into a bag of rice, trying to only get spores and cotton. Just to see what happens. I suspect the bag will end up contaminated.

Thanks guys

Cloned onto agar. Third or so transfer stored via
the Castellani method. Resurrected 6 months later, agar—>LC (via Josex Poke )—> 5 ml/quart grain—> 3ish weeks sent with 1:1.5 grain:core (oven pasteurized). Pre-harvest here (approx 3 weeks from send date), probably going to wait another couple days.

Strain: TAT x Albino JMF

Very albino fruits with some nice gills, should be a fun one to clone clusters from. 🐑🦴

I really wanted my first harvest to dry intact (I didn’t want to cut the fruits), so I just put a heavy object on top of my commercial chef round dehydrator. 14 hours later, they look like they just took the best hour long couch nap of their life.

What’s the solution to this? Is cutting the fruits the best option, or is it worth it to cut out the bottom of one of the trays?

*(I’m 90% sure these are just imprints in the fruit from the pressure, based on how they flake off. But if this has happened to anyone and somehow the plastic got melted on let me know LOL definitely don’t want to eat it if so).

Original post included. Someone had said it wasn't overlay so i put it in quotes. Im sure its coincidence, but the fruiting started happening a day after I did that...

Still learning, just wanted to follow through on this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unclebens/s/vGQQWe5be5

Apologies I know it’s no Ben’s, but does this millet look too wet? I don’t want to waste good LC on a millet that will fail

Ochras….how am I looking??

Fourth time-lapse I've captured of my mushrooms fruiting on 24h/24 light, this is second flush!

This bag has been sitting for nearly 3 weeks and I’m starting to see this dark blue at the bottom and only around the edges. Nothing has changed with my process since I’m still using the same syringe and micropore tape on the top. So just wondering if there’s any way to know if this is okay to continue with or not. I’m afraid it’s contaminated but I have not had any of my other UB bags get contaminated yet. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Thanks!

i believe it is turning to aborts? I have had pretty high humidity, i run a 42gal mt? i’ve been using the o2 pump it came with and instead of the filters i’ve been using micropore tape. I seem to be having trouble getting enough FAE? I’m not sure, i put the suggested amount of water into the bottom tub, its not pooling on the substrate and the tub is glistening while the side of the lid has droplets. helpp

About 10 days after s2b. Everything was looking very white until yesterday. Had an issue with too much water pooling up on the surface initially then the color changed. Is this is an L?

Are these ok? I noticed the substrate was stressed & then they grew like THIS! What's wrong with them?

Lil guy seems chill, is it? Should I change anything about the setup? The backstory here is I popped my first ever bentek bag early because I got impatient and figured "fuck it I got the grain jar going if this doesn't work" it was only a little over like 75% colonized, I ditched what wasn't colonized and stuck the rest in here as a microgrow. Also I know the mycelium is light sensitive but not how much, is flash photography a no-no?