I just watched the dehydrator on the cheap video. most of the home dehumidification units Ive looked at only go down to 30%. Does the end up being low enough for storing dried mushrooms or marinated and dried mushrooms (jerky).  Any thoughts?

So say one were to set up a fruit room that isn't wicked big like 12'x10' by height of about just over your head. Does anyone think a humidifier like the one I'm about to picture is better than like the house of hydro type of disk fogger? They also have some kind of anti bacterial cube for 6months. Definitely pretty expensive. About $480 something. Also how small of a space is a hart piece good for?

Growing mostly Chestnut Mushrooms 

Rory has a PRIMUS audition......FRIGGING AWESOME 👌 

I was wondering if anyone here has experimented using UV lights to detect bacteria or contamination in general in their setups, spawn, substrate etc.

I saw that blotch is florescent and UV at 365nm would make it glow greenish yellow, so I bought a small UV flashlight and I've been testing inspecting the farm with it. So far I've seen the most use when checking out spawn bags, as I can see weird colored glowing stuff in bags that to the eye seem normal... Anyway it's still under the experimental phase but wanted to share and hear your thoughts!

What the Cordy-Cult doesn't want you to know about Cordyceps Militaris Preservation: Peep this very interesting 2024 study that was passed along to me a week or so ago. In essence if you are preserving known mating pairs of CM in their monokaryotic forms (through Deep Freezing/LN/Freeze Drying) and combine once your ready to expand to a round of LC and then fruiting substrate you will never experience "senescence"...as this study points out, our perception of "senescence" might be one thing but in fact in the case of C. Militaris it looks like a dominant monokaryon kicks the other Mon out after a series of expansions essentially rendering a dikaryon, monokaryotic once again. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxqBeIbpvyYTtMGPyu3yiw2vimbfPIfd/view?usp=sharing

A deep dive that follows along this specific protocol is in the works to see if it can be replicated! Stay stoked and share your fungal-finds homies!

-Erik

Happy Holidays Mushroom people 🤘☮️🤘

We all starting somewhere. There's my first home lab set up. Im about to buy a flowhood soon and epoxy paint the desk, now i'm using a homemade glovebox. I got everything I need to make it work.

What's up Mainers 🤘. Just wondering if you guys have found conclusions about how many 10lb Chestnut blocks is a maximum amount assuming there is a perfect FAE/humidity situation. I'm about to be building a Chestnut only grow room which is about 500 Cubic Feet of space. Possibly an answer is doomed to a shit load of variables. Had a tent packed and removed a few blocks because I assume they were breathing all the air up and the CO2 was hard to keep below 900. My aim is to achieve at least 40blocks fruiting. Any advice is sweet I just don't want to mess up the first big round of them as I'll just go pick them up from you guys. So far I've been able to use trade over money for funding. 10oz Cordys got me a Flow Hood and various side masonry jobs got me $1,200 of which I have what I need now, steel studs in all. We have a shit load of kids so spending my income/losing money is not an option for me 

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I’d like to hear your opinions and experiences: Is it better to use more or less nutrients in liquid culture and agar? How can this affect the subsequent growth of mycelium and fruiting bodies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using higher or lower nutrient concentrations in these media? Thanks in advance for your responses!"

This broth has insect powder in it. I have no idea if it's better than anything else but I will say it somehow slowed down growth in general.