I have been struggling with some maitake blocks drying out around the 4th to 5th week in incubation.  I was wondering what kind of moisture level people are shooting for with their maitake blocks.  I work on 61% currently

Workman is going live on Mycogeeky the 27th. 

"We recently had a wonderful conversation with MycoGeeky and look forward to being featured on his Podcast, January 27th! Mark your calendars and pop that corn. It's a good one!" -sporeworks

Is anyone playing with VPD based models for conditioning a grow VS relative humidity based target models? The reasoning being the compensation for temp built into the vpd model...thinking .4kpa target with a .1kpa buffer. 

I have a key to one of the Cordy Cult gates.......😈...feeling almost obligated to share a link to this new research paper. 

Funny story,  when I started doing masonry on my own pricing was difficult.  I called another company once and as soon as the guy realized I was not a client and just another mason trying to find out his prices he said "Fuck you,  you piece of shit!" (Click)    lol.  It reminds me of what's happened with cordy breeders n the US. In a way I get it but I also fully believe IF YOU CAN -THEN YOU SHOULD and being helpful/kind is the true enlightenment 

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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 

Looking to upgrade to a continuous band sealer, any recs besides the Bosch 550 mentioned in one of the videos? Trying to stay under $3k for now

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?

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