I am in Costa Rica scaling up to a medium size facility, and my biggest issue now is spawn. I can get access to feed grade Millet or seed grade sorghum and forage (for grass) oats. If you had to choose one which would you go with? The oats and millet are cheap, the sorghum extremely expensive 

Lions Mane Buckling (I think I fixed it?)

I can't find the post I commented on about lions mane buckling on the block and sometimes completely falling off, but I noticed that once I nerffed my Rh out of frustration things dramatically improved. I know that if my exhaust damper fails then dirty air will also cause buckling, this is leading me to believe that bacterial stress will cause buckling in addition to possibly other things.

I started cutting my lions mane blocks where there is already nice, thick mycelium near the top to see if part of the problem was in that first week of pinning. Cutting in the denser part reduced pinning time for me by up to 5 days and seemed to prevent bacteria from taking advantage of a cut site with less mycelial mass.

I'll hopefully be submitting a grant for a Hart/POLA system so we can move away form vats of stank water sitting around! This should dramatically help with buckling. Anyway, idk if this was helpful or accurate. Feel free to chime in with your own observations and opinions!

Crystorage:

I'm in Costa Rica, and since all my genetics are imported, and importation can have a month + lead time, it's important I have all onsite storage. 

Is -80c a hard rule? My local brewery has a -20c freezer. Will that suffice? 

If it does not, does anyone have a cheaper small tabletop size -80c freezer they suggest for storing say 4 vials each of 16 strains (64 vials)?

Just got a particulate counter from Midwest grow kits, it think it’s Bonsai brand. Anyways can someone drop some knowledge on me. I get readings for PM2.5, PM1.0, PM10, AQI@PM2.5

If someone could let me know what measurements to look at and at which ranges they need to be in that would be huge

Does anyone know where to find these (at all or in bulk) or what the name is for the coupler that attaches the filter to the jar? These have a gasket and nut to tighten then attach I think Lur lock onto the filter. 

Hey Mycowizards team. I’d still love love love love your maitake. 

I had some friends ask me to make this. There’s definitely some Mycowizards wisdom and some Mycodon’t’s in there too haha.  

This Shipping Container Grows 1,000+ Pounds of Mushrooms a Month

https://youtu.be/e6mOJpOidLM

Hi All, newly joined. Zimbabwean born, UK Phd plant scientist specialising in plant fungal interactions now living in Katy, Texas. Been doing road trips throughout the US cloning wild cultivars and have recently started crossing commercial lines with some of the heat tolerant oysters I have found here in Texas to see if I can improve high temp tolerance during incubation and fruiting. Would be interested to know if anyone is working on using ITS or next-gen sequencing to try and characterise strains. My background expertise in plant science is actually using transcriptomics and phenomics to relate genetics to plant physiology. A lot of this is potentially transferable to mushroom cultivation and breeding so I was just curious if anyone is working on anything similar. Anyway still learning a lot about the practicality of growing at scale which is why I joined. Thought some of you might be interested in my janky Madgetec alternative. I have been trialling these meat thermometers in my substrate pasteurisation runs. Quite useful each probe has two temp sensors. If you place one at the centre of the bag and the other close to the surface you can track temperature transference during your run. Also as they are wireless I can track temp in real time. Not sure how long they will last but I got them cheap, second hand, so thought it was worth messing around with them.

Happy New Year crazy-mushroom people 

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Most consistent cultures hands down. CNS is the GOAT!!

Working at Mousam now. 2 weeks in. Pretty long days and so much different from laying bricks but its WICKED fun. I still cant believe im there as the Grow team manager but I have studied this shit and I worked for it thats For Sure. I get to work with a really awesome dude (E. Milligan) who has helped me greatly along the way.

I would anticipate the Next mycowizards podcast and just learn as much as possible. There's frigging so much good Info on here. Mushroom College Online. 

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