Hey all,
I'm watching the podcast and I love the stuff and content and insights. I'm only on episode 2 and am going through it on my weekends.
I also run a small microblog about Fungi, are there any mycologists or Fungi farms that want to link up in Pacific North West? I'm near Portland area.

Hey there everybody. Just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for like an insurance company to cover a little LLC. Located in NH. I have a few Chef friends who are pretty interested in purchasing. I've already been told by them "Dunks owns the seacoast dude so good luck but I'll buy from you Bro". Just something I'd like to work towards on the side.  Thanks 🤘☮️🤘

Hey there, I see a lot of potential in using a bag like what you guys use for your grain spawn. I think the Cordyceps peeps could really get on a bag like that because of the bottom. There's some discussion on the FB pages and there's yet to be a Cordyceps Militaris bag created. Something with just a bit wider of a base/bottom would probably be really awesome. 

My question is -are the bags you guys use available to order online and then can the company be sweet talked into making some custom bags. ☮️

Has anyone sequenced any of the CNS Hericia?

I'm looking into starting playing around with PCR so I can get some data / generate a phylogenetic tree for various Hericia - trying to better understand the differences between the species which seem to share / cross many of the same physical morphology that is often used to differentiate them (making it really hard).

Guys, I Love the podcast, I'm glad u having fun during filming it. But please turn of the music, I have really difficult time to hear what u saying bcs the music plays so loud ( especially in Blotch 2.0 video) Thank you

The dedicated species based pheno flicks are solid gold, if you are able to do one in the same format for all the major species then you guys are really killing it and growing the community knowledge base exponentially. That sort of quality consistent info is not accessible any other place at the moment, please keep this up!

What’s up everyone. I’m a small/med size shroomery. Yesterday I was trying to go on YouTube university to study up on what people are doing to stir 100s of production bags and I couldn’t find shit!! When I first started my lab I build one of the Myers drier stirrers but I’m not super happy with it and I stopped using it for a while and was doing everything by hand.  Now that we are producing 60-100 10# bags a week I’m trying to revisit it.  Plus, I have tennis elbow in both arms and would love to try and figure something out. I’m loosing my summer interns soon and a major pro to hiring someone would be stirring. Which seems dumb. I’m trying to stir better the first time at inoculation and experimenting with smaller grains for production spawn. Are Bigger producers just stirring once?  Any other thoughts or ideas? Thanks!!

Does the community have a Discord?

Thanks Eric for all the great info on shiitakes with the new episode and deep dive.  Anyone having much luck with shiitakes on masters mix, if so what strain? 

It sure would be easy for my production system and bagger.

I thought it was interesting the ultra pasteurizing not being enough and explaining the duds.  

I did some autoclave bran experiments yesterday but I didn't have much luck with that when I first started.  Seems like 20% bran is crazy... is that for midds? Trad talked about 1/2 cup per 5lb... generally speaking...

Is it weird to ask suppliers where their strains come from or are?  I have two from NS, and about 7 others that have come my way.  I worry they might all be 3790, which I have for sure and 3782 which I don't know if I have or not... or junk...

Eric, I'm definitely down for Shiitake this winter, or Bears Head or any good winter producers!

Morning Ya'll! We are stoked to be turning up the heat here at MycoWizards to support the growing community of cultivators! Starting in August we will be releasing weekly videos, from video podcasts at farms across the country to pheno-flicks, story time with cultivators, the staple diet of deep dives and much much more, so get stoke! In addition to the extra content each month we will be giving away one of these badass Nomad Lyte HEPA's from Lab Rat Flowhoodz! The only folks entered into this are folks who are part of this community, so get stoked MycoWizards of the world and keep an eye out for the monthly drawings. We will pull monthly winners live on the @mainecapnstemco instagram and announce the winner on here via this community page and in an email directly to the winner. 

Thanks for helping us grow this magickal collective of cultivators, ya'll are the true blue badasses of the myco-sphere!

With Love,

-Erik, Tyler, Mike, Daniel and Greggor!