Happy Holidays Mushroom people 🤘☮️🤘

"Hi everyone!

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!"

Recently joined the culture club and ordered some genetics. Very impressed with the packaging and quality of the cultures. The golden enoki and lions mane plate cultures are super aggressive. Also tried out the king oyster and reishi grain spawn. So far every thing I have received has performed well on media and grain, moved 40 blocks into my tents this morning, looking forward to seeing the final product and yields. Thank you so much for everything you do, you have a lifetime customer here. Soon I will be trialing out the maitake and 3790 shiitake to compare with my current cultures

LOVE the new Maine Cap n Stem website format! I really appreciate the detailed strain information. Ya’ll are KILLIN it as usual! Thank you! ✌🏻

Workman interview.  

Great job on the dehydration deep dive! You have a lot of great info on there in regard to in vitro fruiting. 

What are you guys finding to be an ideal climate in the grow space? I imagine the humidity can be greatly reduced in contrast to fruiting outside of the bag. Are you prioritizing FAE in the space? 

Live Free Or Die

Fantastic Forage fest in Laconia, NH next weekend.   I hope to see someone from here there, I'll have a table slinging grow kits for Cordyceps/Lions & Reishi. My lady is making art stuff with CNS antlers and I'm going to show as many people as I can how to get a nice batch of Cordyceps wicked easily.  

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-DreamStoneFarms-

We have learned so much from your podcast and Deep Dives. Our blotch struggle began last year. By applying your methods we were able to eliminate it....so we thought.

We have a shallow well and blotch has reared its ugly head again this fall (same time last year blotch appeared). We have added U.V. sterilization and filtration system which has helped immensely. The water table fluctuates and filter maintenance fluctuates with it. Water table is low right now, changing filters twice a week. Still problems with blotch. 

Watched Blotch 2. Put a reservoir with peroxide 1/10% concentration of hydrogen peroxide and noticed beneficial changes almost immediately. In my research on well water filtration I came across this video. This is excellent information on hydrogen peroxide treated water.

https://youtu.be/soLVtWijUtI

I hope this helps anyone. Keep producing content!!

Spencer 

I have a hypsozigus tessalatus-beech (spelling butchered) culture I cloned from store bought I'm thinking of growing once or twice before I buy a plate from you guys but I know almost nothing about it. On grain it grows really slowly but really dense. What kind of incubation time am I looking at? Is it fast fruiting  like oysters or need to sit a long time like chestnut or shiitake? Also just got brick caps to fruit the first time recently but really disappointed. Only 6 mushrooms and I can't even find anyone that has got them to fruit before, that was like 5 months of incubation on the successful block....... Not successful but it fruited. Cased with non sterile compost, stamets book noted they need micro organisms in the casing to initiate a pin set. Any idea how to grow them properly? If not no worries it's just a side project 

Entering back into King Oyster production after taking the summer off. Usually our issues arise during fruiting, but the first two batches we have noc’d are getting some bacterial contamination during incubation. Anyone else noticing this? Think this might be an issue during shaking? I’m noticing the bottoms aren’t colonizing quite as quickly then the grossness manifests up top. Possibly over hydration too, but I know our first batch was at 60% on the dot after testing.

Thanks so much for the content Mycowizards!