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

Happy Holidays Mushroom people 🤘☮️🤘

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

"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!"

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? 

How's the space mission grains doing? I've eaten mushrooms and went to space for sure/Np but never eaten mushrooms "from" space. 

What were the conditions for the mycelium in space?  Was this the same space trip sporeworks stuff was on?