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! 

any thoughts from y’all as to what is causing this? the humidity was off earlier and in the week and then i felt it was too humid. they are turned on their sides to reduce bacteria contam. is that just what it is? i’ve seen it recently on some Black kings too, which is rare for me. would love y’all’s black oyster culture for the club and can’t wait to fruit some of your piop this week i think. 

I have been using a manual CO2 meter to read grow rooms and then on/off timers to adjust cycle times on negative pressure exhaust  for a couple of years. I have multiple grow rooms of 165 sqft.  I'm contemplating moving to CO2 controllers, primarily for greenhouses, and I see a few out there for under $150. Any preferences? Good experiences, bad experiences? 

I have one InkBird that I use primarily to exhaust the whole facility during closed up winter months.  

I just watched the combo pellet episode and i'm sold on them! it does seem like they would make our life easier for sure. Only question is, do you guys know about any distributors up here in Quebec? I mean they look so helpful i'm considering trying to develop some up here if there's no suppliers around.

Just watched the Culture Preservation episode, short but sweet. In the daily grin I don’t see myself in the near future using a deep freeze cryogenic method, I shall leave that to you guys. But the slant method at 34f is possible or the sterile h2o method at 34f would be so helpful to just grab and restart a line. That is what I think most of us on small farms want to see more of. The ability of every so many months to get a culture from you and expand and store for a limited time of production would allow being proactive to future production problems instead of being reactive to nightmarish results of when a culture shits the bed. I would also like to thank you guys for the great service I have received for the last few years keep up the great work. Also would like to see an episode on the KOM shiitake and other peoples techniques with this one as it has been the fastest shiitake I have grown so far a few less fruits but 2 weeks less in the production cycle.

Re: Pheno Flick 3: Lion's Mane - Been working to to dial in my Lion's Mane and this video was super helpful. One thing that really caught my attention is your standard spawn to substrate ratio, with the range being from 2% - 5% and the "standard" at  ~3.3%. I have been experimenting within a 5% - 20% range, so I am excited to try out your standard and go from there. Up until recently, I have been using Liquid cultures and agar slurry for culture expansion / storage, but have transitioned to Agar and grain master method, which makes soooo much sense. Thanks!

I'm planing to build a new laboratory with 2 Fan Filter units 4x4 feet's. I wann have positive pressure system inside like you guys have in one of podcast. Here I'm sending my poor picture how is should look a like. First room is Lab, second is mixing/cooking area for grain spawn and third is like halfway. On picture you can see what are dimensions of all 3 spaces. I don't have a lot od space to build a plenum so I was thinking to just add some fan with filters that will blow air inside of lab but not too strong so I don't get turbulent air in front of my floowhoods. How can I calculate how strong fan I need for that?

Chestnuts 🤘.  Couldn't get coroplast but this is better than I expected ATM. Lot of work and about 100% know-how from RR and the Mycowizards. Thanks ☮️