Sweaty blocks
Hi guys! So happy to be part of this awesome weird community!
So recently i've been noticing quite a few blocks in our incubation space "sweating" quite a lot (see picture). I think I heard in one of the episodes that overly sweaty bags is probably a sign of contamination but I wanted to hear your thoughts on the issue... What's normal metabolism vs. contamination i guess.
Thanks!!
Hello mushfam!
That steam generator episode was great! Thanks for that video. Those steam generators are getting sold out now. lol!
Has anyone tried these electric water softeners to pretreat the water before entering steam generator to protect element?
here is a link to example:
https://a.co/d/9kFHmKc
but if if link doesn't work or want to search it up on amazon instead or if having trust issues with links these days, it is listed as "iSpring ED2000 Whole House Water Descaler, Alternative Electronic Salt-Free Hard Water Conditioner, Reduces Limescale Prevent Deposits Build-up, Different from a Water Softener"...would this work as good as the inline water descaler product Eric mentioned?
I'm hoping to pipe in steam to a 300gal stock tank after it is as insulated as I can possibly make it to be and add supports put in on the bottom of tank to keep bags off from the bottom. Probably find a flat bottom heavy duty floor dolly to cart it around. I found one again on the all too convenient amazon website that is almost the entire length and width of the stock tank rated for 2,000lbs. Hopefully that is enough weight capacity to work.
At least the first attempts grew something outside. Pretty sure these are little Nebrodini oysters growing off the unsuccessful indoor blocks. Kind of cool all the same. Might throw a block in a mono tub outside soon before it gets warm.
Idk if they added it to my feed/algorithm due to the episode or just as some good news for the mushroom world but I was presented this article today:
Hello mush community! I just saw the episode Steam Generation and I was wondering can someone put the link of that Chinese steam generator that Erik was showing because everything that I found is not as cheap as he mentioned in this episode?
Okay so what is the soak time for an individual whole oat kernel at 15 psi 250F, not in a bag just full rolling boil loose in the unit under pressure?
No thermal lag or plastic bag to obstruct steam...
Instant ? 1 min? 10m?
Seems in that particular scenario it should be pretty much sterile by the time it comes up to pressure and temp then comes back down with little to no hold time.
Lions Mane Problem Pulling From Block…
Hey guys! I’m having problems with my lions mane pushing away from the blocks… I’ve been growing lions for 4 years now and I’ve never seen this happen until 6 months ago.. I’ve asked a few farms but can’t seem to find an answer.
I just moved into our new fruiting room, last week I had a perfect harvest of 12 blocks, this week half of my blocks are pulling off the blocks again. I don’t think I have any pictures here, but even the blocks that are fruiting from the top of the blocks rather than side are pushing off and upwards also. I’m fruiting two different strains from capnstem together right now.
I also notice a few blocks that have excess metabolite build up in the bottom of the bags, so far it doesn’t look like those fruits are pushing away from the block, but if I remember correctly in the deep dive video you guys mentioned that can happen due to using to much spawn?
has anyone experienced this or know what’s going on?
YOOOOO Mycowizard Mad dogssss. Any chance of being able to add a download to app feature. Our farm is off-grid so have to subside on downloading content when we get access to the precious tinterweb. Living the mycological dream here in Snowdonia, North Wales. Thanks for such awesome mycowizardry, you are all excellent!
How bad did I mess up? I just bought 250 lb of these soy pellets. I never even thought to look at the tag. 🤦
It's not as alluring as cordyceps but stuff everyone needs... I have two questions but I'll lump them together:
1)Production bag labeling.
I remember some Myers Video a few years ago with some code to translate letters into numbers of some shit using a pricing gun. I also had a flashback of seeing SWmushrooms using thermal labels. I found a bluetooth thermal label printer that does a variety of sizes for less than $80, seem like a winner? Been sharpie-ing for years now and if I was still knocking everything myself I would have gotten this sooner!
2)Packaging retail mushrooms.
Once I had more then I could pint out, I realized people buy more at markets when it's not prepackaged. So, we sell everything in reuse-able (RPCs- I think) collapsible trays. Pile it high, watch it fly! Now that I'm hitting the cap with retail at market and slowly getting into more restaurants again since covid, I'm finding more retail opportunities that require packaging. Curious what people like or dislike or what preforms well. For the limited stuff I have been, it's been wrapping half pounds with plastic wrap in green produce cartons with a sticker and it's okay but...