POCHO, Chocolate Oyster...
in 🔶 general
May 31
• Edited (May 31, 2025)
Hey guys, I'm pretty sure this is a dumb question but I've been trying to narrow down the variables that could be causing trich contaims in my spawn jars/bags and germination of my oats. I've watched your video on grain hydration and still have a couple questions if you guys have some free time.
Right now run a steam pasteurization barrel on a 24hr, 200f cycle. However after watching your video am wondering if dry bagging my oats in both bags and jars being paired with steam pasteurization is what is problematic. Is there a better way I could still keep using my pasteurization barrel to maintain bulk? I can soak and boil on the stove but it won't nearly be as efficient of a process.
I appreciate any feedback, thanks!
in 🔶 general
May 06
I planning my escape from 10x10 Tentville and want to build a freestanding, insulated fruiting room. Thinking roughly 12x24 on a concrete slab with a couple of trench drains but I don't know what material I should use to construct the walls and roof. Wood frame?
in 🔶 general
April 28
Rosecomb is from water correct?
I'm getting it a bit on a couple oyster strains. The grow has a cement floor and I'm using pure water so I'm thinking possibly the water outside the basement foundation is possibly a cause? Next step I guess is A-get good H2O filtered into humidifier and keep cleaner B- install a floor of sorts. Maybe epoxy. Any suggestions welcomed
in 🔶 general
April 27
If you’re into Cordyceps I just made this video because I couldn’t affordably source brown rice so trialed different Organic grains but it’s just part 1 because editing and doing video work while running farm with a toddler is impossible. I also setup a DIY cool bot for temperature control and year round production!
in 🔶 general
May 17
Isopropyl fumes are killing me I moved to a small lab 7’x9’ and it’s just recirculating air with a 3’x 4’ flowhood from myers mushrooms, I spray a lot of 70% iso and these last few weeks my throat and lungs are sore and irritated, I’m thinking to try to positive pressurize the lab by putting a hole in the wall and backing the prefilter from the flowhood thru it(maybe a grow tent on the prefilter side to create a “pre conditioning room” and run an air purifier in there too)and cutting a small doggy door hole low in the opposite corner in the lab to let air out, do you think that will get the iso fumes out of there? Until I do that I’m getting a respirator with organic vapor cartridges cuz it’s really hurting, any advice would be much appreciated 🙏
in 🔶 general
April 17
tyvek suits
Hey do y’all reuse and wash your tyvek suits for lab work? If so any special sanitizer or bleach? They say single use but I’m thinking I can wash them?
in 🔶 general
April 10
• Edited (Apr 10, 2025)
Scoop out 10 jars of Oats into the pot wanting like at least 10lbs of grains cooked. A jar is almost 1lb dry every time. 12 hr Soak&simmer in good water w/gypsum. Ended with (16lb soaked & simmered+ dried all day and bagged Grains).
-3 four pound bags and 2 two lb bags. Incredible Math that I'd never know how to consider but that's pretty damn perfect 62% grain hydration right there.
10 = 16 - 62% = 6.08 = the H2O
in 🔶 general
May 09
P Rex looking to be a Kick Ass mushroom. Luckily NH Eric helped me out by fruiting them so I could go vacation for a week and not fuck them up. Been getting pictures but they apparently look to be almost 1 pound a mushroom. Holy shit right!? This is Milligan's hand/picture.
I'll be up at the Maine Fungi Fest at the NH Mushroom table, I hope to see some MycoWizards there
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May 14
Afternoon Y'all! Just posted up a video of a conversation between MycoWizard Will MacHugh and Myself discussing the importation loop holes Chinese substrate producers are using and how we can change that with a simple survey...take just a couple of minutes and fill out the survey out here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/substrate_survey
Photo is to catch your eye! Did you know if you pasteurize dry substrate (combo pellets or otherwise) you can then add UV treated water to the bag in the lab, spawn and set to incubate!? Can you guess which block is hydrated with UV and which is hydrated before the cook?
-Erik