During the PF video (at around 9:10) the person in the flow hood dips their tweeters in what I assume is alcohol.  Are you guys dipping in alcohol between cuts?  This feels like a contamination vector to me since some nasties can survive this for some time, especially if spores - please school me - thanks!

Hey, hi, how are ya? I recently watched the episode on the Hart/Pola system and I'm super intrigued, but I'm having trouble tracking the whole thing down. 

Do I need to contact a rep? 

How much does the system run? 

Where does one purchase said system? 

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? 

Just finished up Thy Contamination of Doom...

Great summary all in one place, would have loved to hear feedback on time to soak bags before UP.

Like for instance pros and cons to hydrating pellets with cold water and letting sit for hour-ish then once the water relatively evenly absorbed loading into barrel/trough letting sit for 10 hrs and finally then proceeding to run the steam cycle. The goal being allowing more cold time for the hardwood cell walls (and various supplements) to take on even hydration/possibly germinate as many bacterial endospores as possible before running up to temp...

Wood technology textbooks frequently talk about the difficulty in re hydrating the wood cells once collapsed via kiln or other significant drying action as opposed to simply modifying the free water content present between those cells...

Im sure you could find some cons ?!

Meh good episode regardless !

Hey all,
I'm watching the podcast and I love the stuff and content and insights. I'm only on episode 2 and am going through it on my weekends.
I also run a small microblog about Fungi, are there any mycologists or Fungi farms that want to link up in Pacific North West? I'm near Portland area.

Hey there everybody. Just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for like an insurance company to cover a little LLC. Located in NH. I have a few Chef friends who are pretty interested in purchasing. I've already been told by them "Dunks owns the seacoast dude so good luck but I'll buy from you Bro". Just something I'd like to work towards on the side.  Thanks 🤘☮️🤘

Hey there, I see a lot of potential in using a bag like what you guys use for your grain spawn. I think the Cordyceps peeps could really get on a bag like that because of the bottom. There's some discussion on the FB pages and there's yet to be a Cordyceps Militaris bag created. Something with just a bit wider of a base/bottom would probably be really awesome. 

My question is -are the bags you guys use available to order online and then can the company be sweet talked into making some custom bags. ☮️

Has anyone sequenced any of the CNS Hericia?

I'm looking into starting playing around with PCR so I can get some data / generate a phylogenetic tree for various Hericia - trying to better understand the differences between the species which seem to share / cross many of the same physical morphology that is often used to differentiate them (making it really hard).

Guys, I Love the podcast, I'm glad u having fun during filming it. But please turn of the music, I have really difficult time to hear what u saying bcs the music plays so loud ( especially in Blotch 2.0 video) Thank you

The dedicated species based pheno flicks are solid gold, if you are able to do one in the same format for all the major species then you guys are really killing it and growing the community knowledge base exponentially. That sort of quality consistent info is not accessible any other place at the moment, please keep this up!

What’s up everyone. I’m a small/med size shroomery. Yesterday I was trying to go on YouTube university to study up on what people are doing to stir 100s of production bags and I couldn’t find shit!! When I first started my lab I build one of the Myers drier stirrers but I’m not super happy with it and I stopped using it for a while and was doing everything by hand.  Now that we are producing 60-100 10# bags a week I’m trying to revisit it.  Plus, I have tennis elbow in both arms and would love to try and figure something out. I’m loosing my summer interns soon and a major pro to hiring someone would be stirring. Which seems dumb. I’m trying to stir better the first time at inoculation and experimenting with smaller grains for production spawn. Are Bigger producers just stirring once?  Any other thoughts or ideas? Thanks!!