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 guys! Loving the videos and podcasts, thank you!

I have two deep dive recommendations if possible.. 

1 is culture storage and management.

2, I know you guys don’t fruit anymore.. But hoping to get more information on working with restaurants. Production organization, landing accounts, how to be more organized with it in general and Record/Data keeping for restaurants and all production in general. 

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).

What is your farm doing to mix spawn into substrate?

We're suffering with manual mixing by hand.  It doesn't scale.

Thoughts?

I just listened to the most recent podcast w/ Alex Dorr from 2023-10-02

My take on the plastics - and I don't hear anyone talking about this...

Plastics are hydrocarbons.  They vary in shape and form.  But they can all be incinerated at high temperature - cleanly - making power on a small scale, on demand, in a local / regional way.

Recycling requires massive amounts of energy to separate / sort, clean, process etc. and not all types of plastics can be recycled.  They usually need to be shipped a far distance.  And most of this stuff winds up in landfills or shipped overseas.

So - why not incinerate it, generating power in the process?  It's been recycled:  Into energy.

Just wanted to say thanks for the last culture and these Mother of Pearls were very tasty. Not sure if it's a wicked good weight but each 5lb block got almost a pound. Pretty much 1 and 9oz

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Hey guys! Is there a email I could reach out to by chance regardless any small quick questions? I would hate to email sales or spawn!

edit: just saw that there is a deep dive on Lion's Mane. I'm stoked. I will watch and and then revisit my post.

Hey y'all, It's my first time making Lion's Mane grain spawn. With the traditional agar->grain->grain, does it generally grow significantly slower than other strains, like oyster and cinnamon cap.. Mine have been taking at least 14-16 days, whereas the others colonize a grain bag in around 10 days.. What is y'all's average colonization time for LM grain spawn bag? Do you recommend a specific grain/ sawdust configuration for getting it to colonize faster/ better? Does it do better on sawdust spawn maybe?
I appreciate any tips!

I've wanted to do these since I first watched Let's Grow Mushrooms.  I might put it outside if stops raining someday 

Those little bastards are a pain! When I first started buying blocks I left like I was better at fruiting but my room density was a lot lower and the op was bran new. I’d love to know more about strains, fruiting styles… anything else… helpful. I got some smaller bags and wondering if those would help….