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

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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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? 

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

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! 

https://youtu.be/qUBXCb2z2ec?si=9UIpnxflp72MLruU

Calciums role as a supplement in higher fungi...all these are worth reading. 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10052545/

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d7a6/455067009e5fea367b19f4e788a281baf674.pdf#:~:text=with%20addition%20of%20calcium%20carbonate,of%20calcium%20carbonate%20affected%20chemical                                       

POCHO, Chocolate Oyster...

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? 

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

Who's using the black bags?  Do you like them? Wondering if the magically increased yields are happening with Chesnuts also. They are pricey for sure.  Found 100 for $60 but just wondering other's thoughts/experiences 

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