Hey!

I was watching the deep dive episode on blotch and how you should treat the water with the pond fogger in it with 150-250 ppm of bleach.

I contacted a company that is selling Clo2 to get the dilution right.

However, the chemist advised against using it in the vat of water that humidifies the fruiting room, as it could damage the mycelium.

Any thoughts on this?  Thanks for the great content!

Y’all’s new video on LC had me thinking about a few things I’ve been messing with. One, is there any real problem with pouring LC over injecting it? Using the needles seems wasteful and a contamination risk in some ways. Especially reusing without a zapper. 

Two, Can you feed an LC jar with fresh broth, like kombucha? I’ve used lc from an old jar to make a new one. I know you are loosing a generation vs going back to the master plate but sometimes it seems easier and not necessary if it’s right out of Cryo

Mushroom Coffee/Koffee Coughee Crowd source:

The biggest coffee roaster in our region has reached out about doing a mushroom coffee.  I'm trying to figure out our wholesale pricing and it led me down this rabbit hole.  We have been making mushroom chai tea and extracts that you can put in coffee but it's as good as a supplement and I have been recommending people put it into their cup even tho it's not as fine as commercial sand blasted stuff.  

Putting it into a drip/pour over filter kinda clogged it.  I was wondering if anyone knows if companies that make mushroom coffee with coffee have a courser grind to the mushrooms to help it not clog the filter and do they extract the mushroom beforehand like boiling or pressure cooking or let the hot water do the extraction?

I've been telling people to drink or eat as much of the chunks as they want in our current products but I've been wondering once it's an extract do you get the whole value of it by drinking the tea made with it or do you have to consume the mushrooms to get the full dose?

In order words,  does the mushroom getting brewed or pre-extracted getting brew still pass the benefits through to the coffee?

Pretty solid strain from Ryan Paul Gates. They have gotten to be fingers across the 3 main ways to grow for me. Very beautiful mushrooms.

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I thought y'all might be interested in my pneumatic bagger review and slight improvements. I still totally wish I knew about Fenrir and Thor before I made this thing but if your doing this for a living and not automated your bagging your going to break your hand like me or worse. 

https://youtu.be/cf8N7BvsuwI?si=OLlr0FRX3eWmfKkO

Hey gang,

anyone got any tips for cultivating wild lions mane & wild strains generally?

We managed to successfully clone a wild lions mane and have managed to get all the way to producing beautiful, healthy fruiting blocks but then they are stubborn fuckers when it comes to fruit?

Commercial lions mane strains & oysters grow great in our FC, but we cannot get this lions mane to fruit for dick??

we also have a wild turkey tail strain that we did manage to fruit but it came out super deformed and weird?

Have anyone heard of these sort of issues with wild species before? Had a look online and can’t find much about cultivating wild mushrooms?

any help would be much appreciated 😇

Hi,

We have been struggling with Lion's mane finishing. They start out great grow quite large then start to soften in the middle and seem to start to rot or abort.  Please explain what is causing this so it can be avoided in the future. 

Thanks

It's time yall write a detailed book. Strain list with pictures and best practices to grow it. Key information only. What type of bag is best, media ratios, colonization time with picture of ready to fruit bags, time expectations, etc. A simple detailed one page on each mushroom to get the best results. Then sell it for $ hundreds. I love listening to the podcasts but I'm typically working when I do. This leads me to not catching the 2 or 3 important things that are said on a 2 hour podcast.  Going back through the videos can be a nightmare to find that info again. As there is A LOT of filler talk. Which I love, but when im in data harvesting mode can be hard to collect the pertinent info. Yall make me laugh and I really do like listening to you once per video only though. Give it to me straight sell me your knowledge in a straight forward CLEAR no filler format with colored pictures. Maybe even some pictures we can color in back of the book jk or am i.

What is your farm doing to mix spawn into substrate?

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

Thoughts?

Hart System - I have a smaller fruiting room setup in my basement for Shiitake (11’L x 5’W x 6’H) - I’ve started growing just over a year ago, bootstrapping and scaling up more each day. 

I digress - I loathe this house of hydro pond fogger half cooked homemade humidifier. I’ve been looking for a better way and came across your Hart/Pola video. 

This appears to be the answer to my pond fogger prayers - however I’m concerned with the size of my fruiting room. Can the system be dialed way down to meet the requirements of a smaller fruiting room like mine? Or am I stuck with the pond fogger until I scale out of my basement and build a bigger fruiting chamber? 

I appreciate the insight your videos provide. I’m ready to buy this system now if I’m assured it won’t overpower my smaller room. Thanks for your help in advance! 🍄✌🏻