hi, i just got a new flow hood 2x4. i heard that a lot of places keep theirs on all the time. im a very small farm, relatively new(~3 years). not an advanced set up at all. i have a 'clean room' which is a bed room that has no mattress. my parents make me keep the carpet pad on the floor because they dont want any damage on the floor.so thats the porous surface i have in there. i tried to tell them we could get rubber floor mat or some other non porous mat to put down but they said no... other than that, i feel its kept pretty clean. my point is its not a professional clean room at all. back to keeping the flow hood on all the time. the rationale is that dust can settle on the filter if its turned off. but my parents dont want me to keep it on all the time(cost)(?). i was thinking of buying a cover for it. what do you guys think? do you think this set up is plausible to run a mushroom farm out of for now? would putting a cover on the flow hood still keep it running correctly for a while? i was getting contam a lot before with a flow hood we built so i bought this one. but after watching some of these episodes im also going to look into a few other things. i have a few questions about this as well... thank you..... 

Thank you so much Eric for that latest episode on Stroma – seriously, it confirmed some suspicions I've been nursing. Specifically, I noticed this whole issue mostly kicking off with a certain strain of blue oyster, especially when the spawn got a bit too carried away. Once that stuff grew into these big, melted chunks, boom, Stroma was practically guaranteed. Thanks, Eric, for breaking it down!

Idk if they added it to my feed/algorithm due to the episode or just as some good news for the mushroom world but I was presented this article today:

https://m.newtimesslo.com/food/california-mushroom-growers-are-backing-a-bill-that-would-only-allow-mushrooms-that-are-fully-cultivated-in-the-state-to-bear-california-grow-14890528

Lions Mane Problem Pulling From Block…

Hey guys! I’m having problems with my lions mane pushing away from the blocks… I’ve been growing lions for 4 years now and I’ve never seen this happen until 6 months ago.. I’ve asked a few farms but can’t seem to find an answer.

I just moved into our new fruiting room, last week I had a perfect harvest of 12 blocks, this week half of my blocks are pulling off the blocks again. I don’t think I have any pictures here, but even the blocks that are fruiting from the top of the blocks rather than side are pushing off and upwards also. I’m fruiting two different strains from capnstem together right now.

I also notice a few blocks that have excess metabolite build up in the bottom of the bags, so far it doesn’t look like those fruits are pushing away from the block, but if I remember correctly in the deep dive video you guys mentioned that can happen due to using to much spawn?

has anyone experienced this or know what’s going on?

Sweaty blocks

Hi guys! So happy to be part of this awesome weird community!

So recently i've been noticing quite a few blocks in our incubation space "sweating" quite a lot (see picture). I think I heard in one of the episodes that overly sweaty bags is probably a sign of contamination but I wanted to hear your thoughts on the issue... What's normal metabolism vs. contamination i guess.

Thanks!!

We got 1lb 7oz of Enoki. I feel like I didn't grow them correctly yet here's something so I'm stoked. Any criticism on the Enoki'd be appreciated. 

Also for me the Last of the just for fun Cordyceps Militaris harvest as I actually have a really cool/wicked legit company who wants to buy the cordys. I've got almost 100 cordyceps grows ATM. All wicked good LC and the whole round is Albino or an awesome Variegated strain. 

Bit of a stupid question but I'm trying to wrap my head around the HART system before getting any of my parts in and I'm unclear on the air line.

Is there rubber hosing running throughout the length of the line between all the unions/regulator/solenoid? 

I'm assuming not since the hosing isn't threaded lol but what am I missing here? 

Can't wait to stop cleaning my ultrasonic tub...

Either the community or the mycowizards team. I was wondering if anyone has experience with Almond Agaricus? I’ve been trying over the years at this time with no real luck. I’m tried expanding spawn, I have LC (different culture) and no luck yet going to diff grains, I’ve tried low tech and high tech. I’m guessing it’s a substrate issue.  My old supplier FF said composted oyster straw bags but their spawn looked like wood plus I don’t have straw bags anymore. I’ve tried manure and straw but maybe it maybe wasn’t composted enough. I’m having my employee grab manure otw and going to try it straight. Idk why these bastards have given me such a pain.  As far as fruiting I’ve had great luck just breaking the blocks in half long ways and putting them under summer annuals mulched in compost/manure. Way easier and faster than making beds. 

These are pretty old. A 250ml LC jar was inoculated with a couple milliliters of Master syringe. 2 days to settle into the jar and then kept at about 40°. I've noticed only that their height is about 50% of the first time I used them. I assume that this is possibly the strain getting tired but I don't know enough to say that yet. All the same the equally old Mound 4 did just about the same as it did. I'm starting to see the same strains performing different in different grow-vessels and I'm starting to see Variegated Cordys do some very cool stuff after a year. My point is only that I'm starting to log this stuff down to weighing everything down to the cake itself after harvest to see if I can repeat what's already happened as well as possibly figure out if I can rely on my own notes to know which can take storage, best vessel and what yields the best. I hope to make my own "expiration dates" from this and just know what is worth the fridge space and how far I can take various strains. Also switching to oats has been pretty good. 

Holy shit right, you folks weren't messing around......Kong is so fitting for these monsters 🤌