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.

SV#8p x TT27 wGH5 #9w

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 😇

Does anyone have any guesses as to what is going on here and the cause? This is occurring on master's mix production blocks from the same cook/noc day with blue oyster spawn from two different dates. (the 3 other species noced aren't displaying this). So far, less than 10% of blocks are displaying this, but may find more.
This is our first run doing master's mix with fresh SD and soy hull pellets. 10-20% of the pellets did not break down completely, even after shaking. The blocks in the very back of the container are getting as hot (the front ones got to 203F inside the bag). My guess is that these blocks got an insufficient cooked and developed it sclerotia from stress from being exposed and battling off contaminants.

That mycelium feels EXTREMELY hard to the touch. And when I broke open the 5lb block, it seemed like it was quite hot, although that could be normal and I just might not have noticed the heat as much before. A lot of exudate coming out of those structures and strong sweet mycelial smell, maybe a little funky, but not too bad. 

Incubation temp ranged from 55-mid seventies.
Substrate ended up being too dry 58-60%
Here is a video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1eUdRJL5jbZyPGCt7

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! 🍄✌🏻

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

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

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..... 

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. 

Hi Folks - first time post here and a big fan of the videos.  I'm trying to optimize my sterilization process.  I'm currently using 23 quart pressure cookers with 4 x 6 pound blocks in each.  I've seen lots of guesses about how long folks should cook their blocks, from 30 minutes to 3 hours,  but has anyone actually measured this or have a calculation to estimate how long you need to cook 6lb blocks at 15 bar to have the centers reach 212F for 30 min?  Btw, my substrate is masters mix.  Thank you in advance!

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.