Omg so epic!! I love this discussion!! I feel like I’ve ghosted y’all, I’m sorry.  Life, farm, baby all dat shit has been Cra cra.  But I need this community!! 

As far as kings go, I had put the breaks on them really and been messing with block size 4a, 11 idk the small ones and other bs with no luck. I thought I’d be good in the winter. So I’ve just been focusing on BK/BP. I’ve seen a video with TR having plastic over the shelves and I didn’t get it or do it yet but now I want too. And Erik when you said strip I thought the pins but I get you now and I’ve had some BS crops from side and bottom fruiting, which I guess is like stripping. 

Mad props on the Black oyster BK,BP video. I even had my head knocker watch it. Also props on getting some of the content up on YouTube def easy to share. 

I will try to catch up some and at least go thro all my old shit. 

Erik and the Myco team, I’ve got a special video, episode idea to send your way that I will work on getting together both in snail mail

I thought I said something and maybe I did but I would love a short write up on each culture like where it's from, any production notes, tricks or lessons learned...

So cool!! I guess I got my homework for the winter!

Tyler N Allen. Hell yeah! What strain did you do? 

Did you do LC or grain spawn?

I'm interested in pillow fruiting it in grow bags, ever tried it?  I'm all about streamlining! 

I bought all the supplies and my employee did it one time as a trail before the season got crazy but never went forward on production.  That shit is pretty expensive; have you just thought about drying, extracting and powdering for mushroom powder.... We are making our own mushroom coffee/tea but that's the one thing I haven't been able to grow as much as we sell!  I just got a LC from Root Mushroom Farm and had my first from MycoLabs but no clue the strains on those.

David Medlock Holy COW!  Do you grow them commercially or just for person?

I don’t know shit about horses. Is that a standard thing?

Do you stir those 14lb blocks again  after inoculation?

Yeah I just let reishi fruit outside here in VA Appalachia. 

I got the white and yellow VA strains. I can’t remember but one is better if you’re a drinker. It’s kinda my employees thing. 

David Medlock F&F is the bomb. I’ve been growing shiitakes on logs from their spawn for almost a decade. When I started the lab then I started branching out and finding out how deep the rabbit hole goes. I wish I had know about C&S sooner! Is S75 and straw shiitake strains the same. 

Hell yeah Erik!! That’s killer. Don’t get me going or I’m going to be asking a question every day!  I’m going to grab me some LC tomorrow to play with unless wink wink that’s going to be the next culture… just messin!  

Also weird question but do you know what the type of wax people sell as plug spawn wax that is pliable at room temp?

And one of my team inoculated plug spawn with a block strain from NS. Can you grow block strains out on logs? 

(Today)3790 clone on masters from F&F my old shiitake and oyster supplier before I started the lab in 20. 😘 

Also do y’all just stir once after inoculation?

Like 10 or 20 ft?