Chsrles Tresidder Cool! Most people just say it becomes a mess but that makes a lot of sense in terms of the extraction process, thank you 🤘

For Beech yeah you're definitely looking at the longer side of incubation times like chestnut and shiitake as you said. With similar time for full fruits to form after pin-setting. Woooo I mean you got some brickcaps to fruit I call that a success! We have not discussed the growing of brickcap mushrooms before. If microbial life is necessary for pinset I could also imagine doing a light pasteurization cycle to kill of the majority of life or even leave remnants behind so that the brickcaps encounter those biomaterials which may be necessary for fruiting. Anyways would love to hear about updates and the full cycle of incubation times, or spawn runs, and even compost materials! I'll see what I can find on growing them but it may just be repeats of what you've already seen.

Our brains said the exact same thing haha At first we were struggling just to get the damn dried things off the block, including the ol trusty sawsall. When it came down to powder time we ended up getting a full metal tabletop industrial grinder. I don't have the product name right now but i'll try to get it sometime today. We tried a more large scale industrial grinder at first but it proved too difficult to get a nice even powder (lot more chunky and unrefined.)

The immediate realm people go to is a soxhlet extractor to help streamline the extraction process. Tons of online resources and videos, Myers mushrooms has great videos on youtube showing the whole process and setup. Industrial strength grinders can help to create powders which is great for extraction but it does make more of a sludgy harder to work with mass at the end of the extraction. A route that we are exploring is gonna be ultrasonic extraction, which from research shows the highest rates of extraction but the equipment starts getting pretty pricey.

At first looks it seems like a possible overlay problem, which can be due to a bacterial contamination that the mycelium is fighting or also a heat issue. Although based on what you are saying it could as well be a shaking problem if you are noticing an uneven colonization. With that uneven colonization you could have spots like this where overtime it may colonize but the mycelium usually walls it off in a sense. To wrap it up I would double check those sterilize times and temp for bacteria, give the bags an extra shake or two to see if that helps with unevenness, and ensure the bags aren't in direct contact of each other during incubation to prevent overheating. Thanks for the kind words and thank you for being part of the community🤘

Looks like a great time, I'll try to make my way down there forsure!!

Awesome to hear🤘 Glad it is going so well for you and I will spread the word to our retail packer!

Tyler All good! yeah, we still have some pink rooms here and it's just fun to see them out in the world🤘

Ahhh the Lovely pink insulation room, always a classic 😂. Happy to see it working out for you!

Thanks man! We here at CapnStem wish you and everyone a great weekend as well! Glad you survived the drive it definitely gets a little crazy this time of year, birds especially lol