Mike Shannon

Posted

Oct 07 at 03:32 PM

Entering back into King Oyster production after taking the summer off. Usually our issues arise during fruiting, but the first two batches we have noc’d are getting some bacterial contamination during incubation. Anyone else noticing this? Think this might be an issue during shaking? I’m noticing the bottoms aren’t colonizing quite as quickly then the grossness manifests up top. Possibly over hydration too, but I know our first batch was at 60% on the dot after testing.

Thanks so much for the content Mycowizards! 

Oct 07 at 03:23 PM

We see this pretty frequently (Mushrooms Naturally STL). we ended up stopping production for the summer. If you watch the MW episode on Kings, Erik’s solution is to make sure your humidity spikes then drops to around 65 or 70%. This dry down period is important to prevent the bacterial contam you’re seeing.Â