Thank so much! So glad you dug the episodes...I think what is greatly lacking in the mushroom cultivation world is transparency when it comes to strains, that's why aside from our house strains we call em as we found em! I think you should be able to ask anyone selling strains what the hell the origin is and they should disclose such. It is the only way to get proper data from an array of suppliers. We will definitely jam into the winter strains coming up! We had mixed results with masters mix with shiitake strains, the only one that seems to be able to handle 50% soy is 3782...3790 and KOM cant quite make sense of the soy, but there are ways to cut it and say get your masters mix down to 20-30% soy which is similar to a traditional shiitake mix which would be 20-30% wheat midd/bran. An alternative is rice bran, which is the main supplement for all of far west fungi's shiitake blocks.

Not currently...should we make one?

Chris Wilkes In terms of controllers the Hart Solenoid Valve hooks into the POLA system and its controlled via that! So its all you need!

Chris Wilkes Thank you so much for the support and love amigo! The bigger the compressor the better, HART will advise you as to which one they advise you use but you can really go with something smaller and less expensive than a scroll compressor, the minimum size one we suggest is this one:

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-QUIET-TECH-26-Gallon-Single-Stage-Portable-Electric-Vertical-Air-Compressor/1001014062

WHAT YOU NEED (minus compressor and labor and plumbing/electrical parts)

FROM FAR WEST or HART:

POLA HP-57 and Wet/Dry Sensor: APROX $400 w/ shipping included

FROM HART:

Compressed Air Filter/Regulator c/w Automatic Drain,  Pressure Gauge and Mounting Bracket, 0-160 PSI: $232.00

1/4" Water Pressure Regulating Valve c/w Pressure Gauge and Mounting Bracket, 0-60 PSI: $125.00

1/4" Air Solenoid Valve, 120V, Normally Closed, Brass Body: $150.00

3/8" x 5" Water Filter Housing c/w 5 Micron Filter Cartridge @ $75.00 (We use 3/4" x 10" for more than one room or larger

Ultimix Nozzle Model 052H OR ST52: $85.00 (same price for 022H and 035H)

Ultimix Non-Drip Water Valve/Adapter c/w Bracket Model SPV2-NPT-HTC: $320.00

Hey Chris, So the POLA HART combo can be purchased directly from HARTENV.com...contact Wayne or Brian over there...alternatively you can get the Hart system from HART and the POLA system from Far West Fungi if you feel like supporting those folks by emailing lupe@farwestfungi.com

The cost can vary based on the compressor you get and any of the plumbing and electrical you don't decide to do yourself but let me pull up the price list for the POLA and the HART and post it in the episode description/notes or post it up here

Thank you for the feedback! We are on it! Twas too loud and running continuous behind the scene of the edit...stand by, we GOTCHU!

Unicorn has been a bear to work with when it comes to custom bags as of recent so we have been working with Sac02 as well as Sakato. In the bag world at large there are very few producers. Companies like Unicorn, Sakato and other gusset based bag companies are working 24 hours a day no exaggeration to produce on average a bag per minute per machine. It's an intense world that hasn't caught up to the degree of cultivators out there yet!

Yea man i agree! One of the most interesting places we visited on this last westcoast run was OM Mushrooms in Carlsbad California, Sam, who was LIPA on the Shroomery runs their R&D department and he gave us a tour of what they do to grow their Cordy's in bags. That interview and tour will be coming out this fall, but basically they grow cordy crosses in 6-7lb bags of cellulose injected oats, this has a wild cycle, the bag of oats fully colonizes, then exidate accumulates in the bag, then the exidate gets sucked back into the grain and the whole bag turns orange and like lightning fully formed cordy fruit bodies flood every single inch of the bag. All in all its around a 6 week cycle but fascinating to see exactly how they are making a mix of mycelium on oats and fruitbodies. We have messed with rice in bags and that works really well, making sure there is breathability in the patch. The trick is to actually get fully formed cordys and not just the orange aerial stems.

Hey Ray, Stoked to have you in the MycoWizards world! We are working on a schedule so that we will be able to notify folks of what the culture of the month is prior to shipping! So bare with us while we narrow in on it!