Sick!!! So Beech can be a real Biatch, but it just takes time. Incubation on MM takes between 4-6 weeks similar to p. adiposa in its maturation time. Fruiting is best initiated similar to AA-CNS, by top fruiting at 60-65F. While Beech really digs high humidity, it is susceptible to rosecomb like morphology so keeping a extremely finely atomized mist is preferred for proper fruitbody formations.

This is really radical stuff Phillipe, thanks so much for sharing the article with us. This sort of thing speaks to what we would love to see the mycowizards community and many more like it build in the form of community labs and collective farms, something much different than the insanity of the button industry's undoing in recent years. 

Very cool! Beautiful even formations! Have you tried just straight rice with crushed soybean's before? Saw a video from a farm in the far east and that was their tried and true ingredient blend.

Hey Amigo, Id say so long as the Merv rating and the filtration level is high enough go with whats most affordable. We are contemplating bringing in some chinese units for folks that are top mounted 8 foot cabinets and they are around $3-4K compared to the price of domestic units...but this will be a little ways off...

Hell Yea!!!!

Slick! We just recorded a Deep Dive for ya on Kings! Coming soon!!!

We are getting increasingly stoked on DNA sequencing and I have a real interested in sequencing some stroma along side some healthy mycelium for a comparison to see if anything obvious pops up...maybe this is something we can try in the new year!

So much goddamn turkey! Anyone else's family attempt complicated routes to get mushrooms from you, prior to the holidays? Like secret drop spots, attempts at mailing fresh mushrooms, maybe i can just fruit a block at home in time!? Fun stuff on repeat every year! 

...aside from the concrete walls and old wooden agaricus racks they spray down between flushes...the reason why this works is ambient humidity cannot carry blotch like direct humidification systems. So the goal of a smaller and newer fruiting systems is to have fast and less frequent air exchanges to allow for as much down time as possible in the fruiting rooms. Another way to look at fruting kings is how Far West Fungi goes about it. They wait for pins to form inside of a clear and fully colonized bag and then they strip the entire bag (commonly considered counterintuitive to fruiting kings) but alas, their kings are always happy and healthy and free of blotch because humidification water cannot be trapped in the top fruiting plenum and turn into a blotch colony. The trick to this is timing. We will delve into a deep dive for you shortly!!!