Isopropyl fumes are killing me I moved to a small lab 7’x9’ and it’s just recirculating air with a 3’x 4’ flowhood from myers mushrooms, I spray a lot of 70% iso and these last few weeks my throat and lungs are sore and irritated, I’m thinking to try to positive pressurize the lab by putting a hole in the wall and backing the prefilter from the flowhood thru it(maybe a grow tent on the prefilter side to create a “pre conditioning room” and run an air purifier in there too)and cutting a small doggy door hole low in the opposite corner in the lab to let air out, do you think that will get the iso fumes out of there? Until I do that I’m getting a respirator with organic vapor cartridges cuz it’s really hurting, any advice would be much appreciated 🙏

Afternoon Y'all! Just posted up a video of a conversation between MycoWizard Will MacHugh and Myself discussing the importation loop holes Chinese substrate producers are using and how we can change that with a simple survey...take just a couple of minutes and fill out the survey out here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/substrate_survey

Photo is to catch your eye! Did you know if you pasteurize dry substrate (combo pellets or otherwise) you can then add UV treated water to the bag in the lab, spawn and set to incubate!? Can you guess which block is hydrated with UV and which is hydrated before the cook?

-Erik

Tuesday Frigging Night 🤘☮️🤘. Got some agar, got some Liquid mediums and I'm cooking French fries at 420°.  This is a good day and I can't wait to take pictures of the cool shit this is all for. Hope everyone is doing well, fully stocked with Green bud and happy for this summer.  I am. 

Been a while and I probably need to catch up on the threads.  I was wondering if y’all had any background info on the JC shiitake we got recently? Media it likes, moisture content, where it came from or strong suits…?? We’ve been calling it the Jesus strain and nobody fucks with the Jesus! 

Also any chance we could get y’all’s Maitake and Black king oyster in the culture club soon?!  I’ve tried a number of maitake strains and I think all Of mine suck. I even stole one from earthfare haha. I’ve tried them in bag fruiting like your over production drying video both in A and horizontal filters with nothing like what y’all got!  Great video!!!!!

My BKs are cut and BS as well. Y’all cultures knock the shit I have out of the park! 

P Rex looking to be a Kick Ass mushroom.   Luckily NH Eric helped me out by fruiting them so I could go vacation for a week and not fuck them up. Been getting pictures but they apparently look to be almost 1 pound a mushroom. Holy shit right!?  This is Milligan's hand/picture. 

I'll be up at the Maine Fungi Fest at the NH Mushroom table, I hope to see some MycoWizards there  

🤘☮️🤘

I planning my escape from 10x10 Tentville and want to build a freestanding, insulated fruiting room. Thinking roughly 12x24 on a concrete slab with a couple of trench drains but I don't know what material I should use to construct the walls and roof. Wood frame? 

We all starting somewhere. There's my first home lab set up. Im about to buy a flowhood soon and epoxy paint the desk, now i'm using a homemade glovebox. I got everything I need to make it work.

Rosecomb is from water correct?  

I'm getting it a bit on a couple oyster strains. The grow has a cement floor and I'm using pure water so I'm thinking possibly the water outside the basement foundation is possibly a cause?  Next step I guess is A-get good H2O filtered into humidifier and keep cleaner B- install a floor of sorts.  Maybe epoxy.   Any suggestions welcomed

If you’re into Cordyceps I just made this video because I couldn’t affordably source brown rice so trialed different Organic grains but it’s just part 1 because editing and doing video work while running farm with a toddler is impossible. I also setup a DIY cool bot for temperature control and year round production! 

https://youtu.be/qUBXCb2z2ec?si=9UIpnxflp72MLruU

Can anyone provide info or links on boiler water treatment filters/systems.  I couldn’t find the right thing. I’ve been really burning out a bunch of elements lately. 

Also, y’all know about a company that does mushroom extraction services like powders, dual or tinctures??