The Manic Mushroom

10-14 Pinning MVP Monotub
We're pinning. :D First little baby mushroom.
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10-17 MVP Pins
Took a peek at the MVP tub this morning. Lots of pins coming in now. I just need more patience lol.



The uncolonized spot still concerns me. And the fuzzy bits around the edge look a little grey in the photos but I double checked, it's very white so I think it's just thick mycelium.
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Are the greyish looking tops aborts? Or maybe too early to tell. The side shrooms are coming in nicely.
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10-17 Yeti Spawn to Bulk
I was so excited seeing the baby mushroom last week I went ahead and purchased another bag.

A 5 lb colonized bag of Yeti arrived today.
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This one looks closer to the size of a 5lb bag of CVG. Mixed about 1 and a half bags of CVG with the Yeti grain spawn.
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Saw a video somewhere where the guy tucked the corners in before adding the casing layer to reduce side pinning. Thought I'd give it a try.
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Added about a half inch casing layer. We're about 3.5 inches thick now.
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Micropore tape on the holes and we're good to go.
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Oh and speaking of side pins. Here's some of MVP.
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10-19 Agar work
Played with some agar today.


APER looking good as always.
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Z not looking so good after a week. I read somewhere the bubbles are bacteria.
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A tiny bit of growth on one of them.
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Enigma looks similar.
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So I transferred some of the mycelium to new agar.
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10-20 Grain bag update
Another week passed for our grain bags.

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Wild Texas will be ready for a monotub soon. APER shortly after that.
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Looks like I gave it a break and shake last week. Don't remember doing it but growth is scattered around nonetheless lol.
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Jedi Mind Fuck coming along nicely
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Enigma looking good
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Jack Frost as well.
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And lets not forget the other APE Reverts
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Just a little peek at our MVP
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Noticed a Veil broke on the side shroom above. Went ahead and plucked it.
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10-25 MVP First Flush
Growth looks to have slowed and most of the veils have torn so we're gonna harvest everything today. I've been slowly picking the ones as the veils break up to today.

Our first pin was 10-14

Started seeing more on 10-17
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10-19 Onward Growth exploded
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10-20
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10-21
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10-22
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10-23
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10-24
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And finally today 10-25
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I harvested about half the remaining tub this morning; I'll give them 12 hours at 158F in our mini dehydrator. I'll harvest the rest when they're finished and fill the dehydrator back up.

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Harvested 39g dry so far.
 
10-26 Agar play
Everything's good and dry now. First Flush MVP, 94g dry. Largest was still only 3.8g dry. The fattest was a bit hollow, only came to 3.6g dry. Soaked our cake all day in water and ready for a second flush.


Let's peek at the agar.

One of the APER cups has eaten all the food coloring. I don't know if this is normal or maybe a sign of bacteria.
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Enigma looks bacterial to me.
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Z strain seems to only be bacteria. Tossed it.
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Took a couple clones of the MVP to save for later grows.
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Little peek at our Yeti at 9 days spawn to bulk.
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10-27 Wild Texas Monotub and APER contam
Time for Wild Texas to go in a tub.


Mixed about 80% of each bag together in the bottom of the tub. Then added a layer of grain spawn before the casing layer.
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APER hasn't made much progress this week. Maybe another week and we can tub it.
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Checked on the grain bags, all good except one lone APER. This bag went right in the trash.
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And here we have a nice little shelf for our totes.
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