The Manic Mushroom

[Atulip]

MVP has some tall boys this flush. Hoping that bottom left corner isn't contam.

More baby Yetis

Mixed all our bags. Most were around 20-25% colonized.

Enigma a little ahead of the others. Looking forward to this one.

APER looks to have made little progress these past 2 weeks

 

[Atulip]

Took a closer look at that corner of our MVP. Looks green. It's trichoderma mold I think.

I swiftly went outside, cut out the infect area, and stashed the MVP Monotub in the shed. I'll give it a couple days and harvest everything I can then toss it to nature.

In the process of giving everything a good bleaching now.

 

[Atulip]

Thanks for the kind words guys.

Took a peek at the contaminated MVP. It looks to be lacking FAE, and it's a bit too wet. One of them pushed through the air hole. Might just remove the micropore tape and let 'em breath.

 

[Atulip]

MVP second flush harvested and dried. 89g for the second flush. 193g dry total. They were alot more hollow on the second flush, with one exception. The mushroom that poked through the hole was dense as a rock.


Here come the Yetis. 7 days from first pin.

Wild Texas beginning to pin, 11 days from spawn to bulk.

Our APER LC jar is fully colonized. Z strain looks dead, no progress in weeks.

Let's check our bags.

The 5lb APER looks close, bottom wasn't colonized. I gave it another break and shake and I'll check it later this week.

Our 3lb APER's. One clearly doing better than the others.

Enigma looking ready for a tub later this week.

Jack Frost getting close as well

Z strain and JMF have a little ways to go still.

 

[Atulip]

Originally I didn't want to share the source of the 5lb colonized bags in case they were a scam. But both the MVP and Yeti look legit. I purchased these fully colonized 5 pound bags from SheGrowsFungi.

If you're looking to get started with minimal effort and investment, a 5lb colonized bag, 5lb bag of sterilized substrate, and a ~60qt tub and you can be fruiting in a couple weeks for under $100. Hoping to pick up a bag of Blue Magnolias tomorrow.

https://shegrowsfungi.com/shop/ols/categories/specialty-edition

 

[Atulip]

Harvested Wild Texas yesterday. 6 days from pins. A little late, they were ready 2 days ago, I just had a busy weekend and couldn't get to them.

I started to harvest individual mushrooms, but that wasn't working. So I just yoinked mushrooms and substrate right up and chopped off the bottoms.

Still drying, might take a few more loads in the dehydrator. They're so small but there's so many of them.

 

[Atulip]

Enigma and APER are ready. Since the Wild Texas canopy was so beautifully full and even, I thought I'd do the layer method again. I mixed my spawn and sub at about 1 to 2 for the APER and 1 to 1 for the Enigma. 1 bag of APER in a tub and 2 bags of Enigma together. I also tucked the corners down on both.

Jack Frost looked ready but was a bit soft when I picked it up. The other 2 APER need a bit longer.

Yeti's veils are breaking at 14 days from first pin. Looking to harvest soon. Hoping for a bit bigger size on the next flush.

 

[Atulip]

Wild Texas dried at 64g total. Took 4 dehydrator loads because they are so tiny. I don't doubt there was another ounce in stipes I trashed out of laziness.

Yeti is drying now. 38g dry on the first load. On the second load now, and then maybe a half load left of tiny yetis.

 

[Atulip]

Hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving.

Yeti first flush came in at 66g dry.

Wild Texas harvested on the 23rd, second flush was just under 30g. Dumped the cake to make room for something else.

Yeti on their second flush.

Enigma pinning 2 weeks from s2b

APER babies

MVP LC growing nicely.

JMF and APER and Jack Frost Tubbed up.

 

[Atulip]

APE reverts snuck up on me while I was harvesting some Yetis. Started harvesting as soon as the dehydrator was free. We're at 17 days from spawn to bulk, and 6-7 days from pins.

APER marks my first harvest from spore print to agar to liquid culture to grain to monotub. Hopefully I'll have a nice yield. Looks like I can squeeze about a third of them in my dehydrator.