Anybody growing mushrooms willing to talk???

A.k.a said:

Sometimes you get a culture that just aborts a lot.

too much heat has caused problems for me too but only when it was above 80 constantly.

It’s hard to tell but those pins look like they might be stretching from lack of air. When there’s not enough FAE they start getting long and skinny trying to find oxygen.

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The room theyre in has little air movement. No fans or windows and hot. Maybe a little box fan in the room might help with Fae huh? Not pointed at them though.

ANC said:

I have done those as well as gouramis. Even the small dwarf gourami is a great nest builder and parent.

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Nice those are pretty too. Yeah I used to try to find the coolest mixture of colors and different breeds and I'd come out with tons of them that all looked unique. This is just off google but these were my favorite. Like I said I had tons though . At one time I had a big bookshelf on the wall that had probably 30 different fish on it and on occasion they used to jump into each other's bowls LOL when breeding them though the hardest thing was trying to feed the microscopic little babies . The process is so cool though how the male wraps around the female. I liked to put the Almond leaf in there for them to make their bubble nest under .

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Nice aquarium. I had a deep red crown tail just like that that I bred. He was a good nest keeper. Its so funny watching them swim around trying to collect the babies. They never sleep. He was the angriest one I had. He stayed alone.

Have 8 Jack frost jars I'm spawning to shoeboxes. Got spores from skeleton crew spores. Cant wait.

Nice!!. Im thinking about gettin some gourmets going

7L!fTeD24 said:

Just wanted to have a simple discussion on mushroom cultivation with people that have ANY experience I inoculated 6 pf tek jars 3 weeks ago and have alot to talk about. Any input would be much appreciated.

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FYI, there are actual mushroom forums that would better help you.

TheTerpinator said:

FYI, there are actual mushroom forums that would better help you.

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He knows.. lol.

This tub isn't doing too bad I already pulled a few huge ones before they opened.

Mycotopia is another good one BTW! A different vibe than the shroomery..

Pe and tat

Drop That Sound said:

Mycotopia is another good one BTW! A different vibe than the shroomery..

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I don't know why but why are these mushroom cultivation forums so hard to navigate. Tried mycotopia and shroomery and can't even figure out how to post LOL any recommendations?

I mean it seems like there's a decent little group of people that do it on Riu

7L!fTeD24 said:

I mean it seems like there's a decent little group of people that do it on Riu

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Yeah, don't worry about it.. You're good here.. Hallucinatory substances!!

7L!fTeD24 said:

Pe and tat

I don't know why but why are these mushroom cultivation forums so hard to navigate. Tried mycotopia and shroomery and can't even figure out how to post LOL any recommendations?

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I assume you have a Shroomery account? I only frequent the Morel threads there, but I've never had any problems posting.

7L!fTeD24 said:

Again what causes a pin to die though? I seem to be having this issue on this tub. But again I inoculated a bunch of jars with a GT syringe and noticed a bunch of spores left over in the syringe. I had two WBS jars ready to go so I sucked up some distilled water in the empty syringe and opened up the jar lids inside a Sab and inoculated no ship. I don't know if something in that process is causing this because it could have easily been contaminated. Some seem to have turned dark and stop growing but more pins popped up 

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What causes a pin to die?

1. Insufficient moisture in the substrate
2. Insufficient nutrition in the substrate
3. Infection
4. Genetics


It has nothing to do with innoculation. The moment you have a properly paired set of germinated spores with clamp connections it makes no difference how you got them, from syringe, natural spore production or Clone.
Some of the pictures I posted show no "aborts" at all. This is what a dead pin is called.

The substrate was 12 inches of straw spawned at 5 percent

It was provided with 5 air changes per hour and kept st an rH of 80.

But a second flush will show aborts
The substrate was seeded with a water bearing polymer and so. I know the aborts were not caused by lack of moisture. Straw will give up its all in the first flush.

In very high pin sets, the mushroom will produce lots and lots and lots of primordia. Unless the substrate can support them all, many will just quit in the interest of the others.


You got a surprising number of fruit indicating your :strain" is superior.

Don't take this the wrong way, it is just disappointing because, had you cased you might have gotten double what you have there.

Again, get some dishes and preserve your expression.
No one is quite sure how a multiple spore grow puts up fruit but I suspect it is a time thing, one sort grows first, then another, then another. I have seen subtle differences between one flush and the next. Then again, that could simply be the progression of the organism. But select what you think is the earliest fruit, then the largest, then...well


What ever suits you, and get samples of each on plates.

Watch for the most rhyzomorphic

The point is to signal the organism that it has run out of food



If you have a casing ph of 7.5 to 7.7 then contamination is rare (until the mycelium, while issuing digestive fluids and metabolites finally acidifies the casing enough to support contams).



The flatter and more even you make your substrate the fewer primordia will form on the substrate but the more evenly the mycelium will grow through the casing. Agaricus growers actually use hydrolic presses that leave a table top finish to the substrate then they spread a near perfectly thick layer of casing on that.



Ideally, you want the organism to use up all nutrition and moisture in the fewest possible flushes. The more flushes, the longer it takes and the more chance of contamination

7L!fTeD24 said:

Pe and tat

I don't know why but why are these mushroom cultivation forums so hard to navigate. Tried mycotopia and shroomery and can't even figure out how to post LOL any recommendations?

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I've read a bit on Shroomery, it's very informative, but there's a lot of old threads with old info that pop up. Also with so many experts, it hard for me to tell what's the best info to follow, and for me, it's a little daunting to ask questions since I don't even know what to ask or how to reply.

@canndo seems to know what they are talking about with a lot of knowledge it seems. A little forthright but that's a good thing.

If it's ok to post here I like this better than the other forums.
If it's better for me to post in my own threads that's ok too.

Flork said:

I've read a bit on Shroomery, it's very informative, but there's a lot of old threads with old info that pop up. Also with so many experts, it hard for me to tell what's the best info to follow, and for me, it's a little daunting to ask questions since I don't even know what to ask or how to reply.

@canndo seems to know what they are talking about with a lot of knowledge it seems. A little forthright but that's a good thing.

If it's ok to post here I like this better than the other forums.
If it's better for me to post in my own threads that's ok too.

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You're good post away!!!

on shroomery if you’re not sure which advice to follow just look for who has “trusted cultivator” under their name. That helped me a ton starting out.

Anyone know how to grow these?