Growing shrooms, quick, cheap, easy as fuck.

Dont need an incubator no matter where you live. Throw em on a shelf and walk away.

Yeah that seems to be the way most do it. Including myself.
I have used a heating pad on chilly nights tho and it had helped growth a lot
Question tho cus I'm curious now
So I was thinking more about it and I know not everywhere is the same but here it can be 90 and humid and then start raining and go down to the 60-70s. Then when it stops it will go back up to 90 and even more humid. And that's daily sometimes a few times a day So in those cases where it causes your "area" to go from 78-80 down to 60 and back up to 80. Wouldn't that slow growth down a bit and a incubator be more consistent on your grows ?

Thanks for the reply guys. I have gotten much mycelium growth and am moving forward without the incubator. Although I think i will try to make one on the next batch

Now I'm wondering about my jar choice. The mouth of the jar is slightly smaller than the rest of it. I'm worried the cake isn't going to slide out very good when I go to birth it. Have you guys ever made this mistake?
Love the site. This whole thing is so exciting can't wait to have my first batch in a few weeks!

Yeah I think it would slow it if the temp went that low. They might still make it in the end just not as fast from what I've gathered. Im new though so definitely not an expert

Ours ive noticed my place will drop to like 65 at night when the AC is on full and if it starts raining it will get chilly quick. But as soon as I turn the Ac off or down it warms up quick and won't sleep some just leave it and we love snuggling up under the covers so we like it cooler when we sleep
but I was worried about it effecting growth and it was slower cus after about a week of noticing slow growth and staying around 50-60% colonized I put the heating pad in there at night and it finished from 60% to about 95% in 3-4 days with the heating pad at 74 degrees during the night and during the day it's about the same in there so it worked better after I kept the temps steady That's where I mentioned about consistency cus on jar was doing ok but the others were slow. Once I got a steady temp at 72-76 the others began growing fast. And steadily

Yeah steady temp is the way to go
I don't have central air at my place and just leave the windows open with fans this time of year. For the most part it stays between 75 and 85 except for my room where I have a window banger going. Seems to be just right for the little mushies

What should I do about my jar mouths being too small?

Well if the cake doesn't shrink enough to get it out then you will have to carefully brake the jar but don't smash cus the glass particles will embed the cake so take extra precautions if you brake. Rinse them good and cut the bottom buts of stems off so no one eats glass.

I broke one of mine not long ago. Put it in a bag and tapped it with a hammer to just crack it and it worked.

Or fruit Invitro but doesn't sound like you want to do that. Nor would I. Nothing wrong with it b I just would rather get them out and use as cakes

You can ask others if cutting the cake in half is alright and fruit the half cakes. I don't know that much about it yet. Just from what I've read and researched and tried on my own a little.

These have got to be the best, clearest set of instructions that I have found on the internet. I just want to say thanks for taking the time and making the effort to put them on the web. Thanks to you I have managed to grow them.

Denise

You are welcome.

I'm lost on the whole is light good is light bad thing is minimal necessary for fruiting?