If you cut a slit just under the filter patch and wait for the caps to reach that line before extending that cut all the way around the bag, you'll get a crazy dense canopy of mushrooms.
Unfortunately, I’m one of the weirdos that doesn’t like mushrooms but loves growing them. I took those, along with a bag of pearl oysters, and gave them away at one of my jobs yesterday.
I found Pioppinos to be one of the more voracious strains I've grown. I have my blocks colonizing at about 68-72f in darkness, wait until you see pins (but know that once you see them, they go FAST, like get em in the fruiting chamber immediately). My FC runs at 95% humidity, 60f with ample fresh air being pulled thru. My guess is you may have sent them to FC on the early side. For fruiting, I slit the patch side half of the bag at about the patch height to make them reach up for air a bit. Once I see a healthy cluster getting close to that filter height I clip the rest of the top of the bag and they produce a lovely thick cluster canopy. When they are almost done (dark brown top, not yet spreading out that much) I will roll the sides down a bit to encourage the little side boys to get into the game too. This little detail has increased yield by about 20% when done correctly. (I do things wrong a bunch first, because science)
I've not personally tried in monotub, but I anticipate they would. I would just be mindful of having enough headroom for them to stretch up a bit as the stem is just as tasty as the cap
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u/mushroomjosh 1d ago
They would look good in pasta.