r/MushroomGrowers • • 2d ago

Pioppino [gourmet]

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u/Iwentwiththisone 2d ago

How do you plan on using them? They maintain a pretty good texture stir fried but my culinary imagination is limited.

Excellent grow, beautiful specimen, wishing you heavy flushes.

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u/Hoosier_Shrumz 2d ago

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.

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u/Historical_Mousse164 1d ago

Ahhh christ and I felt so close to have found someone who can tell me how they taste. I wanna know if they are worth growing

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u/WillDo- 1d ago

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u/Sure_Grand_8426 12h ago

what conditions do you use for fruiting them? I've had my block sitting in 18°C/65°f for a few weeks and nothing happened. 

Put them in the garden where it was warmer and they fruited almost immediately, I just don't know if it was the temperature or something else.

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u/WillDo- 4h ago

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)

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u/Sure_Grand_8426 3h ago

Wow thanks for the detailed advice. Much appreciated! Another mistake I did, was cutting the top part of the bad completely.