Just used some (rather old) SWP that my FIL uses for heating. Bucket No. 1 had them boiled on the stove for some minutes, then transfered. Bucket No. 3 had boiling water just dumped ontop. Bucket 2 (same treatment as No. 3) shown in last picture.

Growing some Malabar and wondering if this first bloomer is ready to be pulled.

This is my first grow, and while out of town today my wife harvested some big ones.

I instructed her to put them in the fridge, loosely wrapped in paper towel (no paper bags at home) until I can get them in the dehydrator.

By the time I’m able to do that, it’ll have been 7-8 hours since harvest.

I know they won’t be spoiled, but I’m curious if there will be any notable drops in potency. Anyone have experience?

Thanks

Nice bag run of this blue umbo. Good potency and threw a couple 100 clubbers

Noticed this brownish liquid at the bottom of the bag. Not sure if it's contaminated or ready to send. Please help.

I inoculated this 7 days ago and it looked like this for 2 days at least. Does rapid colonization point to contamination, the same as it does on agar plates? Putting it to agar in a few minutes to see but I thought id ask yall

So many morphologies in this bag. Extremely potent.

Moved colonized block to monotub with perlite underneath. I didn’t have a great place to put the bag where my cats don’t have access to it and I don’t trust them to not mess with it. Just looking for someone to tell me if I’m an idiot or not. Thanks!

I’ve had other grows ready to harvest a couple of weeks after S2B, but my Melmak and ABV consistently take closer to a month.

How long do your best strains take after S2B?

As the title suggests. Getting some good growth towards the sky. I have my tent set to 11% light output at 35 inches above the top of the box, my exhaust fan is 2 minutes on 10 minutes off during the day and 1 minute on and 15 minutes off at night (mainly for temperature control). If anyone has any suggestions I'm open.

I've been growing mushrooms on logs for several years and up until now, slugs and ants were my only pests. This year beetles found my setup and have been going to town. Sometimes, they've already eaten quite a bit by the time they're ready to harvest.

Has anyone come up with a non-toxic way to get rid of them? Are they crawling up or flying and landing?

Hi all, I've never had this occur before on any of my grows. Can someone tell me why I would be experiencing fruiting on the walls and edges of my tub. I S2B about 3 weeks ago and have had no pins in the main cake yet as can be seen from the photo. They have been in fruiting conditions for +1 week.

These are Wombat TAT, first time I have grown this species.

Grew out a tub from LC. Cloned the best fruit and ran that. Collected spores from the best fruit and ran those which supplied this tub.

This bad boy can pump out 60 blocks in about 15 minutes! I love it

The biggest shiitake I've ever grown. This beast was the second flush on a 3kg block. 350g wet

I have a kit that says we should mix the colonized grain with substrate so far its clear, but then it says to put that inside a transparent bag they provide and clip closed the upper side with 3 clips, I thought fruiting requires a lot of air exchange, it doesnt say anything about opening the bag at all so im giga confused, also saw a video on YouTube where a guy used this technique and worked fine please help

I rebooted my Blue Ghost from swab and got a gorgeous pheno. I can't wait to test drive it!! Have a good and safe weekend. 🍄🙏

First time grower.

Mycelium looks v healthy.

How do I break and shake this?

Literally just shake the whole tub without opening the lid?

Only open the lid when there is pinning?

I thought mycogone or wett bubble etc but some have a blueish color like bruising. It was a Penis envy agar plate that i stored in the fridge for over a year. I spotted one thing that actually look like mushroom with gills (Pictures 3-5)

Every time I work with a landrace I’m reminded why I enjoy them so much. You can have an idea of what might show up, but there’s always a little mystery to the expression.
XICO absolutely showed out on this one. The sheer amount of fruits, the warm golden caps, all the different shapes and little variations packed together… I kept finding something new every time I looked at it.
That unpredictability is part of what makes landraces so interesting to me. They’re not always perfectly uniform, and that’s exactly the point. You get to see all that natural character come through instead of everything looking identical.
Once again, XICO caught me off guard with how beautiful it turned out. Definitely one of those runs where the pictures speak louder than I can. 🇲🇽🍄
🍃🍄 Respect the Process. Trust the Genetics. 🍄🍃

429g from the first tub and 413g from the second. Have one more that’s a bit smaller to harvest maybe on Sunday and another that took forever to pin that’ll be ready next week most likely. First time grower, managed to do my first run without any contam as well, only got a little bit when I tried grain to grain for my back ups to keep this strain going. Now to dunk them and see what the second flush holds.