Experiment and keep trying! That is the only way to go, me thinks. There are a ton of things I read or see online that just don’t work for me. The basics never change, but everything else seems to. Hell, my current grow of “fun” mushrooms started to turn into blobs (a mutation where caps don’t form) because of CO2 levels that never bothered any of my other mushrooms. I fixed it by fanning them once a day.
Sound like you are in my part of the world, honestly. I am in Colorado and you are describing my conditions almost exactly. I am going to try some winecap mushrooms next March outside, but the squirrels will destroy them just like everything else. Sigh.
However, I do have a couple of grow tents in my basement that will allow me to control the environment really well. Also having access to a CO2 meter and a good humidity switch helps. (That stuff is expensive but I already had it for a couple of cannabis grows that I did a while ago.)
Well howdy, neighbor (Longmont)! And yeah, the fun mushrooms are on the agenda – if I can get the oysters to produce well then I was going to move on to buttons and lion’s mane, both of which seem to need conditions closer to the psychadelics (manure or fuel pellet tech). Everything has been on hold for the last few weeks because I had a doctor visit coming up that required a heavy fasting. Got that done on Tuesday so I’m ready to pop another oyster bag this weekend. I currently have two bags of blue and two of pink just sitting there expanding like crazy, but I also have two quart jars of blue and one jar of pink mycelium ready to transfer. The jar of blue on rye berries has gotten to the point that there’s about 3/8" of water in the bottom of the jar now so it’s well past time to be transferred to a fruiting bag, but the other two jars are popcorn kernels and they look happy as hell. So I have plenty to work with, I just gotta figure out HOW to work it.
Rock on and howdy neighbor to you as well! (Brighton) It seems this mushroom thing is getting popular here in Colorado. Not just the fun strains, but gourmet as well.
Heavy fasting sucks. Colonoscopys suck. I feel your pain.
I am up in Longmont every so often, so if you ever want to trade some strains, let me know. Once the strains in the pic gets fully cultured (in about 3 weeks), I’ll need to test them on a dish for contam and that takes another week or so. I would be totally down to share it after that and I have a few dozen spare syringes. My gourmet strains come from North Spore and my psychedelics from Denver Spore Company. (DSC rocks, btw!)
Cheers! Hit me up anytime, for sure. Once the JMF colonizes the grain, I have waaay to much of it. It’s taking it’s sweet time, so I give it another 3 weeks or so.
Haha so you know exactly where I was going with that… yeah it’s been a rough week but getting back to normal.
I appreciate the offers but I don’t have the time to spare right now, we definitely need to keep in touch though!. Wife is sick and I have a new (used) server coming in tomorrow to try and set up over the weekend while getting my own shrooms fruiting. Maybe I’ll get a bit more aggressive with the fan this time, I have plenty of places I can set that up.
Experiment and keep trying! That is the only way to go, me thinks. There are a ton of things I read or see online that just don’t work for me. The basics never change, but everything else seems to. Hell, my current grow of “fun” mushrooms started to turn into blobs (a mutation where caps don’t form) because of CO2 levels that never bothered any of my other mushrooms. I fixed it by fanning them once a day.
Sound like you are in my part of the world, honestly. I am in Colorado and you are describing my conditions almost exactly. I am going to try some winecap mushrooms next March outside, but the squirrels will destroy them just like everything else. Sigh.
However, I do have a couple of grow tents in my basement that will allow me to control the environment really well. Also having access to a CO2 meter and a good humidity switch helps. (That stuff is expensive but I already had it for a couple of cannabis grows that I did a while ago.)
Well howdy, neighbor (Longmont)! And yeah, the fun mushrooms are on the agenda – if I can get the oysters to produce well then I was going to move on to buttons and lion’s mane, both of which seem to need conditions closer to the psychadelics (manure or fuel pellet tech). Everything has been on hold for the last few weeks because I had a doctor visit coming up that required a heavy fasting. Got that done on Tuesday so I’m ready to pop another oyster bag this weekend. I currently have two bags of blue and two of pink just sitting there expanding like crazy, but I also have two quart jars of blue and one jar of pink mycelium ready to transfer. The jar of blue on rye berries has gotten to the point that there’s about 3/8" of water in the bottom of the jar now so it’s well past time to be transferred to a fruiting bag, but the other two jars are popcorn kernels and they look happy as hell. So I have plenty to work with, I just gotta figure out HOW to work it.
Rock on and howdy neighbor to you as well! (Brighton) It seems this mushroom thing is getting popular here in Colorado. Not just the fun strains, but gourmet as well.
Heavy fasting sucks. Colonoscopys suck. I feel your pain.
I am up in Longmont every so often, so if you ever want to trade some strains, let me know. Once the strains in the pic gets fully cultured (in about 3 weeks), I’ll need to test them on a dish for contam and that takes another week or so. I would be totally down to share it after that and I have a few dozen spare syringes. My gourmet strains come from North Spore and my psychedelics from Denver Spore Company. (DSC rocks, btw!)
Cheers! Hit me up anytime, for sure. Once the JMF colonizes the grain, I have waaay to much of it. It’s taking it’s sweet time, so I give it another 3 weeks or so.
Haha so you know exactly where I was going with that… yeah it’s been a rough week but getting back to normal.
I appreciate the offers but I don’t have the time to spare right now, we definitely need to keep in touch though!. Wife is sick and I have a new (used) server coming in tomorrow to try and set up over the weekend while getting my own shrooms fruiting. Maybe I’ll get a bit more aggressive with the fan this time, I have plenty of places I can set that up.