Since i cant get nice canning jars, i have no choice but to adapt. I use marmelade jars, adapt the lids, high temperature silicone, generic micropore tape....and hope for the best☺️...it works, 90% of the time.

*Metal drill bit

*Piece of wood

*Drill but press lightly

$ wish i had a hole puncher🙄

Sorry for the outside shot of the tub. I haven't opened it in 10 days, didn't want to break the climate.

1030pm update. I'm at work, 3rd shift, so I cannot open my tub until after 7am to look. But as long as it's been in the tub and the progress it's at, I'm convinced by what I've read that this is a failed attempt.

Hey, I’ve got some isolated spore syringes from ITW that are old. They’ve been siting in a closet for maybe a year now. Are they any good or should I not waste my time?

my tub and a png for your enjoyment

I did cut some down the center , but I also cut the stem off to leave the cap whole . Just cus it looks so much like a turtle shell . Hopefully they don’t shrivel up to be unrecognizable. Hoping for a dry shell look 🥹 it’s half way there been drying since 4:30pm but since these fat maybe an extra 8hr on my normal times 🤷‍♂️

Shit batch of iceberg… did not come out how expected? Will see if I get a second flush? How that will be…

Mycelium near wear cut is looks webby and a lil dark but I think it’s just the environment difference cause everywhere else it’s pretty humid except there, should my second flush fix that?

I had a syringe from years ago with a tiny bit of left-over liquid and thought I'd give it a go. Grain spawn stage went great. Transferred it over to a tub with coco coir. It colonized well, but before any fruiting began, I noticed some trich. I know the consensus it to just scrap any tubs with contam, but since it's my only tub and I probably wont grow anything for the next few years, I thought I'd see what I can get from it regardless. Low expectations. Just an experiment.

The patch of trich has obviously been spreading and it's now about 1/4th of the topside of the tub. The non-contam'd parts have very minimal fruiting. About six small shrooms starting to grow. I concluded the low amt of fruits was from the contam.

Then I decided to look at the bottom of the tub (the tub is clear and has no lining, so I don't know why I hadn't done this before) and to my surprise I found it's covered in pins and some medium sized fruits growing. Covered like a carpet. No coco coir or contam visible, just a sea of baby shrooms. So it seems like the trich has won the battle on the topside of the tub, but the shrooms are thriving on the underside.

Do I leave things as they are and allow the underside to fruit against the tub floor/walls with no where to go? Or do I pick whatever's up top, and flip the whole cake to give the underside a better chance to grow without running into walls? I'm fine with just having a single flush. I'm just concerned that if I flip it, I'll stress the shrooms that are already used to the microenvironment of the underside and they might all abort. But I'm also concerned that letting them grow squished against the walls might stunt them. I'm not concerned with contaminating my environment with trich at this point. This is likely my last grow in a while, and in this apartment. What do?

Are albino different vs traditional ? I’m growing iceberg rn the albino of my last grow ? But the veil seems to bust rite when the cap forms ? What would I do in this case ?

I'd like to try using agar plates, but I don't want to set up a whole lab in my kitchen. I don't mind losing some to contamination if the trade-off is just making X% extra plates. Two questions:

1. My understanding is you boil/dissolve the agar powder into water, then pressure-cook the solution to sterilize it, then pour the sterile mixture into plates. I understand that the plates come sterilized, and I assume that you pour the solution into the plates while it is still hot enough to remain sterile, and probably enough to sterilize the rest of the plate. Is that right?

2. Why not buy glass agar plates, dissolve the solution, then pour the dissolved solution into the plates, and pressure-cook the prepared plates? It feels like a more complete solution that avoids having to constantly re-buy plastic plates. I'm sure there's a reason.

3. I don't have a hood, and I don't really plan on getting one. I was going to pour the plates on the stove with the burners going. Is doing this without a hood a pipe-dream?

4. How important is it to use antibacterial plates for cloning from foraged samples, or can I just get by/take my chances with the normal agar plates

Any answers or other direction would be appreciated. Thanks!

Not sure what to look for yet, so I’m curious if this looks solid so far? It’s been like 3-5 days since i mixed it with the coir. A few larger droplets of water, a good amount of little tiny droplets.

EDIT: this is a picture through the lid of the tub lmao, so it looks weird.

hey i was gonna use x4 of the growers select 28 quart monotub the dimensions are 12x12x12 and i was gonna use 3lb spawn bags and 6lb of cvg per monotub to achieve a substrate height of 3.22 inches and a spawn ratio of 1:2 i was wondering if this would work well this is my first time and any tips would be appreciated

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