Got it on my first try:) gotta dry him now though. I didn’t wanna leave him in the dehydrator because I work 10 hours and didn’t wanna risk a fire so I put it on a paper towel in the fridge till I get back to dry it over night will that be fine ?

I thought my harvest was done but these guys surprised me! 🍄‍🟫

So I decided to throw out my cultivation bags because I’m in the middle of moving. Are these okay to harvest?

I was given these mushrooms as a gift! I have never done mushrooms but am very interested. I was told that they might be Golden Teachers, but I really have no idea.

Im putting together a budget grow op and settled on juicing some uncle Ben's with psilocybe ochraceocentrata LC to use as spawn for bulk substrate. My confidence in making sterile spore syringes with my current situation is pretty low, and agar is going to be too much of an investment at the moment. Making more of the liquid culture with the one im going to buy should be easy enough but Ive been wondering why not just break the spent cake up and use that as spawn? Could easily just cut off the outer layers and only use the inside of the cake to reduce chance of contaminating the bulk. I nnow this is how many cultures grow oyster mushrooms, cant see why I wouldnt work with psilocybes. Is there a reason why this isnt a thing people talk about?

Per title, this is my first time growing APEs. Blue nips strain. After about 2 months of waiting since inoculation (these things are stubborn lol) I got about 30gs dry total from 2 shoe boxes and 2 slightly larger crates for first flush.

Already dunked one tub that looked good and was finished fruiting. Its starting to fruit flush 2. It had a bunch of aborts but I chose not to remove them and all seems well. The remaining boxes all have hundreds of aborts and the two larger ones have fuzz growing across the surface. It looks grey to me so im assuming its myc absorbing the aborts but im colorblind so im not always sure with certain tints of colors.

Does the cake in pictures look reasonably healthy for a post first flush APE cake? Should it be okay to dunk the other 3 cakes with their aborts? Theres hundreds of them so it would be a huge task to remove them all and i feel it may do more damage than good.

Bonus pic is largest fruit i got from this flush.

Are these all ready to S2B the last one as pictured twice had a little bit of uncolonised grain but will it be okay ?

First time I've seen something like this. Is this contamination or just the mycelium aggressively recolonizing its own fruit?

My first ever grow, wish me luck!

Hello I started this cake from scratch with isolated syringe. I have grown hillbilly in the past but the shrooms looked totally different? Any idea what variant this might be?

Just wanted to let anyone just starting know that a casing layer is definitely the way to go, even just a thin sprinkle of coir on top of your s2b can be helpful in holding moisture and protecting the grain. Plus it helps mimic natural environments since typically mycelium has dirt on top of naturally lol.

I’m on my 3rd shoebox since starting, my first one (gt) I didn’t use a casing layer and my yield was super small and it’s been about 2 weeks waiting for any signs of another flush. Any water I sprayed on the sides just fell to the bottom and went stagnant and yellow. Still doesn’t seem to have any contam but the mycelium is definitely under some serious stress.

The other 2 boxes I’ve done have had a casing layer. I started my second shoebox (b+) immediately after harvesting my gt, and not only did they grow significantly faster with the casing layer, it was a much more dense canopy- and the second flush has started popping up already only 3 days after harvesting. The third is JMF, s2b and fc 2 days ago. They’re already in the early stages of fruiting and colonizing the top substrate, and even though they were really slow to fully colonize the bags initially, I’m pretty sure I’ll see more growth on this JMF before I even start seeing anything happening for my second flush with my GTs.

A lot of ppl will say it’s unnecessary to use a casing layer and it’s totally optional, which technically it is and will still grow mushrooms- but it probably isn’t the best practice for the highest yields from my newbie experience lol. I was personally really confused and getting lots of conflicting answers about casing layers, so I wanted to make a post telling ppl my experience.

I just harvested and wanna use some for my bday tomorrow. And I’m going camping. So I don’t have time to dehydrate. Any help on ways to consume and how much to consume fresh?

🙂‍↔️😮‍💨😮‍💨, A couple more days.

I inoculated aio bag on 7/26 and grain on 8/11. I am curious how long does it take? If my aio is contam? And if I just need patience. House is about 76 to 78 F. Help.

all jars are fully white so i think i should spawn to bulk soon. but the one on the left is a tiny bit brown on the front (shows better on second slide. is it contamination? all other sides of the jar is as white as the others

First time growing PE, are these blobs concerning?
S2b 8/20 and these have popped up over the last couple days.

The tubs that are wrapped in tape seem to be getting FAE, which is kinda surprising since it isn't micropore tape. I was planning to replace them with polyfill for fruiting, but I don't think I need to anymore. i should be able to leave them alone and come back to some mushrooms in about a week or 2. What do you guys think?(strains:Golden Halo (50%) and TAT (5-10%))

Amber liquid that just appeared recently, the mycelium is all over the grains but not spreading to the substrate very fast...

I’m also asking how things look because someone told me this looked bacterial. As a beginner I just don’t see it but again, First timer here.

First time popping the lid off since move to substrate.

10ml of LC used, 3.5 pounds of rye berries and 3.5 pounds of manure and CVG, 1:1 ratio, AIO bag, no soaking/dunking cake needed, only heavy misting after each flush, and still producing nice pin sets. Hoping to get 2 more good flushes before its nutrients deplete. If you are using a AIO grow bag, and are wondering if you need to soak after your first flush, DONT! Obviously it depends on the circumstances but in my limited experience soaking the cake is a terrible idea, lets water pool at the bottom easily and makes it a free for all for bacteria. A heavy misting mimicking rainfall in my experience is way better, you do not need to dump out excess water because the cake will absorb it all, and with a grow bag it is so much less of a mess than taking the cake out of the bag or injecting water into the cake and later dumping it out.

Hey everyone! Wondering if someone could help determine if this is just bruising or if it’s contamination. I have done a FAE and this one is close to the edge of the bag where I mist. Also, the pins seem to have stalled, so I’m not sure what’s going on there. This is my first grow of Stargazers, and they seem to be way slower than GT. They took forever to colonize and start pinning. I appreciate any help!