dumbfounded1600
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You're right, shroomery is a daycare for young growers....I just recently moved to www.mycotopia.net ... I like it a lot better
confused said:I'd eat the mushroom in the picture and go to church.
journies said:So this is what happened
Colonized birdseed
Got crushed up and put into autoclave bags
A makeshift tyvek filter was construed
In addition, pasteurized horse doody added to birdseed
Ratio 50/50 birdseed to poopies (with some coffee grinds in the poo, as well as coco coir)
Weird thing is....seems to be taking the bags a longer time to colonize than the monotub setup. Maybe the bags got a too-wet-batch of horse poo and the monotubs were drier, but the monotubs are colonizing visibly while the bags are just sucking.
Not sure why the bags would do this.
Seems simple enough: Add birdseed and poo in the bag, just like a monotub, and let go......anyone?
Also...whats up with coco coir, people seem to say you need to squeeze the crap out of it to get the excess water out. It seems like even when you squeeze the water out, the coir still retains enough moisture to make it suitable. Maybe the bags were just too wet, but still, the moisture was at a level where you squeeze quite hard (harder than most firm handshakes) and water dripped....Arg
crushed as in crumbled after taking out of the jar, breaking updumbfounded1600 said:You shouldn't really crush up bird seed, you just messed up there moisture content as a substrate but it does have lots of nutrition.
Did you make sure the Hydrated poo/coffee grounds were at field capacity?
How did you pasteruize/sterilize?
Coco Coir holds a lot of moisture and has a lot of nutrition just like horse/cow poop
What are your incubation temps?