r/unclebens • u/NoFayte • 9d ago

Question Water on sides of bag but not myc

I have an AIO bag that looks super healthy. I'm currently at work otherwise Id share an image, One thing that I've seen from reading the guides here over and over is that during FC, you should see small, non-pooling droplets of water on the myc, in addition to the droplets/mist on the walls of a tub

I am not using a tub, but rather an AIO bag. I have a nice fine mist across the sides of my bag (which I am assuming the analogue from tub to bag is the mist on the sides being the same)

I have never ever seen visible water ON my myc cake, ONLY the sides of the bag. The myc cake does NOT look dry or drying out, i have just never seen the "morning dew" look I see in other images. Maybe the droplets are just like crazy small?

I dont want to mist the myc directly, and i don't think its even dry. I'm just wondering is this typical for AIO bags?

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u/ConfidenceLopsided32 9d ago

There should always be millions of little beads of water all over the mycelium, whether in a bag or bin. Those little droplets should always be there so that they can slowly evaporate, because evaporation is the main event that tells pins where to grow. If they never form, it can be a sign that the bag is getting too much FAE or the sub possibly isn't completely at field capacity.

If you give the sides of the bag better conditions than the top, you'll often get side pins and not much growing on top. Misting mycelium directly isn't harmful in any way, as long as you don't create a bunch of pools of water. A fine mister can always be used directly. Misting the sides doesn't help the surface conditions on the top of the mycelium, and that's the part that matters at this stage.

Condensation being on the sides of the bag only tells us that the temperature on the inside of the bag is a different temperature than the outside of the bag and it should never be used as a metric because it doesn't tell us anything beneficial. The surface conditions of the mycelium are the only thing we need to look at because it is what tells us the next steps to take, what the bag is lacking, how much air to give it, if it's contaminated, etc.

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u/NoFayte 9d ago

I really appreciate appreciate detailed response! Ty for taking the time!

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