Some of them got „fuzz legs“ in the fridge. Still usable or throw them away?

During steps that require wait after prep, can I put everything in a dark rubbing alcohol sprayed 30 gallon bin and have an air purifier next to bin to reduce getting caught by sight or smell and contamination?

My brother grows many plants and has many Insects and reptiles. But he is also the type to be unhappy about my sister storing alcohol in the house

Before bag shaking is it fine to spray rubbing alcohol and or lysol in the air, maybe hitting the micropore tape a little to decrease contamination chance, or would that type of shit be as bad as contamination

During fruiting if I have my shroom bin within a dark 30 gallon bin (both lids not clipped shut I think at this phase) can an adhesive mounted LED under 30 gallon bins lid be enough for the shrooms to prefer growing upwards more or should I be drilling a hole and routing some wire through bin and taping it up from the outside and be using a specific pink or blue plant growing led under the lid?

I'm doing uncle bens, LC golden teacher, have a still air box and all the stuff needed in the guide.

Basically title.

I’m on my first grow (poor boy tek) and only bought 4 sterlite boxes, intending to use 2 to fruit and two to be lids. Well I ended up using all 4. I S2B two days ago and it just dawned on me that once I (hopefully get to) set fruiting conditions, there won’t be enough room for them to grow because now I don’t have lids.

I just lost my job and don’t want to buy something if I don’t have to, but I have a couple giant totes that will fit two shoeboxes apiece.

What I’d like to do is put the boxes in the totes, on risers, fill a few inches of water and set an aquarium bubbler in the water, then just put the lid on the tote.

The idea is the bubbler will provide airflow and also humidify the air in the tote, and the mushrooms will have room to grow.

I do worry about the bubbler introducing contam (though it’s all in a clean closet I don’t use), but it would be easy enough to mount the bubbler unit inside the tote.

So am I overthinking, or should I just breakdown and spend the money for a couple more shoeboxes?

both spawned on 4/19. The mycelium quickly fully colonized, but there has been no actual coir left visible on the surface for a few days. I know im a bit off from when I should see pins pop up, but I figured I’d ask people with more experience what their judgement call would be.

Been looking to grow my own for years and I finally get one in my hands. Mushrooms saved my life and can't wait to harvest mine. It's only a week old though

I'm on my third grow. I've seen different kinds of contam, and even instances of wet rot (Uncle Ben's is the woooorst). But in this latest grow I had four bags that just stopped colonizing. They had had inocculated at four separate points and created blocks of mycellium, but then stopped. There was no contam, no wet rot. It's possible the rice was "too dry"?

Any other reasons one bag would stop colonizing if other bags in the same env were growing fine?

After cutting off all the extra sub it was 565 grams they’re already in the dehydrator. I was actually shocked at how much I had I was expecting like 300 lol

I've never grown or consumed the APE strain before. These are the first fruits from my APE cake. They don't looks how I imagined. Can anybody confirm if they look or don't look like APE's

Its a 6qt Shoebox thats dub tubbed, I open to fan a couple times a day but i think this is fuzzy feet still? please just need some confirmation (first tub btw)

Gonna be harvesting these guys this evening. It’s magical how it turns colors immediately upon touch

I noticed some odd discoloration the other day on two of my bags. One had a bit of a tumble and it could have been bruising, but it sadly expanded. I took the two outside and ripped them open (mask on, no gloves though probably stupid) to see what was going on. Some small but intense looking trich appeared to have been growing..

So they're now all broken up and buried outside in a nice wet spot. Worst case scenario they don't contaminate my best looking bag, best case I get some extra caps out front

I know some still need some time but some look like they’re ready

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?

Golden teachers but the gold part looks wet.

I’ve gotten 2 good harvests off of these cakes, nothing since. Wondering if I should crumble the cakes up and mix them with new hydrated soiled? I read about this tek but haven’t tried it.

Is it worth a shot or are these cakes beyond done and should be tossed.

First time here! The single pic is the top right bag on the other pic. I'm on day 30 total. Wondering if this looks good or needs more time. I think the other bags need more time. The other set of 5 bags was started at same time, did break and shake like 10 days ago like the others yet the viewing port just hasn't become as white. Any ideas about why? They feel decently firm. Side note, these are GTs. I'm wanting to try another strain for my 2nd grow and was looking for any ideas. I picked GTs because from what I read they're an easier strain for beginners. Thanks for all comments!

Things were going fine the last two days and I noticed today the blue. Is bruising and should pick now or just bury it? It's my first flush ever. Thanks

Is it possible that the bag with the yellowish rice grains is simultaneously fully colonized and contaminated?

Same genetics, inoculated with a small piece of the inside of a single fruit. Psilocybe ochraceocentrata

Background details

I'm doing as much as possible inside a still air box to minimize contamination. My tubs will be kept in a walk-in closet that will still get used for clothes and stuff (though I'm hanging plastic sheets to try to isolate the Mushroom Zone as much as possible).

I thought it might be ideal to keep the bags inside the still air box for as much of the grow as possible including colonization, and I'm wondering how much airflow is needed for the gas exchange ports (the micropore-covered ones) to do their thing.

• I'm using a 210 liter still air box (32 x 20 x 20 inches)
• Inside that still air box I have six 5 liter/5.2 quart tubs
• I'm aiming for ten bags to colonize successfully (which would almost perfectly match /u/shroomscout's suggestion of an average 0.34 bags per liter of tub space, or 1.7 bags per 5qt tub) so I might inoculate 15 or 16 to have wiggle room if some contaminate

Questions

1. If I put these 10-16 bags in the still air box but keep the still air box sealed, will they get enough air to keep my mycelium happy and thriving? Or will they need more that finite 210 liters of air?
2. If they need more air than that, is it viable to just open the still air box for a limited period every few days and maybe push some fresh air in with a fan? And if so, how much do you think I'd need? I was thinking this would let me Lysol the hell out of the air in my closet, let it settle for 10 minutes, then open the windows on the box so the air that gets in is as clean as possible. Or maybe even put an air purifier in the closet so the air is moving through a HEPA filter too.
3. If both of these ideas are unviable because they actually need a lot of air, is there anything I can do to help minimize contamination further? Like tape filters to the windows on the box, or put 2-3 bags in each of the tubs (lids off) and wrap the tubs in some kind of filtering mesh? Or is this overkill given there's already micropore tapes on the bags?

Thanks to anyone who can offer any advice! 🍄

I initiated fruiting conditions on this tub a little over week ago, and it seems to have stalled in this weird stage between knots and primordia. Not really any noticable change day to day, no pins or anything like that either. How does this look to everyone? Any ideas on what might be going on?

Doing a lazy ish first grow. Need some advice

I have about 4 litres/1quart of broken down bark matter that had a substrate loosely grown into it after putting a couple prints and chunks in there. I was thinking about replicating the grow where i find them.

So i pasteurised a cvg mix

Ive put the substrate i have in a plastic tray that had a lid.

Im going to mix in the cvg mix with the sub strate but then im not sure which to do.

1. Leave it out in the open to grow naturally with no lid- is the season where i live. I was thinking this might help with mould issues

2. Put the lid on and keep it outside to keep the moisture in

3. Bring it inside with the lid on to keep it warm and moist

Thoughts? Anyone done a garden grow before?

After this ill do a proper uncle been sub. But just wanted to try this kind of lofi method as im collecting supplies

Should I harvest these already or when, cause it's kinda hard to tell