:BibleThump: I wish to thank @happybadger @ItalianMessiah and countless others for their words of wisdom. It took my dumbass 3 months to get this done, never mind my previous failed attempts.
Does this flush look sad and pathetic? I have no idea, but these shroomies are mine and I am filled with hope that their potency can help me reach communism.
sure! something to remember if you’re not doing it already, it’s a good idea to fan your totes briefly with the lid or something else when you mist them, like wave it to get a good breeze going for like 20-30 seconds or so. it’ll help with FAE some, blow away some of that co2 that might be sitting there, which should help with getting a nice fruit phenotype. it also causes some evaporation, the idea being that evaporation simulates the conditions at the end of the mycelium’s life cycle and causes it to form pins more/faster, at least that’s the colloquial wisdom.
past that, a big part of getting good mushrooms is getting good genetics, by selecting mycelium for favorable traits on agar and making transfers, which can be a lot more involved and time consuming process, but that’s usually how you get flushes that form a nice canopy people will post pictures of online.
Seconding the agar, I isolated some mycelium from the best fruits in my first attempt and boy did that pay off. The actual isolation is kind of a pain in the ass, but colonizing jars with chunks of agar is so much better than spore syringes. It was like 30% faster and I wound up with double the weight in shroomies.