: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.
So the trick is to get them to all pin at once and form a thick bunch with fatter caps and shorter legs. Best thing to kick this off is to have as smooth a surface as possible and to keep airflow lower until mycelium grows in thick. Then you start aerating and hit it with more light. Might I ask what your light source is? I set my grows under an artificial sunlight bulb and keep it on at least 12 hours a day. When I used natural light they never pinned as good as when I used the grow lights. And the lights being directly above them helped direct them straight up. Having a thick pin set keeps them more uniform and growing up instead of all over the place. It takes practice. My first grows looked a lot like this too. Bigger bins help. More surface area and more room in the bin to hold humidity and slow the drying of the substrate. I went heavy on the grain to sub mix. Usually almost half and half. I'd get fewer repeat flushes and use more grain but the myc would grow in super fast and thick. You wouldn't be able to see any substrate by the time pinning started. Just a mass of flat white myc. Here one of the few pics I had of a grow just starting to pin. Unfortunately I deleted almost all my best pics because reasons. https://files.catbox.moe/6akxpf.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/b5rj7d.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/80d1f1.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/uoy3ys.jpg
Also want to add, the bins I use. 32qt sterilite bins. If you set the lids upside down on them they keep it humid enough while the myc is growing in. THEN flip up the latches and ret the upside down lid on them. It creates an open rim around the whole lid that lets the moisture from the spraying to evaporate continually and evenly. Honestly after the myc grows in I barely did any spritzing with water and just propped the lid up on the latches and let it do it's thing. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sterilite-32-Qt-Gasket-Box-Blue-Aquarium/39911068
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This is the way. This is why I said in my first comment it's all about the practice. Once you know what these guys want you just give it to them. Our shroomy bois do what they do just fine on their own. I would get an amazing first flush. An ok second flush. Then (in the summer) I'd take the cake out and burry it under the mulch around my house and water the area. In a week I'd have another flush come up and those mushrooms were the physically strongest shrooms I have ever felt. Like I had to work to cut them off at the stem.
I dry everything in a dehydrator then toss them in a food processor/blender and turn them to powder. Got a 000 sized capsule filler and make 0.5 gram capsules you can just down. Or if you want to do the lime/lemon juice soak method and strain just measure out how much you want by popping open the capsules. Super convenient. I haven't grown in a few years now. I sold some to a few buddies that took them for anxiety purposes which is why I grew them too. I had so much excess I still have some in air tight jars in a deep freeze.
Oh and one more thing. I once forgot about a bin in a closet and 2 weeks later is had grow this fucking demigod that weighed 274grams wet weight. The thing was so big it was pushing the lid off the box.
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For me it's all the sterilization for the grain jars. Even doing as much as I could I would still loose jars to thin stringy molds. I live in a very humid area where molds spores fill the air and the air quality rating for mold is ALWAYS high and extremely high. It's bad. Everything molds. So I had to be extra careful. I even had some uvc lightbulbs that made ozone and I would blast those in my sterile box for grain transfers. The second I was even a little lax I would get fucked. I would watch videos of ppl doing grain transfers with half the work I did and be fine and I was always so jealous. Locality is a big factor in how stringent you have to be with sterilizing your environment. I eventually got it down to where I had very few jars get contaminated but I just got burnt out on it after a while.
Lmao you were growing dark souls shrooms