that's just another social network getting access to it :chad:
If your fruiting conditions are right (which can be surprisingly hard to do), then sometimes that just happens due to a fucking bacteria that's neat enough to be very very hard to spot. Believe me, I know - lost two monotubs to such a fucker. No smell, could see nothing until far far too late.
Is this agar+monotub or cakes ? or something else ?
It's oysters on hardwood fuel pellets + spent coffee grounds. I'm thinking trichoderma contamination.
Oof, that's the worst. If you're right you'll likely start to see some green soon.
Yeah, there's some green spots on the top of the bag. Probably need to just nuke my fruiting chamber and start over ><
The good news is you can at least throw that contaminated colony in the garden or under wood mulch and it will probably continue growing. I recycle all of my old ones that way and it's maybe 50/50 whether a mushroom pops up. Otherwise it's just feeding earthworms and other soil fauna I want to exist, especially with culinary mycelium.
Everybody is always talking about the fungi, what about the fungirl and funenby?
I really wanna try growing mushrooms but I want to start by the non psychoactive kind. Can anyone give me some pointers?
Oyster mushrooms, especially Pleurotus ostreatus, are the easiest culinary species to grow and they replace pork really well in dishes. You'd start with a Liquid Culture syringe for which I get my culinary ones from this website: https://www.theculturedmushroom.com/store/p59/Blue_Oyster_Liquid_Culture.html . Blue oysters will be your best bet as the temperatures become more mild with autumn, while yellow and phoenix oysters are good if temperatures will stay above 70f/21c. That is injected into a grain colony, for which reddit.com/r/unclebens is the easiest technique not requiring using a pressure cooker to sterilise grain. When that colony is mature you transfer it to a straw log: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/12702122/fpart/all/vc/1 . Other species will prefer other fruiting substrates but oysters thrive on the cheapest one and you'll have a lot to experiment with. You can put those straw logs outside or in a plastic Monotub container indoors to maintain their humidity levels: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22337800
Highly recommended hobby. They're more like ant colonies than houseplants so fungiculture is super fun.
