Lot of side pinnings as well, not sure what to do about that...

I’m seeing posts and comments that uncle Ben’s doesn’t work like it used to. What’s a better alternative?

Still unsure about the timing of blobby harvest, but pleased.

This is my first time trying the Uncle Ben's Tek, and I’d love some input from experienced growers.

I inoculated these bags about 2 weeks ago, and most of them have colonized really nicely. One of the bags was mostly colonized in the center only, so I gave it a shake recently to redistribute. It’s now bouncing back slowly.

My main concerns:

• I noticed some bluish-gray areas forming. Is that just bruising or possibly contamination?
• There's yellowish liquid in a couple of the bags. Is that normal myc piss (metabolic waste) or something more worrying?
• Also – do these look ready for the next step (fruiting)? Or should I let them colonize a bit more?

Pics attached for reference!

Any tips or feedback would be greatly appreciated 🙏 thanks in advance!

Okay so I harvested my first flush and didn’t want to do more, I come back weeks later to throw away and there’s mushrooms growing again? Is this good still?

First time grower here. So I inoculated this 3lb grain/substrate bag with P Nats in the last week of December 2024. Long story short, I did 1 break and shake around a month after inoculating the grain. This seemed to have cause a stunt in the mycelium’s growth, and so for around 3 weeks there were seemingly minimal changes in the bag. This however changed in March when I started noticing changes in the bag. Not sure if it’s mycelium but the grain/substrate is slowly starting to get whiter and whiter, yet there seems to be condensation on the inside of the bag which I’ve heard is a sign of contamination.

First time growing B+ and noticing these coral reef after about 5 days since introducing FAE. Is this contam? Pins? Having a hard time identifying what this is and if I’m on the right track…thanks fam!

10 tubs are pinning all from uncle Ben’s rice , oh and for all who was saying oh most of them will get contam haha only lost 5 out of 108…

On the left I believe is B+, the middle is Lion’s Mane, and the far right is GT. They’re all labeled, of course, but I had to flip them due to some pooling of LC after I shifted all the rice toward the bottom of each bag. This caused them to rest at kind of an irregular shape/angle.

That said, I’m already seeing some impressive growth—except for the Lion’s Mane, which doesn’t seem to be making much progress compared to the others. The room stays around 75°F and doesn’t fluctuate more than about 10°.

Any advice on improvements I could make? I was thinking about shake and breaking the bags that are doing well in maybe a week or two, but I’m also leaning toward just letting them colonize on their own. What do you all think?

Hey folks, beginner here. I made an agar plate using boiled potato water for nutrients, so that's why the agar looks brownish. I used this plate once to inoculate some grain jars, but they eventually went bad. Now I'm wondering if the agar was contaminated to begin with. To me it seems like there might be something off, but l'm still very new to this and not confident in identifying contams yet. Any help or second opinions would be much appreciated!

Some great value microwave rice is made in canada too. the rest is made in mexico. This is just about the microwave ones not the dry ones.

1st pic is day one of fc 2nd pic is day 4 any tips on what I should do/ what you think it needs rn fanning/misting any advice is greatly appreciated. I want to see my little pins :)

I've read some posts where people say they dunk their cake before fruiting. I've just kept it moist and humid and have pins. I wouldn't want to dunk it cause I've heard too much water will cause aborts in your pins. I've just been missing once or twice a day. I'm just curious if this will be good enough because I want them to have enough humidity and to be able to reach their full potential. Should I keep at it with the light misting daily? Will that be enough? I don't want to make my pins abort and I don't want too much water and create bacteria or mold or anything but I don't want it too dry.

Concerning side-pinning that occurs with an AIO growbag, what are recommended ways to harvest them when the time comes without fully cutting open the bag? When inspecting my AIO bag, there seems to be a good deal of primordia and pinning on the sides, though nothing on the top of the substrate despite it being covered with numerous hyphal knots. Should I mist the sides of the bag to give it better humidity? Any advice is appreciative, thanks!

Pics are of three grows, first two are the first shoebox, second two second shoebox, and the last two are a 32oz cup I spawned before either shoebox for different reasons As the title says this is my first ever grow everything up until this fruiting process has gone perfectly but for some reason I cannot get the myc to want to pin. No primordia from what I can tell except maybe in the smallest cup, and nobody seems to have a tub that looks like mine for me to learn from. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'I try almost anything at this point.I do have a hygrometer/thermometer hanging in both tubs about an inch off the surface and l've been trying to balance those at around 85% while fanning every 2 hours, and misting if there isn't visible droplets on the surface. Temp has been about 75 in the tubs, and the fae is dubtub, with a 2.5in filter on each side of the top, but I removed one of the patches and left it open for more air as Was told the hyphae reaching up Was for more oxygen.

Has anyone successfully cultivated these? Are they beginner friendly? Any info would be great!

New ep. of Gnocchi Chronicles out. Substrate is colonizing beautifully since S2B. I had some initial hypothetical concerns, but things are coasting along nicely just as they should with any other clean spawn. So close to surface colonization already. I predict we’ll flip to FC within the next 3 days (although it already does have nice FAE so it could be considered passively in FC already which is fine considering how colonized the cake already is). Stay tuned for the next episode of the Gnocchi Chronicles.

Wish fruits matured at the same time. Will probably do a staggered harvest to maximize yield. Are clusters good? I love the way some boxes look that have individual mushrooms growing out of the substrate, but I most get clusters.

I ran into trouble in the last few days and wasn't able to get my grain pressure cooked like I planned.

These oats sprouted. I can't seem to find solid answers on weather or not they will still work so I figure I'll give it a shot and be the answers for the next person.

I know some of the simple sugars are used up now, so regardless it'll be less successful, but I'm curious anyway. Will follow up.

Hi,

I know this is a longshot as the photos not great. I'm doing my first grow with an "inject and forget" bag (I'm terrible at the forget bit). Overnight a white fluffy thing appeared. It's 11 days since inoculation. I can see what I'm pretty sure is mycelium in the underside of the bag, so maybe it's mycelium, but wanted to check with you guys.

Any feedback appreciated.

Thanks

Did lc to rice bags to coco and a little bit of gypsum. This is the slowest fruiting I've experienced. Does anyone have any ideas? I fan and spray at least once a day. Mostly 2. Temp is 72 with 55-60 humidity. Tia