Do these look safe for consumption? My spore supplier says these don’t drop spores, is that correct? How much more should I let these mature?

Never really got what I would consider “marshmallow soft” but their little veils did start breaking so, we harvested! Super excited. 480 grams wet.

I think I had a very low yield cos the cake got very dehydrated, going for a second flush with all the pins that were left after a little rehydration. Harvest was about 90g wet so pretty good going for a first attempt. I have more bens bags and made my own MSS to start more bags later this evening.

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…

Inoculated March 7th

Good to eat, lowkey kinda forgot about them. When I flushed them I wrapped them in foil and left them to dry openly (rookie mistake) good to eat? Havent cleaned the dirt off I keep forgetting about them 23g wet havent weighed dry. Add picture of when I wrapped it in foil after a few hours or so

Do you need to sterilize the Jars with rubbing alchohol before putting rice in them &&& steaming ???

Or will the sterlization of the jars frick with the process.

Thank you, Broke girl beginner 🤷‍♀️

Hey guys, new here looking for feedback.

Think it’s looking good, though I just want to check in with the experts and see.

I’ve read a shit ton on this now and think I pretty much know how to do everything. Hopefully these look on track.

Been about 2 weeks.

Having to grow in garage, so temp control has taken a while to get to grips with.

Cheers and have a good Saturday

This cake is from a larger, contaminated cake that I tried to salvage, but it does not look like the same contam

Every damn plate pins but that really is a good problem to have. If you want my agar recipes just ask.

On this sub I see many questions seeking clarification of contamination versus bruising. Frequently I see photos during the stages of spawning to bulk and fruiting. My question is where is this contamination coming from? If the substrate has no nutrients, and the grains were fully colonized before adding them to the substrate, then it must mean one of the following is true:

—contamination entered during the inoculation and colonization stage and simply didn’t show up until a few weeks later

—the grains were not fully colonized before moving to the spawn to bulk stage, thus allowing bacteria to feed on the grain nutrients still existing from colonization

—random bacteria was preexisting somewhere in the setup prior to spawning to bulk and the cleaning step with alcohol wasn’t thorough enough.

What other potential avenues of contamination am I not thinking of?

I’m a new grower and I inoculated some UB bags and some pre bought malt extract agar plates with a blue meanie cubensis mss 8 days ago. I inoculated using a diy laminar flow hood and I’m keeping everything stored at a solid 76-78 degrees Fahrenheit using a temperature monitor and a humidifier on low to make sure nothing dries out keeping it at around 55% RH. Nothing. All the plates look the exact same from when they came. I messed up my first plate underestimating the pressure needed to push out the spores and ended up spraying some everywhere, but the rest only got one or two drops straight from the syringe no needle, wrapped in micropose parafilm. I also left two plates empty. One that I immediately sealed after opening the bag they came in, and one I left in front of my flow hood for about two minutes. Absolutely nothing. Nothing from the grain either. I used 3 uncle Ben’s and 3 off brand, all whole grain brown with no other additives, all being stored together with monitored temperature and humidity. I know mss syringes can take a while bc the spores need to germinate but I thought after a week I would’ve seen SOMETHING, even contamination. Any advise? Is it possible I got a dead syringe? There’s very clearly a lot of spores in the syringe and I shook it up pretty good before inoculating and I’ve only ever heard good things about this vendor. Any advise? Is it possible I got a dead syringe? There’s very clearly a lot of spores in the syringe and I shook it up pretty good before inoculating and I’ve only ever heard good things about this vendor. Could it be the agar plates? I don’t have a pc yet which is why I opted to buy the pre poured plates. Honestly I’m just about to get a LC syringe and try again to compare results and colonization speeds

Looking like this ones contaminated :( I've got 1 other bag which I innoculated at the same time, that one's looking kinda the same, but without the bluey greenie patch. Should I throw this bag out now?

I was under the impression that the right process to grow was 1. Inoculate an all in one grow bag 2. Let it fully colonize for a few weeks 3. Transfer the block of substrate to a monotub 4. Break up all the mycelium and substrate to create a flat layer 5. Introduce free air exchange 6. Give it another week or so and you’ll have mushrooms

My question is if I follow through on step 4 will that fuck my grow up? I just found this sub and don’t see many people doing that. That’s the step I’m getting ready to take my bag is pretty much fully colonized, if that’s wrong what should I do instead?

They are not soft like marshmellows yet. When can i harvest? Do they drop spores??