Comment on King oysters fruiting in worm bin
mekhos@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I've had the same issues with stalling before fruiting and trichoderma, for me I think its temperature too low.
Comment on King oysters fruiting in worm bin
mekhos@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I've had the same issues with stalling before fruiting and trichoderma, for me I think its temperature too low.
Sal@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Low temperature makes sense. I think that given enough time trichoderma will always find a way. If you move the block into fruiting conditions (which usually will expose the block to the outside air) and the block stalls for some for any reason, trich will eventually grow. Low temperature can definitely be a strong factor.
Interestingly, the trichoderma did not survive one week in the worm bin. It was eaten very quickly and this cleaned up the colonized paper towel roll - which stayed untouched and very white, buried under the compost. I found it a bit annoying when I saw that because it was occupying space without turning into compost, but I thought that given enough time it would eventually decompose too... Turns out it actually did go into fruiting. As spring came there were some large temperature fluctuations over a few weeks, so I think that this was the pinning trigger.