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- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 2 hours ago:
I haven’t tried myself but my understanding from reading Stamets is that you’re supposed to cut the log and move it to a wood shed or something right away without letting it sit on the ground for an extended period. Alder is supposed to decay much quicker than other hardwoods as well so it’s not used as often.
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 11 hours ago:
Plastic buckets drilled holes are good reusable option. If you want to avoid plastics all together you could use some of this spawn to plug a small alder log.
- Comment on Mushroom growing scale down minimal volume 14 hours ago:
Your jars probably over-colonized because there wasn’t enough surface area getting proper ventilation/evaporation to trigger primordia formation so it just kept colonizing. It looks like pins didn’t start until the mycelium grew over the top of the jar and by then all the food was already used up.
Topfruiting jars isn’t a great method even for terrestrial mushrooms, I imagine it’s worse for oysters. Consider using small oven bags instead, that way you can cut the sides to trigger fruiting earlier and across a wider surface.