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25d •
Your project?
What are you planning to grow? How big (or small) are your mushroom growing plans?
1 like • 14d
@Ray Lanier Been trying on and off for years. Everybody likes maitake. I grew my first blobitake around 2019 from a LC I purchased from I don't remember where. Since then I have cloned a couple of different specimens that I found in health food stores which result in fully colonized substrate, and the mycelium grows up the sides of my 10 lb bags but never really fruits, even after up to a year in colonization. I'm thinking that I maybe just need a different culture.
1 like • 14d
@Elijah Woods All the old blocks went into the vegetable garden with no further development.
Dec '25 •
Fogger
Is House of Hydro still the way to go? My 12 disk xl transducer has slowly been biting the dust. Don't think I want to go the air compresser method. Thanks in advance for your humble opinion.
1 like • Dec '25
@Elijah Woods Thanks, Elijah - good suggestion
1 like • Jan 2
@Elijah Woods it's fun to tap them when they're running
Dec '25 •
Spawn Bag Innoculation
I have one of the midwest spawn bags, when inoculating do you open the bag up or leave it as is?
2 likes • Dec '25
Looks like an injection port for lc on the bag so no need to open unless inoculating with agar.
Dec '25 •
Welcome to Southwest Mushrooms
I’m Michael Crowe. I’m genuinely grateful you’re here. Thanks for jumping in early and helping shape what this community becomes. I’ve got some cool things lined up for you and I’ll start sharing them this week, simple, useful stuff you can put to work right away, plus a few surprises I think you’ll love. Here’s how I’d like this space to feel: open, practical, and a little adventurous. Share your ideas. Share your questions. Share photos of your setup, even if it’s just a shelf and a dream. If you try a small experiment and it works, post it. If it flops, post that too. The details help all of us get better, moisture percentages, PSI and sterilization time, yield per block, little tricks that saved you time. To kick things off, say hi in the comments. Tell us where you’re growing from, what your next 30-day goal is, and the first topic you want me to cover. Spawn, substrate, fruiting, sales, gear, mindset, whatever will move you forward the fastest. Thanks again for being here at the start. I’m excited to build this with you. — Michael
3 likes • Dec '25
Nice to see a new community pinning! I learned a lot from your excellent videos when I was getting started. I've been throwing everything at the wall for a few years to see what sticks and have a couple of farmers markets I vend at in Western North Carolina. In the next 30 days I plan to break ground on a masonry fruiting chamber, hopefully leaving my tent days behind. Oh, and I plan to quit my job.
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