I'm running the shiitaki 3790 from Southwest. What have people been seeing as the average colonization time for this strain? From sending to bulk to sending to fruiting.

Morning all from sunny Northamptonshire U.K. My little company has a great opportunity to sell our grow kits in a decent sized retailer. We are starting off with Lions & Sky Blue kits and will be working on stands soon. A great opportunity for us. The plan is to replace any unsold kits on a fortnightly basis. We will then fruit any unsold kits, dehydrate and sell in store also potentially (or online). I have a couple questions for the group and am after some advice and tips. 1) Is there anyway to prolong the fruiting blocks in the kit to slow down natural growth and make collection of unsold kits a longer turnaround? I always take out air in bag, but there will be no fridge option. Also there’ll be an instructional video to show how to initiate the growing process and to break away and unwanted growth. Also, I will supply kits when possible, just shy of ready, maybe 90% colonised where possible. These are my thoughts, but any further would be great. 2) I’m looking for some very heavy fruiting lions mane and oyster strains. Micheal, can you help with this please? 3) Anybody has any ideas to make these fly off the shelves, it would be much appreciated. Kind Regards, Robin TME

Hi Michael , could you check the email inbox on here please. I’ve sent a couple messages, but not heard anything back and it’s been a couple months with no response. Maybe an error? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've been going back and forth with options for a permanent fruiting room now for what seems like ages. Mostly hung up on it because building a building is expensive, and hard work, and I'm already building other buildings and tired of it. But in the process of also assessing refrigeration options I had what I think is a brilliant idea. Has anyone tried using a walk in cooler for a fruiting room? I see a lot of used coolers for sale on Marketplace. Seems like a large walk-in, 15 x 23 or so, with their 4 inch insulated walls would make a cozy, affordable space for some fruiting after a few minor retrofits. Thoughts? I hope no one is able to burst my bubble because I'm pretty excited about this idea. But please do if you're able to and avert me from catastrophe.

¿Outside Grow - just BUILT the foundation, haven't started... YETi! Does anyone/anybody/anything have "outside" growing EXPERIENCE ‽