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Increasing FAE can also help reduce condensation collecting on the casings but try not to let it comprimise the RH. I'd remove the excess moisture on the trays if any,and keep RH around 93% and see how they react for a day or two and adjust accordingly. It looks more like metabolites than contam. You can also take the trays and tilt them to see if water runs out.īe sure to wear a sterile glove to keep your hand on the sub so it don't fall out,and then use the paper towl to soak up any exscess on the surface You can take paper towl and let the paper towl soak up any excess water. Can you suggest any possible ways to save them?" "After an UH malfunction last night they got soaked. (image taken from shroomery for educational purpose) The 2nd pic looks worse than the 1st as far as possible overlay. I rotated and circled spots on your pics to show hyphal knots and what they look like. Not sure if the sparkling effect is water,flash from the camera or hyphal knots,but if they are there before the pic and there is no heavy condensation on the casing then it only leads one to think of hyphal knots. In your pics I see hyphal knots in places. Make sure you hydrogmeter is working correctly.Īnother trick is to use paper towel and very very gently pat the casing One way to help the condensation on your trays is to increase F.A.E,you may also need to readjust you RH. Just try to keep your RH up as much as possible around 93 - 97%(for cased grain) Dunking 24hrs and then rolling in a mix of vermiculite and perlite, worked fine. No holes in FC, just left the lid little bit open for gas exchange. The two behind your temp/ rh gauge also have what appear to be hyphal knots,but those two are looking close to overlay which isn't good.īut I'd like to see closer up of them as well because they look like they may have hyphal knots also.Ĭased grains start fruiting anywhere the 14th - 21st day after cased.ĭunked and rolled cakes can take 3 - 4 weeks to show fruit. I used small glasses with no tyvek or lids, just two layers of foil, inoculations made in ghetto box with 1/10 spray chlorine. I'd like to see them a bit closer up because I thought I saw a couple spots that looked like primordia,a.k.a hyphal knots. spore release: The fruitbody releases spores into the environment for propagation.From what I can see in the pic,the 3 trays that are more casing than mycelium look fine.Spore generation is the sexual reproduction phase of the mushroom life cycle. mature fruitbody: The organism channels all of its energy and nutrients to develop the fruitbody, which will then produce spores.fruitbody selection: From thousands of primordia, the growing organism selects the most promising few to develop into mature fruitbodies.Host Defense harvests during this peak stage of growth to capture an abundant constituent profile including polysaccharides (beta glucans, arabinoxylanes), glycoproteins, ergosterols, triterpenoids and other myco-nutrients. primordia formation: The mushroom organism produces an amazing array of enzymes and optimizes the constituents of both the mycelium and the developing fruitbody.hyphal knot: Mycelium condenses into hyphal knots, which then develop into “primordia” or baby mushrooms.In this sense, the mycelium is the immune system of the mushroom. During this stage of growth, mycelium expands at an exponential rate. In its environment, mycelium encounters many competitors and predators which it repels with an amazing array of protective enzymes and compounds. mycelial expansion: Developing mycelium breaks down organic matter and absorbs nutrients from its surroundings.Compatible hyphae mate to create fertile mycelium. spore germination: Fine fungal filaments known as hyphae grow from the spores.inoculation: Spores alight upon a growth medium (or substrate). If conditions are favorable, spores will germinate.Fruitbodies form only at the completion of the mushroom life cycle and for most species, occur but for a few days, then disappear. The mushroom cultivator follows the path of the mushroom life cycle. The mushroom life cycle remains largely invisible to most mushroom hunters not so to cultivators.