The state of Maine allows feeding of white tail deer as long it’s not during hunting season. Guess it’s time to move back home!!
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That’s crazy! Feed them till you can hunt them? That’s a nice buck.
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Jars are doing great. They’ve been colonizing for a month now and should be ready in a week. They colonized from the inside out, so I won’t need to let them sit for an extra week to ensure that the middle of the jars is colonized. The Boomr Bag will be here tomorrow and I will probably transfer to bulk this weekend. The tubs will colonize in about 2 weeks, then I’ll put them in fruiting conditions. It will then be a week to 10 days before I harvest some of the first flush.
Really happy with how fast these colonized. Micellum this healthy can produce big flushes.
I’ll be using 15 quart tubs. One-half of a Boomr Bag per tub and 2 jars per tub works out great. I usually like to sprinkle liquid culture (LC) on top of the bulk substrate, but I didn’t take the time to create a couple 1/2 pints of liquid culture this time. I still have 2 syringes left and will grow out some liquid culture for the next go at it. Sprinkling LC over the bulk spawns really does a good job helping tubs to colonize more quickly.
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No. You can take used substrate crumble it and mix it into an outdoor compost heap and it will keep giving.
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You should not eat shrooms grown on contaminated substrate
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you can bait them here in Ohio but where I hunt they don’t come to corn.
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When you do, if you can go over that, and what needs to be done? Just mix in? I’m just imagining killing everything by accident. Lol
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I sterilize everything that will come into contact with the bulk and micellum. Place a black plastic bag and cut it to size to cover the bottom of the tub and a couple of inches up. The liner minimizes side pinning.
Take your substrate and layer in micellum and substrate in the lined tub. I usually just mix mine up evenly rather than layering in the micellum.
Cover the substrate with wax paper, cover the tub with its lid, and let it sit for a couple of weeks for the bulk substrate to colonize.
Once the bulk is colonized, put the tub in fruiting conditions (some light and fresh air.) About 10 days later you should have a few that are ready for harvest. The bulk cake will continue to put out shrooms for 4 to 5 days. Once fruiting slows down, soak the bulk cake for a day and put it back in fruiting conditions for a second flush.
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Okay, sanitize everything, mix, then wait for more colonization, with the lid closed. To start fruiting open the lid a little…
So close yet so far away… lol
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Correct. Be sure to maintain a high humidity (~90%) in a fruiting tub. It can usually be accomplished via misting.
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So basically anything that might be contaminated should go in the garbage? The cakes that just stop producing can be put outside in hopes of some coming up?
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Bury them in a “shallow” grave outside and keep an eye on that space…
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Depends on how many flushes you got out of them I try for 3 doesn’t always work out that way though
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Sorry, I misread that… I’d also bury contaminated cakes. I’ve seen plenty of people bury contaminated cakes and let nature sort things out, often successfully.
I don’t see any harm in burying cakes that will no longer fruit as well as contaminated cakes as long as there is myc growth even if there is trichoderma…
Agree with @First, worth shooting for 3 flushes but 2 seems like a very reasonable expectation with the third being a crap shoot.
As I find some wood to knock on, I’ve only had one get trich so far which was completely my fault, tried to fruit from bag for grins and I didn’t hydrate the coco casing layer with boiling water… It was just for grins anyway so nothing lost other than about $2, lol.
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I’ll go for three in hopes the last will produce a little something.
@CygnusX1 I did bury all in a shallow grave in a shady spot. They will get water and some light. Maybe I’ll get lucky! I thought I had read somewhere about contaminated cakes cleaning themselves up in nature.
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Right on, keep us posted.
I buried a few but too late in the season, I’ll be watching myself once spring rolls around. 
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The further you get along in those flushes the bigger the fruits for sure. 3rd flush is definitely a crap shoot being rehydrated 2 times chance of contamination gets higher each time!!
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As will I have put a bunch of tubs in the ground waiting to see what pops up next spring!!
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I will. I’ll be waiting till spring also. It’s cold here now.
The worst part about dealing with contaminated anything is the resulting cleanup of everything.
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