your colonized sub will continue to try and fruit but mushrooms are like 92-95% water if not more and if you keep your substrate good and hydrated second flushes are often the biggest with regular cubes.
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Okay awesome, ill be sure to try that out
The 4th flush is shaping up nicely. It should be even better than the 3rd flush and should be ready by Thursday or Friday.
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Here we grow again. Will be ready to transfer to bulk in ~4 weeks. Will be fruiting two 16 inch tubs of bulk substrate.
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Forth flush is complete. The cakes produced 204 grams, so ~20 grams when dried.
The cakes still look healthy but I’m not going to go for a 5th flush.
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The last of the harvest is now dried. Probably about 130g in total from the flushes.
Current stock! I didn’t weigh each, but 100g usually fits in each jar, so probably 400g in total. It’s ~5.5 years of microdoses at .4g per dose. I need to stop growing after completing the one that is colonizing now.
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Fifteen days of colonization. I expected that they would be further along at this point, but all but one jar looks healthy. There is a black spot on 1 kernel of corn. If it is contamination it will spread quickly if contamination, so we’ll wait and see how it goes.
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Absolutely incredible. 
thoughts on being 100% colonized? Maybe let it go another week or so? It’s soft to the touch. I didn’t squeeze all around it just one spot softly I hear you can bruise the mycelium.
If you think it’s ready put it away and check on it in 14 days.
Copy that. 
I definitely see I’m pushing and it’s definitely slowing everything down. Slow and steady. A lot:sweat_smile:
Making good progress. It should be ready in another week or 2. The better the colonization percentage, the greater the harvest weight you will get from the cake. The wait is worth it.
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Two jars are not looking good and if contamination, it appears to be slowly spreading. It isn’t spreading as fast as mold usually grows, so going to give it a couple more days to see how it progresses. If it is just a rotten kernel, then it is bacteria. Not good, but not as dire as mold. I might be able to remove the rotten kernels when I transfer to bulk and then spray the affected area with peroxide.
As there are weeks to go before transfer to bulk, I’m doubtful that they will survive even if bacteria. If I lose a few jars, then I may just do 1 tub instead of 2.
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I cant say for certain what exact nasty you have in there (pin mold would be my guess) but your grains look really overly hydrated and a big vector for contams, whatever is in there has sporulated inside the jar. if you’re worried about your grow area I would PC again before dumping or dump it outdoors and bury it.
sorry for unsolicited advice
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We’ll see how it goes. I’ve got >4 years of doses and am willing to take the risk.
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All but 1 jar is bad. I’ll throw them out. I do have a Boomr Bag on hand that won’t keep for more than a few months, so I’ll pick up more popcorn when I go to the grocery this morning.
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morning Midwestguy…the bag I injected in September is not growing…it has some lumps but no white…I started another bag on Monday…I am wondering if the heat killed off the spores since it was delivered when we were having the 100+ days and it sat in the tin mailbox in that heat so maybe cooked it???
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I’m not familiar with what heat stress does to mycelium. The failure to colonize is most frequently too much moisture or contamination.
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are you doing spore to grain?
Alacabenzi is a solid choice, and I’m sure you learned a lot from your first grow. B+ is another great strain. Best of luck with the grow.
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I’ve grown to prefer B+ for the good yields. Z-strain is a close second.