Grow Log - And So It Begins!

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

Hey Bloke...just popping by!!

Good to see you.

Drying is coming along nicely:

[Tubgirl]

Ahem

Well, there might be a little farmyard manure involved later on.

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

Ahem

Well, there might be a little farmyard manure involved later on

Don't worry my little poo-covered chum, I have a couple of jars of Paneolus cyanescens in the incubator.
I'm intending to use them as spawn for some manure/straw bags.

Should be ready by the weekend.

[ben ttech]

its as though ANYONE could do it!

"D

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

mycelium smells like jizz

You need to see a doctor.

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

^^^ ya i'm seeing my 5th shrink in three years probably seen 20+ in my life so what!!!!!

It was more that your jizz apparently smells like mycelium. You need to get your tubes looked at.

I reckon the smell is more like a blue cheese that's been left in the attic for a few years mixed with a slight mushroom funk.. (the mycelium. I can't comment on your jizz)

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

..not really blue cheese maybe blue cheese feet jizz n yogurt mixed up?

Sort of, but no yoghurty sourness to it.

It's very distinctive.
I'm not overkeen on it, but in the quantities I grow, it's not really noticable unless you stick your head in with them.

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

Another pic of the dried shrooms, 'cos I like it.

And another few shrooms popping out of the top of a cake:

And a shot from the top:

Syringe making tomorrow.

[A Bloke Down The Pub]

And a some shrooms from the second flush:

As you can probably see, there tend to be a lot fewer shrooms the second time round, but they tend to be a bit larger than most of the first flush.
It's possible to get more out of the second (and possibly third) flushes by "dunking" the cakes before putting them back in the fruiting chamber. If you soak them in sterile water for about 12 hours before they go in, they produce more shrooms.
I don't usually bother, as my requirements are not that great.

[FAGjack]

Looks great!
You ever eat em fresh?