Don’t sweat it! Always let em sit! They will be good, usually! I notice it will either contam or be great! Had some cubes take 2 months no lie to show signs of myc! Couldn’t believe it!!!
Same. That's what brought me to this video. My pink oyster and trumpet oysters are nearly fully colonized after 5 days, I can't see anything in my lion's mane jars
This video is perfect - my jars match (first try!) and my fears are put to rest. I can now schedule both a g2g (which I hadn't thought of doing) and plan for fruiting. Thanks for taking the time to make!
Thank you--I've been staring at ten jars for two weeks and didn't think anything was happening because I thought the myc would be much thicker. Much appreciated.
@@OneEarthMushrooms Yes, I did! I shook the jars, and within days the myc had spread evenly and appeared quite healthy. Thank you SO much for this lesson!
Thanks man! I'm in the midst of growing LM mycelium and it doesn't look like other strains of mushroom I grow at all. Your video was just the reassurance I needed. I thought I was dealing with cobweb fungus, but is looks similar as yours.
Good video. I have a more normal strain and I was concerened that the Grain was mouldy as it seems to be growing from the inside like this? We shall wait and seek
You saved my grow!!! My mycelium looks very weak and I wasn’t even sure I even had mycelium until I watched this video! Especially when you said it grows from the inside out!!
Day 10 for lions mane / blue oyster, I made 40 jars of spawn, I gently mixed 5 of each genus and labeled, I will comment back again when all are fully colonized with results on which grew faster, for day 10 I saw small bits of mycelium near the inoculation point, wish me luck!
This helped me! Thank you! I have mine growing on popcorn and since the corn is light colored it's even harder to see growth Now I know my grains are ready to be used :)
@@OneEarthMushrooms I think my strain isn't as aggressive as most of the lion's mane that I've seen or read about on the internet. Colonization took about a month, and another 3-4 weeks from fruiting conditions to harvest. Also the fruit's were relatively small and stalled before I got visible teeth :\ Going to try the heat resistant strain next! Thanks for checking in :) Love your videos! I fruited the LM in the monotub fruiting chamber based off of your other video!
I'm in exactly the same situation and found this video to be quite helpful. I like the deliberate pace and day by day photos. This would be deadly boring if you weren't crazy about mushrooms but we are crazy so thanks!!
dude this took forever. My jar is almost fully colonized in 10-14 days. I used 5 CCs tho. put my jars in a monotub with a heating pad underneath the tub at 80 degrees.
If I remember correctly I was using 2-3 cc's per jar. And not maintaining temp, just sitting in the garage. Could just be the culture I'm using too. Some grow slower than others. Lion's mane tends to be slow...
Can I ask how much spore did you put in the jar? My mycelium looks like your day 7 on day 3… I didn’t know how much to put, so I got ten grams dry spawn inside.
Great video, thanks. I knew Lion's Mane was "Slow and wispy" to colonize but seeing my Turkey Tail just erupt at light speed in comparison had me worried. It was very reassuring to see the day by day timetable!
Also in the 'thank you boat', you were close enough in pictures that I feel better about my moisture content (as our grain had that identical outside dryness but inside wet) I'm on day 3, only thing I'm worried about now is I shook them earlier while examine like a dummy 🤷♂️
I waited til my jars fully colonized (LM) and they wanted to fruit right away. If you want to shelve some LM grain spawn try to get those jars in a very low humidity situation so they don't fruit lol lesson learned.
This was super helpful thank you. Quick question! I am using rye berries, on day 7. I am noticing this dirt like substance that seems to be protruding from some of the grains with mycelium growth. I've been scouring the internet for answers but idk if it's just apart of the rye berries or contamination.
@@VerdantExploration they are doing great, thanks for asking! The black substance I'm almost positive was just apart of the rye berries. It's not growing with the mycelium at all.
Whenever I see lions mane videos on RU-vid they make it seem like it so fast -.- but every time I grow lions mane, they take like a whole month for the mycelium to grow (3 lb grain bag). 2 months total growth. Some weird vodo shit going on here -.-
Could it be a feeble strain ? ive got a similar dilemma as yourself- but its my first attempt at LM & its not exactly vigorous so im considering starting another batch with a different supplier's strain. i have a few others species growing like crazy business so my conditions must be OK-ish for mushrooms. good luck.
I'm a novice just to throw it out there first, but I thought before the transfer to the chamber it needs to be pretty much white with colonisation, to reduce the risk of contamination... or am I wrong ?
Hey Dan, lions mane tends to be a bit on the wispy side...the mycelium is pretty fine and isn't going to be as obvious as say, oysters. In my opinion, it wouldn't hurt to wait a few more days if you're concerned about the grain not not being fully colonized. And yes, you're correct; full colonization reduces the risk of contamination.
@@OneEarthMushrooms I haven't spawned to substrate yet - fighting off trich and trying to set up a clean room before I waste more materials. Time is running out though...
Thank you for the video. It really helped me to see if i did it correctly. It's my first time and I just added my liquid culture into the grain jars 2 days ago. I'm crossing my figures to make sure it will develop mycelium.
I will have to learn how to do the timelapse on a budget and share , theyre well cool , im a newb at the shroomery , but having a lot of fun learning .
For me, it's peering on day 5 now and I'm pretty sure if I look hard with a flashlight from my phone, I can see fuzzy, white strands of something that are beginning to appear in the little cracks of my grain. At first, I didn't pay any attention to it and thought my grain spawn wasn't growing anything. Thanks for the video man, it helped me out a bit.
guys can someone answer me? i was throwing my left over grain into my vermicomposting box worm that grain become so hot! that my worm try to escape hell.. did mycelium generate heat? (im using mung beans)
Probably the bacteria using the nitrogen from the grains to hot composte the grains, thats why it heats up so fast (i think). Might wanna spread the grains more evenly.
warmer, wetter, darker? for incubation may speed up the process...also if you seeped the grain and let it germinate it may speed up as the mycelium would have more ready to go sugar....just my 2 cents.
I may do that at some point. It's working pretty good so far, though. I've had almost no contamination since I started using the still air box, compared to before where almost everything was contaminated! Good idea, though! Thank you!
@@stack.that.cheese do you have an example of the fittings you used? I was looking around Home Depot a few weeks ago and I didn't see anything that would work for me. I was looking for threaded fitting though, are yours threaded?
Can you do that , the bag isn’t contaminated. I have 3 bags that didn’t do a thing out of 6 one was contaminated, so now have two white , I thought it should almost be solid ?
1:02 You read that you should mix it up pretty often? Was that from a book of mushroom mythology or something? Give it a mix once at around 20% colonization, and only if you notice that's it's not colonizing evenly. Once you have an even distribution of colonized grains, further mixing will only set it back. It makes no sense to continually break up the mycelial network when it's already evenly distributed throughout the jar. Your shake on day 7 had me scratching my head, as I could only see one small area that was still bare, but fine, whatever, mix up those few uncolonized grains if it makes you feel better, *but then to do it again on day 10?!? Why???* Every bloody grain has mycelium growing on it! Just let it fill out!
Dont shake your jars 4x. Let it colonize a good 30% (different visually for each species) then shake and let colonize the rest before transferring. You can test this theory by doing a few jars the same then comparing to others you mix less or more. Find out what visual ques are best for each species your working with that represents time for mixing. I'd love to hear his theory of why he decided to shake these so much when there was colonization evenly throughout and he could have let it heal after first shake then get thicker and stronger colonization. Thoughts?
it varies depending on ambient temperature and where you get your culture from and how much culture you put on your grains mine took a little over a month :|
Yeah, I agree with you. I shook these way too much. I had read somewhere that the Lion's Mane needed to be broken up a lot, so I just went with it. When I did Lions Mane again later, I shook only once but it didn't cut much time off, it colonized in 19 days. But yeah, still unnecessary to shake more than once.
I picked up a couple pounds of millet stalks a few weeks ago. After I thrashed it and cleaned it up, there was only about a pound of grain, but I've been mixing it in with rye and whole oats, which is making a really good spawn. I need to find a cheaper source of millet, because it was pretty expensive and a lot of work just to get that one pound.
Its a joke, tlou stands for: the last of us, with is a game where a fungus mutates to infect and turn humans into zombies. It is a real bad joke. Cool vid btw
