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Mushroom cultivation => Cultivation => Topic started by: k12357 on November 02, 2008, 03:02:28 PM

Title: Fisrt straw spawn stalled?
Post by: k12357 on November 02, 2008, 03:02:28 PM
This photo is almost a month after spawning WBS onto straw.  I have noticed no new growth for almost a week.  any ideas as to why , and what i should do. 

(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6295/156gc9.th.jpg) (http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=156gc9.jpg)
Title: Re: Fisrt straw spawn stalled?
Post by: Baphom3t on November 02, 2008, 04:05:19 PM
The bulging white spot don't like to good,as if it wants to start overlay.
Straw is not a casing material.
You could still get fruit off it but it looks more like a bulk grow going on than a fruiting thing.

You may be able to get away with putting a straight Verm layer on it.
1 month you should be seeing fruit.
Guess you know not to use straw as a casing material next time huh? :)

Baph
Title: Re: Fisrt straw spawn stalled?
Post by: k12357 on November 02, 2008, 04:49:39 PM
should i add the verm now?  it dosent seem to be 100% colonized on the straw.  my goal was semi bulk project.  I was just experimenting.  I followed an artical i read on the shroomery

http://www.shroomery.org/8392/Straw-as-a-Substrate   

i think the screw up in it is that the straw is not kept close enough togeather, providing to large of gaps between pieces.  next time i think i will try a straw log or somthing along those lines.  to keep the straw substrate in close confinement with itself.
Title: Re: Fisrt straw spawn stalled?
Post by: psilocybin warrior on November 03, 2008, 07:33:45 AM
You could have made straw logs, all I know you could do is try and fruit as is.