ok these cakes are pretty much stagnant. i haven't noticed any growth at all for the last month. they did great for the first 5 weeks. all 6 jars are pretty fluffy and full but lack as little as a dime size of sparse coverage up to quarter size area of no coverage! one of the jars is totally covered, but the bottom is still extremely thin as in this picture:
all of the bottoms look pretty much like that. i flipped them about 4 weeks ago so that they would colonize the bottom but they all look like that- just a very fine layer covering the substrate.
i have tried lowering/raising the temperature. the jars have stayed covered and in the dark except the minute or so every other day that i check on them. what do i do? some of the slower jars are starting to look kind of dry and yellowish around the edge of the colonizing mycelium. they just don't seem to want to go that last little bit to full colonization.
i hope you guys say "just wait longer", that works for me. i just don't want them to die or anything. how long can this go on before i just need to birth them and hope for the best?
all of the bottoms look pretty much like that. i flipped them about 4 weeks ago so that they would colonize the bottom but they all look like that- just a very fine layer covering the substrate.
i have tried lowering/raising the temperature. the jars have stayed covered and in the dark except the minute or so every other day that i check on them. what do i do? some of the slower jars are starting to look kind of dry and yellowish around the edge of the colonizing mycelium. they just don't seem to want to go that last little bit to full colonization.
i hope you guys say "just wait longer", that works for me. i just don't want them to die or anything. how long can this go on before i just need to birth them and hope for the best?