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Could my PH in the water be too high. Its not easy getting it around 12 to 13.  im getting new test strips that will hopefully be easier to read.
 
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Are you doing cold water pasteurization?  If yes then pH is never too high.  That is the idea. Check to see if you are using the right kind of lime and enough lime.  Do a high inoculation percentage.

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Yes im doing cold water pasteurizing and im soaking for about 14 to 16 hrs. I am using pickling lime becouse I cant seem to find lime with very low Magnesium content around here. I let my straw drain for about 30 min on a plastic sheet, it it is still pretty damp but not dripping at all. I just made two small logs two days ago but i raised the temp in the room to about 71 to 72 degrees where before it was around 64 so im hoping that might fix my problem as well.
 
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Ok guys I seem to have my grain turning black on the straw problem taken care of but my next issue is sterilizing my own grain.....I have found a local health food store that I can get wheat berries at 1.00 a pound, which i got, my problem is I go thru the process of cleaning and soaking and boiling the berries and then letting them semi dry so I can bag them up. I have the proper bags for pressure cooking and Fold the bag twice so the filter is up and i pressure cook for 1.5 hours and I let my pressure cooker cool completely, but my problem is that im getting moisture in the bags, so much moisture that it beads down inside the bags.  What am i doing wrong?  Too much water in my cooker?  Should the water level not touch the bottom of the bags?   PLEASE HELP!
 
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Yes, the water should not touch the bags.  The grain also needs to be mostly dried.

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Oysters are the recommended first mushroom to grow.  Cold pasteurization works best with straw and high inoculation rates.  Look into getting plastic tubes and poking holes in the tube.
 
This may help.  

https://www.fieldforest.net/product/oysters-on-straw-instruction-sheet/instruction-sheets

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Any one help me, please  , because my mushroom ( mysalium ) growth is stop and they dry .. what should I do any one suggest me
 
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Your mushrooms seem to be dry. I think you didn't provide them with the right climate. Also looks like your substrate is not well pasteurized. In what regards the mycelium growth, did you poke your bags for holes?

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I agree with Daniel, you said the mycelium stopped to colonize and it seems dry, can you describe what's happening and how you processed your substrate?
 
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Greetings!
I started growing oyster mushroom in bags around 13 days before from today. The mycelium growth is good, but it doesn't show any sign of pin head till now. Should I wait for some more times?

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Thank you for information
 
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Ankita Parmar wrote:Greetings!
I started growing oyster mushroom in bags around 13 days before from today. The mycelium growth is good, but it doesn't show any sign of pin head till now. Should I wait for some more times?

Ankita
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The mycelium has to fully fill the growing medium before it will produce fruits, I think you are right on track.

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I bought an all in one grow kit but it seems to only be producing some type of long grass.  Only a couple small white patches here and there.  I do have 4 pin holes in the bag as directed but not sure if this is right... It's 7 days in now.
 
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Sounds like to little moisture which led to seed germination adding more should help.

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