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Hello all, i just started growing mushrooms and im finding this is a quickly escalating hobby
i am starting more and more growing pojects.

i had an idea on how to use some glass jars i had for mushroom growing (see pic)

Glass jar on its side, substrate at an angle, the Co2 will sink to the bottom drawing in fresh air through top hole.

substrate is coco with vermiticulite, mushroom is panellus stipicus.

what do you guys think?

Ok yeah,

So any tips to regrow from this batch? thnx for the tips btw!

The kit came with 2 pre-sterilized "cakes" in an airtight plastic pot. i inocculated these per instructions with a sterile needle (i worked sterile, i have lab experience). these cakes were fully colonized and crispy white when i took them out of their container for the first flush.
i put them on a layer of vermiticule with plenty of water, and let them sit in the light and aired them per instuctions (2x day). after a while they started to turn brown as if they were just dieing off. to save them i made new growing substrate with vermiticule and coffee grounds wich i sterilized in an oven. (250C for 1 hour)

when i put the browning cakes in there they started growing again and colonized the entire substrate again, and were looking healthy white. but same thing happend, they just sit there and start to turn brown again after a couple of weeks (see pics)

Andrew Brock wrote:they got contaminated. did you sterilize the substrate and innoculate in front of a laminar flow HEPA filter?

well they were fully colonised before i opened them up to the air, they were crispy white. i sterilized the substrate and inocculation needle. (not all the brown stuff is in the mycelium some is just water from the coffee grounds)

but if they are contaminated, is it possible to just re grow in a fresh pot?

Hello all,

I just started growing mushrooms at home because i came across a glow in the dark mushroom kit.
it contained panellus stipticus spores and i grew them in the contained kit following the instructions.

however after i had removed the cake from the airtight container i have been unable to get a single shroom from the mycelium and it is slowly starting to turn brown...
what am i doing wrong here?

Pic of the current state of the shrooms, they are growing on a coffee/vermeticule substrate