Honestly I forgot about these mushrooms a bunch of times, living in my second grow tent with no lights on and toasty temps in the 80s F these buckets have had the spawn run throughout and are now producing mushroom fruit. I was working in my basement today and noticed a pink thing sticking out the side of the bin. So my amazement it was a fruiting body from the mycelium I started months back.
I was not expecting anything to happen with these bins, I thought it would do nothing. So when they ended up doing "something" I am quite happy.
Looking from the top we can see the hay I used, maybe it has not reached the top yet. Or maybe a competing fungi got there first like trich.
I guess they did not run throughout yet, but hopefully they will.. The medium still has some moisture in it so they should be good.
I have no idea how long the fruit has been poking out, I am guessing maybe one or two weeks. As I moved the buckets outside the grow tent when I started my sour diesel seedings.
The pink oyster mushrooms like the heat, so they should be well suited for grow tents.
Its great to see these fruits forming, last I checked I only saw white mycelium growing throughout the hay.
The plastic trash bag is the only thing separating the mycelium from the outside world. By piercing it, hopefully it will trigger them to grow... or dry out.. I guess we will find out.
I poked holes in the trash bag holding the mycelium, hoping now the mushrooms will come through.
Now we wait to see if the co2 levels rise, if they indeed do I will need to build a filter system to stop the spores from coming through but let the co2 gas pass through the filter.
My meter is charging now, hopefully I can take some readings later once the gasses build up.
Whats next?:
Check the co2 levels with my meter, if levels are raised, I will build a filter system and area to isolate the mushroom spawn but move air through the chamber. This will allow me to harvest the carbon dioxide and bring it into the growing chamber for the cannabis plants. By doing this, the added co2 will increase plant cell division and make for more hardy and larger plants. Upwards of 25% bigger some claim, so I am quite excited to see if these mushrooms off gas enough to make all this worth while.
Previous posts about this project:
@solominer/the-jars-are-colonized-cultivating-mushrooms
@solominer/pasteurizing-hay-substrate-for-mushroom-growing
@solominer/more-growth-in-the-jars-cultivating-mushrooms
@solominer/starting-over-pink-oyster-mushroom-kit
@solominer/more-fruiting-bodies-have-emerged-pink-oyster-mushroom-kit
@solominer/the-spawn-run-has-begun-cultivating-mushrooms
@solominer/a-week-later-and-its-growing-a-lot-pink-oyster-mushroom-kit
@solominer/pins-forming-on-pink-oyster-mushroom-kit-macro-photography