u/Bravedink

So I read this article and was intrigued

https://wccannabis.cc/blue-pulaski-mushrooms-a-complete-guide-to-this-rare-fungi/

Also side note, I was surprised that website specifically did a blog post on a gourmet mushroom given the name. lol

Anyways, I digress. this mushroom looks so cool and probably tastes awesome. Any leads would be greatly appreciated. I have a good chunk of growing experience, so even if it’s harder than normal I’d still like to give it a good shot. TY

Alright,

So I got 6 shoeboxes in a Martha’s tent. I am growing ochras so they require more FAE Which is why I got it all in a tent. So I can fan the ochra cakes plenty without losing humidity due to humidity in tent in being 80-90%.

Anyways recently had an ochra cake and a golden teacher cake die. So now I have 4 cakes. I have not dunked a GT bin yet, but I had all 3 ochra bins produce and have dunked em. This is one of the ochra bins. It’s 100% ochra and not me mixing up bin cuz I never dunked a GT bin. Anyways, the shrooms growing from it are clearly golden teachers. But how? It was growing ochras before the dunk and now these. But also, these look different than the other golden teacher bins I have growing.

Hellllllooo,

I am learning first hand how dumb it is to grow cubes in a grow tent 😂 never again. Will do shoeboxes neglect tek moving forward. But anyways, I dunked a couple Ochra cakes and have yet to dunk a golden teacher cake, but they all share a tent but have dubtubs on top to minimize contam spread and etc. anyways, this giant ass golden Teacher plopped out of this ochra bin I had dunked and rehydrated, how is that possible? Or is the an ochra? Or did i accidentally smash tek a cross between the two species 😂

Kinda like a teal color, I removed it from the rest of the flock. Just wasn’t sure if it was bruising, yes I tried a science experiment and removed a section of this cake due to myco p. So wouldn’t be surprised if it’s contaminated, just the rest of the cake looks healthy.

Pretty much

I have this bin seperated and in its own tub on the other corner of the room, I have it set up with mason jars full of water and paper towels to hold humidity and I put plastic wrap over the bin instead of the dubtub cuz it felt like the right thing to do. Yesterday it looked like myco urin#, today like this. Is it bruising or is it contam? I can still hold it for a minute and keep away from the others. But just curious what y’all think. Some context; I have 6 shoeboxes with 3 ochra shoeboxes and 3 golden teachers. The spawn for the ochra was 2 LC syringes for 3 spawn jars and for GT I used 1 LC syringe. Realistically I should have given GT’s more time to colonize. I don’t think “introducing fruiting conditions too early” caused this in and of itself but as I increased FC I also started to handle the bins less cautious which was fine for the ochras but the GT bins were still vulnerable and should have been handled with care and sterility. Well, not handled to be specific lolol

I have this bin seperated and in its own tub on the other corner of the room, I have it set up with mason jars full of water and paper towels to hold humidity and I put plastic wrap over the bin instead of the dubtub cuz it felt like the right thing to do. Yesterday it looked like myco piss, today like this. Is it bruising or is it contam? I can still hold it for a minute and keep away from the others. But just curious what y’all think

Woke up this morning to the tops of the caps being inky black. It looked like spores dropped all over them making them give off that messy look, but upon further inspection the taller shrooms also have black on their caps. Is this spores or just the color of the Ochra pheno type. Pick now or wait till tonight /tomorrow morning?

I sent into FC too early and this cake has this discoloration on it. Bruising/moisture or contam? Second pic is of Ochra bin, bin is sprouting strong but there’s a weird color in the upper corner and maybe it’s blue? Or is that contam too? :(

I sent into FC too early and this cake has this discoloration on it. Bruising/moisture or contam? Second pic is of Ochra bin, bin is sprouting strong but there’s a weird color in the upper corner and maybe it’s blue? Or is that contam too? :(

1. Fill up big tote with cold ass water from the tap.
2. Prep your cake needing dunking; I won’t go over that cuz everyone is different.
3. Gently submerge shoebox (or smaller tote, I mean if you could find a giant tote you could dunk mono tub same way)
   4.keep cake lined up with lid.
4. (I won’t go into it, but sanitary obvs. Clean tote and lid with iso)
5. Wanna make sure the cake stays in its tote, and make sure that shoebox has holes so ir sinks better.
   7.put lid back on shoebox, no need to latch and flip lid upside down.
6. For better surface area take that metal thing from pressure cooker and put that on top of the tote lid.
7. Fill up pressure cooker with water.
8. Gently put pressure cooker on top of everything . This step here is why it’s imperative the cake still is inside its respective tote/shoebox.
9. Lid on pressure cooker then lid on the big tote.
10. Next day slowly take everything out minus the cake. Let the cake float around freely so as the small pins and aborts and shit can float off.
11. Generally I like to wipe out the shoebox bin, this step might be where other people put liners in.z

Not sure if this is already how some people do it but I like giving the mycelium cake a giant cold pool to swim around in lol. When you put it back in the shoebox it just seems cleaner than had I just soaked in the shoebox container.

Also; if this is step for step already a tek I will take it down 😂 I didn’t think it was but if it is then I must of been asleep and heard it while I left my tv on or some shit. Anyways hope this is helpful for some

M

Edit; picked them today, 200g wet!

Set up the tent to stay humid and a steady 71F. These ochras are about to take off