Can you believe it, these things are still fruiting.
Production is sporadic. Not exactly flushes,
more hit & miss. I'll pick a small cluster like this
two or three times a week from the 4 straw bags
I started with.
Pins will usually stall out and dry up on 3 of the
4 corners and fruit develops on the 4th corner.
I think next time I will only cut 2 corners. Too
much energy wasted producing the dried up pins
with all 4 corners open.
Tried dunking these bags without much success.
No weight gain during a normal dunk. Seems this
stuff is water proof. So instead, I resorted to a
squeeze dunk. Gently squeezing the middle of bag
then releasing would bubble out some air and
draw in some water. Repeated squeezing 5 or 6
times and then let drain.
Maintenance has consisted of misting tub walls/lid
and fanning twice a day. I had to clean the tub
once before and its time again.
If I don't pick the fruit right away, they start
dropping spores and make a mess. Perlite in
bottom of tub is starting to look cruddy again.
Its time to rinse it out, bake it for an hour. While
that's baking, I clean the tub out with bleach
solution so everything is fresh & clean again.
I've gotten much better production out of these
straw bags compared to the newspaper bags I
tried. The newspaper got only 1 or 2 flushes.
Then haven't produced since. Newspaper myc
still looks good, but, it just sits there without
fruiting. Newspaper bags are easier to prepare,
but, the results are disappointing compared
to straw.
Cheers