In this video I show you all a pre-harvest shot of the F3 Apollensis. So far, every generation has had a very different and distinct performance, and the first flush is no exception. In the case of the F3, they have completely filled out the tub, yet the caps (despite open air fruiting) have not opened at all, not even a little!

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Key Topics:

• Can stressing the mycelium actually promote a better flush? HOCl

• Reliable way to tell if a mutant is from environmental or genetic factors

• Side pins: Nature vs. Nurture

• Shoeboxes without dub tub

• My best grasslover (Apollensis) flush coming in!

• The ‘wildness’ of E4Ks

• Black Cap Ochras, epic pines coming in!

• Weird blobs on ochra substrate turning blue. What are they? 

• Mycelium overlay, rich in flavonoids? 

Key Topics:

- How moist should your casing be?

- Casing review

- How to get a canopy of Mexican grasslovers… Not shoeboxes

- How Poolover mycelium looks, vs “Cobweb Mold”

- Bispo vs TTBVI

- Differences in colonization speed between the species

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Key Topics:

• Fuzzy legs=lack of FAE? Not always. Discussion

• Causes of aborts, how to avoid

• How is the trich tub doing? Was the operation a success?

• E4K discussion, unique grow characteristics

• Misting during fruiting? Demonstration

• Got mycelium on your caps? Is it due to low FAE? Well…

• Weird growth on ochra tubs. What are they? 

• EPIC Apollensis F3 flush coming in!

Here is the follow up harvest video of the mutant F2 Apollensis flush from video 106!

This was filmed more than 6 months ago, but the last few recent videos I have uploaded of my current grows (107-110) is directly related to the results of this flush from July as the current Apollensis F3 is the offspring of this particular mutant flush.

I hope we can get some mutants with the current F3!

🍄💜

Sage

Here is the followup to Video 54 on the fungus gnat infestation I had back in September 2023. In it, I summarize the simple steps I did to completely eliminate gnats from my home without the use of any chemicals.

I also show the first pins we are getting after leaving a shoebox in the fridge for 3 weeks, along with the first of my live casing experimentation!

Mush Love,
Sage

Did trich pop up during fruiting? This video is a tutorial on a method to salvage such tubs so that you may get a flush or two out of it, along with showing 2 methods to know trich is coming before it even hits.

Happy New Year Mycophiles! This video is an overview of this month’s genetics feature for the genetics tiers :)

Mush Love,

Sage

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdgFNt-rE3c&t=34s

Key Topics:

• Ochra sclerotia?

• Ochra overlay: What is the cause?

• Weird blobs throughout substrate. What are they?

• Misting HOCl=Better pinset?!?!?

• A good rule of thumb to estimate how big your fruits will get from when they are pins

• E4K pinning, what would cause two shoeboxes from the same plate to have distinctly different phenos?

• Apollensis F3 pins! Will they retain their mutations from F2?

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Key Topics:

• The situation with the false Natties (i.e., Ochras)

• Update from the Livestream Casing Tubs

• Ochras (formerly Natties), Coir Lovers, and Apollensis (Grass Lovers)

• How does a casing layer affect Ochras? Does it reduce overlay?

• How to prevent overlay on Ochras

• Ideal moisture content on casing layers

Key Topics:

• Tub-to-Tub communication to share phenos and fruiting performance (kind of like how women can synchronize menstruation cycles when in proximity) 

• My process in domesticating mutations

• Use of cloning and spores in domestication

• How I took spores from a TINY cap (too small for swabs)

• Checking through the potential causes of the sudden mutations 

I think the title is pretty self-explanatory for today's Patreon reupload! This will be a 2 part video, with this being part 1. In the second part, I will discuss and reflect upon why this method worked so well, and how it can be applied to those facing fungus gnat infestations.

I also show updates on how the Fridge TEK tubs are doing! Plus discuss some upcoming outdoor grow experiments in September.

I hope you are all having a great day or night!

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

• How to test mutations to see the cause, and to see if you they are reproducible genetically 

• NEW phenotypes popping off on the F1 tub almost 6 months in.

• Finally, a new flush coming in for the F2, one month after the last flush. Very strange morphology.

An update into the Apollensis F1 tub 5 months in!

I discuss their surprising flushing performance and consistency, even this long into fruiting! Not to mention out of hundreds of grows, this is the longest grow I have ever had. They just don’t seem to let up!

I hope you are all having a great day or night, and a fabulous Thanksgiving if you celebrate it 🦃

🍄💜

Sage

First update of the refridgerated shoeboxes upon my return from India

Key Topics:

- Minimizing side pins and blobs in PE-based varieties

- Should you re-apply a casing layer after a few flushes?

- Can Mexicanas benefit from blue light?

- Things don't have to be complicated with most "exotic" species -

-The importance of keeping your casing layer WET (and the consequences of not doing so!)

- Mexis are looking like Wavy woodlovers! And PEU first flush + premature harvest!

I hope you are all having a great day or night!

🍄💜

Sage

Hey everyone,

This video is a sort of addition to the last video about the huge Apollensis caps. In this video, I show a recent tampanensis flush with big caps (for tampanensis standards) to give you all a comparison between the two, and ultimately to bring home the point of how large those Apollensis caps really were!

All the best, and I hope you are all having a great day or night!

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

• Recasing sclerotia for more fruits

• Nepalese Landrace Coir Lovers! (Chitwans)

• Describing the unique phenotypes of Chitwans

• The dangers of sporulation for your lungs when fruiting

KEY TOPICS:

- 5 months old tub! How does it look? ;)

- Nature vs Nurture, which is stronger in mushroom cult?

- F2 Apollensis FLUSH 3, new unique phenotype!

- Does casing TRUFFLES (i.e., sclerotia) produce fruits?

- 5 months into fruiting! How do they look?

- Does casing increase yield? Non-Cased Nepal Chitwans

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

• The Longest Apollensis fruit so far! (third Flush, F2)

• Differences between F1 phenos and F2 becoming more and more apparent

• Should you recast after a few flushes?

• F1 5 months in! How’s it doing?

• Spawning a casing layer… with insect eggs!

• Doing a no-casing coir lover grow for the first time in a long time. How will it compare?

• Crazy growth on Apollensis F2 plate in only 2 days

Key Topics:

• Why some grows from the same plate succeed whereas others can’t, given all factors are the same.

• Why even monocultures can have different phenos from grow to grow

• Wild vs. Domesticated genetics, differences in genetics priority

• PE Uncut! First time, first flush!

• Avalanche 2nd Flush

Key Topics:

• F0s still thriving!

• 4 months in, a new phenotype very reminiscent of Florida Grasslover

• F1 vs F0 comparison, phenos and flush performance (4 and 2 months in)

• Discussing oversaturation of substrates due to misting, and especially dunking after a flush, and a good tip to avoid it

• Discussing the common confusion around Filial terminology

• Plans for future experimentation with Orbeez heating mat TEK

Key Topics:

• TTBVI flush ready to harvest! Yield!

• Alabama F1 flush 2, textbook specimens!

• The most crazy substrate shrinkage I have seen after a flush, and mycelium bluing! Stormtroopers aftermath

• PE Uncut starting to fruit!

• Mexicana Rancho Agosto shoebox coming in hot!

• Why Ranchos produce so many weird fruits compared to other mexicana strains

• Why trich often pops up AFTER a flush

Key Topics:

• Lab update on the Apollensis situation!

• F0: 4 months into fruiting (flush 15)! How is it doing?

• Apollensis F0 and F1

• F1 lacklustre performance so far… Will it improve?

• CRAZY Sclerotia fruit cluster!

• More MONSTER grasslover fruits popping in!

• Sclerotia (i.e., ‘truffles’), are they producing still after 4 months?

• Why are the F0s gnat-resistant, but the F1s aren’t?

I hope you have a great day or night!

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

• When to harvest albinos?

• Alabama F1 second flush

• Rancho Agosto sclerotia information

• Tip for avoiding truffle aftertaste

• Rancho Agosto new pins! Shoebox Exotics

• TTBVI shoebox! Awesome flush

• Benefits of TTBVI versus other coir lovers

• Size vs. quantity in potency

• Getting poolover caps to open up in shoeboxes

• Feverish Stormtrooper tub update!

• Trying out PEU and Gandalf (Old Cultures)

• Avalanche Second Flush update

Key Topics:

• What happens if you accidentally crack a substrate? Will it still fruit?

• Golden Halos! What are they and why are they special?

• Side/bottom fruits = Nature or Nurture?

• Lots of mutations

• Strange things on the mycelium surface… what are they?

• Bluing substrate when conditions are good, what can it mean?

• Comparing plant growth on cased vs uncased tubs

• Apollensis Update! F0 (4 months in) and F1!

• Gnat resistant genetics?

More in description!

Key Topics:

• Split caps vs cracked caps, what they each mean about your fruiting conditions

• MS Poolover TTBVI, Shoebox update!

• Random bluing. What does it mean?

• Misting poolovers, does it cause aborts? How should you water them?

• How much moisture is needed Poolover substrate?

• Why is it that one grow from the same materials as another might contaminate, while the other thrives?

• How is it that MS grows can synchronize and grow relatively uniformly?

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Key Topics:

• What happens to your substrate if you DON’T harvest your fruits?!?!?! Experiment time!!!

• BIG accident on camera! LOL

• Water pouring VS misting

• How can a slightly nutritious casing layer not contaminate for 5 months?

• Going back to non-casing… How will it compare? ;)

• What do good surface conditions look like, WITHOUT a casing layer? Case example

• Can you add seeds to a non-cased substrate?

• What is Golden Halo, and why is it special?

• Golden Halo blobbing!

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Key Topics:

• Comparing cased and non-cased shoeboxes, direct comparison

• Completely neglecting my shoebox without flipping the lid. How are they doing?

• Preparing to leave for a few weeks, how I plan to preserve my current grows

• Why contamination can sometimes INCREASE immediate yield

• How I prevent blobbing growing mutants, and get beautiful fruits

• Rancho Agosto MS plate to shoebox

• Read on in Description

Key Topics:

• Apollensis Sclerotia production vs Mexican and Florida Grasslovers

• Naming the first generation, F0 or F1? Labeling

• F1 Apollensis going crazy! Completely different phenotypes to F0

• Aborts in Apollensis, Mexican grasslovers, and Florida grasslovers, frequency comparison

• Demonstration of the ‘super rhizo’ bases in both F1 shoeboxes

Key Topics:

• Surface conditions, are they still important AFTER fruits come in? 

• The best example of what fruiting conditions should look like (in an uncased tub)

• Cased vs uncased, pros and cons

• Flipped vs unflipped (completely neglected) shoebox lid, pros and cons

• Relationship between genetics and environment, which is most important for yield?

• What do wild coir lovers look like? Here is the closest example of a landrace strain!

• Why are landraces/wild strains desired?

  More in description

Key topics:

- Mutants and sporulation… Are they swab-only?

- When to harvest Trinity

- Apollensis Cross F1, unique phenotypic features

- Very distinct rhizos on the base of F1 fruits, distinct from both either parent species AND F0

- Reflection on the increasing popularity of ‘exotic’ species, and the simplification of methods

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Key Topics:

- How to deal with cultivation when you’re going away for a few weeks, and not throw away your grows. Timing and preservation

- Almost wild F1 Alabama looking completely… wild :)

- Why are wild spores different? What can you expect? Is it a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ thing?

- Beautiful mutant flush

- Flip shoebox lid or no flip? No-flip grow

- Origin of the “semps” name

- Many different grows: TTBVI, PEU, Gandalf, Avalanche, Stormtrooper, Alabama F1, Mexi-Grasslover, Semps, Ecuador, and More!

Key Topics:

- No liner, no sidepins. How I do it.

- An example of how I mist during a heavy flush (live demonstration)

- 3 main reasons why many exotic species require casing layers

- Tip to avoid DRYING OUT in the summer months

- Is DUBTUB the way to go? Hmmmmmm

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Hey everyone, this one is a really quick video. Just a short update on how the F2 tamps from video #36 are doing, along with whether the Melmacs were able to drop spores. I also talk about the insane yield I got from only one quart jar of the Melmacs.

I hope you are all having a great day or night!

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

- Documenting first of the large-capped Apollensis from the original cross, completely unique morphology from both parents

- Unique identifying features

- F1 starting to pin! How will they compare to the F0?

- Relationship between species, genetics, and contaminations

- Discussion on why you may get contamination on one grow versus another from the same spawn

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Key Topics:

- Second flush of the canopy-producing tampanensis (AKA Florida Grasslover) shoebox, and yield result of first flush!

- How do tamps compare in ‘TASTE’ from coir lovers, and poo lovers?

- Why overall yield should be calculated differently with grasslovers/truffle producers compared to any other species.

- Why Melmacs are special, and perhaps the best overall mutant

- Are all PEs swab-only?

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

- When to take spore prints?

- Is it true that sporulation stops growth of future pins?

- Is it actually a good thing to have multiple flushes?

- Sclerotia talk, drip-feed nutrition

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Hey everybody, here is a Harvest and Chill episode from my old YouTube channel, back when I still showed fruits!

This episode is all about harvesting the Ps. tampanensis fruits from the Tamp Cake TEK I was developing at the time (AKA tampanensis grown on PF Cakes, and fruited with a ziploc bag).

Key Topics:

- Differences in the fruit between unautomated and automated fruiting chamber, direct comparison

- Hygrometers in fruiting chambers. Yes or No?

- Can contams cause aborts?

- Will directly misting cause aborts? No. Proof of concept, misting the crap out of Pans lol

- Are gnats more attracted to certain types of substrates?

- Apollensis update! 3 months into fruiting when filmed

- Comparison of common tampanensis and mexicana phenotypes

- Trinity Shoeboxes!

Key Topics:

- Is it a problem if your substrate is not fully white?

- Hyphal knots and primordia

- Initiating fruiting

- Fruiting conditions

- Slow-colonizers?

- Side pins, nature or nurture?

- F1 (First generation) Alabama, Fat-Bottomed Fruits!

- Uncolonized rice being colonized AFTER spawning to bulk!

4.5 months into fruiting Apollensis!

This flush has the largest truffle cluster I have ever seen. Very pretty as well! The lab has also gotten my samples, so it is only a matter of a few weeks to 3 months till I get the results.

I hope you all enjoy!

🍄💜

Sage

In this video I will show you an interesting exotic TEK with minimal automation by Mycophile community member Hotub.

The benefits of this TEK are that you can get tent-quality exotics, without all the moving parts, maintenance, and cost.

I hope you all enjoy!

🍄💜

Sage

Key Topics:

- Cased or uncased? (Next video is going to be even more in-depth on this topic)

- Keeping lids closed vs. flipping

- Evaporation rate and ambient air circulation

- What are ‘good surface conditions’?

- What does F1 mean? Why is it significant?

- Blobbing, cause for concern?

- Do mutants actually take longer in colonization and/or fruiting?

And more in description

Key Topics:

- The first of the huge caps of Apollensis, Flush 2

- Grasslover cap size in indoor setups

- Should you buy pre-sterilized grain bags? Vendor bags and contam

- Myceliated grain update

- GREAT NEWS! I have found a stockpile of some lost Patreon videos in my old computer. Mexi-grasslover bowl grow series, Melmac series, grasslover videos, and Shakti and Avery’s Albino videos coming soon :)

The F1 Apollensis (Mex X Tamp) tub is almost 4 months old now, yet it still keeps pushing out some massive fruits. Sharing my thoughts thus far 👾

- What is the difference between Albino and Leucistic fruits? Big misunderstandings regarding this topic

- Isolate vs Clone cultures

- What makes a good clone?

- Does a more rhizo culture equal better fruiting potential?

- When to harvest for eating vs. spore prints

- How will age of culture affect grasslovers’ fruit and stone production?

- History of Rusty Whyte coir lovers

- Huge environmental mutation

- Why I’m choosing not to mist while fruiting for this flush

And More!

Key Topics:

- Discussion on top layers, are they necessary and when can they help?

- CO2 and casing layer colonization

- Relationship between condensation on mycelium, and contamination

- Could your casing layer be causing your contamination?

- Do you ACTUALLY have clean spawn?

- Alabama F1 Phenohunting

- Avalanche Culture Run

- Plate check!

- Large vs. small subcultures/transfers

- Differences in alkaloid concentration between grains and fruits, using beta-carbolines as an example in coir lovers

- 2 secret projects (1 not-so-secret anymore XD)

- First shoebox run of the new cross

- New Exotic Fruiting Chamber TEK collaboration, dialing it in

- Myceliated Grains

- Will misting poo lovers cause them to abort?

- How are the Fridge-TEK’d jars doing after being neglected for 1 month?

- Rusty Whites, “Appollensis”, and Semp shoeboxes!

In this video, I discuss the effects of heat on contamination, along with the method I use to get super clean spore prints, which in turn create for very clean spore syringes.

Key Topics:

- Easy method to clone small stemmed mushrooms (exotics, not coir lovers) using HOCl

- TTBVI shoeboxes doing amazingly!

- Bispos spore prints and clone success!

Here’s the easiest way to harvest pan cyans! I call it the “Crunch TEK”.

Key Topics:

- Bispo shoebox has fruited! Completely neglected

- Multispore TTBVI update! Growing nicely

- Great cloning candidate! Discussion

- Influence of airflow dynamics in grow space

- COMPLETELY Neglected contammed Nat tub… Are they still fighting? ;)

Key Topics:

- Sterile fruits, what are they?

- Leucistic fruits

- How to help rehydrate mid-flush to greatly reduce aborts

- White clover bowl grow :)

- Neglect TEK Zaps still kicking and putting out new pins!

- Talking antidepressants vs Nat micro tasting

- Nats micro taste for migraines?

- The great misunderstanding about micro tasting….

Key Topics:

- What is cloning?

- What traits to look for in a good clone candidate?

- What flush should you clone from?

- Going from clones vs spores

- Does cloning work for stabilization of a variety/strain?

- Can you clone sidepins?

- Misting during heavy pinsets and flushes

- How I prevent side and bottom pins COMPLETELY without a liner

- The relationship between FAE, Humidity, Surface Moisture, and Aborts

- Flairosol-type mister versus regular mister

- Complete Neglect TEK’d Zaps

- Why Tidal Wave is a special lineage

- Paper towel trich TEK update, one week later! How is the tub doing? Has the trich spread?

Key Topics:

- How contam-resistant are natalensis? How aggressively will they fight back against contamination?

- Do spores on a substrate cause it to slow/stop production of new fruits?

- The yeast pool is mostly gone now, was it because the nats fought back?

- New contam in nat tub, mold. How will they fare from here?

Key topics:

- CRAZY yeast pool discovered and TASTED! How will the nats fare?

- Are nats ACTUALLY more contam resistant than coir lovers?

- Nats flush 2! Loads of sidepins, whereas I never get any on cubes. Why? Overlay

- My thoughts on the boom of Pans. Is their reputation as the ‘best species’ hype or actually legit?

- Talking about TTBVI visuals

Click to see the full list of topics

Hey everybody, today I will show you all how the Melmac fruits are coming along (unfortunately episode 2 of the Melmac run has been lost). This one is really short but sweet. I will show you guys how to mist coir lover fruits during fruiting.

🍄💜

Sage

Key topics:

- Trich is back :(

- More pins, but more aborts. Considering the causes

- Discussing whether trich in one spot of the tub cause aborts in another

- First round of Zap experimentation, success!

- Tamps and Tidal Wave update!

- Gnats are back!

- Maggots and bugs in wild mushrooms, extra protein :)

- TW aggressiveness!

- Comparing the smell of different species’ mycelium

- Truffle to cube fruit potency comparison. Fresh and dried.

- Does a casing layer ACTUALLY help reduce overlay on nats? (No)

- How much does nat overlay reduce yield?

- Talking about species that are stronger against contamination

- Yeast on overlay

- Nats pushing the lid up

- Morphological similarity of nats and pseudoaztecorum

- Lots of rosecomb mutations

- Epic mexicana bowl grow (only remaining footage, flush 10 or so)

Zaps Part 4!

- Should you skip agar? Is it overrated?

- Tips to prevent molding and bad bacteria on live casing plants

- On the unpredictability of Florida Grasslovers’ propensity to produce either sclerotia or fruits. Is there a way to encourage them to produce more of one than the other?

- MS Syringe, straight to brown rice! The two “no-no’s” of mycology!

- How long did it take for the Zaps to start pinning?

- Loads of Zap pins coming up! Will they be successful in an unmodified shoebox though?

Topics Discussed:

- Does a fully colonized fruiting surface ACTUALLY equal full colonization? What if the top is not fully white, is it fully colonized?

- Live Casing, Light, and Decomposition

- Are all mold harmful on a substrate?

- Zap pins are starting to pop! Unmodified shoeboxes

- The interesting thing about Zap mycelium

- Zap primordia hunt!

- MSS Flori-Grasslover 2nd flush pins coming in, plus lots of truffles/stones!

- Metaphysical benefits of growing mushrooms? ;)

🍄💜

Sage

Topics Discussed:

- Multispore syringes: Do they really suck?

- Live Casing Florida-Grasslovers and Zaps UPDATE!

- Fruits coming in hot! Small caps this time, why?

- Zap mycelium versus Grasslover mycelium!

- Where do most exotics get their moisture from? Substrate, or something else???

- Stem, dirt, and plant salad ;)

- Why I prefer Grasslovers more than Nats for microtasting

🍄💜

Sage

Here is the finale for the epic Florida Grasslover shoeboxes from May 2023!

A long one today! Click on the video for the full description of topics!

Part 2 of the awesome Florida Grasslover flush, plus Natty talk!

The first video of mycosage.com!!! This is a previously unreleased lost footage of an awesome shoebox TTBVI grow I had in the summer :)

Here is the first entry of a three-part series of an awesome tampanensis (AKA Florida Grasslover) run I had back in May 2023 😊

I hope you enjoy!