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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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

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

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

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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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

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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?

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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!

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:

- 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:

- 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!

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?

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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

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:

- 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

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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

- 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)

- 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!

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

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!