my poor, uneventful mushroom cake

I miss the glory days when I used to be able to grow shrooms no problem.

Now I have 1 cake in my chamber and its being a dick.

Its been in there for about 2 months now, and its still alive (as in, it hasn't dried up and died). 2 weeks ago it even started pinning (the whole thing is covered in little pins), but nothing more than that has fruited at all.

I dunno whats wrong with the little fucker. My main guess is the fact that my room has been so cold recently with this whole winter thing, as in you can see your breath inside during the day and night isn't much better even with the heating on.

I put the fruiting chamber on a heat pad to get it to the right temperature but still nothing is happening.

Since its the only cake I have, I'm tempted to crush it up and mix it in with substrate in a cd spindle, which I recon could have more luck (ie, I'm mixing it in with new substrate essentially creating a new cake whilst maintaining the nutritional value of the current cake and using the cd spindle as the fruiting chamber). I just don't want to run the risk of it getting 'germed up' and going mouldy.

Decisions...

The strain is shooting stars if that makes any difference..

 

we didn't have heat in my house for a few days and my cakes stunted growth, but now they're fruiting pretty well for the messed up climate

 

Patience, grasshopper.

What is the temperature?

24-26C is optimum IMO. Cooler temps will fruit but considerably slower.

 

i wish my house was 78degrees in the winter... my lol plants would flourish.. and I sure as hell would be shrooming..

 

A thermostat helps.

 

cold temps= stalled fruits.

 

Get your temps up to 70 or so and I bet youll see some growth. If you can see your breath, theyre never gonna fruit.

Dont spawn it to anything. Your idea wouldnt work like you think it would, anyway. You would have to spawn it to a real bulk sub like poo or coir. But once you initiate fruiting, you dont wanna go back to colonization anyway.

 

I have a monotub upstairs at 70 and a monotub downstairs at 76.

70 is a creeper compared to 76. funny how a couple degrees makes such a huge difference.

(Both isolates from the same batch)

 

greg u smell u have mademe nervous about theshooting stars print we had now. grrrr