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Oh, heating pad – you didn't mention it before. Although, even at 25-30°C, during bulk colonization, mycelium can deal with it. But heat pad might create excessive evaporation.Don't panic, it's not failed yet!Let's do the following for your forked cakes:You need clean drinking water (or chilled boiled water) and a syringe. Fill the syringe and drip-by-drip rehydrate the cake. Squeeze water out of the syringe in trenches created by fork, but try to avoid pooling water on mycelium areas that weren't removed by fork. Just to give you a general idea:~50-100 ml of water should be absorbed. Let the cake absorbing water and sit for 10-15 minutes uncovered.Spray water on bubble wrap – just a few sprays.Cover the cake with bubble wrap. The film can come in contact and touch mycelium, don't worry about it!Bubble wrap or PE film – blanket tek for pinhead initiationRemove bubble wrap twice a day to introduce fresh air and check the mycelium.Hopefully in 4-7 days we'll see pins 🤞If that doesn't work, we'll go with plan B ;-)Regarding your 2 new cakes: They both look good! Try to reduce humidity to 90-92% – very-very slowly, within a few days. Use fan gently (about 10% of the power), but for longer and/or more frequent. Don't use it in full power mode. Or keep it opened for 10-15 mins 3-4 times/day without using the fan at all.Mushrooms do need humidity, but they also need some evaporation from the top layer – such condition triggers fruiting and prevents overlay on the areas with fluffy-puffy (tomentose) mycelium.Do you know what type of fan in your chamber (diameter, CPU)? Is there any kind of protective filter in the box for filtering the incoming air? Or it works as exhaust fan?I believe we'll make your cakes fruit! Keep me updated, please :-) Let me know if you have any questions
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