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  Your cake looks fine overall. There are many tiny knots, so that give us hope. Let's soak the cake in cold water for 2-4 hours. You can do it right in the tub. More details on how to do it here: Rehydration.Don't worry, the crack in the cake is not a problem!There are a few tiny shrooms with black caps here:Aborted pinsThey are Mushroom aborts. Nothing bad, just pick them before rehydration, since they won't grow anymore.Filter patches work fine for your tub, you don't need to change them.Note for the future! After mixing grain spawn with bulk substrate, it’s better to add about a 1/3 inch (≈1 cm) layer of bulk substrate on top to cover all the grains. And tamp the whole cake a little. After full colonization and after each rehydration you can add a Casing layer (substrate based on peat moss), but it's optional and you can skip it for the first attempts.

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