First time grower, slow rough experience. Unsure if this is okay or not

Hello,

I'm looking for some advice here, unfortunately I made some mistakes as it was my first time. The room got much colder then I thought which made the mycelium take quite a while to grow and it never ended up fully reaching the bottom after about 6 weeks. I decided to just start fruiting it because I wasn't seeing any progress even with the heating mat.

It's been fruiting for probably around a week now, and I think my tubs definitely do look stressed at a minimum. There are some bluish patches at the top that haven't really spread much and I believe I am looking at bruising but I am not 100% sure obviously.

I've also noticed some of the mushrooms are growing quite faster then the others, so I am having a hard time figuring out what to do with these tubs, I want to make sure they are safe and I can finish the process taking the correct steps or discard these tubs if needed.

Thanks so much in advance!

Sorry just to clarify these are current photos and there are two different tubs at play here.

Hello,

Your cakes and mushrooms are absolutely fine and healthy! To be 100% sure, could you pls show me the bottom of your cakes?

You're right, the bluish patch here is just Mycelium bruising

Bruising patch

Side pinning and mushrooms growing from the sides are also not a problem.

Side pinning

It’s also normal that your shrooms are growing at different speeds between cakes and even within the same cake, since you used multispore genetics rather than an isolated culture. Think of them like kids in kindergarten – the same age, but they look and develop differently :-)

For now, just let your shrooms do their job – let them grow. Harvest them once they are ready. Check out: Flush #1. When and how to pick mushrooms. They should be ready within the next 2-5 days. Don't be afraid to remove the cake from the plastic jar to harvest the side-growing mushrooms.

After harvesting soak your cakes in water for 2-4 hours. Check out: Rehydration step and then... wait for the next flush ;-)

Hope to see updates 🤞

All the best!

Thanks so much for the quick response!

So here are the pictures from today for Tub 1, it looks like a veil did break on one of them but I wasn't expecting my golden teachers to look like this based on some pictures I've seen beforehand. So that's pretty interesting you mentioned multispore genetics are involved!

Just so there is no confusion I am going to leave a second comment for Tub 2 with pictures displaying the bottom for that as well.

I'm assuming it never got to the bottom because of how packed in it was?

Thanks so much again for linking the articles and your help I am looking forward to being able to harvest these.

Here are the photos of Tub 2

Yep, your GTs (Tub 1) are ready for harvesting. You can harvest ALL of them and rehydrate the cake. The 2nd flush may look different and may be much better after soaking – it works like heavy rain in nature ;-)

Tub 2 needs a lil bit more time before being harvested...

The bottoms in both tubs isn't completely bald. Mycelium has reached the bottom, but it's not fully colonized yet. That's not a problem for now, but this area tends to be more prone to contamination. However, mycelium may continue growing there after soaking.

Let's hope for the best 🤞

On the rack! They seemed to get bruised up pretty badly but not surprised!

Thanks so much for your help :)