Favorite / fastest substrate

It's been interesting to far but I dont know the terminology which makes it a bit harder to learn

don't use any flour. Use a grain instead. You will never thank me because you won't know all of the problems you avoided with flour teks. Lots of people here use flour but it really doesn't make sense, you can not shake your jars and you will always have moisture retention problems - which is why the cake people have to do that dunk and roll stuff. Best to just make your substrate the right moisture to begin with. The more moisture that is in your intitial substrate the more mushrooms you get as the limiting factor is moisture and not nutrient.

Can you reccomend any good videos on youtube for me to check out. I'm really interested in going further.

I had one jar that tipped in the cooker and it just got flooded. Its still colonizing just alot slower. But it is a heavy bastard

I have a few jars that are fully colonized should I fruit them like they are or should I try to crumble them into a bulk subtrate?

Just fruit them whole.

If you have enough jars. You can do both. I think that you should. This way, by the time the bulk is ready to be fruited, etc. You will already have some boomers to nom on. Nom nom nom. Punk. Get to trippin'.

Originally Posted by DaSprout

If you have enough jars. You can do both. I think that you should. This way, by the time the bulk is ready to be fruited, etc. You will already have some boomers to nom on. Nom nom nom. Punk. Get to trippin'.

Yeah but I've done experiment with crushing them and and adding them to coir and also using them alone. I never seemed to yield any more than fruiting them whole. If you are going to run cakes, my advice is to run cakes. Dunking and rolling after each flush. I know canndo has a difference in opinion on this subject than I do but I think they are fine for the hobby grower. He's right in that they are a pain making all those little jars and always dunking and rolling but if you just want some boomers to eat with your friends a few time a year and that's it I think it's a cheap and easy way to accomplish that. Before I went to grains I got pretty damn good with cakes. I could easily pull 2-3oz dry off 10 cakes over 3 flushes.