Short and Fat

I’m growing some PE and Albino. I used rye berries as the spawn and bulk substrate composed of dehydrated horse manure, exotic zoo manure, organic coconut coir, vermiculite, and gypsum. They are cased and in tubs with 4 large holes stuffed with cotton. They are 65-70 degrees during the day and around 60 at night. 97% humidity. I have been misting and fanning like I usually do.

So, my problem is the pins are growing all fat stems, weird caps, lots of aborts. I read a lot about this and I guess it’s to much water, not enough FAE. I just wanted to throw it out here to see if anyone has an answer, and more importantly, a cure. I know the fruits will still be great, but man, they look knarly!

If anyone wants to see pics, I can upload some...

if you think you are using too much water and not enough fresh air exchange then fae more its not that hard but if you are not spraying enough or more you are obviously going to have to fae more i think you should spray more water and fae more like a lot more

Ah... OK.

WildCard008 said:

i think you should spray more water and fae more like a lot more

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Thank you. That is why I asked here, there are no really definitive answers as to why this happens. I was thinking maybe the drop in temp has something to do,with it. I’ve never had this happen in the summer when it’s warm.

Multi Spore spawn usually puts out short stumpy fruits the first flush. was your substrate field capacity? everything else seems fine you could simplify the substrate recipe until stuff moves more smoothly

Now it seems the second flush isn't happening. Some aborts, but thats about it. I wonder if there is anything I can do to the cakes (like dunk them or something) to get them going again. I am not sure what went wrong, maybe low temps, too much casing? I don't know...