Second Flush

It has been several weeks since our last post. Here is what has been happening.
The first flush of mushrooms finished and we allowed the cake to dry out for 14 days. During this time the was observable new mycelium growth  occurring on the cake. We then re hydrated it by poking holes into and soaking the mushroom patch in cold water for 4 hours.

Also we built a fruiting chamber out of a 5 gallon bucket, aquarium air pump and stone, and a plastic dome that keeps the air very humid inside. We put about a gallon and a half of spring water in the bucket and then the air stone to speed up evaporation, and two gallons of perlite to rest the tray that the cake sits on. I will do a post with a more detailed look at how to build a mushroom vegetative growth chamber, and a fruiting chamber.

Here are the results  5 days after re hydrating the mycellium.

I must comment that this is pretty exciting for us! :-)