Opening your Ready-to-Fruit Grow Kit.
The amazing feeling of starting something new, you get home and wonder what should I do first? You prepared your new “habitat” for your special Fun-Guy. You spent hours researching ways to maintain humidity, Oxygen/Free Air Exchange. Now, its the time to put all that knowledge to the test and fruit those mushrooms! There are two ways we can go around promoting those primordial/pins to continue growing into Mushrooms.
Side Fruiting - cutting a small x or poking holes on the side of the bag and enticing the primordial/fruiting bodies to grow out of the bag.
This is the most preferred method if you’re not able to control humidity and air exchange. This provides the best protection of the delicate mycelium and allows the primordial/pin formation to gradually climatize to your homes growing conditions. This is a delicate way of growing and will help prevent a sudden climate shock which can kill or stop growth of the mushroom.
2. Top Fruiting - Opening the top of the bag and exposing the top of the Mushroom grow block to atmosphere.
This method is preferred if you’re able to keep high humidity within your Growing/Fruiting Chamber. The mushrooms will be exposed to more fresh air and provide a more Mushrooms.
If you prefer this method, you can adapt a method of slowly acclimatizing the mushroom grow kit by incrementally cutting a portion of the top of the grow bag every few hours till the Grow Kit is exposed.
Top Fruiting