Well I have a decent canner, that’s what I used to prep the grain jars, so no issues there. Hell I even managed to start some button mushrooms off of stems from the grocery store, using nothing but boiled cardboard, and it was growing fine until I transferred it to a couple grain jars and got contamination in both of them… Funny thing was the cardboard mixture was prepped in open air and was clean, but by the time I had the grain jars I had built the still-air box so that transfer shouldn’t have had any problems. Ah well, it happens, but at least I know I CAN start things from stems.
When I tried fruiting my blues they didn’t do anything until I moved them over near a fan, then they took off a day later… and then stopped growing after about three days and dried out. That’s why I’m thinking maybe if I used my still-air box which has the large hand holes, they’d get the airflow but be able to retain some humidity in the box – or maybe not, it’s all guesswork at this point. I could certainly try putting a bag more directly in front of the fan but we only get about 30% humidity here. I’ve also considered setting a bag outside, I know the blues like it colder and we’re getting down near 50F at night (but then it comes back up to 90F in the day) and we have a lot of squirrels around so I think they’ll wipe out anything I grow before I get my share. There’s just not really a lot of options for me to try.