No judgment zone. Let's see your contamination hall of shame.
I'll go first: in my second year of growing, I lost an entire rack of 50 shiitake blocks to green mold because my sterilizer wasn't holding pressure. Didn't realize the gasket had a slow leak. 50 blocks, all green within a week.
Every grower has contamination stories. The difference between growers who succeed and growers who quit is whether you learn from it.
Post your worst contamination photos below. Bonus points if you can tell us:
- What went wrong
- 2. How you figured it out
- 3. What you changed
Let's turn our failures into lessons for the whole community.