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 muse_sick
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Registered: 12/15/03
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Jar C looks like wet spot to me
as did some of yr earlier jobs
i'm sorry but i dont think you will have much luck indoors with this batch
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 DrJonez
journeyman
Registered: 06/16/04
Posts: 87
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Haha, I wish I could have MY mom look after my shrooms.
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ihatejacknjills
Lord Steve
Registered: 07/21/04
Posts: 91
Loc: UK
Last seen: 2 months, 29 days
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Today I made the final preperations before my holiday. I finnished teaching my mum how to use the computer/webcam so she can show me my shrooms while I'm away. I also sorted out my room so all the shroomy stuff is in the same place. My room is starting to look like some kind of wierd lab.
I also made a drying chamber. This is a plastic tub with a folded piece of paper in it and a fan to blow air on it. Here is a picture with some regular mushrooms that I am testing it on.
I also got a second tub, with a smaller tub inside it. I am going to put sillica gel in the bottom of the larger tub, and mushrooms in the smaller tub after they have had 24 hours of fanning.
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YahoKa
Just a guy.
Registered: 06/21/04
Posts: 124
Loc: Canadian
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Lookin good ... btw, for the bottoms of jars, incubate them upside-down and smack the bottom of the jar so the stuff isn't packed against the bottom (only a newb myself, but that seemed to help the bottom colonize quicker).
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ImOver18
FormerlyMr.Sleep
Registered: 10/05/03
Posts: 763
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 Re: My Setup (more pics) [Re: YahoKa]
#3059211 - 08/27/04 05:46 PM (4 years, 4 months ago) |
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^Yeah Yahoka, that'd work perfect if they weren't so wet, but I don't think it'll do much good in this case. That's a good point though.
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Gr0wer
cultivator &mycologist
Registered: 09/16/03
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Re: My Setup (more pics) [Re: ImOver18]
#3060272 - 08/27/04 10:32 PM (4 years, 4 months ago) |
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For drying your better off just facing the fan up and resting teh shrooms on the fan or have a screen over the fan. You might run out of room with your setup.
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ihatejacknjills
Lord Steve
Registered: 07/21/04
Posts: 91
Loc: UK
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Re: My Setup (more pics) [Re: Gr0wer]
#3061633 - 08/28/04 11:15 AM (4 years, 4 months ago) |
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OK. I will tell my mum to turn the fan face up and dry them out like that then, when the time comes.
And why do people keep going on about my jars being contaminated or wet? Two of my jars got too wet, and to my knowledge they had no contams. One of them is pinning now with the lid off in a freezer bag. As far as I am aware, the remaining 6 jars are all healthy.
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SocietyRejects
I justabsolutelycannot believeit's not butter.
Registered: 07/03/04
Posts: 1,186
Loc: You Guinea Pig!
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This is the part of growing mushrooms which I don't understand much at all. Damn it's such a complicated process. Good luck. Hurry back.
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ihatejacknjills
Lord Steve
Registered: 07/21/04
Posts: 91
Loc: UK
Last seen: 2 months, 29 days
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Yesterday I spoke to my mum. We did a video chat thing and she showed me my shrooms for the first time since I arrived in Spain. She has birthed all of the cakes for me. I double end cased one of them but left the rest (to make it simple for my mum). This will help me compare the different methods and see if there is an increase in yields for the dunked, rolled and double end cased cake compared to the others.
I got her to point the webcam into the tank and there are small mushrooms growing on 2 of the cakes! My mum said there was a sudden growth over night, but now they've slowed right down. What I'm hoping will happen is theywill slow right down so that they are ready to be picked when I get back. I think it's more likely that she will have to pick some though.
Does it matter if I don't pick them straight away? Is it ok to just let them do their thing untill I get back? And when will I know when to pick them (or get my mum to pick them)?
I will be back in England in a week.
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shirley knott
not my real name
Registered: 11/11/02
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congratulations! and commiserations also on missing the birth of your firstborn
they should be picked before they spray spores everywhere. some say 'when the veil tears', but i never bother with that. being practical, you want them nice and big, but no mess to clear up!
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utopianglory
Spunkmuffin
Registered: 07/20/02
Posts: 965
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Is she fanning the terrarium?
If it has slowed down that may be the problem (you don't want to slow them down, they just won't grow well).
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ihatejacknjills
Lord Steve
Registered: 07/21/04
Posts: 91
Loc: UK
Last seen: 2 months, 29 days
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This is a screenshot I took ever the webcam with my mum. She picked these today. I must say though, I have learnt something pretty major from this grow. That is to dunk, roll and DEC. I only did that on the first cake, and that cake produced 18 mushrooms. So far that other cakes have only produced 1 each. Will post more when I return to the uk in a few days. Saturday 11 is when I can do a proper update.
My regret is that I didn't start a week later. If I started a week later I could be doing this myself....
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utopianglory
Spunkmuffin
Registered: 07/20/02
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Looks like your mum did you proud there
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DrJonez
journeyman
Registered: 06/16/04
Posts: 87
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Nice :]
I should be seeing pins soon, and I've done everything about the same way you did. Hopefully I'll be seeing a pile like that :]
Any way your mother could weigh those so we can get an idea of how big your harvest was weight wise?
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SocietyRejects
I justabsolutelycannot believeit's not butter.
Registered: 07/03/04
Posts: 1,186
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Re: My Setup (more pics) [Re: DrJonez]
#3109400 - 09/08/04 05:40 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's so awesome, man. I can't wait to see your pics when you get back. Arrr *puts on eye patch*. I wanna grow some mushrooms now!! 
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HydroToker
Pornographer
Registered: 09/08/04
Posts: 61
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I'm new to this site and am learning ... going to get some prints (more likely just a syringe) for my first grow in the next week or so.
This thread has been very informative, can't wait to see more.
Good stuff man ... and mum 
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ihatejacknjills
Lord Steve
Registered: 07/21/04
Posts: 91
Loc: UK
Last seen: 2 months, 29 days
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Well today is my last day on holiday. That means that in just over 12 hours I will be back on English soil! One of the first things I'm goingto do when I get in is to photograph my tank and if necessary pick some shrooms out of it. I might not pick them straight away though, so I can eat the shrooms fresh out the tank when I decide to trip on them. Expect a big update either tonight or tomorrow morning.
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DrJonez
journeyman
Registered: 06/16/04
Posts: 87
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So is your mother planning on tripping with you too? 
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ihatejacknjills
Lord Steve
Registered: 07/21/04
Posts: 91
Loc: UK
Last seen: 2 months, 29 days
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Ok, I just got back and saw my babies for the first time. Tomorrow I will do a proper update with loads of pictures. I will trip tomorrow. I picked loads of shrooms today and put them in the fridge.
When I got in I thought they had all gone rotten but after a while (and much despair) I realised they had just dropped their spores everywhere. Here is a teaser picture:
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ihatejacknjills
Lord Steve
Registered: 07/21/04
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Loc: UK
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First here is a picture my mum took on my crappy webcam. It is shit quality.
Here are various pictures of my cakes:
Here is a picture of the shrooms I picked last night:
Me and 3 freinds eat all of these and a few dried ones today.
Psilocybe Cubensis spores:
Ben:
Today we took all of those mushrooms and a few dried ones. God knows the weight. Bob took the least, and me and Will took the most. This is my second time taking shrooms, but my first wasn't as strong as this. We thought nothing had happened at first, but after a while I felt a bit 'funny'. I looked at the wall and saw visuals. The wall I was looking at was a textured artex wall, and the pattern on it started to be alive. I'm sure all of you know what I'm talking about. About 20mins after this Will started feeling it too. We sat in my room for a bit listening to infected mushroom and looking at the wall and shit. Then we decided to go out in my garden. We litterally spent about 45mins just looking at various textures to see how they moved. We eat a few more mushrooms in this period.
The main thing that I noticed was how everything had a wierd living kind of feel to it. It seemed like everything had a skin over it and there were things moving underneath it. I especially noticed this is my toilet, where the tiles loked like octopus skin or something. They seemed to pulsate with the textures moving and stretching in impossible ways. Also the floor seemed to be moving up and down slightly, and the walls were doing similar things.
One of the other great things to look at was the sky. We were lucky because there were loads of different types of clouds about today. The shrooms made them seem to be constantly reforming and swirling around. Also, looking at my had was wierd as was looking in the mirror. It was as if there were insects under my skin or something.
A while later we all found ourselves kind of coming down. I think it was more because we weren't doing anything and we let the mood drop (and turned the tunes off). At one point I got a little bit panicy and started thinking I would like it to stop, but I went inside, listened to sme trance and soon after that the effects wore up. By this time I was feeling good again, and eventually I looked at the wall and it was dead. A little while later I was at basline and eat some smoked salmon and palma ham and bread and stuff.
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