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I am 3 weeks into colonizing GT/Z-Strain in BRF cakes do they look like they are moving slow to you? inoculated them on may 16 with 2 MS syringes. Just recently discovered that having them in a dark incubator was no good so now I have them on a shelf above my tv getting ambient room light and temps. seems like they stalled a lil...not much difference from a week ago. will be spawning to coir/verm with no casing...other than that I have one monotub 100% ready to go...working on the other...saran wrap window with double faced tape is awesome....plan on having 1 6500k above each tub with the mini fan goin on some kind of cycle. I do have an ultrasonic but i think im just gonna mist.
My whole goal with the 2 tubs is to reach 8oz dried. Does anyone see this happening from a first grow newb?
UPDATE:
UPDATE: 24 HOURS LATER
UPDATE: 8 HOURS LATER (STEM SPLITTING)
UPDATE: 28.5g(WET) 1ST CAKE 1ST FLUSH
4 PRINTS ARE BEING TAKEN ON FOIL.
I WOULD LIKE TO PERSONALLY THANK EVERYONE THAT HAS HELPED ME IN THIS GROW, AND FUTURE GROWS!
UPDATE: 7-7-2012
So for shits n giggles I decided to throw a 1" tall, fully developed and sporing mushroom in to one of my WBS jars. After shaking it around a bit to align it to my liking, this is what it looks like 4 days later. You can kinda see the cap, spores deposited everywhere!
I also took it upon my self to pluck a pin and throw it is a WBS jar, here is what this one looks like 4 days later.
If no contams are present I will make a GLC from the pin clone and knock up every jar that I can possibly stuff WBS in to.
No pics of the cakes yet, because there is nothing to show but about 1 pin per cake average, I really need to get this bulk underway, MS cakes piss me off, lol.
Looks good man thier coming along great. misting sounds ok but thats alot of work. If you dont want to use the ultrasonic have u considered just using perlite. much less work then spraying and from what i have heard tends to work better too. also u wont have to risk spraying your mushrooms with water
o didnt c u where doing bulk sorry its getting late but u could put the substrate in a tray on top of the perlite leaving a little space around the edge. I should also mention that if you have enough substrate in the bottem of a bulk grow it can actualy provide its own humidity. If u decide to let the substrate create the humidity just keep a eye on the humidiy levels. I have heard that 3 inches should be enough substrate to keep most terrariums humidity high enough.
Ok, so heres updated pics of my babies and my setup, thought they were stalled but they werent.... just got 2 6500k 23 watt cfls...pretty as light shade of blue...if they were a little cheaper i would buy a bunch for the whole house. anyways here they are:
Humidify it? It's a monotub. It creates its own environment with the substrate. It does this wonderfully with a fan on low in the room, pointed away from the tubs, and very loose poly during fruiting. Tape up the bottom holes for colonizing. Stuff poly TIGHT AS FUCK in the top holes. Setting and forgetting is going to be the absolute best for a first ime grower. Trust me when I say, you will fuck up your moisture content if you don't know what you're looking at on a monotub and try to mist and fan. But one set-n-forget success and you'll know what the ideal conditions will look like. And generally with coir/verm, you're gonna get 4-6oz dry on first flush. Good luck! And beware who you heed advice from. Simpler is better for your first time, and honestly it's better every time.
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Quote: FrankHorrigan said: Humidify it? It's a monotub. It creates its own environment with the substrate. It does this wonderfully with a fan on low in the room, pointed away from the tubs, and very loose poly during fruiting. Tape up the bottom holes for colonizing. Stuff poly TIGHT AS FUCK in the top holes. Setting and forgetting is going to be the absolute best for a first ime grower. Trust me when I say, you will fuck up your moisture content if you don't know what you're looking at on a monotub and try to mist and fan. But one set-n-forget success and you'll know what the ideal conditions will look like. And generally with coir/verm, you're gonna get 4-6oz dry on first flush. Good luck! And beware who you heed advice from. Simpler is better for your first time, and honestly it's better every time.
Ok, so when i go to spawn to bulk ill just tape the bottom ones, polyfill the top ones tight as fuk, and let it colonize for about 10 days give or take a day or 2, then when i see about 5-10 pins im gonna lighten up on the polyfill on top and undo the tape on bottom and polyfill that lightly....then set it and forget it till harvest? fuck fanning and misting? the way i have it set up is in my closet, which is in the corner of my room, there is a window with a fan that runs 24/7 blowing out of my room,( ) the draft actually passes right in front of the closet door, i think i am goin to leave the closet door open 24/7. i also have this little fan hanging that i was gonna pop the lids and let it run for a min or 2 to fan them out, any input would be helpful.
Quote: Notahacker420 said: Ok, so when i go to spawn to bulk ill just tape the bottom ones, polyfill the top ones tight as fuk, and let it colonize for about 10 days give or take a day or 2, then when i see about 5-10 pins im gonna lighten up on the polyfill on top and undo the tape on bottom and polyfill that lightly....then set it and forget it till harvest? fuck fanning and misting? the way i have it set up is in my closet, which is in the corner of my room, there is a window with a fan that runs 24/7 blowing out of my room,( ) the draft actually passes right in front of the closet door, i think i am goin to leave the closet door open 24/7. i also have this little fan hanging that i was gonna pop the lids and let it run for a min or 2 to fan them out, any input would be helpful.
Let em colonize till the pins appear, yes. It could take up to 20 days. Here's how I dial in my mono conditions visually: Loose loose loose poly on all the holes. Pull it apart until you have a very thin puffball, and stick it in so it covers the hole and basically nothing more. If you're not blasting the fan too hard, you can even make it so thin you can see through it. You'll see a lot of condensation on the sides of the tub at the start of fruiting- the idea is to get your polyfil thickness set up so the sides of the tubs always have some condensation on them. If the walls dry up excessively quickly, add a little more polyfill. But be careful- a little poly can make a big difference. A good sign is moist walls that have dry circles around your poly'd holes. The top holes may have a dry line extending below them, almost touching the substrate and that is fine. But if the walls are almost dried up, you'll want to stuff the poly a little tighter. It's harder to explain, once you see it and start fruiting, you'll get it quickly. Misting and fanning can be done after the first flush but you don't really need to if have it dialed in properly. The substrate should have a nice sheen of dew-like droplets over it, but they should be small. Puddles and big drops are not ideal, and when you fruit, you can sop them up with a paper towel or tilt the mono and let them drip down the side. When you fruit it, after removing the tape and such, give it a good fanning for a minute or two with a dry lid or even the fan will work. Pop the lid on and let it tell you what it needs, if anything. Hope this helps! It might be better for your tub to sit in the room with the fan, closets are not so good for airflow.
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not possible to put them in the room, cannot have these guys obvious, i have senial grandparents i take care of that can see in my room but never actually come in. but thanks for the advice. i will set it and forget it! once its "dialed in" of course.
Quote: Notahacker420 said: not possible to put them in the room, cannot have these guys obvious, i have senial grandparents i take care of that can see in my room but never actually come in. but thanks for the advice. i will set it and forget it! once its "dialed in" of course.
It's easier to see it visually than try to explain. Sorry if I was long winded, I took a sleeping pill a bit ago and it's starting to work its insomnia crushing magic Just run the fan in the window on low and i'd run the fan in the closet on low, not pointing directly at the tubs. and keep an eye on the moisture on the walls. Good luck!
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