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The Beautiful Beginning.
    #21135735 - 01/17/15 09:20 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

Hello, Shroomery! This is the beginning of my first cultivation operation. I have been reading threads from this forum for the past year in preparation for this wonderful experiment. I am following the Pf Tek, as per recommendation to accommodate me as a noob. I mixed roughly six cups of vermiculite to three cups home-ground BRF with three cups purified bottled water. I then sterilized the jars in two seperate sterilizations due to small pots. I constructed a still air box using cardboard, cling wrap, and trash bags as the impromptu gloves. I sanitized my gloved hands with 70% isopropyl alcohol. Six half-pint jars received Pf Original (Amazonians? I have heard controversy as to the actual strain that this is. Anybody have any information on that?), and six half-pint jars received PC B+ spores. This is how far I have currently gotten. I am a little worried that my substrate may be too dry, however I have been told otherwise. It has been about 24 hours, novisible changes, but i dont expect there will be any visible rhizomorphic growth within the next three or four days. Any comments or criticisms are appreciated. Thanks for the read!
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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: whatisvoices]
    #21136426 - 01/18/15 12:39 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

Click [pics > upload > choose files] to upload pics

Then, after your upload finishes, just click on the link under the photo and it will copy and you can paste it to your message.

It can take a week or two before you see any noticeable growth. Ambient light in a bedroom has been proven to be beneficial to mycelium, so just keep your jars on a shelf or somewhere they can get indirect light.

If your BRF+verm was at field capacity before sterilization, your moisture content should be fine :thumbup: And as long as it can finish colonizing, you will be good, because you should dunk & roll before fruiting. The "dunk" will re-hydrate the mycelium.

As for the strain question, from my knowledge, PF classic is Amazonian and it's also sold under another name - a city in mexico - the actual name escapes me right now. Grain of salt; I could be wrong..

Good luck with your grow, my friend!


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: ganjfather]
    #21136442 - 01/18/15 12:46 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

I've never heard that PF classic and Amazon are the same.  Can anybody provide a little background on this?  I have some PF classic almost ready to fruit and haven't really checked it out at all, but have been generally interested in eventually doing an amazon grow.


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: Inocuole]
    #21136452 - 01/18/15 12:51 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

Welcome to the Shroomery.

Pics would be helpful for sure. http://www.shroomery.org/forums/upload.php
Wishing you luck! :super::popcorn:


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: Inocuole]
    #21136472 - 01/18/15 01:04 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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I've never heard that PF classic and Amazon are the same.  Can anybody provide a little background on this?  I have some PF classic almost ready to fruit and haven't really checked it out at all, but have been generally interested in eventually doing an amazon grow.





It's all kind of in the air, from what I know. I believe it was Roadkill back in the day making a fuss saying pf and amazonian are the same. PF said their were different but thought people started reselling PF under the name amazonian.. Blah blah. Search it up if you're really interested. The other one is matias romero I believe, which people say is the second alias.

What I think it is, is that people started reselling PF under the name amazonian like pf said, then it all became confused and fucked and some vendors kept the name amazonian while other called it PF classic and then some assholes just threw the name matias romero in there for no fucking reason. IDK though, I'm just talking out of my blotched, shitty, half hallucinated memory of posts I read a long time ago. You'd be better off searching around, specifically with roadkill's posts on the subject


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: ganjfather]
    #21136951 - 01/18/15 06:47 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

in my experience, too dry is better than too wet, but when following the tek you shouldn't have any problems.


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: wowimflabbergasted]
    #21137811 - 01/18/15 11:39 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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Welcome to the Shroomery.

Pics would be helpful for sure. http://www.shroomery.org/forums/upload.php
Wishing you luck! :super::popcorn:



Thanks for the help, guys! The original post has been updated to include pictures of my progress. :laugh:


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: whatisvoices]
    #21137881 - 01/18/15 11:53 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

If you're gloves are attached to your sab take them off.


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: wowimflabbergasted]
    #21137985 - 01/18/15 12:12 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

One glove was stationary, while one was one my hand. I used the detached glove hole to insert the syringes after sterilizations and between inoculations. I sterilized the needle with a Bic lighter once between each jar as to prevent any contamination. Does that sound like the appropriate procedure?


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: whatisvoices]
    #21138004 - 01/18/15 12:15 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

Detatch both your gloves. :thumbup:


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: wowimflabbergasted]
    #21138031 - 01/18/15 12:20 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

I'll be watching,

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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: wowimflabbergasted]
    #21138167 - 01/18/15 12:39 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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Detatch both your gloves. :thumbup:




Yea this. Attached gloves stir up air currents

But for PF tek you'll be fine this time, its one if the few things you could do in open air if you wanted. Of course. Its always best to use a still air box.


The first grow is always most exciting and it looks like you did every thing right, good luck!


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: mushpunx]
    #21138406 - 01/18/15 12:56 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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The first grow is always most exciting and it looks like you did every thing right, good luck!



Thanks for the good vibes! I'm only growing more anxious as I look around this website at all the teks. I'm so excited.


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: whatisvoices]
    #21139788 - 01/18/15 04:34 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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The first grow is always most exciting and it looks like you did every thing right, good luck!



Thanks for the good vibes! I'm only growing more anxious as I look around this website at all the teks. I'm so excited.




Its a seriously addicting hobby. The reward of good pyscedelic is more of a plus, honestly there are so many enjoyable aspects to growing mushrooms.
Its super hands on and brings out the inner nerd sometimes haha. Seeing pins come up feels like christmas lol


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: whatisvoices]
    #21146924 - 01/19/15 09:54 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

It is day number three, and all jars are still at zero percent colonization. I am not worried, just anxious.


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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: whatisvoices]
    #21147321 - 01/19/15 11:08 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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day number three



:facepalm:

Go do something else. Wait 14 days or until germination before posting here. Read up on birthing techniques, watch the http://www.mushroomvideos.com/BRF-Pf-Tek again, build your SGFC.
You'll be fine bud,

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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: taGyo]
    #21147452 - 01/19/15 11:45 PM (9 years, 2 months ago)

Looks good, man, keep it up. First getting your feet wet in this hobby is awesome. My advice to you would be to try everything that interests you. There's a lot of stuff out there that's good and a lot that's bad, but firsthand experience trumps any anecdote over the internet. Agar work is super fun and really easy inside a proper SAB, probably one of the more rewarding parts of this hobby imo.

If you need a way to kill some time you could get your hands on RR's videos and watch them, they're bursting with information. Get your hands on some mushroom literature and learn some stuff.

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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: taGyo]
    #21148575 - 01/20/15 09:14 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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day number three



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I laughed out loud. I understand that my anxiety must look childlike, but surely you are familiar with the splendor that is your first dozen inocculated jars. I will return in ten days, or when there is a significant change worth updating about. You guys are great.
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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: whatisvoices]
    #21148917 - 01/20/15 10:32 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

Trust me,

I was worse,

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Re: The Beautiful Beginning. [Re: taGyo]
    #21166633 - 01/23/15 09:28 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

I have mycelial growth! I am the greatest!


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