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 DrxLecter
Cannibal
Registered: 01/23/07
Posts: 1
Last seen: 5 years, 2 months
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 Over a week and a half after birthing, no change 
#6491260 - 01/23/07 10:34 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is my first grow so I am not expecting to have done everything perfect, so just asking advice. Started with half pint jars, brown rice ground in a coffee grinder(i added extra water to the substrate to compensate), vermiculite, and Hawaiian strain. I inoculated twelve jars right before christmas. One of the jars fully colonized in only two weeks, the entire cake was covered in white mycelium. I birthed it into a 2 litre soda bottle (EXTREMELY poor college student here), the bottom was covered with a layer of wet vermiculite and then a damp paper towel was placed on top of that layer. The birthed cake was placed on towel and I made sure the container was air-tight (you can not move the top when the cap is on. I do an air exchange twice a day, and you can barely see the cake due to the large amount of water droplets on the side of the bottle so I know the humidity is pretty high. However the cake has not changed at all in the past week and a half, zero difference, no new growth, no fluffyness, no pins, nothing. The cake looks exactly the same is when I placed it into the bottle. The remainder of my cakes are almost done colonizing and wanted to see if there was anything I should do differently for them. Unfortunately building a terrarium is out of the question for another month or so due to money constraints. So, Questions:
1. Should I have put that layer of wet vermiculite in the bottle?
2. Should I have put the paper towel in the bottle?
3. I have spare vermiculite and access to distilled water, Should I try dunking and rolling even though my first cake is doing nothing, or should I wait and try to get fruiting experience first?
4. Is there anything else I could have majorly screwed up that I might not have explained?
5. Is there a chance this cake just needs more time?
6. Any other tip for my next cake birthing?
Thanks in advance for any/all help.
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FungiRape
The $ickest Loco
Registered: 12/27/06
Posts: 818
Last seen: 5 years, 3 months
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 Re: Over a week and a half after birthing, no change [Re: DrxLecter]
#6491307 - 01/23/07 10:46 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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1. Perilite
2. no, use foil
3.no just wait.
4. maybe.
5. YES
6. get a better FC
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