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First Grow. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing, grow log [Lots of Pictures]
    #7543789 - 10/21/07 05:53 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Prologue: I have ordered a 10cc syringe of B+ strain Cubensis from Spores101.com, so far ive heard good things about them. Anyhow, I have purchased all required supplies and am just awaiting the arrival of the spores. I have a nice Nikkon DSLR camera so expect some nice pictures to come!

The Plan: Using the standard PF Tek method up until birthing the cakes. I will then preform the dunk and role tek followed by the 50/50 casing tek. This will take place in a large opaque rubbermaid bin with a perlite bottom for humidity. I will be making 5 PF Tek jars 3 of which will be cased and two of which will be caked, as long as no contaminations get in the way.

Day 1: Ok, so my spores came today, exciting right?! Anyhow i made the standard PF mixture, did the steam boiling, and inocculated them. I have serious doubts about my procedure but i guess that's to be expected the first time, the biggest thing im worried about was that my jar were very slightly warm to the touch when i inocculated, i was being rushed to finish because i had other things to do. Although i tried to make everything as sterile as possible, im still worried i contaminated something. Im going away until sunday so we'll just have to see what awaits me when i get back.

Day 4: Got home from vacation today and checked on my jars. THEY HAVE A CRAZY AMOUNT OF GROWTH...or atleast more then i expected for 4 days worth of it. They are being kept in a pitch black area at about 85F. Lemme know how you think they are doing?



Day 5: Tempature was lowered to ~80F last night. Came home this afternoon to a good amount of growth. Everything still look good to you guys?





Day 6: Growth has gotten alot more of a rhyz growth to it! i have one jar that has almost connected all the way around some of the others are being a bit slower but their development has been good for 6 days i'd say.







Day 7: My jars are at about 30% colonization. Growth is getting really rhizomorphic now compared to before and in four of the jars the band of mycelium has gone almost all the way around. Thanks:)





Oo and here is a picture of the FC i built today, look ok?


Day 8: Myc growth is really going fast I have pics from both sides of the jars to show how well they've colonized in 8 days! Let me know how they look to you all.





Day 10: Most of the jars are anywhere from 70-80% colonization i'd say. Still no sign of contams, which i must say does not trouble me;). Drilling holes in the fruiting chamber today.
Also got a nice sack of mushrooms from the fields yesterday, im gonna try to get a spore print of a cap. Here are pics of the most and least colonized parts of my jars, let me know what you think. Thanks





Day 12: Growth for the past two days has been good, jars are all about 90% colonized. I have bottom growth on 5/6 of the jars and expect the other to catch up tomorrow. Got pics of the least/most colonized portions of the jars. Still no sign of contams. Thanks







Day 14: The mycelium growth is at about 90-98% in all the jars but it seems to have slowed down a bit now. Just ordered a syringe of Golden Teachers to test out next.I also went out and got horticultural hydrated lime and crushed oyster shells today for my casing. I hope to start fruiting in like a week-week and a half.

Day 19: All the jars are at 100% colonization. 3 of the jars have been incubating for 5 days now and i am waiting for the rest to incubate a little bit longer. I also knocked up 6 jars of GT strain. Im gonna wait 3 more days and then i will case them. Thanks for viewing, drop me any comments or suggestions you may have.

Day 31: PINS!!! hooray! I checked up on my FC and found my first three pinson a cake! yay i'm so happy. Anybody considering trying to grow, DO IT! It is the best feeling to know that you helped create life.



Day 32(11/18): MORE PINS HOORAY!!! I have more pins forming on the cake shown yesterday as well as a big fat lump of a pin on another cake. Not to mention a pin on my casing as well.







Day 33(11/19): Today i counted 21 pins the pins in the casing are growing extremely fast while the pins on all the cakes are taking a little less time. Soo excited!!!









Day 39: Well I got home today to find a FC BURSTING with mushies, the only problem is i lost alot of spores all over the place, but w/e. I had a total of 37 caps 12 of which were 1.5 inches in diameter or bigger. Thanks Shroomery I will have a dry weight up in a few days! Sorry I dont have pics of them on the cakes/casing but it was such a gross mess :tongue:



Not even counting days anymore:) The first flush's dry weight was 12 grams and the second flush is starting to come in, i have about 8 decent size pins and some other ones starting to pop up. Next week I will let you know how potency was. I believe 3g for testing should be effecient, agreed?

Let me know what you guys think, any comments are happily welcomed :mushroom2:


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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7543831 - 10/21/07 06:05 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

85 is a little too high. bring it down to 80. on me mobiles so hard to tell. but that seems like a lot of growth for just 4 dyas.

r days you should be seeing very small circles of growth.

someone else on there computer that can see these pics beter?


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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: veda_sticks]
    #7543852 - 10/21/07 06:10 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

thats what i was thinking too...Im super afraid that it is cobweb, but i heard that it is usually found on casings.


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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7544012 - 10/21/07 06:46 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

they look good .. just like mine .. they are fine .

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: orchidfanatic]
    #7547614 - 10/22/07 04:44 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

See 1st Post

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7547666 - 10/22/07 05:01 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

this is exactly like mine good lucky :smile:

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7547676 - 10/22/07 05:03 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Those look great! I'll be starting my first grow with a similar tek in a few days. I will be using the B+ strain as well. Let me know how it turns out!


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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: stxlacrosse022]
    #7547680 - 10/22/07 05:04 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Yep all looks good!!! seems like the temp drop has made a difference, i think maybe some of the teks may need to be updated, it seems now that around 80 is the prefered temp, i think the teks still state 86


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Lets Grow Mushrooms - RogerRabbit & RoadKills website with sample videos plus the full PF TEK video series. Alot of great information - BUY THE DVD
Cakes can and will pin! - So you think cakes suck for pins. Your wrong
Franks Simple Coir/Verm Tek
Franks Proper Pasturisation Tek
Franks Spawning To Bulk - Monotub
Professor Pinheads RTV Injection Port Tek
Foo Mans No Soak WBS Prep Tek

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: veda_sticks]
    #7551853 - 10/23/07 05:11 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

See 1st Post

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7551882 - 10/23/07 05:23 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

i hope that therm doesnt have an S for seminole county ha hsould be a little safer next time but yea those jars look very nice

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: milkman]
    #7551901 - 10/23/07 05:28 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

nope not seminole county my friend lent me the therm dunno what the S is for though


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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7555398 - 10/24/07 03:12 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

See 1st Post

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7560674 - 10/25/07 08:41 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

See 1st Post

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7560738 - 10/25/07 08:55 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

I don't see any holes in the FC or 3-4 inches of perlite. I assume that your humidity and FAE is coming in from under the bottom where we can't see?

The light set-up looks good.


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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: cbiegel]
    #7560746 - 10/25/07 08:56 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

oo i havent drilled them/filled it yet:tongue: im waiting until my cakes are a little more colonized.


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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7566230 - 10/27/07 09:59 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

See 1st Post

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7566287 - 10/27/07 10:17 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

sweet!

what are you using for filter material? micropore tape?

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: This guy]
    #7566426 - 10/27/07 11:10 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

actually, nothing just the dry verm layer.


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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: Cactusdan]
    #7566514 - 10/27/07 11:38 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

so what is that white lid you on there ??? is that like filter or some TYVEK?

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Re: My first attempt at Cultivation. B+,PF Tek, 50/50 Casing [Re: KulTiVater]
    #7566581 - 10/27/07 12:03 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

oo its just the brass lid flipped over, in one of the teks i read/saw it said it was better to do it that way.


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