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PurpleKush
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first casings
#6220648 - 10/28/06 10:34 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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i have three casings, each with two half pint BRF jars broken down and cased with 50/50+ (peat, verm, oyster shell). i have them in a PMP with perlite and two bubble wands. two were incubated in a TiT and one was just immediately put in the FC and given about 12 hours of light a day.
the two on the right were incubated 3 days, the one on the left has been in the FC for about 10 days.
please excuse the shitty picture, but i figure something is better than nothing.
incubated casing #1
incubated casing #2
not incubated casing
im starting to see the little knots forming and the mycelium looks nice and healthy, but i still have no pins.
i haven't been misting much at all. am i supposed to be misting at this point?
also, the temp in the PMP is only 63-65. can anyone offer a suggestion on how to get the temp up in the FC? i was thinking about picking up another tub and making a PMP TiT. what temp is best for fruiting?
hope i didnt forget anything, thanks for your help
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Eraserhead
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Keep misting, gota keep that casing layer at near saturation. Can you put an electric heater in the room the tub is in? or preferrably an oil filled radiator style heater.
someone correct me if I'm wrong about misting, but I'm pretty sure you want to kee it up
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dalorean88
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I thought that misting was a big nono on the casing surface after the myc starts to show. Either that or was it that you dont mist after those knots start to form? Perhaps research is not afar.
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5t3v3
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once myc breaks the casing layer you should stop misting. it will then have enough moisture to carry it through the pinset. http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/3290155/an/0/page/0 -hyphaes strategy
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5t3v3
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Re: first casings [Re: 5t3v3]
#6222006 - 10/28/06 08:42 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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yea, use a space heater in the room with tub like eraserhead said. if you cant do that use an electric blanket or heating pad. make sure the temp will stay constant with both. optimal temps for pinning is 70-75, fruiting is 74-78. do what you gotta do to get to about 72-75 and youll be good
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KaptKid
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those knots will bcome pins and the pins will become shrooms.
I love to watch the growth. GL
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student9
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Re: first casings [Re: KaptKid]
#6222542 - 10/29/06 12:29 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Me too, i love coming back to it five, eight hours later and seeing the difference.
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5t3v3
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Re: first casings [Re: KaptKid]
#6222548 - 10/29/06 12:35 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
KaptKid said: those knots will bcome pins and the pins will become shrooms.
I love to watch the growth. GL
is this a copied and pasted post?lol
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PurpleKush
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Re: first casings [Re: 5t3v3]
#6222954 - 10/29/06 06:46 AM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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thanks for the suggestions, i got a ceramic space heater and put it in the closet with my PMP. its an unvented room, so all the heat stays in there. temps are at 70-75 now, and ive already noticed a big difference in growth. i definately see tons of knots on the two that were incubated, but the one that was just thrown in there doesn't have many knots. it still looks like good healthy mycelium, but the casing layer is a lot more colonized than the other two.
i think from now on, all my casings will be incubated three days. and i might try a thicker casing layer next time.
thanks for the help, ill be sure to post pics of the harvest.
edit: here are the casings right now. i left the flash on this time, i think it turned out a little better, but still blurry.
Edited by PurpleKush (10/29/06 06:59 AM)
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Eraserhead
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Gotta have a steady hand and learn where your best focal points for macro shots are at on it.
It takes practise, and sometimes 30-50 pictures to get 1 good one
You'll get there eventually
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dutchmushroom
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not too bad for a newbe to casings
peace
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Newbie
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Yeah they'll be fruiting in no time. More pics
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5t3v3
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Re: first casings [Re: Newbie]
#6223590 - 10/29/06 11:19 AM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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I just started seeing primordia on my first casings today. im just couple days ahead. GL man.
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MajorDick
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Yeah I hate blurry pics too. Most digicams have a good but shitty auto focus. IME with every digicam i have ever used just smashing down the shutter button and waiting on it to capture makes the photo very blurry. However most digicams you can very lightly rest your finger on the shutter, and the auto focus will engage. If it has a view screen it will suddenly sharpen the image on it, and usually a light will come on also. When that happens press the shutter the rest of the way. Some cams will also use this "pre-capture" time to adjust the auto flash.
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