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Ellezdey
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15-day casing 3 mushrooms :(
#7597214 - 11/05/07 01:18 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I could have sworn i did everything right. Other than using the heating pad method and initially having too thick a casing, i have no idea why there could be something so wrong with my casing.
Costa Rica Strain (My first grow ever) Procedure: 2 BRF cakes. 32 day incubation to 100% colonization using heating pad method (very varied temperature ranges may be an issue. 67-89 F - Once it was too hot, i turned it off. Turned it back on when too cold. I occasionally fucked up (im a forgetful pothead))
Both dunked in cold water for 16 hrs. 1 crumbled and 1 sliced into 5x10 aluminum tray on top of 1/2 inch damp verm to form a 1 inch substrate layer. Cased with 50/50 (verm/peat) with a casing depth of 3/4 inch (i now figure this was a BIG mistake) and misted to field saturation. Tray was placed on 1-2 inches of damp perlite inside a 5 gallon terrarium.
Atmospheric Humidity level probably varied with the temperature fluctuations of my room (63-72 F - More heat, more Atmospheric humidity and vice versa). Occasionally misted (about once a day) and frequently allowed FAE (2-4 times a day - Me opening the top, inspecting, waving my arms a bit, and closing). ((((((((((((((((((((((((((*420*)))))))))))))))))))))))))) I have been doing that for 14 days, its now day 15, and i only have 3 mushrooms to show for it. 2 days ago, executing extremely sterile technique, i managed to scrape a little bit of the casing off to reduce the thick casing layer's volume and to hopefully spot many once-trapped pinheads a'sproutin'. I did not see any pinheads but there are now 3 mushrooms growing (1 is an inch and a half tall, the other two are fairly abort-ish).
I was expecting some sort of contamination (cob web or trichoderma) due to how slow things were going but there are no strange smells what so ever and i have yet to see ANYTHING growing rampantly fast over my casing. I thought i would be lucky, and maybe i still am, but i would love for somebody to tell me what i may be doing wrong in hopes of increasing my flush sizes.
Plz help me and thanx. i luv u :o
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Nibin
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Re: 15-day casing 3 mushrooms :( [Re: Ellezdey]
#7597253 - 11/05/07 01:50 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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The bis mistake was to break and case the cakes. Unless you are adding extra substrate it is much better to just dunk and roll the cakes.
http://www.shroomery.org/9735/Should-I-crumble-and-case-my-cakes
Also, a bottom layer of verm, especially on thin layers of substrate can end up sucking water out of the substrate as the verm dries.
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Ellezdey
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Re: 15-day casing 3 mushrooms :( [Re: Nibin]
#7597287 - 11/05/07 02:11 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ok, you have pointed me out to a realization. Could i really just use the same casing material i used for my current grow (fresh, of course)and roll the cakes in that?
That probably would have been a way safer plan than what i had tried. Thanx dude.
But still,
How do i fix my current problem? How do i fix my current problem even if my bottom layer of verm had possibily sucked all the moisture out of my substrate layer?
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