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iskinbash
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Re: First Grow Rye Grain [Re: ChrisWho]
#9950756 - 03/11/09 10:13 AM (15 years, 11 days ago) |
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Yeah. i could see that being a really helpful thing to have experience showing you first hand.
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Doodle
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Re: First Grow Rye Grain [Re: ChrisWho]
#9950759 - 03/11/09 10:13 AM (15 years, 11 days ago) |
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Grain are better in alot of peoples eye's but pf tek is perfect for people just starting out or low on budget and simply can or don't want to dive right in and buy a PC. In my eyes if you plan on growing then you really should invest in a PC but hey the pf tek is there until you do. and it does help you get your sterile techniques down pat. both have there pro's and cons but for more spawn and faster harvest grain is the way to go in my opinion. and if you got the funds for a PC there's no reason it cant be done for a first grow. many have done it.
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Starrider
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Re: First Grow Rye Grain [Re: Doodle]
#9950876 - 03/11/09 10:39 AM (15 years, 11 days ago) |
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I started with the PF TEk as well. I wasn't that impressed with it either.
I quickly moved to grains. It seems to me that grains are a lot faster and more open to changing the ingredients around to produce a better mushroom.
Agar for me how I noc up my grain jars. I find it a lot easier this way.
When I did my first PF jar it took one month for the jar to be 100% colonized.
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cultibob
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Re: First Grow Rye Grain [Re: Starrider]
#9951939 - 03/11/09 02:06 PM (15 years, 11 days ago) |
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Cheers guys, Yeah just thought I'd clear up somethings.. give a lil story, I got very interested in the idea of growing mushies after growing MJ last year. So I picked up the computer about 8 months ago did a bit a research found out about the PF tek and was interested. I live in both the UK and America, but at the moment mainly in the UK, because I was impatient I just got some spores off redeyefrog (a very poor site as I later found out). After 3 weeks there was no growth, so then I went to my Uni library found two of Paul S.'s books and did a good bit of reading. Then I got obsessed with Agar and trying to do everything from the ground up, well that was a bad idea, a bit too advanced and my environment was not sterile enough. Then Christmas came and I went back to the US and found out my cousin's boyfriend had grown, so I had a bunch of conversations with him... which led me down this road... So he sent me back to the UK with some of his spore syringes which he knew were safe and BAM here I am... My thoughts are the PF tek sounds all well and good, but I think there is something that feels more natural when working with grain, and spawning it. I like the feeling of being more involved with my grow (and there is nothing wrong with the fact that this method will probably produce more mushies)
Sorry bout the long winded story... Truely thanks for the encouragement and all the comments... fingers crossed hope everything goes to plan.
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cultibob
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Day 15 Here are all the jars lined up in order of progress.
Here are jars 1 and 2
Here are jars 3 and 4
Here are jars 5 and 6
Here are jars 7, 8 and 9
Here are jars 10, 11 ND 12
Here are jars 13 and 14
It seems that 13 and 14 are not growing at all so i don't expect anything from them, but I am confused about the different growth paces of the jars. Will it be O.K. to leave the fully colonized jars alone, while the others continue to colonize? Are these jars stalled? should I shake any of the more colonized jars? or should I just leave everything for a week and not touch it?
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iskinbash
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Leave them for a little longer and watch them go. Remember that the only growth you see is the growth pressed against the side of the jar. A lot of the colonization is inside the grain and you cant see it. I would say give it a week, and if a few really dont show more growth, go ahead and give those ones a shake. And yes, youll be alright leaving the fully colonized jars alone for a little bit while your other ones catch up.
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Doodle
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yeah Ive left fully colonized jars for up to two weeks while some slow goers were catching up.
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cultibob
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Re: Update [Re: Doodle]
#9997689 - 03/18/09 08:52 PM (15 years, 4 days ago) |
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At the moment I'm thinking my jars might be drying out, I think some of the grains are not wet enough, so I shook 3 of the jars to see how they would react. I am leaving on friday afternoon to go away for 16 days so I am going to post some pictures tomorrow and if anyone can give me some advise on what I should do while I'm away that would be helpful... and also either confirm of deny whether the jars are too dry because of the heat. Thanks I will update tomorrow.
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StuckintheskY
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I'm doing the same thing right now. On day 2 and no signs of growth. I hope it works out for the both of us. Good Luck bro
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cultibob
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problems with my mycelium on rye grain [Re: StuckintheskY]
#10001847 - 03/19/09 03:00 PM (15 years, 3 days ago) |
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I am getting worried about my jars, but all of the mycelium seems to still be uncontaminated. But I think I might have kept my jars too close to one of my heaters and because of this I have dried the water out from some of the grains, which has left excess water in the jars... I'm not sure of this so if anyone could look at the pictures and tell me what they think is up, would appreciate that... and some of the grains seem to have some discoloration, which I fear might be contam, I tried to show this in the pictures... I am also leaving for 16 days so what should I do? Oh and I shook up 3 of the jars to try to redistribute the moisture, bad idea or good idea?
Here is the bottom of one of the jars... there are drier and wetter parts of this jar, so is this contam or just moisture?
Is this a contam?
In this picture I tried to show what looks like drier grains to me... Am I correct in thinking this?
This is a picture trying to capture the drier grains next to the wetter ones
I shook this jar up last night... is this just over wetness or is this contam?
Here is a picture of some of the Mycelium.
Need help soon, please
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StuckintheskY
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Re: problems with my mycelium on rye grain [Re: cultibob]
#10001863 - 03/19/09 03:02 PM (15 years, 3 days ago) |
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Hard for me to tell lol since my jars haven't shown any signs of growth yet. Some look a little discoloured, I see why you are worried, we will have to wait for someone with experience to chime in on this one. This should help me out as well.
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