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misfit78
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: TacoHerder]
#12760719 - 06/17/10 09:57 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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OK will do thanks for your help we will see if i did a good job in a few days
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TacoHerder
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: misfit78]
#12760725 - 06/17/10 09:58 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: misfit78]
#12760951 - 06/17/10 10:37 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Be careful, as it will take more than a few days to colonize the top of the cake and until that happens tilting jars can cause the verm layer to shift. (I think that this is why I lost my first cake to mold)
For me, even with GT spores, it was about two weeks before I felt comfortable moving my jars around much.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: Javadog]
#12761500 - 06/18/10 12:35 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah im having that problem too lately. I keep picking up jars to take pics and that verm layer gets moved around and they contam on the top. I stopped taking pics.
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misfit78
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: Giggle_Grower]
#12770049 - 06/19/10 05:33 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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OK cant find jiffy mix for my casing but i can find sphagnum peat moss it has fertilizer in it so can i just wash it out and use it ? and i found sphagnum moss can it be used to ?
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: misfit78]
#12770150 - 06/19/10 05:52 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I would use the sphagnum moss before I used the stuff with fertilizer in it. Just mix it with 50% verm, test and raise the Ph to 7.8 with lime and it will work fine. It probably has been said to you before but cubes do NOT need a casing layer so if you cant get these things and dont want to worry about it you dont have to do it. CH
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misfit78
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: CH HELL]
#12770240 - 06/19/10 06:13 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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they don't? so just crumble them up and put them on some verm? idk this is my first time and i have read a shit load of stuff i want to start with the simple stuff like cakes and a simple casing!
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: misfit78]
#12770994 - 06/19/10 09:11 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cakes are great, a simple verm casing is great. You'll love it.
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misfit78
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: Doc_T]
#12771067 - 06/19/10 09:34 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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ok sounds good
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misfit78
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: misfit78]
#12772858 - 06/20/10 10:16 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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well have my first sines of mycelium hell yeah so far so good
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: misfit78]
#12774931 - 06/20/10 05:57 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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IamTempest
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: stonesun]
#12775475 - 06/20/10 07:41 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hey, do you think i could turn one of these into a good fruiting chamber?  Im new to this, I just ordered some spores from Ralph, I got the John Allen strain. And instead of using perlite, can i use damp paper towels or something similar?
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: IamTempest]
#12775672 - 06/20/10 08:19 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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If it's plastic there shouldn't be a problem, just make it into a shot gun FC, if it's glass however you might have a little trouble with it, but I'm not experienced with glass.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: ninja cat 09]
#12775706 - 06/20/10 08:24 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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It is plastic. The top of it is kinda like a plastic screen, so i would need to make a different lid. Im not really sure what i could use for that, Plastic bag maybe? Shotgun? Like drill holes in the sides?
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: IamTempest]
#12775773 - 06/20/10 08:34 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Drill holes in the sides (1/4 inch 2 inches apart) and partially cover the lid with plastic wrap, that should do the trick.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: ninja cat 09]
#12775798 - 06/20/10 08:38 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Im not to sure if plastic wrap will do the job, but duct tape wont hurt anything, right?
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: IamTempest]
#12775901 - 06/20/10 09:08 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Don't think it would hurt, but it would limit the amount of light it receives, and I think ordinary light bulbs give out too much heat for the mushies.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: ninja cat 09]
#12775956 - 06/20/10 09:21 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Leave my window open But they are not like plants, they dont really neeed a whole bunch of light, just to trigger growth
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: IamTempest]
#12776032 - 06/20/10 09:36 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
ninja cat 09 said: Don't think it would hurt, but it would limit the amount of light it receives, and I think ordinary light bulbs give out too much heat for the mushies.
Incandescent light bulbs are horrible horrible things to use most there energy is giving off as heat and they are totally in the wrong spectrum, Use a 6500K florescent light
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IamTempest said: Leave my window open But they are not like plants, they dont really neeed a whole bunch of light, just to trigger growth
Actually light can make a huge difference on the growth of mushrooms
Get a 6500K florescent light
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IamTempest
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: Shea25]
#12776045 - 06/20/10 09:40 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well good sir, im a bit limited, so thats why i was wondering if indirect sunlight would do the job, or something else that is inexpensive.
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