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Grow log - first grow *with many pics*
    #14466225 - 05/17/11 03:53 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Inoculated my jars on 26 Apr and one of the jars looks to be fully colonised, although I'm not sure. BRF/verm substrate. Dry verm layer on top.

The picture version of the story:
-10 days no activity, then-

Started out with my jars at room temperature but nothing happened due to room temperature being frikken cold here! I got a cooler box and put the jars in with a jar of warm water which I replaced about once a day. I soon started seeing growth.

On the 12th May the one jar had a strip of uncolonized area, the other one was almost completely covered. Not sure what that means about the mycelium's growth inside the cake? Does one measure the % colonisation just from eye-balling the degree of coverage on the outside of the cake?



Today I checked the better colonized jar, took off the foil lid and took some pics to ask about the next step.



This jar has a solid white covering all around. The other jar is almost solid white all around but has one vertical strip of no growth about 1 inch wide.

I need a covert way to fruit my jars. Will a mini monotub work? The idea would be to create a smaller version of this Monotub tek. I would want to put this under my bed or in the cupboard. Not sure how important the light is. Would this be possible?

Gonna be updating this thread until the fruits arrive.

Edit: 1 June
Jars have had more than a week to consolidate and I just saw the one had pins today (originally the slower colonising jar). Cleaned out a plastic tub for dunking, and plan on drilling holes in it tomorrow to turn it into my FC. The cakes smelled nice and mushroomy when I was washing the dry verm layer off them. They've been weighted down in the water using some mugs and a metal sieve thing.

In 24 hours I'll take them out, drill holes in the container, fill it with damp perlite and put the cakes in there. [edit: turned into a 48 hour dunk because the drill arrived late but I read that a 48 hour dunk is safe.]

Not sure how much light they need, I think it's not important at this stage seeing as they're eager to pin and fruit. Gonna be leaving them in my cupboard (which is always open) where there's a bit of ambient light and fluorescent room lighting.



Edit 2: 3 June
Shot the terrarium full of holes a few hours ago and put perlite in the bottom. I didn't roll cakes with verm because I don't have a mister, but I'm thinking of wetting two handfuls of verm to just put on top of the cakes like hats.

I wet and drained the perlite right in the terrarium and it worked well as a colander. Now to resist the urge to open the lid and look inside.



Edit 3: 5 June
Yesterday I put moist verm hats on the cakes, a handful of verm fell down between the cakes (not pictured), but I figure it'll just contribute to the humidity and probably stimulate pinning on those sides of the cakes. Today, the pins have grown visibly from this morning and fill me with delight! I hope they are healthy, they look good. Haven't opened the container since yesterday when I put the verm hats on.

Yesterday:

Today:


Edit 4: 13th June
I harvested on 11th and tripped to level 2 off of 20g wet. Scale wasn't super accurate though. Total weight was a little over 60g.

On the 7th my one cake was doing well and fruiting. The other cake only had a few little pins which then aborted. My lighting set up was shitty as hell, the one that fruited successfully was getting more light inside my cupboard. Shitty warm fluorescent light is really not adequate for cubes. My room hardly gets any daylight though and I had to grow stealthy - couldn't get hold of a cool white bulb either.

non-fruiting cake:


On the 8th it was forging on ahead, but I was noticing that the heads weren't growing nicely. I didn't have a mister either so I wasn't fanning in case I dried them out. Apparently spindly stems and small caps are a sign of insufficient FAE.


9th @1AM:


9th @11AM:


At 5PM I got a mister and I took off the lid and took a pic inside. Also started misting and fanning 3 times a day. The other cake perked up with this regimen. Yesterday (12th) it started flushing properly and should be ready for harvest tomorrow.


10th @2PM:


On the 11th I twisted all the caps off of the fruited cake and the aborts off of the other cake. Put them in a lunch box and went to a friend's house for my first trip.


I ate a little shroom raw and the flavour is not disgusting, but it is certainly not something you would want to endure for ingesting 20 wet grams. I was surprised at how heavy the shrooms were. The one shroom was a monster and weighed 20 grams by itself. Again, the scale was probably not amazingly accurate, but I'd estimate it was accurate to within 5 grams. My original plan was to eat everything, because I guesstimated it was about 25g. After weighing it out, I decided to just eat what the scale said was 20grams as I wanted to have a level 3 trip and the dosage calculator said that would be 22grams wet.

After weighing out my dose, I chopped them up and added the chunks to some flavoured yoghurt. The chunks started bruising dark blue which I was happy to see. They also tasted great in the yoghurt, I highly recommend it as a method of ingestion. Throughout my trip I would burp and it had the distinctive mushroom after-taste of raw cubes.


The cake that fruited has not pinned again at all and I saw some trich starting on it (or sporulating, as there were already green tinges in a little spot). I took it outside and crumbled it over some ground in the shade. Maybe it'll take off but in any case it can return to the earth :smile: So there's just one cake left, and it's pretty much done its thing. Gonna crumble it outside as well after it's finished its flush because I gotta leave for a bit.

And that concludes my first experience growing P. Cubensis. The strain was Golden Teacher. Multi-spore inoculation.


Edited by zodium chloride (06/13/11 01:42 PM)


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: zodium chloride]
    #14466395 - 05/17/11 05:47 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Looking good :wink:


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: Sharpstuff]
    #14466622 - 05/17/11 07:09 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Thanks, man :smile:

This is my current plan:
0. Wait for my other jar to get 100% coverage on the outside, then give it a week to consolidate. The currently 100% jar just waits until then.
1. Fruit the cakes as per RR's video.
[edit: removed retarded steps]

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Not sure what that means about the mycelium's growth inside the cake? Does one measure the % colonisation just from eye-balling the degree of coverage on the outside of the cake?



After the cake is 100% covered from the outside, wait 1 week for consolidation.
[ref: RR]

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I need a covert way to fruit my jars. Will a mini monotub work? The idea would be to create a smaller version of this Monotub tek. I would want to put this under my bed or in the cupboard. Not sure how important the light is. Would this be possible?



You could follow that tek, but breaking up 2 jars worth of myc isn't worth it. Just fruit them as cakes and use RR's shotgun FC. Put 5 inches of drained, wet perlite on the bottom and then the cakes on top of aluminium foil after dunking and rolling in verm. The verm acts as a casing layer, feeding moisture to the mycelium and the perlite keeps the humidity in the chamber high.

Covert is not going to be possible because the mycelium needs light to start pinning. Light is not the most important pinning factor, but it is still important. After the mushrooms start growing, it seems light is not as important and you can put the FC in the cupboard. Don't put it under the bed as 90% of all contaminants are within a foot of the floor[RR] and the FC is constantly exchanging air with the room.


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: zodium chloride]
    #14544445 - 06/01/11 05:53 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Updated original post with some pics and info.


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: zodium chloride]
    #14544482 - 06/01/11 06:11 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

So are they still dunking or did you begin fruiting?


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: KillerPicklez]
    #14544541 - 06/01/11 06:33 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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So are they still dunking or did you begin fruiting?



They're busy dunking right now. Gonna fruit tomorrow.


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: zodium chloride]
    #14544557 - 06/01/11 06:39 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

right on, looking good :yesnod:


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: KillerPicklez]
    #14554347 - 06/03/11 05:52 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Updated original post again. The cakes are in the FC.

The dunk was longer than expected because getting the drill for making the FC was delayed. Also, no verm roll happened, but I can still put some wet verm mounds on top if someone thinks it'd be worthwhile. According to the weather service, it's between 70%-80% humidity outside.


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: zodium chloride]
    #14565110 - 06/05/11 03:23 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

2 more pics of the growing pins at the end of original post :smile:

They look healthy to me, I'm looking forward to see what they do in the next few days!


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: zodium chloride]
    #14606345 - 06/13/11 01:43 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Ok, made my final update. Maybe I'll write a trip report in the next few days.


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Re: Grow log - first grow [Re: zodium chloride]
    #14606476 - 06/13/11 02:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

forget the incubator, will cause more troubles than benefits! room temperature is okay.


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