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Ajm
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Re: First Time Growing: Is this the start of mycelium growth? [Re: 3n1gm4]
#14473168 - 05/18/11 12:56 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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3n1gm4 said: I have grown in an 8"x12" casserole dish, wide mouth pint jars, and wide mouth half pints.
Every time I try to make a pint cake even if I use coffee for 25% of the water and add gypsum the cake takes forever to colonize and most of the time never finishes colonizing.
Do you have good success with WM pints and if so will you please share your secret.
Same thing happens to me when I use WM pints for the verm/brf cakes. And that it takes about one and a half months for the whole cake to colonize, and the bottom will not fully colonize. Virtually all the time it wont colonize a nickel size part of the bottom of the cake.
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Re: First Time Growing: Is this the start of mycelium growth? [Re: Ajm]
#14473336 - 05/18/11 01:32 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ajm said:
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3n1gm4 said: I have grown in an 8"x12" casserole dish, wide mouth pint jars, and wide mouth half pints.
Every time I try to make a pint cake even if I use coffee for 25% of the water and add gypsum the cake takes forever to colonize and most of the time never finishes colonizing.
Do you have good success with WM pints and if so will you please share your secret.
Same thing happens to me when I use WM pints for the verm/brf cakes. And that it takes about one and a half months for the whole cake to colonize, and the bottom will not fully colonize. Virtually all the time it wont colonize a nickel size part of the bottom of the cake.
Make your cake substrate fluffier, more verm or less water, pick one. If you find vermiculite with a little larger of a grain size it will also help to make it very fluffy. The fluffier it is the less it will compact at the bottom, which is what slows and sometimes halts the colonization. In the mind of the Mycellial network it's not worth the energy to try and push through.
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Re: First Time Growing: Is this the start of mycelium growth? [Re: Ajm]
#14473366 - 05/18/11 01:37 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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1/2 pint wide mouth short jars! Not the tall ones!
Listen I found a way to make them colonize better when they get around 80-85%, its a secret but not for long.
You use GLC, self healing inoc points, a SFD filter hole, and when it is almost done colonizing in 2-3 weeks you shake the already shrunken cake loose and rotate it so that the uncolonized parts aren't sitting in the water stuck between the cake and the jar and spin them as it colonizes. The verm wont colonize on the surface between it and the jar when it has water spots standing on it. Last time I did pint cakes I got them to fully colonize in a month and birthed them with invitros. The shadow in my last sig pic is me holding one of the invitro fruits. I can't seem to get them to do a second flush though, they always turn blue and the skin on the outside shrinks and wrinkles up. I did have some good success crumbling them to a tray of left over coir though,had allot of bottom pins though because I sat it on a rack above the perlite out of the tray.
I guess I will try a bigger bag of verm, they should sell it in smaller bags.
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