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williaje
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First Grow and post.
#14518604 - 05/26/11 11:40 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I used the method as found on this website. Magic Mushrooms.net
I did two different sets of jars with different strains. The first one was creeper which was inoculated on may 20th. The second strain is the Golden teacher which i started two days after the first. They are currently on a closet shelf at room temperature, until today i turned the heat up a little in the room. Photos are posted below, I'm looking for advice on how i can make this work my first time. I'm seeing some growth but idk how much to expect.
Im seeing slight growth in the second one. I've yet to find any contamination. Thanks for any ones help.
Edited by williaje (06/06/11 01:31 PM)
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: williaje]
#14519432 - 05/27/11 06:12 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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try this one instead.
www.mushroomvideos.com
your jars are too big for BRF cakes.
and if you have a dry verm layer above your brf/verm you need to take that foil off asap.
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: k00laid]
#14522881 - 05/27/11 07:24 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks a lot.
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: williaje]
#14523244 - 05/27/11 08:23 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Here's another for you..
http://www.fungifun.org/English/Pftek
my results....
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williaje
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My creeper is colonizing like crazy right now. I'm excited. If some jars are ready sooner, is it a good idea to transfer them to the terrarium without doing them all at once?
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: williaje]
#14548111 - 06/01/11 09:31 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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yea, you can put cakes into your FC as they're done. Make sure to let them go an extra week at least, for colonization.
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Best of luck! Just to make sure you don't have all your eggs in one basket, you could try taking 2 cakes and doing a spawn run. Or taking one/two of your cakes and if you're feeling ballsy and inoculating some wbs or rye jars with live myc, G2G/clone style.
I personally have had poor results with cakes, the pictures you see are not typical results so be warned. Doing a bulk sub with a broken up cake and some pasteurized horse dung may sound difficult but its actually really simple and gets better results IME. Just try to be very clean.
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: MycoPron]
#14550806 - 06/02/11 12:57 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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todlow said: yea, you can put cakes into your FC as they're done. Make sure to let them go an extra week at least, for colonization.
Don't forget to 'dunk and roll' them too!!! The crop/mushroom size is increased. I always use bottled spring/mineral water when misting, don't know if it helps, my results now are similar every time.
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MycoPron said: Best of luck! Just to make sure you don't have all your eggs in one basket, you could try taking 2 cakes and doing a spawn run. Or taking one/two of your cakes and if you're feeling ballsy and inoculating some wbs or rye jars with live myc, G2G/clone style.
I personally have had poor results with cakes
I had the opposite results, tried both wbs + rye, with terrible results (but that may be because of my own stupidity, and you're results may differ.) I stick to cakes now, usually get 3 good flushes. You could try cakes this time, just to get a feel for the little beauties, then next time you can be a little more experimental. On my first grow, I screwed up big time, and contaminated the whole batch, and watch out for fungus 'twats' (fungus gnats), they are complete bastards!
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Quote:
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MycoPron said: Best of luck! Just to make sure you don't have all your eggs in one basket, you could try taking 2 cakes and doing a spawn run. Or taking one/two of your cakes and if you're feeling ballsy and inoculating some wbs or rye jars with live myc, G2G/clone style.
I personally have had poor results with cakes
I had the opposite results, tried both wbs + rye, with terrible results (but that may be because of my own stupidity, and you're results may differ.) I stick to cakes now, usually get 3 good flushes. You could try cakes this time, just to get a feel for the little beauties, then next time you can be a little more experimental. On my first grow, I screwed up big time, and contaminated the whole batch, and watch out for fungus 'twats' (fungus gnats), they are complete bastards!
I'm not saying go crazy and use all the jars, far from it. I'm merely saying that from personal experience I hate buying spores. One jar risked for a potential dozen or two of wbs/rye is an option most newbies overlook and I feel it's to their detriment. Jars and wbs for two dozen wbs jars is cheaper and faster than a multispore pf. An improvised glove box is free/cheap and rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle is all you need. If you can borrow a pc it may be worth a try.
Or better yet cut a cake in half and use only a half cake. It really doesn't take much... at all.
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: MycoPron]
#14555593 - 06/03/11 01:09 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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How far should my light strip be from the mushrooms? And i should leave the lid on during the 12/12 cycles???
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#14555600 - 06/03/11 01:11 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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if the lid is clear, which it should be, you can leave it on.
You want it as close as possible w/out messing w/ the RH or heat in the SGFC
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First off thanks for everyones help. Much appreciated. I've been looking at how I'm going to use my cakes and whether I want to split them in half and then spawn them or leave them whole. I've also read about casing. I want a good yield so my question is which way should I try or should I just try multiple ways.
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: williaje]
#14559660 - 06/04/11 11:23 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I would fruit as cakes then move to monotub's. Just my opinion
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if you're only using cakes to start, dunk and roll before putting in chamber. I didn't believe the difference in mushroom size and crop size. My first harvest was like 15g-25 per cake, compared to dunk and roll.....
 
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Atleast 4 of my jars will be colonized in a couple days, where then I wait one for week for them to finish. I've decided to do the cakes for all four.
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: williaje]
#14569379 - 06/06/11 01:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Good luck to you mate. Hope all works out well for you!
I've 2 jars on their final week, with 3 closely behind. Not long to go...
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Im at 3 weeks colonized this Friday. 5 jars should be ready. I have 1 that hasn't done anything and 3 more that only grew mycelium on certain sides. What would cause it to not grow? I don't have any cotams yet. I'm doing cakes and I used the tall half pints jars rather than short. Will splitting cakes in half increase yield?
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: williaje]
#14574628 - 06/07/11 02:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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You're suffocating them a little too much. You want the short Wide Mouth 1/2 pint jars.
splitting them in half will NOT increase yields.
Yields depend on a plethora of things, but by cutting them in half, you're only increasing your probability of getting contams.
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Thanks.I didn't think it would help, but there is quite a bit of misinformation on these forums.
http://www.shroomery.org/58/Sea-of-Shrooms
Edited by williaje (06/07/11 06:37 PM)
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Re: First Grow and post. [Re: williaje]
#14576876 - 06/07/11 09:35 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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yea, the misinformation is why we stay on here & try to steer everyone right.
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