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lostinbq
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14653803 - 06/22/11 12:15 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: my first grow log [Re: lostinbq]
#14653813 - 06/22/11 12:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Haha thank you. But shouldn't there be more pins? lol I have a couple new ones today.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14653850 - 06/22/11 12:25 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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from what i have read it is a poop shoot with MS. 2nd flush normally will produce/yeild more from what i read. i kno my first flushes were only a few some big some small, but this cake after the 2nd dunk is just throwing them off. more pins every day. where the cake i birthed a week ago is just now throwing off ONE>.< their is other factors but from what i see thats the main 1.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: lostinbq]
#14654034 - 06/22/11 01:06 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ok thank you. I suppose that makes sense. Mine are growing more pins every day it seems but still not that many per cake but I hope they do better after the first flush.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14667607 - 06/24/11 08:35 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey guys I just wanted to check in. My pins are getting big! also still more im trying to put up pics right now but I have to use my phone and email Blah blah. But yes also I wonder if you guys have tried that pbj&m my biggest mushroom makes me think itd be great on one!
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14667939 - 06/24/11 09:51 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Look what I found today. Looks to me like a little cluster of pins but let me know what you guys think. my Baby!
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14671571 - 06/25/11 06:04 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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My first veil broke. I've read thats when to harvest so I snipped it with sterilized scissors. Is it ok to have the spores chillin in on the perlite like that? I guess I'm gonna try a pbj&m sandwich yum! but help me out with as much as you guys can please! Let me know what you guys think of harvest time and the the whole spores on the perlite. thank you.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14671575 - 06/25/11 06:05 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Oh also what's the best way to caapture the spores? like cut the caps before they open or can you still get spores after they open? What's the best way to judge that?
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14671594 - 06/25/11 06:11 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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It's ok to have spores on the perlite, it just looks messy is all. When you take those cakes out to dunk them you can just mix it all up again. This is what I did for my brf grows and I haven't had any problems with doing it.
For capturing spores.. do you mean to keep to create more mushrooms? If that's the case you'll want to make a spore print.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: Kapster]
#14671602 - 06/25/11 06:13 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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yea a spore print I'm sorry lol im very excited.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14671626 - 06/25/11 06:21 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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No worries There's a couple different methods you can do for a spore print.. you can use the search function for it and lots of them will come up. The way I do it is once you've picked your mature fruits, cut off the cape leaving just a little nub of stem under it. Don't touch the gills of it and make sure you're in a sterile area. Take the cap and put it on a piece of aluminum foil (wipe it down with alcohol first and make sure it dries before you continue on), gills touching the foil, and put a cup over the cap, so it makes a little chamber. After a day or two the spores will drop from the cap and leave a big black spot on the foil. I just fold the foil up after that, label it, and keep it stored somewhere cool. You want to make sure to be clean and sterile throughout the process, all you want is spores on that foil, nothing else, or it can create contams. I'm sure there are more simple methods though, just do a forum search
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Re: my first grow log [Re: Kapster]
#14671643 - 06/25/11 06:26 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thank you so much! thats similar to how I wanted to do it I just didnt know if the caps could be broken or not.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14671907 - 06/25/11 07:38 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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hey man just make sure you don't cut them off with scissors, twist and pull of the cake gently. great grow so far
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Re: my first grow log [Re: Legend]
#14671923 - 06/25/11 07:41 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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why not scissors? lol as ya read that's what I did earlier
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Re: my first grow log [Re: egopower]
#14671929 - 06/25/11 07:43 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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egopower said: why not scissors? lol as ya read that's what I did earlier
this may leave a part of the mushroom behind, which can in turn contaminate and thus prevent subsequent flushes.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: Legend]
#14671943 - 06/25/11 07:46 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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ah that makes so much sense ha what should I do? pluck the remaining out? or what? Btw thank you soo much for your advice.
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Re: my first grow log [Re: Kapster]
#14672137 - 06/25/11 08:29 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Kapster said: No worries There's a couple different methods you can do for a spore print.. you can use the search function for it and lots of them will come up. The way I do it is once you've picked your mature fruits, cut off the cape leaving just a little nub of stem under it. Don't touch the gills of it and make sure you're in a sterile area. Take the cap and put it on a piece of aluminum foil (wipe it down with alcohol first and make sure it dries before you continue on), gills touching the foil, and put a cup over the cap, so it makes a little chamber. After a day or two the spores will drop from the cap and leave a big black spot on the foil. I just fold the foil up after that, label it, and keep it stored somewhere cool. You want to make sure to be clean and sterile throughout the process, all you want is spores on that foil, nothing else, or it can create contams. I'm sure there are more simple methods though, just do a forum search 
or you can do it like this, i just use a decent sized Tupperware container,
 i dont mix caps from other cakes tho. just a me thing.
Edited by lostinbq (06/25/11 08:31 PM)
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Re: my first grow log [Re: lostinbq]
#14672252 - 06/25/11 08:55 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Oooo, I like lostinbq's method! I'll be doing that for my future prints Much easier to use a container than multiple cups Thanks for showing, lostinbq!
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Re: my first grow log [Re: Kapster]
#14672309 - 06/25/11 09:04 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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no prob, just remember the saying, kiss "keep it simple stupid" i actually got the idea from other people here, just showing a pic of 4 caps i printed 2 days ago. just cut to fit foil sleeves i premake b4 the triming of the prints so i can clean the foil with alcohol, make sleve, trim, slip, flip, smoke a dooby cos your done. i just did i had just knocked up a jar with a syringe from a print i made a month ago. we will see if my aseptic technique holds true.
Edited by lostinbq (06/25/11 09:07 PM)
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Re: my first grow log [Re: lostinbq]
#14672370 - 06/25/11 09:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ahh very awesome I knocked up some jars 4 days ago. I stopped growing for 2 years and found the prints I made from then... I didn't make them in sterile conditions though and I also didn't keep them in a cool enviroment. The prints went through a very rough time... When I opened them up there was only half the spores that were present when I first made them, and they were insanely dry and caked on to the foil... when I had to really forcefully scrape them off I thought there was no way these would do well. I made a spore syringe from it, let it sit for 10 days in the fridge to rehydrate the spores, and then yeah knocked some jars up 4 days ago. There is a ton of healthy mycellium growing already in all jars and no contams been smoking J's all day trying to send good vibes towards the jars. Good luck with your jars! I'm sure they will sprout beautiful mycellium soon!  
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