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JoeBeastly
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My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!!
#15143295 - 09/27/11 06:11 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hello everyone in the Shroomery community!! This is my first post, as well as my first grow. So heres what i got going on, a couple of weeks ago I was talking to my brother, who has been dealing a random assortment of unmentionable items for about 5 years now. I casually mentioned to him that i had thought about growing some mushrooms. He told me hold on, walked inside, and came back out with all this stuff.

He even gave me a B+ spore syringe he had that a friend made for him. Anyways, this was about 3/4 the supplies I needed, so i went out and got the rest of them and even ordered more spores from [edit] 'THE' reputable site because i wasnt sure if the B+ syringe was any good. (My bro told me it had been sitting at room temperature for at least 4 months) Soo after he told me that I decided to just do a test jar with the whole syringe. Now here I was an idiot and didnt read much on anything nor did I have all the supplies I needed. But call it beginners luck, or even dumb luck, heres how it looked about 7-10 days later.

Alright so after I got all of my supplies I built my grow chamber, I call it the Beastly Shroom Locker V1.0.
I started with a wire Shelf in my closet.
 put a plastic tub with water and a fish tank heater
 ^keeps it at a good 75-77F and 80% humidity
After that i got the plastic painters sheets, and doubled it over on itself and attached it to the wall/ wire frame.

 I might redo the door... its a bit flimsy and awkward.
And then the spores came in! Penis Envies and Cambodians Gigantic clump of spores in the cambodians

and left is penis envies right is cambodian

Soon after that I cooked up some jars! I decided to start with 8

 ^I used the cardboard trays for better insulation because the metal bars were still pretty cool.
So after about 4 days heres where im at now.
 Showing a few signs of life! maybe some here too

Any tips or pointers would be welcome!
edit 10/01/11 PICS!
mo fuggin B+ jar
 cam jar 1 of 3
 2 of 3 (the one i put double in)
  3 of 3

edit 10/03/11 PIC UPDATE
alright so this is how ive got everything setup now
ive sorta isolated the 2 jars in question
 this is the spot i saw on the B+ jar thats in question i circled it to make it easier to see..
this one is the cambodian jar in question its kind of hard so see, but these are 8mp pics so you can zoom in a ton if you have to but its about 1/2 cm away from the lower left of the myc growth
 ive got the jars spaced and the light angled so the jars get a pretty even ammount of light i moved everything back in the closet
and this is the bulb im using, its rated as a 60w replacement soo i figured that would be good enough for ambient light.

edit 10/07/11 Okay quick update everyone, so the black spot in the B+ jar is fine, the mycelium just grew over it in about 2 days lol as well as the green flake in the cambodian jars! so I'm feelin pretty safe as of now
and thanks for the ambient light tip! the jars seem like they're loving it
the only thing is the PE jars stilll arent doing anything and as of now its been 14 days
the PE-LC i made a few days ago looks awesome and am about to sterilize a needle and inject 5cc into 2 of the PE jars that have been sitting just as an experiment cam 9/23
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cam 9/27 (i think)
cam 9/23
B+ !! 9/19?
cam 9/23
cam 9/23
cam 9/23!
cam 9/27
PE-LC
PE I injected the LC in about a day ago
regular PE
 sorry if its a bit unorganized. Work has been kicking my ass lately... and i had to kind of throw this together
Edited by JoeBeastly (10/07/11 07:21 PM)
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15143326 - 09/27/11 06:18 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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looks like your doing great so far.
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: jimmyjame1]
#15143335 - 09/27/11 06:19 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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are you gonna case them and try to fruit them in a tray in the rack? you might need some extra humidity
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: jimmyjame1]
#15143391 - 09/27/11 06:29 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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take the tin-foil off and let them babies breath!
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: jimmyjame1]
#15143406 - 09/27/11 06:31 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ive got a couple of other plastic totes, 2 the same size as the one im using to humidify the grow "locker," a 60qt with the lid missing, and a 95qt. So i was just gunna do the standard SGTK.. derp
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Edited by JoeBeastly (09/28/11 07:37 AM)
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: Speck1186]
#15143419 - 09/27/11 06:33 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Speck1186 said: take the tin-foil off and let them babies breath!
I actually grabbed one of each the cambodian and the penis envies and took the foil off just to see how well they do compaired to the ones with foil on.
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: Speck1186]
#15143434 - 09/27/11 06:36 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Speck1186 said: take the tin-foil off and let them babies breath!
do that
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: jimmyjame1]
#15143463 - 09/27/11 06:40 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Looking good, might want to take the sponsors name out of your post though.
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: dodgem]
#15143476 - 09/27/11 06:43 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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awesome setup, those little signs of growth with grow at the fastest/slow pace you've ever had to wait in your life haha. good luck!
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: dodgem]
#15143511 - 09/27/11 06:49 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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jimmyjame1 said:
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Speck1186 said: take the tin-foil off and let them babies breath!
do that
Done!
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dodgem said: Looking good, might want to take the sponsors name out of your post though.
and Done!
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15158066 - 09/30/11 01:12 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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You only use the foil to keep the moisture out of the jars while you pressure cook the jars.
Also I never use a heater. You do not need the extra heat. especially in texas right now. It might make the mycelium grow faster but the extra heat increases the probability of the jars becoming contaminated. And your beastly grow box of yours needs the 2nd version before its time to dunk your cakes.
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15161770 - 10/01/11 10:01 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey everyone OP here I just felt like giving a quick update after 4 days. Pics will be soon to come
So last night i kiinda freaked out a little bit, I think its just I'm pretty anxious about my first grow.... but anyways i freaked out because one of my roommates cats had ran into my room. I have no idea why but they always fucking want in here , I guess its cause we've only been living together for like 4 or 5 months now and i neverr let them in here.
Thats besides the point, so one of them ran in and didn't want to get out and it was a pain in the ass getting it out..
A little after that I go check out my jars and there were not one but TWO GOD DAMN GNATS inside of the 'shroom locker' oh it was juust before work when i checked on the jars.
so i went to work and wound up getting the night off after going in for an hour lol and i came home and wiped down inside and out the 95qt tub and put the jars in there. I figured id just keep em in here for a while till i get my shroom locker sorted out.... as well maybe making sure my entire apartment is spotless
ORRR instead of putting them back inside the locker I might just finish incubating them in the tubs that I have and whenever I actually have some extra money a friend of mine had a pretty good idea of building an actual grow box with similar dimensions to the locker, and I could just have it in my closet but first I planned on building a HEPA filter flow hood thing. like Damon5050
^opinions and extra input would be wonderful
but at any rate the jars! the cambodians are doing awesome signs of life in 3 of the 4 jars from the 23rd (one in particular cause i was dumb and had forgotten if i already noc'ed a jar, sooo i put double in...) and with the cams from the 27th I cant see any actual growth but I feel like things look good in there
The random B+ jar that i have is doing fucking awesome! it looks nearly 50% and I started it I believe on the 19th maybe I dunno
and finally the Penis Envies.. I dont really see much going on in any of the jars, but I hear in some cases it takes upto 3 weeks to see any signs of growth. I will soon be making some LC and I'll see how that does me with future jars.
*but if anyone would like to direct me to reading material that they think would be good for this n00b to get inside of his head that would be good too*
MAN THIS IS JUST LIKE WAITING FOR CHRISTMAS only you already know what your getting and you've already deemed it to be the best christmas ever! fffuuuu
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15162205 - 10/01/11 12:08 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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PICS! edit- OP updated
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Edited by JoeBeastly (10/07/11 07:22 PM)
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15162210 - 10/01/11 12:09 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: tripdawg420]
#15162298 - 10/01/11 12:40 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Are you keeping your cakes in the dark 24/7? You have a them in a tub with a light on? They do not appreciate that.
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: PumpJackTeX]
#15166816 - 10/02/11 12:39 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah for the most part they seem to be doing pretty good.
I hope the PE start to show soon... it's been something like 8 maybe 9 days now? and they aren't showing any signs of life. I know I'm just being impatient lol
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: PumpJackTeX]
#15170286 - 10/03/11 05:12 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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TexXx said: Are you keeping your cakes in the dark 24/7? You have a them in a tub with a light on? They do not appreciate that.
Actually TexXx bro,
I was so fortunate as to find THIS just now..
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: PumpJackTeX]
#15170946 - 10/03/11 09:30 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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TexXx said: Are you keeping your cakes in the dark 24/7? You have a them in a tub with a light on? They do not appreciate that.
Light doesn't affect growing jars AT ALL. Dont give faulty out-dated advise...
Onn a better note things are looking good and FYI you dont really need that humidifier in your grow area. You only have to control R.H. when fruiting. The moisture content inside the jars is set when you mix your BRF if you did it properly they will grow fine sitting on your shelf, in indirect sunlight. Givven that your house is not to cold then you CAN incubate. You dont have to but it will give you more even growth patterns. If you have them on the shelf and temps drop at night the jars will grow slower. But if you ARE incubating dont go above 75*F or you will be incubating contamination (As most contams incubate at 80*+F)
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: PureHash]
#15171098 - 10/03/11 10:17 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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PureHash said:
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TexXx said: Are you keeping your cakes in the dark 24/7? You have a them in a tub with a light on? They do not appreciate that.
Light doesn't affect growing jars AT ALL. Dont give faulty out-dated advise...
Onn a better note things are looking good and FYI you dont really need that humidifier in your grow area. You only have to control R.H. when fruiting. The moisture content inside the jars is set when you mix your BRF if you did it properly they will grow fine sitting on your shelf, in indirect sunlight. Givven that your house is not to cold then you CAN incubate. You dont have to but it will give you more even growth patterns. If you have them on the shelf and temps drop at night the jars will grow slower. But if you ARE incubating dont go above 75*F or you will be incubating contamination (As most contams incubate at 80*+F)
Good luck   
Kinda
Yeah your whole setup just seems energy wasting... take the plastic off of your rack, place the jars on the rack (top shelf), turn the humidifier off until fruiting, have light come on and off when you need it (mycelium likes light too), keep your closet door slightly cracked open. Other than that it looks great, just get rid of those bugs (especially before birthing those cakes).
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: XFINITY]
#15171187 - 10/03/11 10:43 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Also a lot of growers provide light to ALL stages of mycelium growth, colonizing jars, trays, monos, LC's, and even petri dishes.
I've recently concluded a series of tests with shiitake mycelium on petri dishes. Mycelium in petri dishes grown in total darkness grew at less than half the speed of mycelium in dishes with normal ambient room light during the daylight hours. Mycelium in petri dishes exposed to very bright light grew at about the same rate as those grown in total darkness.
Bottom line: When colonizing, expose to ambient low-level lighting from day of inoculation. When fruiting, expose to the brightest light possible without overheating the area. RR
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: XFINITY]
#15171203 - 10/03/11 10:50 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey! thank you to everyone whos been giving me all of this great advice and pointers! I rearranged EVERYTHING in my closet and pics will be coming probably later today! and have been cleaning like a mad man
Just one thing... I might be freaking out but i might have a possible contam....  Two or three days ago I took a minute to take a close look at the jars just to see how their doing the random B+ jar had a black spot down closer to the bottom, and a cambodian jar had a green flake of something in there! I checked them again today and neither the black or green questionable spots have changed. but Im not experienced in identifying contaminates at all...
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15171439 - 10/03/11 11:54 AM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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PIC UPDATE OP-updated!
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Edited by JoeBeastly (10/07/11 07:23 PM)
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15172154 - 10/03/11 02:46 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thhat looks better, as for gnat, but a glass of beer in the kitchen of somewhere far from ur grow room and the gnats will go to the beer instead of ur cakes where they drown and die
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: PureHash]
#15172200 - 10/03/11 02:56 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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I do see that green spot.. def keep an eye on it. You'll know for sure in a day or so.. Your jars are sealed, so cross contam is minimal until you get around to chucking the contents.. The black one though might a overly saturated piece of verm or somethin.. or a contam 
Srsly though.. 90% of mycology is much like the military: hurry up and wait!
Oh, and the wattage of your bulb isn't that important just a decent.. it is the color temperature (5,000-6,500 "daylight" it should read)
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Edited by igigi (10/03/11 02:58 PM)
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15182988 - 10/05/11 07:03 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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OP-updated!!
I should be able to post update pics tomorrow morning as well as organizing all the pics and log process in the OP Lemme know what you guys and gals think! also any helpful links or pointers are still welcome!!!
exciting things! !
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Edited by JoeBeastly (10/07/11 07:25 PM)
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Re: My First grow (started 9/23/11), Advice Welcome!! [Re: JoeBeastly]
#15193171 - 10/07/11 07:27 PM (13 years, 3 months ago) |
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bump updates!
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