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    #17207874 - 11/12/12 03:10 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

would someone be able to help me out a little? I the Mushroom Cultivation Board and didn't receive much help. So I thought I'd try a more advanced board.

I am trying Mycology for the first time and I have seemed to mess up somewhere...I had steady results for probably 4 days and then the Mycelium stopped growing. What, if possible, can I do to restart the growth of the mycelium?

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The pictures are of some of my jars, they all look basically the same, and my incubator.





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Re: First time grow [Re: Randy13]
    #17207916 - 11/12/12 03:18 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

the foil is only on the sides not on top and i was just recently told to take off the tape, which i did immediately, the top tote is resting on spacers and is NOT in direct contact with the incubator heater

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Re: First time grow [Re: Randy13]
    #17208103 - 11/12/12 03:45 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

Wrong forum, also, unless its less than 65 degrees you don't need a incubator. Pretty sure the gray stuff isn't mushroom myc also.


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Re: First time grow [Re: cloudpersona]
    #17208134 - 11/12/12 03:50 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

You have foil on your lids and tape over your holes. Your mycelium is suffocating. It needs to have gas exchange to grow properly. Untape the holes and get the tin foil off the lids, and give it a few days, that should help things out.

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Re: First time grow [Re: Icepic]
    #17208149 - 11/12/12 03:52 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

nm didn't read your second post, you did good taking tape off and if foil is only on the sides, you should have no problems, just give it a few days. If after a week you don't see any results something else is up. Be patient, that is the key to this hobby!

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Re: First time grow [Re: Icepic]
    #17208156 - 11/12/12 03:53 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

that's been done, the holes are exposed i'll just wait and see what happens i guess, any time frame until i see improvement?

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Re: First time grow [Re: Randy13]
    #17208167 - 11/12/12 03:54 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

Couple days i would assume. Week.


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Re: First time grow [Re: PlantEntity]
    #17211727 - 11/13/12 09:35 AM (11 years, 6 months ago)

fill your jars no more then 2/3. The lower layers are not getting enough GE, Maybe look into getting some filter disk and lids. GE means a lot when colonizing


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Re: First time grow [Re: mycoelf]
    #17212156 - 11/13/12 11:23 AM (11 years, 6 months ago)

I'm no expert (I really still a noob), but your jars look a little wet to my eye. That coupled with too little GE, will definitely lead to mold and or bacteria. Chances are that any mycellium that was started (though I don't see any mycellium in there), stopped once the contams got a foothold.

Next time use 1/2 pint jars, or you can do what I do and fill the bottom 2-3 inches in the jar with dry vermiculite, and layer your brf/verm on top. This will also help with excess moisture. Good luck.

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Re: First time grow [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #17219382 - 11/14/12 03:24 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

theres no contam i know that, the substrate isn't too moist i made sure of that, and im using 1/2 pint jars, im sure my problem was GE so i've made some changes and now they are getting a lot of air

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Re: First time grow [Re: mycoelf]
    #17219388 - 11/14/12 03:25 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

do you recommend i flip the jars? i've heard of people doing that to increase the GE in the lower portion of the jars, and should i cover my incubator with a towel or anything?

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Re: First time grow [Re: Randy13]
    #17219660 - 11/14/12 04:24 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

Not really much point in flipping the jars yet. Usually this is reserved for getting that last little bit in the bottom to go. As you really dont have anything started, (I dont see any mycellium at all in there) flipping them now ain't gonna help much. You dont want to disturb them much at all at this point. I'd say leave em for a week (don't even touch them). Then if you come back in a week and they still look the same, its probably trash time. Also your incubator may be hurting your growth. I personally found that my growth was better when I dropped my temps down to 75ish from the 80's I was using initially. Higher temps encourage bacteria and molds to get a foothold. In fact I just turned on my heater for the first time in months now that the cold weather has arrived, and my grow room is now holding at 73. I'm just a noob, but that is my two cents.

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Re: First time grow [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #17219751 - 11/14/12 04:38 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

thats really helpful! the last thing im going to do to them which has already been done is take them out of my incubator and just put them on a shelf in my room which is around 75F, and im not going to touch them at anymore haha, and if i have to start over i know what to do the next time around. thank you very much!!

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Re: First time grow [Re: Randy13]
    #17221362 - 11/14/12 08:58 PM (11 years, 6 months ago)

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thats really helpful! the last thing im going to do to them which has already been done is take them out of my incubator and just put them on a shelf in my room which is around 75F, and im not going to touch them at anymore haha, and if i have to start over i know what to do the next time around. thank you very much!!




Sounds like you know what yer doing then. I look forward to some pics of yer first flush. Good luck! :wink:

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Re: First time grow [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #17228985 - 11/16/12 10:15 AM (11 years, 6 months ago)

yeah dude, as soon as i get a flush those pics will be up here and thank you sir

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Re: First time grow [Re: Randy13]
    #17368811 - 12/10/12 04:25 PM (11 years, 5 months ago)

First the culture "looks" wet. Not saying it is, but you are on to something with the suffocation problem. Another is that what I see in the pics does not seem to be proper Mycelium but perhaps another mold. You want elongated and bright white ropey strands. Something more akin to a snowflake. If it looks wispy, not ropey, probably a bad fungus.

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Re: First time grow [Re: jarethfox]
    #17377587 - 12/11/12 10:31 PM (11 years, 5 months ago)

You need to read the basic pf tek, rr puts out free videos for it, your main problem besides your outdated info is your patience, imo,  this isn't an advanced topic


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