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ge0rg
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Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit
#18740945 - 08/22/13 05:17 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hi, a have a little growkit here, and the shrooms seem o grow only on one half of the whole thing. My suspicion os that I didn't put in enough water in the beginning, because afterwards not much water came out. If this is true, how bad is this? Will there be shrooms there if I dunk ther kit properly next time? One shroom is considerably bigger than the others, and normally you shoud harvest the other little ones along with the ripe big one, but regarding the possibly low yield I'm gonna get, should I divert from this rule? Thanks!
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: ge0rg]
#18740949 - 08/22/13 05:24 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Gice us some pictures so we can see what's going on with your kit....the info you've given really tells us almost nothing.
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: Nakor420]
#18740962 - 08/22/13 05:36 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'll try, but have no digital cam, so while I try to get my hands on one, I'll try to describe it as good as possible: The kit has a rectangular form. Near one of the shorter sides, there is one bigger and three smaller shrooms sticking out, most of them near the edge. The shroom that is furthest away from the edge is about 1/3 of the lenght of the kit away from the edge. The remaining 2/3s of the kit contain no shroooms at all. I remember, that I poured the water in from the side where the growth is now and also that very little water did come out the next day. I noticed my possible mistake but didn't know what to do about it and just put the kit in the bag. Other than that I think I did everything correctly. But as I said, I'll try to get you some photos. But IF I am correct about the cause of the problem - what will it mean? Will shrooms grow on the empty space next time, or is it lost now?
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: ge0rg]
#18740974 - 08/22/13 05:44 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Again...picturees would help us determine if there is a contaminate or what ever the problem might be...pinning is going to occur wherever you have the best micro climate...evaporation is a main trigger of pinning, I personally would give the surface one good heavy misting until it's glistening, then give it LOTS of FAE....I bet you'll see more pins by morning.... That being said... I'm only taking a stab in the dark without pics, and I'm not a TC so, I would wait for someone with a little more knowledge to chime in. Did you fill the tray with water when you dunked it? I mean did the water come up to about 1/4" below the surface? If so, then you did it right. Did you leave it soaking for 24 hours?
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: Nakor420]
#18741052 - 08/22/13 06:50 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thank you for your answer, I understand that pics would help a lot, as I said, I try to provide them later. But there is nothing there that even remotely looks like contamination. The shrooms that grow look quite healthy from what I can tell... When I filled the box with water, I opened the lid only a little bit. The water was standing on the surface, but got absorbed eventually. My hypothesis is that because of this, it got absorbed only on one side (I should have opened the lid further), and I did not put in any additional water. I did not look on the sides where the water stood, but I will do so next time, thx. for the advice. Can you give me a link or an advice on how misting is done properly (so I don't risk containation)? Also what is it about FAE? Do I just open the bag up? EDIT: Yes I did leave it for apprix. 24 hours, maybe only 21-22.
Edited by ge0rg (08/22/13 06:52 AM)
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: ge0rg]
#18741066 - 08/22/13 07:02 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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For FAE you can either poke holes in the bag, or open it up a few times a day and fan it....idk man...I don't see how you can fill the container and only soak half of a substrate...that makes no sense to me...the water would fill the bottom of the box first then fill up to the top....it's not like there is a divider keeping the water from filling the other end of the container....I'm just having a hard time picturing how only half a tray can absorb water while leaving the other half dry...Just give it a good misting and get it some FAE and let it do it's thing...you'll get your pins I'm sure. Just don't KEEP the surface wet...you want to let it dry out on top between misting....this will trigger more pinning and prevent mold spores(namely cobweb) from germinating on top of your sub...
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: Nakor420]
#18741207 - 08/22/13 08:24 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thx again. My thought now is this - Because one of the pins is pretty big already, I do not want to trigger any more right now, because then I would have to harvest them little. Can I just wait till tis flus is ready and then handle the next one properly? I have read that the overall yield is always the same, because it depends on the total of nutrients in the kit. Also I'm not proficent with the mentioned procedures and I'm really afraid to contaminate the kit by doing something wrong. So what do you say about this alternate plan? Can it work out?
EDIT: Concerning the water thing. I am not shure eiter. But it takes the water a while to get through the top layer to the bottom. I might have poured an insufficent amount of water on top so that after the absorption it was on the bottom and predominantly on the side where I pored it in. Sorry for my noobdom
Edited by ge0rg (08/22/13 08:27 AM)
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: ge0rg]
#18741226 - 08/22/13 08:31 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just be clean and you won't contaminate a fully colonized substrate....yeah you could wait until that flush is finished, then dunk your tray again for like 12 hours then start it fruiting again...I've had success with that...but usually a bulk substrate needs no dunking once it's hydrated...so yeah....if it's a problem of being too dry, another dunk may help....
Edited by Nakor420 (08/22/13 08:31 AM)
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: Nakor420]
#18747231 - 08/23/13 12:52 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hi, okay, now I executed the "plan" layed out above. One small follow up question I don't want to open an extra thread for: Because, even though I put tape on the sides, most of the shrooms were growing on the rim of the kit, in one place I didn't manage to remove the whole shroom and a bit of it is still there...is this bad? I don't want to knife arond inside the kit, because this is how I got it contaminated last time...
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: ge0rg]
#18747370 - 08/23/13 01:28 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Tape doesn't prevent side pinning...in fact it does nothing...you want to use a plastic liner inside your tub/tray to prevent that... try to get it off if you can, you don't want to rot on your substrate.
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Re: Shrooms grow only on one side of the kit [Re: Nakor420]
#18747418 - 08/23/13 01:41 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thanks alot! I poked them out...I hope there were none that I didn't see...well.
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