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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19879969 - 04/21/14 08:10 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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The reishi tubs I made didn't pan out. Going to give them another shot soon. However, I did a couple bags as well and those fruited right through the closed up tops and through the filter patches:



I didn't get a weight on the harvest, but they didn't flush a second time. Here's to learning and getting my first flush of reishi, however!
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19879988 - 04/21/14 08:16 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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I've also had some successful harvests of some of the other species I have set to agar and thus to grain and sawdust bags (fuel pellets).
Blue Oyster:

Kings and Enoki:

Lion's Mane:

No weights on those, so no clue about my yields. The next set of projects I'll actually be taking notes on substrate weights and final yields to get an idea of my efficiency. But it was great to have stuff actually grow, just to know i have at least the BASIC stuff working :-)
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19880001 - 04/21/14 08:19 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Last set for tonight. Turkey Tail. These have been in the fruiting chamber for a LONG while. They're finally producing, though. Looking really nice!
Cut slits in the bag for this one. Next go-around I'll roll the bag down tight once its colonized, and cut slits for the fruits to grow.

This one I cut the top off to see how they'd grow top-fruited. I later saw some good posts around here that essentially told me this was a bad idea, but ultimately learning by trying things is best for me. So, here we have a ton of Turkey Tail blobs and mutants..
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19880494 - 04/21/14 09:56 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nice work there! Reishi will not be contained 
Did you harvest the top fruited turkey tails? I made the mistake of top fruiting them recently... what a fuzzy mess.
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: Forrester]
#19881985 - 04/22/14 07:14 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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I haven't yet, no. I'll probably tear them off this week and see if I can cover it up for a second flush.
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19884988 - 04/22/14 08:07 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Update on the king oysters I inoculated back on 4/13.
I inoculated 8 jars. 4 lions mane and 4 king oyster. Each with a decent wedge of agar from fully colonized plates and gave them a good shake. Very very slow or no growth... My current suspicion is that it's the way I prepped the grains. I used Fahtster's quick rye prep (http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/7718009) and my guess is that my grains are a decent amount too dry? They do look a little dry, for the most part...
Gonna prep some grains the way I have before, using RR's method, and will compare with a couple pieces of what's left from the plates I used to inoculate these jars. I guess I could also try using that technique with a little more water in the jars as well.
From a 4/13 inoculation, this is all the growth I have from an agar wedge...
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19885728 - 04/22/14 10:41 PM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Grain on the dry side IME isn't usually a problem, unless it's SEVERE. That jar looks like it will be fine, maybe give it a shake and I bet it's done in a few days.
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: Forrester]
#19886951 - 04/23/14 09:02 AM (9 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah, that's my plan. Going to shake it tonight and see how it does. Just seems extremely slow for 9 days growth.
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19918831 - 04/29/14 08:49 PM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quick update. Cooked up 5 new jars of rye and inoculated them with blue oyster agar wedges.
Lost two of four king oyster jars to trich and one lions mane. Three lions mane and two king oyster jars still colonizing nicely, however. Shoudl be ready to spawn to sawdust bags this weekend. Not sure why the spike in contams lately, but it's annoying the hell out of me...
Anyway, some Turkey Tails growing nicely in the greenhouse. These things sure do take their sweet time... but they are GORGEOUS! Not 100% sure when they're done. They don't appear to be dropping spores, so I'll keep letting them go.
Enjoy the pics!



In that last one you can see a lot of the mutant blobs, some of which have morphed into conks in the last week or two. Loving it. :-)
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19919224 - 04/29/14 10:33 PM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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Wow man, you're doing great! Good looking grows
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: forrest]
#19919237 - 04/29/14 10:39 PM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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awesome turkey tail!
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: deadmandave]
#19924490 - 04/30/14 10:13 PM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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Another quick update before I hit the hay. Just finished pouring another stack of plates. To combat condensation a little bit more, I let the agar cool until the bottom of my flask was starting to congeal a little bit, swirled it around and went to work.
On the contamination front, this time I also rubber banded two squares of tyvek cut from some extra sleeves over the flask mouth before I put foil over it for the PC cycle. Maybe I have been introducing some level of contamination when it's cooling and drawing unclean air in? Doubtful, since the blank plates tend to not get contaminated very often if ever. It's my transfers that have been getting less reliable...
On a more positive note, my lions mane spawn is DEFINITELY ready to go to bulk this weekend when I have time to prep the bags. I always forget how whispy this stuff is, and by the time it thickens up it's essentially pinning all over the grain. If you look closely you can see tiny LM primordia in a bunch of spots:


Also, here's a quick shot of two of the jars that contaminated with trich. First is lions mane, and the pic doesn't do it justice but it's greening up nicely(?):

The second one is a king oyster jar (unfortunately two out of four of these contam'd... I'm going to give G2G a shot with one of the ones that didn't, and spawn the other to bulk so I at least get SOMETHING for certain out of this king grow. This contaminated jar was looking a LOT greener a couple days ago, and it looks like the king oyster mycelium may be starting to gain footing and win some of the battle. Gonna let this sit for a little while longer to see what happens, and then likely dump it out in my compost pile outside.

Thanks for following along, as always!
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19924509 - 04/30/14 10:17 PM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Greening up nicely"
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: Forrester]
#19925668 - 05/01/14 07:33 AM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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Haha. Yeah I though you guys might get a kick out of that while I was writing it. I figured I'd let these two do their thing for awhile to watch. No real downside to it since they're already contaminated.
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Re: Socraticd's experiments - a.k.a, a newbie's grow log [Re: socraticd]
#19928041 - 05/01/14 05:49 PM (9 years, 8 months ago) |
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Got a couple of wedges from forrest today! Pumped for these, a sporeless oyster and a pink oyster. My stack of plates from last night is sitting in my SAB hopefully expelling some of the remaining condensation, though I can still see it around the edges of the entire stack...
I should eb able to transfer these tomorrow and start growing them out. Can't wait!
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