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One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/
#18835899 - 09/13/13 07:40 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Spawned to bulk on 06/09 (or 09/06 for the Yanks ) 1:2 ratio.
I spose to me it looks covered except for that patch you can see in the last picture. It's been like this for several days though - I was not expected it to be covered this quickly. Saying that my stupid assistant (aka buddy) forgot to give me two jars to mix in so they kind of only got part mixed in and mainly near the top.
I wondered then whether it was worth giving it a couple more days as the center might not be colonised and also to wait for that little patch to cover...? 
Apologies as I know people post this *&^% again and again!
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18835901 - 09/13/13 07:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Also on a lot of the pics I've seen you can't see the colour of the grains peaking through (this was done with rye) but in my tub you can clearly see the grainy colour...that a problem??
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18835906 - 09/13/13 07:47 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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It looks fully colo'd to me but I found that consolidation time of at least 5 days or until pins appear is best for mono's
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: PrinceShroom]
#18836092 - 09/13/13 09:10 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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PrinceShroom said: It looks fully colo'd to me but I found that consolidation time of at least 5 days or until pins appear is best for mono's
Well I'm off to a festie tomorrow so I guess I'll just put it into fruiting before I leave right?!
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18836096 - 09/13/13 09:11 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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PrinceShroom said: It looks fully colo'd to me but I found that consolidation time of at least 5 days or until pins appear is best for mono's
Well I'm off to a festie tomorrow so I guess I'll just put it into fruiting before I leave right?!
Personally if your going to be less than a week i would leave it till i got back for a better pinset. Tl's one flush wonder mono tek suggests the same thing
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: PrinceShroom]
#18836292 - 09/13/13 10:16 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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It seems everyone has different opinions about whether to let bulk substrate have a consolidation period or not. Through your own experience you'll have to decide what you thinks work better. To answer your question it is 100 percent colonized and can be put into fruiting if you so desire
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18836305 - 09/13/13 10:22 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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psillyshroomer said: It seems everyone has different opinions about whether to let bulk substrate have a consolidation period or not. Through your own experience you'll have to decide what you thinks work better. To answer your question it is 100 percent colonized and can be put into fruiting if you so desire
Before the festie it is then! The perfect thing about that is that means not looking at it for 3/4 days and hopefully coming back to a nice surprise
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18836318 - 09/13/13 10:26 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I seriously doubt you will have pins when you return. When you put a tub into fruiting right at 100 percent you don't usually see pins for about 5 to 10 days. Who knows though. Maybe you'll have a quick pinning strain
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18836334 - 09/13/13 10:30 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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psillyshroomer said: I seriously doubt you will have pins when you return. When you put a tub into fruiting right at 100 percent you don't usually see pins for about 5 to 10 days. Who knows though. Maybe you'll have a quick pinning strain
Well I did say "hopefully" and it's been looking like 100% for a few days so hoping for something when I get back 
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18836342 - 09/13/13 10:33 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'll cross my fingers for ya! Show us some pics of the progress when you get back. Have fun at the festival
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18836383 - 09/13/13 10:43 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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psillyshroomer said: I'll cross my fingers for ya! Show us some pics of the progress when you get back. Have fun at the festival 
Thanks buddy IF it's a success I'll post the proverbial "mushroom prOn" if not I will hang my head in shame and not be seen here for a month or two 
And don't worry - I will have a massive amount of fun at the festival despite the trapped nerve in my neck that has meant I literally have not slept since Tuesday night  
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18836478 - 09/13/13 11:11 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Fruit them.
Consolidation is for high-nutrient substrates like BRF+verm. The mycelium needs time to "digest" the substrate.
Pasteurized bulk is very low-nutrient, and once it is colonized 100% it should be fruited. This will maximize yields and minimize aborts.
FAE is the number one pinning trigger. With low levels of nutrients in your bulk, you should not smother the tub when it is fully colonized.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18836629 - 09/13/13 11:51 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I opened it up briefly and accidentally disturbed the top layer and doesnt look at all colonised underneath
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18836647 - 09/13/13 11:55 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Of course it doesn't, you damaged the mycelium.
The same logic applies to grains that are 100%.
When you break up your jar of grains, the mycelium that was nice and healthy looking "vanishes."
That does not mean it is not 100% colonized, it just means that the mycelium now has to recover.
I've run many hundreds of tubs at this point. They all get fruited at 100%.
I've tried consolidating many different times with many different isolates. IMO it is only detrimental to consolidate bulk
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18836710 - 09/13/13 12:08 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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See Frank ive done the same thing with isolates and had a variance of upto 200 grams difference (Fresh)
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: PrinceShroom]
#18836723 - 09/13/13 12:10 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Myself and others have found that by fruiting at 100%, it increases yields pretty reliably 
Plus the science behind consolidating high-nutrient substrates is sound, but not so much for consolidating bulk.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18836884 - 09/13/13 12:49 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well I'm gonna leave it a bit longer TBH 
When I say a bit longer I mean I have some ice cream to eat, I need a ciggy and I want a beer. Hopefully doing these things will increase my yield
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18836940 - 09/13/13 01:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Whatever you do, that tub looks good!
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18836956 - 09/13/13 01:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well I did it. Skipped the ice cream though...



Hope I dialled it like a boss 
On a side note has anyone ID'd this contam yet??


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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18836961 - 09/13/13 01:17 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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BTW ignore he micropore I was just covering some old holes I made for some reason yonks ago...
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18837104 - 09/13/13 02:04 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That jar is disgusting. Sterilize that thing with the eyes before opening the jar.
Looking good though! If you want to close up those holes use duct tape or something non-porous. They will still be getting air exchange if you just use micropore.
I actually fielded another question today about fruiting at 100% vs consolidating. I thought you may be interested in my thoughts on the subject:
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Here is my theory:
By keeping the colonizing conditions (100% RH and high CO2) when your tub is starting to knot up, you are essentially "tricking" the mycelium into thinking that 100% RH and high CO2 levels are what it has to work with.
When you change this abruptly (at the sight of pins, for example) you are going to be making the conditions less ideal for the pinset that has been produced. That leads to a larger number of aborts.
You can certainly get a larger pinset when you consolidate your tubs. I don't have any doubt.
But I've said it before, a larger pinset is not necessarily a better pinset.
For these reasons, I choose to give it fresh air as soon as it is 100% colonized. By doing this I introduce my mycelium to its fruiting conditions as soon as possible. so that it can be "accustomed" to them and fruit as well as it can with what it has got. I hope this makes sense 
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/18837075#18837075
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18837150 - 09/13/13 02:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That jar is disgusting. Sterilize that thing with the eyes before opening the jar.
Looking good though! If you want to close up those holes use duct tape or something non-porous. They will still be getting air exchange if you just use micropore.
I actually fielded another question today about fruiting at 100% vs consolidating. I thought you may be interested in my thoughts on the subject:
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Here is my theory:
By keeping the colonizing conditions (100% RH and high CO2) when your tub is starting to knot up, you are essentially "tricking" the mycelium into thinking that 100% RH and high CO2 levels are what it has to work with.
When you change this abruptly (at the sight of pins, for example) you are going to be making the conditions less ideal for the pinset that has been produced. That leads to a larger number of aborts.
You can certainly get a larger pinset when you consolidate your tubs. I don't have any doubt.
But I've said it before, a larger pinset is not necessarily a better pinset.
For these reasons, I choose to give it fresh air as soon as it is 100% colonized. By doing this I introduce my mycelium to its fruiting conditions as soon as possible. so that it can be "accustomed" to them and fruit as well as it can with what it has got. I hope this makes sense 
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/18837075#18837075
That seems to be today's hot topic 
Thanks for the advice - you are a blessing on this board. I doubled up the micro but I'll prob just seal them with some silicone when I get around to it 
I gave the contam to my cat to play with...but then again the cat just shat on the sofa so it didn't turn out great
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18837899 - 09/13/13 05:42 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Damn cats! Give it to an old lady and get you a wiener dog Skinty! Everyone needs a little wiener!
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18837936 - 09/13/13 05:51 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Skinty said: BTW ignore he micropore I was just covering some old holes I made for some reason yonks ago... 
xD I was seconds from posting and asking about those holes too. Your tub looks awesome man good luck and bountiful yields!
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18837946 - 09/13/13 05:54 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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psillyshroomer said: Damn cats! Give it to an old lady and get you a wiener dog Skinty! Everyone needs a little wiener!
You know what...I'm not gonna lie (anymore) I'm going to admit - I lied. It's my friends cat. He's at the festival and I'm here with a broken (it's not actually broken) neck. I'm eating shrooms I'm meant to be doing at the festival with my friends and my friend's cat shits on the fucking sofa (couch or whatever).
Right now I wish I had a little wiener doggy to sit and be nice with me 
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: LTSwoomz]
#18837950 - 09/13/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Skinty said: BTW ignore he micropore I was just covering some old holes I made for some reason yonks ago... 
xD I was seconds from posting and asking about those holes too. Your tub looks awesome man good luck and bountiful yields!
Well thank you very much kind sir!
Just to point out it's been fruiting for more than a coupla hours now and there's still no pins. Will probably toss it?
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18837992 - 09/13/13 06:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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psillyshroomer said: Damn cats! Give it to an old lady and get you a wiener dog Skinty! Everyone needs a little wiener!
You know what...I'm not gonna lie (anymore) I'm going to admit - I lied. It's my friends cat. He's at the festival and I'm here with a broken (it's not actually broken) neck. I'm eating shrooms I'm meant to be doing at the festival with my friends and my friend's cat shits on the fucking sofa (couch or whatever).
Right now I wish I had a little wiener doggy to sit and be nice with me  
That is the saddest story I have ever heard
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18838009 - 09/13/13 06:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh yeah I almost forgot....
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18838035 - 09/13/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Your compassion is heart warming 
Unfortunately I also seem to have mistakenly tucked into other festival commodities and as such must sign out of this thread and general internet environ and meet with the real world. Dogless.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18852664 - 09/17/13 08:22 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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UPDATE - I am a bit concerned with the RH of the mono. No condensation anywhere what soever when I returned from festival yesterday. 3 x 1 1/4" holes at top of substrate level on long sides of tub very tightly packed and 2 x 1 1/4" holes on each short side of tub loosely packed.
Due to the above I have covered one hole on each side (so 2 on each length with one on each width). I also opened her up and gave her a quick mist and fan. There is one pin atm - weird looking thing it almost looks like it's based is right down in the substrate if that makes sense.
The tub is prob fine and it's just me worrying...the top of the substrate has that "dewy" water droplet look (before the misting as well as after)
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18852665 - 09/17/13 08:24 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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BTW there is a fan gently blowing toward the wall by the tub...
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18853544 - 09/17/13 01:25 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pictures?
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18853675 - 09/17/13 02:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thought you weren't going to the festival
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18853776 - 09/17/13 02:31 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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My neck felt better so I went on Saturday Psilly - was good fun 
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18853782 - 09/17/13 02:33 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think you're impatient, it looks fine to me. I even see a pin 
The no condensation on the walls thing, don't sweat it until you see how your first flush goes.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18853785 - 09/17/13 02:33 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You've got a pin.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Nakor420]
#18853808 - 09/17/13 02:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Cool I won't sweat it then (just like the mono itself - god what an awful joke ) 
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Nakor420]
#18853810 - 09/17/13 02:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well I am glad you got to go. If your walls are drying out you could always try to decrease your fae slightly but in my limited experience monotubs seems to really enjoy a lot of fae. It seems much more important than high humidity to me
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18853957 - 09/17/13 03:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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True.
You can mist to compensate for slightly low RH.
Hard to make up for lack of FAE though.
Hey skinty, do an experiment for me: mist the walls heavily, so there is water dripping down all sides.
Take a pic in 24 hours and show me how the walls look.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18853993 - 09/17/13 03:12 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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FrankHorrigan said: True.
You can mist to compensate for slightly low RH.
Hard to make up for lack of FAE though.
Hey skinty, do an experiment for me: mist the walls heavily, so there is water dripping down all sides.
Take a pic in 24 hours and show me how the walls look.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18854245 - 09/17/13 04:08 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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FrankHorrigan said: True.
You can mist to compensate for slightly low RH.
Hard to make up for lack of FAE though.
Hey skinty, do an experiment for me: mist the walls heavily, so there is water dripping down all sides.
Take a pic in 24 hours and show me how the walls look.
Is the point of this to see if the walls dry back out by tomorrow which would tell you he is getting too much FAE?
Also is it really dry where you live skinty because when I did my first tub I still had cakes going in a sgfc and my dumbass was running a dehydrator almost daily in the same room as my tub and it really dried my tub out?
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18854257 - 09/17/13 04:12 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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psillyshroomer said: Is the point of this to see if the walls dry back out by tomorrow which would tell you he is getting too much FAE?
Basically, yes. Note that "too much FAE" is really only possible when the FAE is directly tied to the RH like it is in a monotub.
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Also is it really dry where you live skinty because when I did my first tub I still had cakes going in a sgfc and my dumbass was running a dehydrator almost daily in the same room as my tub and it really dried my tub out?
Run a humidifier in the room and don't let the air currents affect the SGFC.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18854375 - 09/17/13 04:42 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well I'm not running a sgfc anymore and I know better than to run the dehydrator in the same room as my tub now. Lesson learned and applied
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18856873 - 09/18/13 06:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You know what? My mono is doing the same thing...mist the walls heavily, wait 24 hours...and it's totally dry again....should I tape up one or two of the 4 top holes I have?
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Nakor420]
#18856879 - 09/18/13 06:42 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Tape 2 of the top holes. You need 4 holes at the sub level packed tightly with polyfill and 2 upper holes stuffed loosely with polyfill. Your walls should not dry out if it is dialed in properly.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18856967 - 09/18/13 07:42 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Word, thanks...
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18857597 - 09/18/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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FrankHorrigan said: True.
You can mist to compensate for slightly low RH.
Hard to make up for lack of FAE though.
Hey skinty, do an experiment for me: mist the walls heavily, so there is water dripping down all sides.
Take a pic in 24 hours and show me how the walls look.
Have not taken a pic but walls mainly dried out...a few water droplets left and some condensation on lid. Surface still looks very "dewy". Looks like the thing is about to explode with pins though 
I think at this stage with this being my first big mono I'm gonna leave it be, see what happens with these pins and learn from my mistakes
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18857635 - 09/18/13 11:48 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds like a plan.
I would adjust your fan so there is not so much breeze blowing directly around / on the tub.
If it is exploding with pins though, you are doing something right.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18858057 - 09/18/13 01:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeh I'm not too worried for now...I've adjusted the fan also I picked up on psilly's point about dehydrator cos I'm running one in the same room... such a hard room to get the set up right - too many variables 
I will hopefully post a pinset pic in next couple of days...LOOKS like it's gonna explode but let's see ey! 
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18858541 - 09/18/13 02:55 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You are running a dehydrator in the same room? That's what is causing your tub to dry out. If you have a humidifier run it in there if you want and don't ever run a dehydrator in the same room as a monotub. Actually when i run my dehydrator on the other end of the house I make sure to run the humidifier in the room with the monotub just to make sure
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Stromrider]
#18858575 - 09/18/13 03:02 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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psillyshroomer said: You are running a dehydrator in the same room? That's what is causing your tub to dry out. If you have a humidifier run it in there if you want and don't ever run a dehydrator in the same room as a monotub. Actually when i run my dehydrator on the other end of the house I make sure to run the humidifier in the room with the monotub just to make sure
You know what I turned the fucking thing off (as I have no wet shrooms to dry ) a few hours ago and there is visibly growing condensation over the last few hours 
Thing is I have nowhere else in this house to do anything - the SGFC, mono, fan and dehydrator in same room  
If I ran the dehydrator in my friends room he would eat all the produce! I ain't kidding I love him but he's an animal!
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18858596 - 09/18/13 03:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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OH and btw - I know it's useful to know what type of mushroom is being grown. Apparently this species of cubensis is "Mongolian mind rape". It colonises 32% faster than the next fastest which is Serbian sodomizer but is 23.4% less potent than Siberian shaft monkey 
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18858792 - 09/18/13 03:44 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's all good to know but seriously you may be able to get by with running a dehydrator in the same room if you also ran a humidifier at the same time. Idk
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18866336 - 09/20/13 06:39 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well here's how the surface is looking at present...decentish pin set - not many pins in those thicker whiter areas of myc in corners and mainly pinning in centre... dunno why the myc looks different in the corner - pretty sure it's not trich...


Edited by Skinty (09/20/13 06:40 AM)
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18866345 - 09/20/13 06:45 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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looks good to me...
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Nakor420]
#18866374 - 09/20/13 07:06 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nakor420 said: looks good to me...
Yup looks ok I reckon...pretty pleased so far tbh. Tempting to keep messing with the polyfill as no idea how well dialled it is but I'm just leaving it be now and gonna see what happens
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18866449 - 09/20/13 07:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Looks great.
It's fluffy in the corners because that's where it is drying out the fastest. Totally normal. Give it a misting and it will look like the rest again.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18866516 - 09/20/13 08:02 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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FrankHorrigan said: Looks great.
It's fluffy in the corners because that's where it is drying out the fastest. Totally normal. Give it a misting and it will look like the rest again.
Ahh ok they makes sense frank so should I just must the fluffier bits 
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18866521 - 09/20/13 08:04 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You don't need to mist it at all before the first flush.
If you do decide to, just mist the whole tub. A little mist every couple of days never hurt anything in a tub IME.
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: FrankHorrigan]
#18866619 - 09/20/13 08:31 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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FrankHorrigan said: You don't need to mist it at all before the first flush.
If you do decide to, just mist the whole tub. A little mist every couple of days never hurt anything in a tub IME.
Cool. I'll leave it be then...something I've definitely learnt about this hobby is it generally not helpful to keep fussing over things 
However I will no doubt fuss over a few *update* pics at an appropriate time
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18878978 - 09/23/13 01:35 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well here's the view this morning...


I thought that big one at the back of pic 2 was going to be an absolute monster but looks like it's already breaking it's veil... I hope the rest don't break too quickly.... 
Oh and before you say it Psilly - I know I should get into agar work
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18879213 - 09/23/13 04:19 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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nice
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18883568 - 09/24/13 05:52 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ohhhh kayyyy for anyone who is interested (don't all shout at once) I've harvested most my first flush...have left a few least mature shrooms as the dehydrator is totally packed full 
So from what I've read it's ok to leave the surface looking like the moon as it is in the pics here? there's quite a lot of mushy there but I figure on leaving it. I've also tried to save as many baby shrooms as possible (quite difficult when yr hacking away in there) 
Anyway I'll clear the rest of the shrooms later and then planning on doing a dunk...will prob just mist like crazy and poor 1/2 pint of water between the substrate and the liner 
Pretty pleased with the 1st flush results for a first time...quite a nice problem not having enough dehydrator room 





Completely off topic but had to share my excitement...my outdoor grow is pinning like mad fuck me I'm excited about that!!
Edited by Skinty (09/24/13 06:31 AM)
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Re: One of those annoying "is my monotub ready for fruiting" posts :/ [Re: Skinty]
#18884756 - 09/24/13 12:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You did right by the tub and the harvest. Looks great!
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