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First Grows, WBS & PF Tek, First post too!
    #18874696 - 09/22/13 04:39 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Hey all! This is my first real grow. I did a "foolproof" kit many years ago. Wish I knew then what I do now. I have a couple projects going on concurrently. This is almost my first post on a forum ever!!! I love this site!

Project #1: First, made some BRF cakes w/ gypsum in half pint crystal jelly wide mouthed jars with some Golden Teacher MS syringes on 8/30. Four cakes are 100% colonized and have been consolidating for a week today. The other six cakes have stalled at ~90% or so. Not sure why. All of the stalled ones are just uncolonized on the bottom but have not changed in a week or more.



Possibly too wet? In the last couple of days they kind of look like they are sweating. I'm assuming this is normal?



Also, around 5-7 days after knocking them up noticed some red spots. Looked into it and it does seem like rust. It hasn't spread or anything. There's a couple of jars that have this, usually under where the inoculation holes are. I'm guessing some metal scraps from drilling the lids entered the jar.



Tomorrow or later today after I wake up, I'll be dunking them for 24hrs. For the cakes that have stalled, I'll be scraping/rubbing the uncolonized portions off as much as I can before dunking/rolling. Their new home will be a standard SGFC with ~5 inches of perlite in a 66 quart clear container (26.5 x 15.8 x 13.5).

Any comments/suggestions? Always welcome!

Project #2: Prepared some WBS on 9/5, 9/6. I used six half gallon jars. Three with PE and three with B+. I couldn't fit it all in my PC so it ended up being two operations. Used about 1.5ml MS syringe each jar. I can't remember which jars I did the first night of knocking them up but now that I'm writing this I'm guessing (3) PE and (1) B+. The PE jars started showing signs around 10 days later or so along with one B+ jar. Here is what the PE looks like today.

I hadn't done enough research and I shook only one of the jars. The B+ only shows signs in one jar which started a couple of days ago.

I still have some time to wait for these suckers. Should I shake twice instead of once since they are half gals? Planning to shake around 30% or so.

All jars BRF and WBS are stored in a closet that's 78-80 degf and around 50% humidity and mostly darkness (it's a closet.)

I'm excited! I found a new hobby!!! The only part I don't like is the waiting part. I'm sure it will be well worth it soon.

Well thanks for listening and hope to hear some feedback!


Edited by dizzywizzy (09/22/13 06:06 AM)


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Re: First Grows, WBS & PF Tek, First post too! [Re: dizzywizzy]
    #18874711 - 09/22/13 04:53 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

If you drilled the holes with the lids on and didnt clean them out it is probably rust, and yeah the ones that stalled might be too wet


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Re: First Grows, WBS & PF Tek, First post too! [Re: LiquidGlass]
    #18874718 - 09/22/13 05:00 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

The last pic looks like a contam to me, but i'm not sure.
Shake the WBS jars or else the myc becomes to clumpy, and it should speed up the colonosation time.


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