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Specific grow kit questions... (cubensis)
    #19044382 - 10/28/13 05:01 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I need some advice... I tried reading up, but can't really find the precise answers I need :smile:

Before I went and found my own semilanceata, I had ordered a grow kit. Mostly because my time was limited and my first trip was very carefully planned as such the day could not be move to a foreseeable future.

Anyways, I eventually got the kit after having tripped, but thought what the heck might as well try.

Of course I messed it up a bit, not yet having learned about FAE and so on :laugh:

Standart kit, cake and all that in a plastic box with air vent cut into the lit.
Accompanying bag with an airvent and a clothes pin.

So I started it up and noticed the first pins a few days ago, but I wasn't prepared to how fast they would grow. Also I failed to notice the growth along the sides of the box -.-

I thought I'd give them a couple more days, but this morning to my dismay I noticed that the biggest pins had grown fairly much and had already broken the veil, as well as starting to bruise :frown:

So I picked a lot of them. Then I notice the side growth. I couple of big cubes were sitting there pressed against the side of the box, just under the myce. I didn't dare try and pick them with my fingers based on recommendations here.

Now here's where it gets f'ed... I see the bruising and immediately think "damn! Its mold!!!" Fired up the phone and started googling green cubes etc. Eventually found out they weren't ruined just not optimal.

Now, I let those side cubes sit, and then go and re water the box.... I was stressing because I had to go to work.

As I sit in the train I sit and read up again.

Conditions where the shrooms are:
Basement complex... very dry and just under 20 degrees C.
I made a halffinished box out of polystyrene taped together. There's no light in the basement, so I took one of my 100w lamps, cut a hole in the side and let it burn during the night. The lamp also bumps the temp up to the start 20s....


So now my questions are... ( I know I fucked up! ):

1. The box is resoaking while I'm at work. Will I be able to pick those side cubes with a plastic prongs when I get home or are they lost?

2. As you can read I'm behind on all this DIY shrooming, so I put the picked shrooms in a jar and stuck two silica gel bags to the lit without touching the shrooms.
Of course I now learn that they will suck the moisture back and forth from each other and in the worst case the shrooms will rot.
Will they rot in as little as 8 hours? Can I still pick them out when I get home and put them on a newspaper?
And do you think I could dry them in this basement where there is dry but not very refreshed air?

3. The grow kit... I re-soaked it. My plan is to drain that when I get home also and then start over. But the open shrooms... have the spores ruined the kit? Or will they simply spawn a new batch where they landed?

4. The bag supposedly has it's own air vent (some sort of perforated thing going on on the side. Looks like a piece of tape with lines in it. Should I help it by poking some holes in the bag?


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Re: Specific grow kit questions... (cubensis) [Re: beforeIgetold]
    #19045864 - 10/28/13 12:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: Specific grow kit questions... (cubensis) [Re: beforeIgetold]
    #19045916 - 10/28/13 12:36 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I'm not an expert, and am not sure what type of kit you have, but the ones you picked should be ok if you get them dried properly. I would place them in front of a fan and let them sit overnight, at least. Then you can use desiccants to dry the last little bit out.

Spores dropped from caps aren't going to grow anything, but do make a mess. You should be fine picking the fruit growing to the sides, as long as they look mature.

I'm not sure what kind of seal the kit is inside, but most BRF cake grows are in a SGFC, which is not a sterile environment, so outside air shouldn't be a problem, unless your kit is designed in a way that makes it an issue. Can't really help further on that.


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Re: Specific grow kit questions... (cubensis) [Re: Nabuca]
    #19046261 - 10/28/13 02:03 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

That's a start...

I took the shrooms out of the jar again. Ofcourse the Silica, like I had anticipated based on threads here, had taken all they could from the shrooms.
I put them on a news paper to dry for the night. Unfortunately I don't have a fan :S but the basement room is very dry, so I think they'll be ok? Although pretty bruised up a lot of them... blueing.

I picked as many of the shrooms in the cake as I could. Some were still lodged down along the sides, pretty much unreachable. I hope they wont rot up the entire kit :S


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Re: Specific grow kit questions... (cubensis) [Re: beforeIgetold]
    #19046280 - 10/28/13 02:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Your humidity may vary, but I once left a single cap out to see how it dried, and it simply turned to mush instead. Something similar tends to happen when I leave unpicked fruits inside a fruiting chamber. the RH turns them black and slimy, until they become a huge mess. Can you post a pic of this kit? Depending on how it looks, you may be better served breaking it open and fruiting the cake in a more manageable way.


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