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urthtown
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#19056444 - 10/30/13 07:09 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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urthtown said: I nocc'd 8 hpoo/straw cakes before I realised they wouldn't germinate... then had to go back and do all BRF cakes as spawn with a new syringe... 
That might have worked for pans 
Who knew I needed a cow stomach to make that one work
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partythug
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: urthtown]
#19056665 - 10/30/13 09:16 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Improperly pasteurizing substrate - temps getting too high for too long. Taking my sweet ass time moving onto agar.
Making friends with green mold, not knowing when or how he'll ever call me again.
Misting too often. Misting too little.
Punching the wall in frustration with low and fluctuating temperatures. It's useless to hurt yourself over it.
Inoculating in the same room or in close proximity to the spawning and fruiting zone! What the hell was I thinking?
Losing my concentration or patience when learning the art of fungal ESP. Some people seem like Uri Geller or something when it comes to "knowing" when all conditions are just right. Or maybe ESP isn't real and years of trial and error are more important. We'll never know....
Mistake soon to be discovered: using and relying on GLC, no matter how sterile I've thus far made the inoculation zone. Medical supplies galore, all acquired at no cost to yours truly - masks, gowns, Virex, bonnets, self-healing ports, micropore tape, new syringes, needles, syringe caps, syringe filters, polypropylene biohazard bags, angled scissors. Maybe too many potential vectors of contamination without an effing flowhood. Not to mention the reliance on Micropore tape for so long - another "taking my sweet ass time to get something" moment - free is free, right?
Smaller SAB than is comfortable.
Fear of G2G due to small SAB.
And finally, farting into a spore syringe prior to inoculation. Everybody knows you should do that shit only when you open a colonizing bulk tub - methane helps the shrooms, right?
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: partythug]
#19056701 - 10/30/13 09:30 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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getting your hands dirty. nothing works like experience for me

edit: also this post made a big difference in my approach.
Edited by PirateSwazey (10/30/13 09:35 AM)
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root9
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#19056875 - 10/30/13 10:27 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pastywhyte said: ............. -Spores101 is garbage as is Ralphsters 
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ralphsters is garbage? I had no problem with a syringe from them like 4 years ago but maybe they've gone downhill..
some stupid mistakes i made:
made a SAB/glovebox and glued the right hand glove to the left side arm port and the left hand glove to the right side arm port.
forgot to inoculate a bunch of WBS jars and wondered why i wasn't seeing any growth
jostled some BRF jars around too much and the verm mixture inside compacted/settled a lot --> contammed
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Pastywhyte
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: root9]
#19056911 - 10/30/13 10:36 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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They are no longer a sponsor here for a reason. Maybe four years ago they were good but it's a joke now. Plenty of threads in the sponsors forum on the drama that went down, its an amusing read.
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36fuckin5
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#19057144 - 10/30/13 11:42 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My biggest mistake was trying to vary from the TEK before fully understanding what I was doing.
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SpitballJedi
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: 36fuckin5]
#19057340 - 10/30/13 12:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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 I thought I understood enough to make variations on teks. Turned out I was wrong.... a bunch of times.
In retrospect, I would have saved a lot of money by learning agar.
I also wished I'd started with grains and CVG instead of PF Tek and moving to straw and manure.
Best advice I have.... if you do PF Tek, use a SGFC.
If you do bulk, use a CVG and a monotub.
I wished I would have realized that earlier. Either way you go, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AND DON'T TRY TO DEVIATE. You are not smarter than the rest of us.
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shroomnub4u
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: SpitballJedi]
#19060378 - 10/30/13 09:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Shaking my grain right after nocing it up.
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: ed94514]
#19061569 - 10/31/13 02:34 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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A couple times, I injected spores into jars that were not fully cooled yet.  
I waited and waited for them to produce mycelium, but nothing.
A hard lesson learned. I had killed the spores. Wait for your jars to cool at least 10 hours! Dont be impatient!
Its a waste of time and money. Seriously.
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#19065033 - 10/31/13 06:13 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think that is the best question you could possibly ask.
This should be stickied I think. Everyone has experienced failure at some point, a lot to be learned.
one of my biggest recent failures was actually on my friends grow. see I do all the reading on the shroomery and I relay what information I can to my friend, problem is we are always smokin and he can't remember s***,and I'm definitely not the best teacher, so his methods kinda suck in comparison to mine. At least he gets more problems, especially since he is always coming up with his own ideas and since he's not reading anything he just doesn't understand certain things no Mayer how many times I tell him. He's going back to pf cakes cuz they are a little more fool proof.
Anyway this guy, against my advice, went and did 13 mono tubs and botched them all. Why? 2 main reasons I concluded. .. First, bucket tek. I used bucket tek for the first 6 months of my bulk experience with not a single contamination issue. But now even though I never had a problem with the bucket I am properly pasteurizing. I believe that it partially sterilized his substrate, which may or may not tie into the second problem. Next he went ape shit over board sealing his tubs, must have went through an entire roll of duck tape. He sealed them so much that there was no GE and nothing ever colonized until eventually contams took over several Tubs while the others just fermented, smelt like some kind of nasty home brew when I cleaned Em out.
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rumfor69
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: MaJiK_420]
#19065108 - 10/31/13 06:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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My biggest mistake I'd say was not buying synthetic filter disks
and a flowhood at first. I wish the very day i started i would have
just bought a flowhood instead of working in a SAB/glovebox.
Then when the search engine brought me to synthetic filter disks
well lets just say both these things changed everything for me forever.
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Stromrider
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: rumfor69]
#19065505 - 10/31/13 07:33 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I still don't have a flow hood but I can say I love sfd. I fucked around polyfill and tyvek for a while. I finally got some sfd and I love them. Unlike a flow hood they are cheap and I think everyone should ditch the polyfill and tyvek and get them some sfd
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Pastywhyte
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: Stromrider]
#19065650 - 10/31/13 07:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Stromrider said: I still don't have a flow hood but I can say I love sfd. I fucked around polyfill and tyvek for a while. I finally got some sfd and I love them. Unlike a flow hood they are cheap and I think everyone should ditch the polyfill and tyvek and get them some sfd
QFT
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ed94514
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: Pastywhyte]
#19096798 - 11/06/13 06:11 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I do appreciate everything on this post, thaks guys
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#19097661 - 11/06/13 08:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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PussyFart
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: chums of chance]
#19097672 - 11/06/13 08:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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chums of chance said: Go easy on misting when pins develop. I ruined a few cakes by drenching pins.
The only way misting would hurt pins is if they were hit with pressure, or the water was allowed to sit on them and not evaporate.
Other than that, when it rains in nature pins do not abort.
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Global_Roaming
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: PussyFart]
#19098181 - 11/06/13 10:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Some guy on here inoculated himself with a spore syringe lol
I'd suggest not doing that.
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Stromrider
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Re: I believe that mistakes are the best way to learn. New guy here wanting to know what were yours? [Re: Global_Roaming]
#19098193 - 11/06/13 10:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Global_Roaming said: Some guy on here inoculated himself with a spore syringe lol
I'd suggest not doing that.
Sounds like an urban legend
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