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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: PussyFart]
#19223065 - 12/03/13 04:34 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Notahacker420 said: Last 2 pics are definitely contaminated.....
Doesn't look good for any of the other jars that are showing any color but white either.
They were orange right from the start. Didn't get any darker or larger since then. The did get a little sludgy or "wet" looking, but so did the rest of the mycelium....the whole jar has condensation on it. Have you ever seen a case where the knock up points turned orange like that right away?
I searched on here for quite a while, and didn't find anything like it anywhere on the forums.
I read and read and read and sometimes the more i read, the more confused i get. I turned down the heat in the room to 21....seems bacteria like the higher temps. I also picked up a smaller tub to fruit them in...i'll prob only have 4 cakes out of 10...and mostly from spores not germ'ing. I think i'll only lose 2 to contams. one reached colonization yesterday and i can't wait to dunk it so i can give it a good smell. I'll still be extremely happy if i get one decent cake from all 10 jars...especially on my first grow.....fuck, it took me about 5 years to grow a good screen of green! Thanks to you guys for your help too...i'll post some more pics as soon as something changes.
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19226028 - 12/04/13 10:22 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Birthed my first cake today! Smelled good, so im hopeful that it turns out alright.
Made a much smaller fruiting chamber too....one sized for 4 cakes
Boiling 8 more jars for knock up tonight...see if my luck changes.
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19231743 - 12/05/13 03:22 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well, here she is...sittin' all pretty on the white rocks. This is just after rolling in the verm. It was dunked for a total of 19 hours...couldn't do the 24 because i had to leave for work.

This is the smaller of the two FC i have...

This is Birtha McTrippin'Balls (her name) all sprayed up. We let her sit for about 20 minutes or so before we gave her and the chamber a good misting....then fanned it out before we put the lid back on.

...and this is how much perlite we put in.

I have three empty syringes now, and access to an autoclave at work. I also have sterilization pouches with indicators on them that i'll ready the empty syringes in. I'm hoping to get a spore print and try my hand at that too.
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19244570 - 12/08/13 11:31 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Can someone tell me if this looks like healthy mycelium growth?

also, if a cake were to contam with cobweb...do you have to dump the perlite and start again before putting new cakes in there, or can you spray it with peroxide, or maybe a bleach solution to keep using it?
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19246505 - 12/08/13 06:30 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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cake looks fine, if it gets cobweb peroxide will kill it
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 404]
#19256210 - 12/10/13 04:27 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Got my first pin today!!!! Fuckin excited!!

Only jar left with GT finished colonizing today...I'll leave it to consolidate for a week then throw it in with the first cake. I have one more jar that's about a day or two behind, and that will be going in as well.
One more jar I have that appears contaminated with bacteria (in one very small spot) will be fully colonized in another week or so. I'll try birthing it in a separate room to see if it reeks. If it doesn't reek, i'll dunk n roll it and put it in with the rest to see if it can recover.
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19256271 - 12/10/13 04:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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if it is bacteria i'd skip the dunk and build it it's own fc, something like a pop bottle, by the time your second flush comes the bacteria shouldn't be a problem(this all depends on how fucked it is of course)
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: cronicr]
#19259632 - 12/11/13 11:09 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ok man, thanks for the advice! I'll post it all here in case you're interested in how it turns out.
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19260276 - 12/11/13 01:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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of course i'm interested
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: cronicr]
#19265798 - 12/12/13 01:22 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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So here's an update of the pins...growing steadily. There are a total of 8 now. They're all on two sides, with the other two sides showing nothing yet.
 
This one is going in vitro, it was knocked up on Nov.6th and just finished yesterday. I think i'll birth it tonight, or maybe tomorrow with the GT that finised up the other day.
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19270894 - 12/13/13 01:58 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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So i birthed the one that had the bit o slimy stuff on it yesterday, and dunked it last night. It's been dunked for 21 hours and i just rolled it in the verm and put it in a 2L with soaked perlite. It didn't smell bad at all...smelled quite good actually...could've taken a bite right out of it.
The first pinning cake i have is growing faster than bamboo. Fuckin' thing is just takin' right off. There are pins all over it, and the first ones to show are growing so fast, i can almost watch them change size. It's got two speeds, slow and balls to the wall. lol
I've noticed quite a few pins growing underneath it as well, one is pretty big...big enough to possibly flip the cake on it's side. I'm just going to leave it the way it is and hope that it doesn't. I'll try to get some pics later tonight when i get my camera back.
Also, not part of my first grow, but the start of my second, are my other 17 jars i knocked up, with a much higher success rate this time around. Out of 9 orissa india that were knocked up on Dec. 6, 6 have signs of good mycelium growth at almost every hole, and out of 8 Mexi cub knocked up on Dec. 4, 5 have strong signs of mycelium growth. The spore syringes still seem to be turning the substrate orange, but as long as i can get a few caps from them, i'm hoping i can make my own syringes. I would like to get into cloning and agar, to single out some great genes too. Where do you buy agar? Is it a specific kind?
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19271455 - 12/13/13 04:10 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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got my camera back. A little pin porn for ya.
This one is growing so fast....i get all giggly watching it

a few more shots of the cake, with some of the other pins. they all seem to have brown caps, and no black or dark ones yet..
 
I tried to get a shot of the one going underneath, but this is all i could get of it, even with the help of photoshop, it's the best i can get.

I can't stop looking at them....it's already Christmas at my place
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19271517 - 12/13/13 04:27 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: cronicr]
#19271544 - 12/13/13 04:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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just some extra info, the humidity stays around 91-93 and the temp is anywhere from 20-23 (68-73F) I have them on roughly 12/12...with a small CFL....it's not 6500k, but it's cool white light...there's also some ambient daylight that reached the FC from a window about 8 feet away.
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19274648 - 12/14/13 12:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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alright, so i'm a little scared now...i noticed a blueish green color to some of the mycelium on my first cake. I'm pretty bummed out cuz it was doing so well. I don't know if it's trich, but i have some high res pics if anyone can help me out. If it is trich, can I harvest these now? One big one has already broken the veil. Shot of the whole cake....

and some close ups of teh discoloration...
    
I really fuckin hope it's not I was looking forward to harvesting this one...

That cake above is the one on the right, the one in the middle in a 2L bottle is one i thought had bacteria contam, though there was no smell...just mushroom. The two in the left FC were dunked yesterday, and rolled today. I put them in a separate FC cuz i wasn't sure if there was contam on the first...trying to isolate them all till i know for sure.

All else fails, i'll have these ready in a month or so to go into my larger FC. THe taller ones were knocked up on Dec.4 and the shorter ones were knocked up on Dec.6.
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19274707 - 12/14/13 01:11 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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the bluish green is bruising of the mycelium. it means the mycelium is agitated, might need some water or some misting, careful not to mist too hard
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 404]
#19274764 - 12/14/13 01:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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i mist it about 4 times a day when i'm at work, and sometimes as often as 6 when i'm home for the day. I fan more than i mist...sometimes i just give it one or two sprays just to get it to glisten, then fan till it's gone...usually only takes about a minute or so. Do you think i should mist it more? I really don't know what's enough, i kinda just giver till the sides start to drip, then i stop....about 8 or 9 shots on the spray trigger. The mist is very fine when it comes out...
Thank fuck it's not trich
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19275021 - 12/14/13 02:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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your doing great man! just mist once the moisture from your last mist has started to dissapear
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: cronicr]
#19275229 - 12/14/13 03:34 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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thanks brother, i'm really excited...I can't stop going into look at them. I have to resist the urge to take the cover off and kiss them every time i walk by.
I have a hygrometer in there, and i know i don't need it, but it gives me an idea of the temps in there. I've seen the humidity drop below 90 once, so I know it's fairly accurate on the lower end, which will give me some sort of indication. I know you're not supposed to change the tek at all, but i made my holes a little further apart than 2 inches....almost 3 inches. A senior member here told me he had some issues with keeping his humidity up, and I work everyday, so i wanted to retain a little more passive humidity by putting fewer holes in it, and it seems to be working pretty good so far.
I can't get over how slow they colonise, but how fast they fruit!!
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Re: My First Grow PF tek BRF [Re: 1down5up]
#19275236 - 12/14/13 03:37 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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1down5up said:
I can't get over how slow they colonise, but how fast they fruit!!
colonizing=cell division fruiting=cell expansion
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