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Invisibletaurus529

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1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy?
    #19292636 - 12/18/13 10:03 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

This is my 1st grow. Seeking opinions on progress of pins. I do struggle with humidity as I live in a currently very cold and always dry climate.

This cake was birthed on 12/8. On the 16th first pin appeared (lower left)



Here is how they look today, many more has also surfaced since the 16th:



Here is a close-up of the 1st little guy:



Since the pinning started, I have increased misting and fanning to about 10-12x daily. I have also been leaving the lid open a bit longer right after misting,about 10-15 minutes or so, not after every mist but probably about 3-4 times a day.

Can you tell by the pics if the pins are showing dryness? There is some fine spiky white feathery growths and they look sort of ashy.... like when your knees or elbows dry out.

Thank you for reading!


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19292834 - 12/18/13 11:09 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

They all look fine.
Be sure not to over mist and/or fan. 3-4 times a day is fine. 10-12 is a bit overboard.


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19292876 - 12/18/13 11:17 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Look good to me :thumbup:


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19292922 - 12/18/13 11:36 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Yay! I am glad to hear they look okay! I figured 10-12x was a bit much. Overly eager, I suppose LOL.

Thanks for your responses :smile:


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: KillerPicklez]
    #19292933 - 12/18/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah!  Whoot, whoot, whoot!  Looks great.  That first pin is very special.  Pay attention to how you feel about that first pin.

Your enthusiastic 10-12x FAE daily is indeed unnecessary.  3-4x is usually adequate.

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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: NGC6705]
    #19297948 - 12/19/13 01:05 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

You had me at, "Pay attention to how you feel about that first pin.". I totally welled up... and got that weird choky feeling in my throat you know right before you either puke or cry LOL. But not in a bad way.. in a good way.I am very happy about that first pin (and now the many more coming in)!

I kill everything I try to grow.Hell, I am surprised my real kids made it. And to know that I actually grew something from not just from a seed but a spore! Wow!

I want to be the one to eat that 1st guy! But I don't know if the timing will work out cause I wanted to try 'em fresh for once. I suppose I could dry it out and save it if I need to.

Here is a pic from a few minutes ago:



I am pretty surprised the smaller cakes even came to fruition since they were done following a reportedly crappy tek (aka Shroom Wizard) with really off verm/water ratios. I am not bragging, don't get me wrong I am far from having those kind of rights, I am just surprised by it. I almost threw them all out! Glad I didn't.

I did throw away one out of the 4 at birth though because it was clearly contaminated with an olive green fuzzy spot under the jar lid (no dry verm layer in this tek). Maybe it just really comes down to all the love I gave them... I have backed off on the misting though.

My others (1/2 pints) are coming along too finally! I followed a different method for these and lost none to contams (thus far). I will post pics of those soon, they just started pinning last night (yay).


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19302008 - 12/20/13 09:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Looking good.


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19302293 - 12/20/13 10:51 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

looking good man!! :smile: im working on my first grow right now and have been harvesting mushrooms as they fruit these past few days its so exciting and rewarding to watch them grow! good luck with the rest of your grow!


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19303583 - 12/20/13 03:47 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

So here is the same cake today...



I am thinking of printing that 1st pin (one on the left sort of to the back). Then I can preserve the memory of that first guy and frame it or something. I'm silly, I know LOL.


Also, I have noticed some blue near that top right cluster. I tried to rub it off, it doesn't come off so I am taking it that is bruising. Is it possible that mushrooms can tax the resources of a cake and be the cause of bruising? This is a small cake, originally came out of a 1/4 pint jar.


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19303602 - 12/20/13 03:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

yes the fruits are taking moisture from your cake, no biggie. looking awesome btw:thumbup:


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: cronicr]
    #19304456 - 12/20/13 06:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Looks awesome more pics!


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: MidwestHunt]
    #19304709 - 12/20/13 07:28 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Taking prints and then growing from those is also very satisfying.  If you thought you welled up on your first pin?  Wait 'til you trip on your first gram that's been with you through the full life cycle.  A very strong and special relationship between kingdoms.

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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: NGC6705]
    #19304804 - 12/20/13 07:46 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I don't think you're silly at all, that first pin means something special. I got my first 2 pins in seven years yesterday and I had that feeling all over again. The mushroom thinks it's people. :heart:

Great looking pin set, print the first and gobble it up when it's ready!


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19306946 - 12/21/13 08:47 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Awwww thanks guys! Everyone here is so nice :hug:

So I noticed that a lot of my cakes are now showing tinges of blue... mostly right in the areas where clusters of pins have formed. My humidity dropped ALOT when the mushrooms really took off.. like from 95-100% spiking down to 70%! I noticed it was usually right after a fanning is when it dropped that low.

So last night I got a Vicks warm steam vaporizer. I was a bit nervous about using it but the box did say it kills 99% of bacteria & molds. After using it all night it seems to have helped. After running the vaporizer it only dropped to 90% after a fanning.

I did have an ultrasonic cool mist but it broke, what a piece of crap that thing was LOL and replacement cost was 3x what I paid for the Vicks brand. I know these are pretty durable, had my last one 10 years. Sunbeam had < 2yrs and only used it one season.

My little forced air heater has cycled way less too so I guess in my cold as hell and dry climate the Vicks will work out. Plus I felt like really bad & congested when I went to bed and now my head is all clear..YAY. Hopefully not for too long (wink wink) LOL.

Wow while I was typing look what happened:



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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19306970 - 12/21/13 08:55 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Veil porn=mushie up skirt? :lol:


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: SynKyd]
    #19306999 - 12/21/13 09:02 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Dont worry to much about rh fluctuations its expected


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Re: 1st time grow, are these 1st pins healthy? [Re: taurus529]
    #19311381 - 12/22/13 10:46 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Well.... since the veils started going on that whole cake... me & two other people split the fruits which only totaled about 10 wet grams. There was also few little guys attached to the clusters that did not weigh by themselves (crappy Wal-Mart kitchen scale). I can't believe how much we all tripped off that little amount... it was great! Definitely, never going back to dry again. Wow. And yep... the first mushroom, I got all to myself! He only weighed 5.6 grams wet... but holy cow!:mushroom2:

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