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Watamiseh
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My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure)
#19360487 - 01/02/14 07:59 PM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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Greets shroomites!
This is my first grow. (Golden Teachers supposedly)
2 PF TEK cakes which got contam when I saw someone say it's good to flip jars upside, till I heard the verm barrier move and I was like holy hell what a load of crap. Few days later the cakes got contam.
I let the non contam parts colonize, then gouged the green mold out with a screw driver and dunked them for 10 hours, rolled in verm and put them in drink bottle fc's

Made some rye grain jars and a bird seed mix jar and noc'd them up via a very dilute spore syringe I bought too (polyfill injection/GE port). Pasturized some cowpoo and straw then mixed them up and a dash of gypsum and made some mono's.
The monobucket has 2 holes, 1" dia.
The monotub has 4 holes, 1" dia (one per side at substrate level) 3.5" sub depth. Tub is 26 quarts, bucket is 15 quarts I think.
The tubs lid has a gap so I figured I'll use smaller polyfill tightly stuffed holes on the lower sides and let the lid with intentional gap all around act as the upper air vents, nice arced over edge to prevent things "falling in".

Been lurking for 3 months now and this is my first grow. Looking forward to my first trip too!
I plan to do LOTS of culinary shroom grows very soon once I order in some spore prints and make some syringes / agar wedges etc! Plan to try Straw logs, and build a 80 quart sgfc and just try a bit of everything.
What I've learned already is: -make a better verm barrier on my pf jars and don't move them -chop up my straw finer so there's no bits sticking up that might not colonize and cause contams -build a SAB glove box ASAP because working in an upside down storage tub with no holes is getting annoying (I mist alcohol inside it and so far none of my first 6 inoculations contaminated because of inoculation procedure).
Special shout out to everyone who provided their tek's, progress pics etc for inspiration. Particular RR for his great vids I purchased. Amazed at how many threads I've seen him post in and provided very practical and easy to follow advice.
Cheers!
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cronicr



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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: Watamiseh]
#19360574 - 01/02/14 08:25 PM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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 welcome aboard, you should try 6 holes in your mono and theres no need to saran wrap anything
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Watamiseh
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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: cronicr]
#19360622 - 01/02/14 08:39 PM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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Oh, the bucket and the tub haven't colonized yet. Won't be casing them unless it helps cover the little sticking up bits.
I've got 1 quart of rye spawn jars left and 3 bales of straw, 40 pounds of aged cowpoo, some dried banana leave's that I might try spawn to one day and 50 quart sack of fluffed up coco coir. 100 quart sack of verm, 100 quart sack of perlite and 6 pound sack of polyfill.
I'm one of those blundering fools that likes to buy in bulk cause its cheaper in the long run even if I only use 1/4th.
Seen RR say that straw can be spawned at a 1:20 ratio so it's pretty exciting.
Got a gigantic 35 gallon tub which I was thinking of making a SGFC out of and putting a rack in there and load it with straw cakes/logs.
So many things to try!
Thanks for the advice
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cronicr



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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: Watamiseh]
#19360636 - 01/02/14 08:42 PM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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i know it's not done colonizing but it needs some gas exchange
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xBELLSPROUTx
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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: cronicr]
#19360720 - 01/02/14 09:03 PM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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the bottle of shrooms looks sick!
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Watamiseh
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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: cronicr]
#19360733 - 01/02/14 09:07 PM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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Oh, I thought the 1/5th inch gap around the lid might let in too much air. Maybe I can polyfill one hole till its colonized? Then unwrap it all?
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Watamiseh
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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: Watamiseh]
#19362336 - 01/03/14 07:46 AM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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I thought It'd be cool to have some sort of fish bowl style terrarium but they were too expensive so I had to improvise.
I call it the "Funk Dome"
$2 clear plastic bowl on top of a $2 food container thingy.

Ow ow yeh
Edited by Watamiseh (01/03/14 07:49 AM)
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xBELLSPROUTx
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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: Watamiseh]
#19362348 - 01/03/14 07:55 AM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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its always cool to see people get crafty when making them!
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Watamiseh
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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: xBELLSPROUTx]
#19362511 - 01/03/14 09:06 AM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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Nice cakes in your sig btw, do you fruit them or use as your spawn? those things are long!
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Re: My first grow! (cubes - contam brf cakes and monotub adventure) [Re: Watamiseh]
#19362525 - 01/03/14 09:11 AM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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thanks!and i made a newb mistake and got them tall jars over the fat ones ( they didnt have the small ones)but i plan on fruiting them. those jars are on day 5 i believe in that picture.
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