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Why do my mushrooms don't grow? (SHGC)
    #21133622 - 01/17/15 12:59 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

Hi guys! Could you please help me?
I did 4 cakes of Cubensis. Then I sliced three of them in halves, put into a container and covered with substrate mix. And the fourth cake was a control cake - I dunk-and-rolled it ant put next to the container in my SGFC.
Few days ago I collected my first flush from the regular cake and there is nothing in the container but weird looking mycelium.
What's wrong with my container?
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Re: Why do my mushrooms don't grow? (SHGC) [Re: Mrsandman]
    #21133678 - 01/17/15 01:09 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

Looks like mold.

You don't slice the cakes in half, you crumble them for maximum inoculation points. Someone else will chime in.


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Re: Why do my mushrooms don't grow? (SHGC) [Re: taGyo]
    #21133706 - 01/17/15 01:14 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

yeah dude thats some nasty looking mold, throw that shit away.

tag is correct about crumbling the cakes, i just did 2 27qt mini monos based off of this thread:

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21032606

i usually work with rye grain, but decided to do some "throw back" pftek cakes recently, just for fun cause i had some syringes i didnt need and a lot of old 1/2 pints and figured why not.

i crumbled mine by putting about 6 or 7 fully colonized cakes in a gallon ziplock and basically just mashing them with my hand til they were tiny little chunks. spawn to cvg using this tek:

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/20469910

right now its been 3 days and my mini-monos are about half colonized. these 2 teks in combination work excellently.


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Re: Why do my mushrooms don't grow? (SHGC) [Re: taGyo]
    #21133722 - 01/17/15 01:17 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

First week or two everything was fine. It's been about three weeks since I placed my container into the FC.


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Re: Why do my mushrooms don't grow? (SHGC) [Re: Mrsandman]
    #21133732 - 01/17/15 01:19 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

It looks like you didn't wait for full colonization to put it into frutiing.


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Re: Why do my mushrooms don't grow? (SHGC) [Re: Mrsandman]
    #21133739 - 01/17/15 01:20 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah, I'll throw it away.
Thanks for answers guys.


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Re: Why do my mushrooms don't grow? (SHGC) [Re: Mrsandman]
    #21136959 - 01/18/15 06:50 AM (9 years, 3 months ago)

Guys, one more question!
Should I moisture the casing layer after I placed my container to fruiting?
In this case I did moisture it with tap water right over the mycelium. Maybe that was the reason of contamination?

P.S. I used a coir-verm-gypsum mix as a casing layer. And after I cased my cakes I put the container for another 4-5 days in the dark warm place for consolidation.


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Re: Why do my mushrooms don't grow? (SHGC) [Re: Mrsandman]
    #21136982 - 01/18/15 06:56 AM (9 years, 3 months ago)

If you have an uncolonized food source and you sprayed tap water on it then yes, that will cause it to contam. That is why 100% colonization of the jar and consolidation period is important, so that no food source is available for mold or bacteria to get a hold of

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