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KSSS First MONO Grow (MS) *UPDATE 10/9*
#22307880 - 09/29/15 12:05 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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So this is my first time trying the "Monotub" method I suppose, at least one with polyfill in some holes for FAE. When I used to do this 10 years ago we just wafted the box out a few times a day and it worked.
So I'm wondering, am I doing something wrong here? Too much or too little moisture? Not enough FAE?


I should mention, this is my first grow larger than a few cakes in about 10 years, so I'm not nearly as knowledgeable as I once was...
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Do you have top holes?
have you read this: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17332777
Are there beads of moisture all along the sub? Your bottom evap rings look good, not sure why you spaced them so far apart though. Tub looks a bit off.
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Re: 8 - 10 Fruiting, no pins [Re: taGyo]
#22307906 - 09/29/15 12:10 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yea there's condensation all over the mycelium, with the exception of the areas closest to the FAE holes.
Yes there are top holes lightly stuffed with polyfil.
As far as the side holes are concerned I just did exactly what I read here, approximately 4 inches up from the bottom, and four inches in from the side.
EDIT:
Actually, now that I'm looking at it, they DO look far apart in comparison to frank's photos...
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Re: 8 - 10 Fruiting, no pins [Re: taGyo]
#22307921 - 09/29/15 12:13 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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What variety is this? Are your top holes showing evaporation lines like Franks? Did you click that link? If not loosen them and check every 6-12 hours for changes. How big is that tote?
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taGyo said: Are there beads of moisture all along the sub?
What are your temps? How many qts did you spawn to? Did you add a top layer or naw? What material is that? Coir, poo, etc.
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acidhead1279 said: Yea there's condensation all over the mycelium, with the exception of the areas closest to the FAE holes.
Yes there are top holes lightly stuffed with polyfil.
As far as the side holes are concerned I just did exactly what I read here, approximately 4 inches up from the bottom, and four inches in from the side.
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Actually, now that I'm looking at it, they DO look far apart in comparison to frank's photos...
sounds like you may need more FAE if there's water all over the mycelium
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Loosen those top holes to what Frank has, running down lines of evap.
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Re: 8 - 10 Fruiting, no pins [Re: taGyo]
#22307946 - 09/29/15 12:17 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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taGyo said: What variety is this? Are your top holes showing evaporation lines like Franks? Did you click that link? If not loosen them and check every 6-12 hours for changes. How big is that tote?
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taGyo said: Are there beads of moisture all along the sub?
What are your temps? How many qts did you spawn to? Did you add a top layer or naw? What material is that? Coir, poo, etc.
Koh Samui SS I beleive.
Yea there's evaporation lines, but not as dramatic.
Don't remember how big the tote is exactly, but you know, standard size for this kind of thing.
Temps are mid low to mid 70's.
I used a shitload of spawn, 9 qt jars.
No casing layer.
Mostly coir and verm, with a tiny bit of poo added in.
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acidhead1279 said: Yea there's condensation all over the mycelium, with the exception of the areas closest to the FAE holes.
Yes there are top holes lightly stuffed with polyfil.
As far as the side holes are concerned I just did exactly what I read here, approximately 4 inches up from the bottom, and four inches in from the side.
EDIT:
Actually, now that I'm looking at it, they DO look far apart in comparison to frank's photos...
sounds like you may need more FAE if there's water all over the mycelium
Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. Guess I'll loosen up the holes and come check again later today.
Thanks for the advice everybody!
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acidhead1279 said: Yea there's condensation all over the mycelium, with the exception of the areas closest to the FAE holes.
sounds like you may need more FAE if there's water all over the mycelium
You want this moisture on the sub, it's condensation...but more FAE will always help.
What you don't want is a dry surface......you want constant condensation that is always evaporating off and coming back....
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Re: 8 - 10 Fruiting, no pins [Re: taGyo]
#22307972 - 09/29/15 12:23 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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taGyo said: have you read this: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/17332777
Get your top holes as close to as dramatic as those are. Without enough FAE it'll take forever to pin. That tub is probably going to explode 
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As PF stated, there's a fine line between too much FAE and not enough FAE and once you pass over that and blast the myc and it dries out there's actually a point of no return. Balance is key.
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Edited by taGyo (09/29/15 12:24 PM)
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Re: 8 - 10 Fruiting, no pins [Re: taGyo]
#22308507 - 09/29/15 02:00 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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There are knots all over that. Plus you need to mist it. Get your spray bottle out and hit it with 15-20 pulls of the trigger. Knock down all that aerial mycelium. It has nothing to do with lack of holes. Maybe you need less holes.
Look, no holes. Look how wet the top of the substrate is. Look at all the pins.
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Re: 8 - 10 Fruiting, no pins [Re: tahoe]
#22310074 - 09/29/15 06:24 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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tahoe said: There are knots all over that. Plus you need to mist it. Get your spray bottle out and hit it with 15-20 pulls of the trigger. Knock down all that aerial mycelium. It has nothing to do with lack of holes. Maybe you need less holes.
Look, no holes. Look how wet the top of the substrate is. Look at all the pins.

Obviously it's very hard to tell from photos what EXACTLY is going on here, but I feel like maybe the answer I should take from this thread so far is "more FAE, more water"?
I don't know exactly what having knots means, but I know what pinning means, and unfortunately knots aren't getting me any fruits.
I honestly am getting a tad worried about it. Never really had anything stall out like this...
I was unaware that the aerial mycelium was a bad thing, I just thought it was particularly rhizomorphic growth. I assuming now that it's indicative of low humidity or water content in the substrate?
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Edited by acidhead1279 (09/29/15 06:28 PM)
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Knots are the very beginning of visible primordia...they will become pins...then fruits.
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Re: 8 - 10 Fruiting, no pins [Re: LocN9ne]
#22310150 - 09/29/15 06:40 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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LocN9ne said: Knots are the very beginning of visible primordia...they will become pins...then fruits.
Sorry, I think I was being a little misleading. I know what hyphal knots ARE, I meant that my tub has looked like this for a week, with no signs of further development. Had a rough day and some snarkyness slipped out of me. I apologize.
To be honest, when I'm looking at it here, compared to the picture, it doesn't look like knots at all. It just looks like places where cottony mycelium is doing what the rhizomorphs are doing, reaching up into the air.
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Doesn't look like knots to me either.
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Re: 8 - 10 Fruiting, no pins [Re: taGyo]
#22310288 - 09/29/15 07:07 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well I've loosened the upper polyfil, and misted it well, so we'll see what happens.
The smell is still that of healthy mycelium so at least that's something good.
Will update as things progress.
EDIT:
Well THIS is embarassing... Just opened the tub under better lighting, and can clearly see the first few pins. Man I feel like a real newb right now haha! Just not patient enough I guess! Let that be a lesson (to me mostly). Thanks for your help everybody.
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Knocking down the mycelium will expose the knots and promote them. The picture I posted looked like yours two days ago, excluding the casing. I am a tad wet in my pic but I had just watered it. I do not want my stuff looking that wet all the time. But definitely do not want it looking dry like yours. I would take too wet versus too dry. I do not worry about fae until after it gets to this point. I have always gotten great pin set doing it this way.
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acidhead1279 said: Well I've loosened the upper polyfil, and misted it well, so we'll see what happens.
The smell is still that of healthy mycelium so at least that's something good.
Will update as things progress.
EDIT:
Well THIS is embarassing... Just opened the tub under better lighting, and can clearly see the first few pins. Man I feel like a real newb right now haha! Just not patient enough I guess! Let that be a lesson (to me mostly). Thanks for your help everybody.
That's a tek that needs a write up...the "Hurry up and wait" or the "Stop Staring at it" teks...
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