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BRF Jar Colonization Questions
    #23157985 - 04/26/16 05:11 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I just reached the two week mark and Im about 25% there. I followed a 1;2;1  1 cup water to 2 cups verm 1 cup brf and now that I see Im only at 25% after 14 days I am starting to get paranoid that my jars are too dry or too cold. I am hoping that I just need to continue to be patient because I have been getting paranoid and researching like crazy.

Is a steady temp of 70.4 alright? Ik its slow but I dont think its too cold right?

Should I flip the jars? Heard this helps growth.

I have been colonizing with the inoculation holes tapped shut oops
I un taped them will growth speed increase?

Is 1;2;1 not enough water, its been 2 weeks and I feel like they might be too dry, just paranoia?

Thanks, If anyone wants to see some pics I can upload some.


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23158150 - 04/26/16 05:40 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

just be patient, let them do their thing, post pics it helps!

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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23158154 - 04/26/16 05:41 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Your temp is fine. Be patient. Sounds like your mixture is fine. Give them as much time as they need.

Flipping the jars only really helps the bottom colonize if the substrate is a bit too compressed.
Yes, they will colonize a bit better with your holes untaped. As you've probably read, Gas Exchange is important.

Pics always help.


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23158190 - 04/26/16 05:50 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

(On my phone, excuse bad english)
70 alright, no worries.

Dont flip jars, dont move them at all. You should,ve added a dry verm layer on top,right? That,s your filter, no need for tape. If you move jars, dry verm layer shifts, you fuck up :thumbdown:

1:1:2 ratio, "2" being verm, you should be alright.

25% in 2 weeks s,all right, spores take time to germinate, substract those days.

Be patient ma nigga! All good

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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Josex]
    #23162117 - 04/27/16 05:13 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Thanks guys you relieved my paranoia :thumbup: I decided that im going to be patient and not check on them for a while but I just broke that rule so I could upload a few pictures. They wouldn't go on the thread for some reason so they are just on my account. The growth is exploding now that I took the tape off :crazy2:


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23162294 - 04/27/16 05:58 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

This place is so cool, so many tips and everyone seems so very helpful. I am about a week behind you time wise, yeah being patient is hard.


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: sixwho]
    #23167001 - 04/28/16 09:10 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Dang I really messed up with the tape on the lids. In two weeks I went from 0 to 25% and in the past two days (since I've taken the tape off) I went from a quarter to a third of the way colonized. It probably took some time to germinate but still I think taking the tape off really sped (speeded) it up.


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23167111 - 04/28/16 09:58 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

I see alot of people on here thinking they need to tape the holes shut. The verm acts a protective barrier so theres no need to worry. I'm sure that helped slow your colonization down. Let them bitches breathe:mushroom2:

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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: jmooree30]
    #23177338 - 05/01/16 06:26 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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I see alot of people on here thinking they need to tape the holes shut. The verm acts a protective barrier so theres no need to worry. I'm sure that helped slow your colonization down. Let them bitches breathe:mushroom2:




Dam :smile: I just wanna update everyone and say do not tape your inoculation holes shut! Now its been 5 days since I untapped them and I am at over 50% colonized. In 2 weeks I went from 0-25 and in the past 5 days I've gone from 25-50+. In addition to the increased FAE the temperature has also increased to 75-76 degrees from the mycelium growth. Oh and get this my least colonized jar has become my most colonized jar. I have a theory about this though, I think that jar had the least amount of free air space so when it got free air exchange it took off like crazy and also I think it was the one that I put the most spores in. :mushroom2:


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23177388 - 05/01/16 06:42 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

The journey continues. Good shit man. What are you birthing them to?

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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: jmooree30]
    #23177431 - 05/01/16 06:52 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Cool man, keep us updated and show us some pics.


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: kxripps]
    #23177777 - 05/01/16 08:34 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Its an old lizzard terrerium I think it will work out pretty well. Once again im on my phone so I cant upload pictures to the thread but I have pics on my account gallery. That rear left one is almost completely colinized on the outside.


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23177908 - 05/01/16 09:06 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Its an old lizzard terrerium I think it will work out pretty well. Once again im on my phone so I cant upload pictures to the thread but I have pics on my account gallery. That rear left one is almost completely colinized on the outside.




I don't. You should really look in a SGFC. Dont waste a month colonizing your jars  to waste them in a poor fruting chamber. Cost like $30 to make, maybe less.

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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: jmooree30]
    #23178773 - 05/02/16 03:53 AM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Its an old lizzard terrerium I think it will work out pretty well. Once again im on my phone so I cant upload pictures to the thread but I have pics on my account gallery. That rear left one is almost completely colinized on the outside.




I don't. You should really look in a SGFC. Dont waste a month colonizing your jars  to waste them in a poor fruting chamber. Cost like $30 to make, maybe less.





Make an sgfc. Better results pretty much guaranteed. Trust the design it works like a charm.

Here's a link:

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/20195542


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: kxripps]
    #23180963 - 05/02/16 04:51 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

Ok my plan for an SGFC is under way :tongue2: Can I just set it on top of jars to elevate it? And will it drip or get wet underneath at all? Then I only have 4 one pint cakes should I just do four for my first grow, inoculate more, or cut them in half and have eight? My friends and I will use every last shroom I grow so the more the merrier.  :thanx:


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23180981 - 05/02/16 04:57 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

:towelie: don't forget to take a towel kids! (Place towelie under your sgfc)

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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23180991 - 05/02/16 05:00 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Ok my plan for an SGFC is under way :tongue2: Can I just set it on top of jars to elevate it? And will it drip or get wet underneath at all? Then I only have 4 one pint cakes should I just do four for my first grow, inoculate more, or cut them in half and have eight? My friends and I will use every last shroom I grow so the more the merrier.  :thanx:



Yes you can in fact set your FC on top of some empty jarsits what I've done and never experienced an issue  Just try to keep it elevated sort of.


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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23181182 - 05/02/16 05:52 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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:towelie: don't forget to take a towel kids! (Place towelie under your sgfc)



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Ok my plan for an SGFC is under way :tongue2: Can I just set it on top of jars to elevate it? And will it drip or get wet underneath at all? Then I only have 4 one pint cakes should I just do four for my first grow, inoculate more, or cut them in half and have eight? My friends and I will use every last shroom I grow so the more the merrier.  :thanx:






Follow the pf tek to the tee and dont deviate from it at all. Use the search bar and watch the videos, ill tell you that before someone else does. Yes you can elevate it with jars. Dont cut your cakes in half. It doesnt matter how many jars you do. Yes it will drip I keep a tray underneath my sgfc along with a towl. And whatever you want to yeild, double the amount of jars to get just that. Good luck young grasshopper

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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: jmooree30]
    #23181199 - 05/02/16 05:56 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

:thumbup: don't cut cakes the inside has some small non colonized parts usually and contams love wet brf , however you can stack cakes to increase yields given your sgfc is tall enough and the cakes are wide enough to stack you just dunk and roll and top the middle with vermiculite (the top of the first cake, and top the cake on top with verm also :smile:

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Re: BRF Jar Colonization Questions [Re: Exp1ore]
    #23181209 - 05/02/16 06:01 PM (8 years, 8 months ago)

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Exp1ore said:
Ok my plan for an SGFC is under way :tongue2: Can I just set it on top of jars to elevate it? And will it drip or get wet underneath at all? Then I only have 4 one pint cakes should I just do four for my first grow, inoculate more, or cut them in half and have eight? My friends and I will use every last shroom I grow so the more the merrier.  :thanx:




Gonna add to what the others said. Don't bother cutting them in half. Chance for contams. why chance it.:smile:


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