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trippyoasis
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Koh Samui Classic Cultivation First Timer
#23628622 - 09/09/16 10:29 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is my first time growing, I'm currently working with some Thailand Koh Samui Classic Mushrooms, I bought a grow kit (including the spores, rye berries, and 5 pounds of Kowanite Compost), and had a few questions... but first let me give you some history about these babies...
May 28th 2016- Inoculated the spores to the rye berries June 3rd- Mycelium started to appear on rye berries June 17th- Mycelium finally spread all over, broke it up and mixed into compost July 19th- Mycelium spread over the compost (besides very bottom) August 29th- Baby shrooms popping up everywhere August 31st- Four growing faster and larger than all the other extremely tiny ones September 3rd- One towers above other two, one was broken off by the largest and fell to side of bag, more tiny shrooms popping up (most are hard to spot, really having to search for them to notice, but these tiny mushrooms are everywhere), some are growing in good size clusters September 9th- Blue markings are starting to show up on the stems, many more little mushrooms starting to grow and some are finally noticeable without having to look super hard, but many teeny tiny baby ones are popping up that do take a second to notice
QUESTIONS: -If the mushrooms get too big for the bag, before all of them have matured enough to pick, is there a way I can transfer them to a larger box or bag while maintaining the environment and not cause damage to the existing fruits? -When will I know its the right time to harvest and that they are mature enough to harvest? -Can I harvest some mushrooms before others? -There is some white fuzz growing on the taller ones, is that normal? If not, what should I do about it?
((I followed directions about heat, light, and care for them, so I have no clue why it took so long, I kept them out of direct sunlight and kept them at a temperature of ~70F-80F degrees using a heat blanket on days that the room-temp was cooler, and a plant thermostat in order to monitor temperature inside the bag))

Thanks, TrippyOasis
Edited by trippyoasis (09/09/16 10:40 AM)
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connectedcosmos
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Re: Koh Samui Classic Cultivation First Timer [Re: trippyoasis]
#23628742 - 09/09/16 11:19 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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White fuzz is normal on the stem, you can pick any mushroom once tthe veil rips annd the cap starts to open you have a few that need picked,I think that answers all your questions
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Re: Koh Samui Classic Cultivation First Timer [Re: connectedcosmos]
#23628866 - 09/09/16 12:10 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Keep that thing as far away from heating pads as possible. That is terrible terrible advice, which kits are known to contain. Fuck their guidelines, they are shit.
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EasyMac
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Re: Koh Samui Classic Cultivation First Timer [Re: Munchauzen]
#23628905 - 09/09/16 12:27 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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You should harvest the mushrooms soon as you see the veil break and the cap start to open up. If you wait to long after the veil has broken the mushroom will bengin to drop spores and too much spores all over your substrate can cause complications/contams in subsequent flushes. It is fine to harvest larger mushrooms before the smaller ones in that flush have matured. Just be careful not to mess the Little guys up while harvesting the bigger ones. The fuzzy feet are totally normal happens all the time the best way to cut down the fuzziness is to boost fresh air exchange. Also like like much pointed out keep the heating pad away unless your back starts to hurt because it has no real use in cultivating mushrooms. I know that when you are starting out kits can seem very easy and attractive but the people selling them often do not know their stuff and are looking to make a quick buck. All the information you can ever need to grow tons of beautiful mushrooms is right here in this website free of charge. Just gotta look for it.
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Re: Koh Samui Classic Cultivation First Timer [Re: EasyMac]
#23629082 - 09/09/16 01:36 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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instead of buying a kit, which you probably spent $60-$100 on you could have:
-bought 50 pounds of spawn -50 pounds of substrate/coir/small amount of calcium carbonate/gypsum -A bottle of agar and a couple dozen Petri dishes (or glad containers) -A couple of spore syringes/prints -supplies needed for a fruiting chamber -proper 6500k lighting -A small 8qt starter pressure cooker
This is all one needs to start growing mushrooms. You could obtain all of this for about $100-$120 and be able to grow mushrooms for a loooooooong ass time.
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EasyMac
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Re: Koh Samui Classic Cultivation First Timer [Re: Mushierage]
#23629108 - 09/09/16 01:48 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I thought a lot was gunna be the way to go when I was getting started but luckily I did some research and found you can get much more bang for you buck if you source materials yourself instead of trusting someone to put a kit together.
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