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FrankieP57
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Alright, so check it out. Ive grown before and on my first grow I used brf cakes and some got contam and some grew. I just innocccd an LC jar (water and honey) with 1cc. Its been 4 days now and I'm starting to see things floating around. However they are brown very tiny stringy looking things. The thing that has me worried is that it's brown. Ive been reading and looking at pix online and have been seeing ppl with jars of brown stuff n ppl said it looked good. My stuff isn't to the point where u could see if I tool a picture but I will keep u guys updated on what's happening. I would just like some opinions on what's up. If it was a contam wouldn't it be growing at a rapid pace instead of only developing minute specks in the jar?
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La Flama Blanca
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i'd bet good money you've got a jar of nasty shit. LC is not for beginners. what tek did you follow? also, you know the only way to know whats in your LC is to test it yourself, right?
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FrankieP57
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Hey thanks for someone finally responding. Its now day 10 and ive discovered that it actually is mycelium and is not contamination at all. Its growing extremely well now that I took it out of the incubator and just left it on the shelf in my closet. I have a jar of brf growing as well that is looking great! I will upload pix as soon as I get home and have time to do so. I'll let you be the judge and let me know what u think of my LC. I'm curious to know how much I should innoc my popcorn substrate with when my LC mycelium has finished. I assume the more you use the better. Stronger and faster it will grow. Thanks for the reply tho.
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La Flama Blanca
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it is basically impossible to look at a jar of LC and know if its clean. hidden contams on LC are why its so risky. glad that it looks good so far though if its only been 10 days since you nocced it up i don't understand how you have already used it on a brf jar and its growing beautifully... 10 days is like the minimum time before you should even test LC made from spores (which is what i'm assuming you nocced it with). sounds like you're on a lucky streak.
for how much you should innoc your popcorn with, that question has been answered probably a 100+ times on these forums. search bar will get you squared away on that question.
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numnum59
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not saying im a pro, but ive been using LC since i started this hobby. i have noticed that is the "mycelium" is floating in the LC its most likely contaminated.
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Mad Season
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Mad Season said:
  
 Half a gram of hydroponic shrooms!!!!
This is definitely not a good use of your time or materials
Floating, matting myc is completely normal. You stir to stop it from doing that.
The only way to tell if it's clean is to test it on agar.
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FrankieP57
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No I must have worded it wrong. I meant that I noc'd it uprobably at the same time as I did a jar of brf. It's day 16 now and it's looking very good. When should I consider harvesting the mycelium. And from what I've gathered, the only way I can tell if it's contaminated is if I try to grow with it? I have 1cc of spores left in my syringe. Should I save that for emergency in case it is contaminated? I plan on making a spore print from the fruit of the BRF jar I have going. But like I said I've been saving the little bit of spores just in case. Here is my LC And one small side of my BRF jar.

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FrankieP57
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Also the mycelium is not floating it has sunken to the bottom and is collecting there. As far as the agar. I cut a corner that looked good and placed it in a spawn bag and it has shown crazy growth in the past 4 days of being placed in the bag. The agar seems like it is clean. Well at least the piece I cut from the Dish. The dish does have a contaminated area that I avoided and it doesn't seem to have affected the bag. It smells very fresh. That is one of the thimost I'm looking for when growing this time around. I had contaminated before and they smelled rancid. But what I guess I've learned is that until I'm a pro like most of u guys, I'm gambling with the agar and lc. But can anyone tell me if it is a very high risk of contam if I took the right steps to sterilize? I think the main reason I had contaminated stuff back in the day was due to the incubator having too high of a temp and my dumb ass keeping humidity in the incubator. This time I just have them on my closet shelf and not using an incubator.
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FrankieP57
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HERE ARE SOME PIX AS OF 11AM 10/14/16 (DAY 15)
The pix of the lc are during a stir. The pix of the jar are my chai and brf substrate. The black dots within the mycelium growth are not contaminated spots. They are the chai seeds. This is day 15 and it's starting to speed up its growth rate but I feel like it's moving a lot slower due to how densely the substrate was placed in the jar.

HERE is a pic of the petri. Like I said, it is contaminated. I previously extracted and used the decent looking mycelium, that seems to be growing very well in my spawn bag. By the looks of this pic can u plz tell me if u think I'm going to have an issue in my spawn bag. I think so, if nothing else but for the fact that the substrate in the bag is too wet. But like I said it's going well so far.
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dankington
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Hmmm, looks kinda moldy to me...
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numnum59
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I bet its going slow because you still have the foil taped over the holes. Foil it only there to prevent water from dripping back into the jar while sterilizing.
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FrankieP57
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numnum59 said: I bet its going slow because you still have the foil taped over the holes. Foil it only there to prevent water from dripping back into the jar while sterilizing.
I didn't put the layer of dry Verm over the top so I've been afraid it would get contam. But I'll peel other off and see how it grows. It's day 19 now a days I'm getting impatient. I wanna get some fruit
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numnum59
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Why didnt you add the verm layer?
The pf tek explains why you need/should us it
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dankington
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no dry verm layer? Check foil still on the lids? Check Sketch af LC? Check
Anything else? Why don't you try following a tek, and get a successful grow in before flying by the seat of your pants?
LC is an advanced tool, and must be prepared with the utmost care. You really should have transferred that agar to more agar to test its cleanliness before inoculating your LC with it.
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FrankieP57
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Just laziness I guess. But hey theveryone cake is fine. It's actually all done and cased. In the fruiting chamber and looks ready to go. I'll post pix when I get a second.
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