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ZeroCool
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Penis Envy Grow Log
#23993067 - 01/08/17 05:09 PM (7 years, 22 days ago) |
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A few months back I had my first successful truffle grow and now I think its time to try my hand at some mushies again. This time I'm going Penis Envy, and I've got 4 jars of an isolate Ive been working on for a bit now and 4 jars of the ms agar that I started from. Wish me luck, and happy growing!
The iso jars, gonna use them for G2G later when I have more jars ready.
The 4 MS jars
All loaded up and ready to go 
The rest of my dried truffles from last grow
Edited by ZeroCool (12/28/18 06:36 PM)
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24082458 - 02/11/17 03:12 PM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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After a couple set backs, im back with a few more pics. Some of my jars contamed, so now im left with 4 usable jars (i really need to work on my sterile technique) . I also used one of the jars to try out violets pod-tek. So far so good, the mycelium is eating up the rye, will post later when I have pics of them fruiting.
I know im not supposed to use rye for cakes, but this one started getting a yellowish contam (or what appeared to be a contam) and also invitro pins. I fruited it like a brf cake in a sgfc. Today is day 3 and the cake is looking great 

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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool] 1
#24082597 - 02/11/17 04:20 PM (6 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nice Work OP, Keep us posted. Love seeing people succeed! What where your jars contaminated with? Cyn
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Couldn't find a concrete answer, but the mycelium seems to have overtaken it. It was a small spot so nothing terrible
edit: the other jars were bacteria of some sort. Yellow/slimy crap.
Edited by ZeroCool (02/13/17 11:43 AM)
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24121601 - 02/26/17 03:12 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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2/26 the cake i put in the fruiting chamber has only made a bit above 7 grams dry. A lot of the pins aborted :/ Now I've got 2 trays in the fruting chamber and i can see pins forming. Seems like this is going to work better than the cake, but im getting hella side pins.


side pins 

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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24121666 - 02/26/17 04:59 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Your trays dont look good brotha, definitely bacterial...i say that because and of course i could be wrong bit it looks like the sub isnt completely colonized and its pinning already, thats usually no bueno mi amigo...
The truffles look fantastic! I hope i can do sometging like that with my Tamp jars!
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: Peteyboy]
#24121674 - 02/26/17 05:04 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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If you don't want sidepins, you've got to use liner .) Nice job, I've read that it takes longer for PE to pin than other varieties of cubensis, how was your experience, how long did it take?
I'm also doing a minitub of PEUs right now, waiting for it to pin.
Those truffles look really good too.
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: Tira]
#24122107 - 02/26/17 08:02 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Peteyboy said: Your trays dont look good brotha, definitely bacterial...i say that because and of course i could be wrong bit it looks like the sub isnt completely colonized and its pinning already, thats usually no bueno mi amigo...
The truffles look fantastic! I hope i can do sometging like that with my Tamp jars!
Thanks for the input! would i be able to spot the bacteria or is it in the sub? should i just continue fruiting this and toss it later? Thanks as well. truffles are a bit easier to do than shroomies in my experience.
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Tira said: If you don't want sidepins, you've got to use liner .) Nice job, I've read that it takes longer for PE to pin than other varieties of cubensis, how was your experience, how long did it take?
I'm also doing a minitub of PEUs right now, waiting for it to pin.
Those truffles look really good too.
honestly, i didnt really keep proper track of my shrooms so i couldnt say, but i was noticing things were taking longer than i expected. i think youre right, ive read the same thing
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24122422 - 02/26/17 10:48 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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I should have asked this first, but, did you case the tray?
Even if it is bacterial, your still gonna get fruits, at this point all you can do is ride it out, and work on your sterile technique on the next round!
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: Peteyboy]
#24122918 - 02/27/17 07:55 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Peteyboy said: I should have asked this first, but, did you case the tray?
Even if it is bacterial, your still gonna get fruits, at this point all you can do is ride it out, and work on your sterile technique on the next round!
no casing, kinda just started fruiting on its own. good to know ill at least get SOMETHING from this. Definitely gonna work on my sterile technique, time to start getting mushrooms under my belt and not contams haha
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24122952 - 02/27/17 08:21 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah if there is no casing it is most likely contaminated.
Are you using a SAB?
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: Peteyboy]
#24123472 - 02/27/17 11:54 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Peteyboy said: Yeah if there is no casing it is most likely contaminated.
Are you using a SAB?
I do. Clean it before/after every use with iso. Ive even went as far as adding gloves to it so its completely sealed. May it have been the sub itself? This stuff was god knows how old. I'm actually afraid to admit how long ago I bought it haha. It was kept in a filter patch bag, inside a plastic bag sealed with a twist tie in my closet.
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24123538 - 02/27/17 12:26 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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I would remove the gloves, completely sealing the box creates a vacuum every time you move the air inside of it, it's best to have a little room around your forearms.
That's definitely gonna be an issue regardless, but if your positive that your spawn was clean, then that's certainly the likely vector.
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: Peteyboy]
#24127853 - 03/01/17 07:06 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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 This is what the trays look like now. Im actually going to a music festival tomorrow for 4 days, would they be ok to stay in the fc over that period of time without fae? or should i just harvest tomorrow?
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24128145 - 03/01/17 10:07 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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No one to mist for you?
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: Peteyboy]
#24128261 - 03/01/17 10:51 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Peteyboy said: No one to mist for you?
currently trying to get a friend to do it for me. We'll see how that goes.
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24141535 - 03/06/17 03:18 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'd wait for someone more experienced than me for a more precise answer, but my .02 is to leave them. they are getting some, (very limited) but some FAE since they are in a SGFC. I would make sure my perlite was damp AF and put a small fan in the room as to mix up the air and hopefully push enough fresh air through your 1/4" holes to add fresh air and raise humidity, and hopefully come home to some very mature, but beautiful mushies 
im not sure that's the best advice but I sure do think its better then harvesting now. also keep in mind that cubes are one of the most temperate mushies to grow, and more then likely will turn out just fine.
I couldn't tell from your pics how deep your perlite is but id make sure theres a lot in there, maybe even add some to try and keep the RH as high as possible during those 4 days.
have fun at your festival , I am a bit jealous -ill
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: illadelph]
#24141614 - 03/06/17 03:50 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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illadelph said: I'd wait for someone more experienced than me for a more precise answer, but my .02 is to leave them. they are getting some, (very limited) but some FAE since they are in a SGFC. I would make sure my perlite was damp AF and put a small fan in the room as to mix up the air and hopefully push enough fresh air through your 1/4" holes to add fresh air and raise humidity, and hopefully come home to some very mature, but beautiful mushies 
im not sure that's the best advice but I sure do think its better then harvesting now. also keep in mind that cubes are one of the most temperate mushies to grow, and more then likely will turn out just fine.
I couldn't tell from your pics how deep your perlite is but id make sure theres a lot in there, maybe even add some to try and keep the RH as high as possible during those 4 days.
have fun at your festival , I am a bit jealous -ill
Where are you getting low fae from? An sgfc provides excellent fae you don't need to fan or any shit. OP sit them in some water feed those puppies look up bottom water you should be good. Adding a fan will dry everything out so forget that too.
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: mrmazdarx9]
#24142221 - 03/06/17 08:07 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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I had my brother come over and do it while i was at the festival. shrooms dropped their spores as well so i washed them off, threw em in the dehydrator. managed to get 19 grams but the only thing is my sub is covered in spores and a bit ripped up from taking the shrooms off. is it worth trying to get a second flush? ive already dunked them for 8 hours and put them back in the sgfc.
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24142720 - 03/07/17 12:38 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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PE don't drop spores are they not AA+ they don't look much like pe
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: mrmazdarx9]
#24143001 - 03/07/17 06:29 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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a couple people have mentioned it, im pretty sure i got a mislabeled spore print.
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: ZeroCool]
#24143058 - 03/07/17 07:25 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah those arent PE...but still AA+ is a fantastic variety!
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Re: Penis Envy Grow Log [Re: Peteyboy]
#24143289 - 03/07/17 09:23 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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If you got a spore print then it's most likely not any type of PE they rarely print at all.
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yeah it would dry everything out if you point the fan directly at the chamber...who would do that? you never want stagnant air, but always want some type of air circulation.
its always a good idea to have a small fan NOT POINTED at or near any type of chamber being it a sgfc or mono. maybe even a small circulating fan on low (once again, make sure the oscillation does not directly hit your chamber or even come close at any point) for larger rooms. maybe having it hit an opposite wall (I cant stress enough that its needs to be on very low or maybe even on a timer) or as mrmaz said it will start to dry out your chamber. I know your home now and everything's good, just giving advice for the future. hope you had a blast at your festival. I need to get my ass to one soon...mang its been so long 
also yes, definitely look into bottom feeding as mrmaz mentioned.
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