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First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions...
    #24237786 - 04/12/17 02:52 PM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Hello. Been lurking and reading here a while and I wanted to show my first attempt at growing. I wanted to see if the current colonization is going okay. I did read through the contamination forum just in case but I still wanted to see some members opinions.

Background: First inoculated on 3/20. Jars did not colonize for 2 weeks then I decided to flip them and now they spread this far. Is one; the time length okay for colonizing these jars and two; does it look okay so far?

Substrate is brown rice flour, and vermiculite.

Jar 1:





Jar 2:




Thank you for reading! :grin:

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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: GrandDankness]
    #24237869 - 04/12/17 03:27 PM (7 years, 9 months ago)

There's mycelium yes. The cakes won't come out of jars that are tapered.
And the foil comes off after sterilization

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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: GrandDankness]
    #24237876 - 04/12/17 03:29 PM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Looks good so far.  Spores may take a long time (sometimes even longer than 2 weeks) to germinate, so that's pretty normal.

Don't flip the jars.  Put them as they are.  Actually, try not to disturb the top verm layer as much as you can; it serves as a filter.

To be honest, there is nothing you can do (except for waiting) in the time between you inoculate the jars and the time they become fully colonized.  Just keep them in a room temperature area, be sure they don't get direct sunlight (heat can kill the mycelium) and if you can, forget about them for a while -I know you won't lol.

At this time, best idea would be starting new jars so you have something to do and you also have a backup/future plan.

Good luck, and welcome to the forums .)


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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: bodhisatta]
    #24239550 - 04/13/17 07:36 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Thanks guys for replying and your suggestions. :grin: I'll try to figure out the tapered jar problem when the time comes.

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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: GrandDankness]
    #24239600 - 04/13/17 07:59 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Spoooon!

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    #24239797 - 04/13/17 09:19 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

You will need to keep the cakes in tact,  otherwise they won't be cakes.  You could break the jars off, but you will bruise the living shit out of the cakes. Also,  the reason the foil needs to come off,  is that it's impeding the GE I believe.  Definitely start some new jars.  If these jars colonize,  you could crumble them as spawn or something. Also,  you want your cakes in 1/2 pint (wide mouth) jars, those look like pint jars.  When they are too big,  I believe they can go anamorphic (get too hot in the center). Good luck.


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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: dhype773]
    #24239852 - 04/13/17 09:34 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Crumble he shall

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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: mynakedrat]
    #24239857 - 04/13/17 09:36 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

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mynakedrat said:
Crumble he shall



Unfortunately he's only got 2 jars.  It won't be much spawn.


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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: dhype773]
    #24239865 - 04/13/17 09:39 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

True, although I did a crumble with a single. Got a little bit more than if it were cake.
He'll do fine.
Otherwise he can just stick a bag on it and call it a day.
I'm sure he already does that/she

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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: mynakedrat]
    #24239869 - 04/13/17 09:41 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Yeah,  I'd say just top fruit them


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Re: First Grow Attempt: Would like opinions... [Re: dhype773]
    #24239921 - 04/13/17 10:02 AM (7 years, 9 months ago)

Looks like quart jars I'll be very surprised if they fully colonized anyway

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