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GORDO-WARDO
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20 PF jars, different colonization speeds, when to dunk/fruit?
#24250970 - 04/17/17 07:06 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hi yall
First grow here. I inoculated 20 1/2 pint jars a while back. so far so good, no contam I don't think.
However, as probably expected, there is a decent amount of variation in colonization speed.
When a jar looks fully colonized I've been writing a date on the jar for 7 days later, to allow consolidation. These dates are my "dunk dates".
The breakdown of "dunk dates" looks like this:
4/17 (today): 9 jars 4/18: 2 jars 4/19: 1 jar 4/20: 2 jars 4/21: 2 jars 4/23: 2 jars 4/24: 1 jar and 1 jar is lagging behind (only took up in 1 of the 4 inoculation holes)
I'm trying to figure out if I should delay dunking a few days to birth a bunch all at once. Is there a risk to adding extra consolidation time?
Also, in 2 or 3 of the 4/17 jars, there is some pinning action going on (getting excited!!!)
What do you guys think?
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JvF
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Re: 20 PF jars, different colonization speeds, when to dunk/fruit? [Re: GORDO-WARDO]
#24250986 - 04/17/17 07:13 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Your cakes are all separate entities.
Treat each one as an individual. Birth/dunk and roll when they need it.
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mynakedrat
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Re: 20 PF jars, different colonization speeds, when to dunk/fruit? [Re: JvF]
#24251059 - 04/17/17 08:12 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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The cakes are sentient!
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GORDO-WARDO
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Re: 20 PF jars, different colonization speeds, when to dunk/fruit? [Re: mynakedrat]
#24253029 - 04/17/17 10:00 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Alright, thanks! I ended up dunking 11 cakes, as one of the 4/18 cakes exhibited some decently large pins.
One question I have:
Do you guys ever experience mycelium growing up through the dry verm barrier layer? I had a few cakes that looked like this was occurring. Was kind of worried it may have been cobweb or something, but I figure the dry verm just soaked up some moisture and some of the mycelium were able to poke through a tiny bit.
I unfortunately don't have picks of said fuzzies but the cakes were otherwise thoroughly colonized and looked good after rinsing and removing the verm layer
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GORDO-WARDO
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Re: 20 PF jars, different colonization speeds, when to dunk/fruit? [Re: GORDO-WARDO]
#24253032 - 04/17/17 10:02 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Bonus pic: here's the cake that I planned on dunking tomorrow but did a day early due to this pin! Let me know if that was dumb to do
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Ziran
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Re: 20 PF jars, different colonization speeds, when to dunk/fruit? [Re: GORDO-WARDO]
#24253048 - 04/17/17 10:08 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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it was a perfectly fine deal
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mynakedrat
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Re: 20 PF jars, different colonization speeds, when to dunk/fruit? [Re: Ziran]
#24253058 - 04/17/17 10:11 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yep, you're doing good. Cakes look nice
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