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Galaxytripper
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Penis Envy Teks?
#24478157 - 07/12/17 02:53 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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My PE syringe has been shipped and I was hoping that by the time it gets to my home, that I would actually have a PE Tek to execute. I have been scouring the Shroomery for days now for an end-to-end PE tek, to no avail. Could someone kindly point me to one?
Couple of tek questions: 1) Does PE fruit on horse poo? Is that the recommended substrate?
2) If cakes are not recommended, and if I should spawn to a monotub, what exact constituents for a substrate mix should I use and what mix proportions? 50/50/ 60/40? 70/30?
Thanks.
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I dint think there are any teks perse and pe will fruit on coir or hpoo .. i use professor pinheads bulk sub tek .. its a half brick coir 2lbs hpoo 2qts course verm and a half pint gypsum and i add about 4.t to 5qts water for a 66qt tub... and i do 5 qts spawn to that its about 10qts sub give or take
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You can use any cubensis tek. Some people have pulled of epic cake grows of PE, but I think they tend to flop more often than win. I would suggest you make several mini monotubs. Multispore syringe to grain is not a foolproof method, you will prolly get some good jars, some bad jars, and some jars that look okay that are bad. By compartmentalizing them into several minis you can avoid one big fail. You can also do shoeboxes in a regular mono, or just use say vegetable section bags from the grocery store to make blocks with a jar of spawn a piece in a mono.
Generally speaking, I think most agree that a peat based casing is ideal for PE, and potentially a higher spawn ratio. You can use poo, but afaik it doesn't have any special advantage for PE.
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Galaxytripper
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Thanks BoogieMan47. I'll check that out!
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I would not try horse poo unless your pasteurization tek is spot on and you are sure. CVG works fine. Also don't do cakes, PE require a lot of water, more than cakes will hold. Do shoe boxes, like below or a tub. Let them colonize to 100% then case them with about 1/2" casing layer. Then fruit.
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Some great advice there. Thank you.
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Re: Penis Envy Teks? [Re: CapnZ]
#24478259 - 07/12/17 03:32 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ok. Thanks. What's CVG?
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PE is a cube. Use a cube tek. Not anything special to grow, until it fruits 
HPOO is prime, either ask around for a pile or peruse a pasture for the fuzzy white firefang. Straw works fine too. If you're doing a custom mix with what you have on hand, I'd just go by consistency. Include about 5% gypsum.
Start MS --> Agar
After a transfer or two, Agar --> LC
You can keep isolating on other plates if you're looking for a master culture.
LC --> Grains
Grain --> Bulk sub
Skip the cakes, unless you're making them birthday sized. It's all about the spawn bags these days.
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LotKid does alot of pe, look through his grow logs maybe he'll pop in the tread. But pretty much what they said.
Coir/verm/gypsum
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Re: Penis Envy Teks? [Re: CapnZ]
#24478289 - 07/12/17 03:44 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks. But re The horse poo thing. But don't some of these suppliers e.g Outgrow sell their horse poo already pasteurized? Or is that not to be trusted? And if not, why wouldn't 5mins in the microwave do the trick?
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No hpoo needs to be pasteurized at 14 to 165 for atleast 1 hour
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CVG = coir / vermiculite / gypsum. The shrooms will get the bulk of their nutrients from grain you use for spawn. Neither coir nor vermiculite require complete pasteurization because they don't naturally allow contaminates to grow on them. Check out Bods bucket tek for prepping the substrate. I use a 5 gallon water cooler.
For a 66 quart tub - 650 grams dry coir, 2 quarts dry vermiculite, handful of gypsum. 4 quarts boiling water. Check for proper field capacity. You can search a lot of this info on this site with the search function.
Yoosername makes a good point. You up your chances of achieving clean spawn considerably if you learn to use agar. Not saying MS to grain won't work, but if you go that route I would do shoeboxes
Also make sure your spawn to bulk substrate ratio is good. At least 1 quart jar of spawn per shoe box.
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Re: Penis Envy Teks? [Re: CapnZ]
#24478460 - 07/12/17 04:57 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the info. Agar is a bit advanced for me. I will branch out, but baby steps.
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No! No! It is not advanced! It is basic an easy! Search pasty plates. Your gonna do agar 1 day an wonder why tf u didnt do it earlier haha. Seriously get some agar it is easy an makes things so much easier, faster N CLEANER, personally i see as a necessity if u wanna grow more than a few quarters at a time an hate dealing with mold n bacteria constantly
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Re: Penis Envy Teks? [Re: LotKid]
#24478574 - 07/12/17 05:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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You'll need agar skills for this, but a good way of getting constant first flushes with PE varities is to start a bunch of multi spore projects at once, and which ever cultures fruit regular fruits first under normal conditions, and fast, clone.
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Re: Penis Envy Teks? [Re: hamloaf]
#24478600 - 07/12/17 05:51 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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they will fruit on manure
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Galaxytripper
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Oh alright. Thanks. I actually tried agar ages ago. I must have done it wrong. I waited for the agar to solidify, but then I think I squirted the spore syringe into it, but wasn't sure at the time whether that was the correct thing to do, or whether to prick the surface of the agar. Anyway, it failed, with contamination. Maybe my "sterile" technique wasn't up to much at the time.
So would you recommend Agar to start with rather than liquid culture in terms of ease of use and more importantly, benefit?
Edited by Galaxytripper (07/12/17 08:45 PM)
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