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KrombopulosMichael
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First Time Cultivator - Day 10 *with pics*
#24898320 - 01/08/18 11:08 AM (7 years, 9 days ago) |
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Hey everyone,
I’m cultivating for the first time and wanted to share my progress and get some feed back. I did plenty of thorough research before I started and because of this so far I’m seeing great results.
I’m doing PF tek, B+, twelve 4 oz. jars, steam sterilized. I inoculated the jars on Dec 29th and I am now 10 days in.
I have read countless posts about others not seeing signs on mycelium growth until 9-10 days or even longer. I was quite surprised, and excited, to see activity in all twelve of my jars the morning of day 3. Clear signs of growth at about 90% of the inoculation points, and 100% around day 5. I shot spores through 5 holes in my lids, 4 corners, 1 center.
Just last night, on day 10, I checked the jars and 9 of them are completely colonized, the other 3 just behind them, I estimate another 2 days.
I don’t know if I just got lucky on the speed of the growth or if it is because of strictly following the tek. This is my setup and method: I was extremely thorough on keeping a sanitary work space when preparing the substrate, especially when inoculating, also used a SAB and even misted the air inside the bin with 90% rubbing alcohol before proceeding with inoculation. Substrate: 2 parts verm, 1 part water, and 1 part brf. The jars are sitting 4.5 feet up on a shelf in my empty closet, jars uncovered to allow gas exchange. The closet door is foam gasket sealed along the door stop, along with a soft vinyl strip sealing to the floor. I have a space heater in the closet set to hold 75 degrees, fluctuating 2 degrees +/- at times, and a HEPA air filter running around the clock. Needless to say, it’s a very clean environment, even if it is a bit overkill.
Anyways, I posted progress pics below. I’m currently wondering what ballpark yield I’m going to get so it has me debating on fruiting some of the cakes and using the others to do something I’m starting to research called Spawning? From my vague understanding, you break the BRF cakes up into a larger amount of substrate to colonized said substrate, thus producig a larger yield?
So two questions: 1. How many cakes do you think I should use to spawn of the 12?
2. I know after the jars being fully colonized visually, you need to wait a week for the mycelium to consolidate, but I hear others suggest 2 weeks. With these jars only being 4 oz. would you say 1 or 2 weeks?
Would appreciate any insight. Thanks!
FYI: This is going to be my first psilocybin experience!
Edited by KrombopulosMichael (01/08/18 11:09 AM)
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kanemush
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I always wait until mine start to get pins in the jars that is a 100% colonized cake imho.
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Neowynd8

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Nice start!
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Sally Hatchet



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#24898460 - 01/08/18 12:33 PM (7 years, 9 days ago) |
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KrombopulosMichael
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Re: First Time Cultivator - Day 10 *with pics* [Re: Sally Hatchet]
#24900161 - 01/09/18 08:13 AM (7 years, 8 days ago) |
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Awesome, that makes sense, thanks for the tip! Kanemush made a good point too, I assume light is required for pinning? I currently give them a few hours of ambient light daily.
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Mateja


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Re: First Time Cultivator - Day 10 *with pics* [Re: Sally Hatchet]
#24900219 - 01/09/18 09:02 AM (7 years, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
Sally Hatchet said: Looking good man, my jars are a little bit behind yours. I'm also doing my first grow. Through reading through the forums the trend seems to be, the longer you let them colonize/consolidate the more fruits you can expect. Some people allowing for a month of consolidation time.
You can´t really decide how long the cake will consolidate for before pinning, it´s entirely up to the organism. Full colonization is the main pinning trigger.
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kanemush
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Quote:
KrombopulosMichael said: Awesome, that makes sense, thanks for the tip! Kanemush made a good point too, I assume light is required for pinning? I currently give them a few hours of ambient light daily.
Ambient will do just fine when you put them to fruit I then like to use a 65k light, just make sure its blue light.
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