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OfflineCarion
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Monotub Colonization
    #18940435 - 10/06/13 01:56 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Hello fellow shroomery members. I have a question for you concerning monotub colonization. Last Wednesday, October 2nd, I spawned two monotubs. I am fairly new to cultivation, and trying to get some experience under my belt. As I am new, I don't have a keen eye yet to determine whether a mono is fully colonized or not. I peeked at each tub I have and was supprized to see the entire surface is covered in thick mycelium. The tub appears to be fully colonized, but over such a short period of time makes me worried. It smells strongly of fresh mushrooms, making me think it's not contaminated.

My question is this, is such a short colonization time out of the ordinary? Obviously using a higher spawn to sub ratio would speed colonization times, but I only used 7 jars. What are the best signs to determine whether the tub is fully colonized or not?


I though including my process might help those who wish to answer.

The first thing I did was prepare 14 WBS grain jars. My grains were made with Frank's WBS tek, including the coffee in the soak/boil and gypsum as well.

I used G2G transfers on the 14 jars after PC. The G2G transfer jars were inoced via MS.

These jars finished colonizing in 8 days, while some colonized faster than others.

I've read on the forum of people not using sterile conditions when spawn

I pasteurized 2 large grow bags, each one containing 1 650mg brick of coir, 2 quarts of vermiculite, and 5 quarts of water.

Smelled each jar as I followed Frank's monotub stuff including the gypsum. I made sure to mix the spawn and sub very well to encourage even colonization. I forgot to ad I leveled out the mix in attempts to reach a more even pinset.

My substrate was a tad too wet from what I have read on the forums, but I thought it would be fine. In the end when I mixed my spawn and sub together in each mono, the result seemed to be the at the desired saturation level anyways.


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Re: Monotub Colonization [Re: Carion]
    #18940796 - 10/06/13 03:22 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Colonization of a monotub in 4 days is not out of the ordinary. Especially with a high spawn ratio. Fruit that sucker and :goodluck:


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Re: Monotub Colonization [Re: Stromrider]
    #18940830 - 10/06/13 03:28 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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psillyshroomer said:
Colonization of a monotub in 4 days is not out of the ordinary. Especially with a high spawn ratio. Fruit that sucker and :goodluck:



:whathesaid:

That is very fast though. But not unheard of.


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Re: Monotub Colonization [Re: SpitballJedi]
    #18940843 - 10/06/13 03:30 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Awesome. Thanks for the input fellas. Huge help.


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Re: Monotub Colonization [Re: Carion]
    #24950152 - 01/28/18 10:25 PM (6 years, 25 days ago)

just started colonizing my monotub and hope i have the same speed at colonization!


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