Tormato said:

Looks pretty healthy to me

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Mush Hunter said:

Just found out, even if my jars are ready by the end of this week, I may not be able to spawn till the following week as I need to go away for a few days. Will this be a problem or will my jars be okay for an extra week till I get back and am able to spawn?

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They should be ok...I've let jars go an extra week before and didn't have a problem. If at all possible find a cold area of your house, like a basement, and store them there. The colder temps will help stall them a little, but honestly I think you'll be fine for a week.

pixelpopper said:

I will say that you are seeing some crazy fast growth for MSS to WBS. It usually takes a while before I see any myc.

I'm only doing a handful of MSS jars now because of this, and probably won't be doing any MSS jars after these are done. It just takes too long, and I'm also starting to have agar cultures always available.

I'm going to have to do some good cleaning up of my Costa Rican as well. I became lazy and failed to keep a culture going for it, and took a print of my last CR shoebox which I will be working on cleaning up at some point. Should have really cloned and kept that culture alive because it produced well and was very potent, but life is busy lately.

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Fractal420 said:

pixelpopper said:

I will say that you are seeing some crazy fast growth for MSS to WBS. It usually takes a while before I see any myc.

I'm only doing a handful of MSS jars now because of this, and probably won't be doing any MSS jars after these are done. It just takes too long, and I'm also starting to have agar cultures always available.

I'm going to have to do some good cleaning up of my Costa Rican as well. I became lazy and failed to keep a culture going for it, and took a print of my last CR shoebox which I will be working on cleaning up at some point. Should have really cloned and kept that culture alive because it produced well and was very potent, but life is busy lately.

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MSS like MS syringe? Whenever i see super fast growth with ms now, i generally assume contams. Not always, but it seems alot more safe, agar or ms, when the growth is slow

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Tormato said:

Mush Hunter said:

Just found out, even if my jars are ready by the end of this week, I may not be able to spawn till the following week as I need to go away for a few days. Will this be a problem or will my jars be okay for an extra week till I get back and am able to spawn?

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They should be ok...I've let jars go an extra week before and didn't have a problem. If at all possible find a cold area of your house, like a basement, and store them there. The colder temps will help stall them a little, but honestly I think you'll be fine for a week.

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Will be moving them to a cold room while I am out of town just in case we get a heat wave, figuring the cooler temps will keep them safe!

Fractal420 said:

I didnt say it was contaminated, i just said i wanted to ask you something. I'll send message

Cause i used to do MS all the time and back to back success and lately i use agar cause *I* keep getting contams with MS

Good job by the way i always thought Z-strain was awesome also

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Cool and thanks

pixelpopper said:

I only get slow growth with MS via MSS (syringe) to jars... agar with MS from print or syringe is fast

I've spawned jars after almost a month at full colonization. I don't recommend it, but a week should be fine. If you're worried about it, you could always shake them up right before you leave to delay them a bit

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You're funny pixelpopper mentioning to shake them as I did this about 20min. ago (Great minds think a like! ) for two main reasons. 1) To slow things down and 2) To see if they will show if there is any possible contamination. If they recover nicely over the next 24-48hrs then I will feel more confident that I have clean spawn and shouldn't have an issue once I spawn them and this way they will be good once I get back as they should be back at 100% by the time I get back. They all broke up very nicely and had no problems shaking and the grains look just as good as they did after the first shake.

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I may not be able to spawn till the following week as I need to go away for a few days. Will this be a problem

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fishermansjc said:

What have you seen people talking about surround this mushboy, you've been around much longer than I have

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ive only been around since 2016 but i dont know. its usually from misinformed assumptions though.

i used to think they would pin and the shrooms would rot. but i was ...

mushboy said:

im not talking about the shaking. im talking about this thought process.

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I may not be able to spawn till the following week as I need to go away for a few days. Will this be a problem

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why would it be a problem? thats all.

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If it was cakes I wouldn't worry but seeing as it is my first time doing grains I was worried about them pinning in the jar before spawning and am not sure how this would affect the process. Cakes are easy in that there isn't an issue as you can still do a dunk and roll with pins, or just pluck them and move forward. Not sure what the process is with grains or is this is an issue. Just a noob thing (learning curve) probably. Once I have done this with grains a few times I am sure I will be more comfortable with things like this.