BeefSupremeJr said:

You’re on the right track brother

You can test into a shoebox in 20 days flat.

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SumFunGi said:

BeefSupremeJr said:

You’re on the right track brother

You can test into a shoebox in 20 days flat.

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So can you elaborate on how your (or a) standard grow may look.  Let’s say you wanted to have 6 tubs of 6 different strains going.....  is this what it may look like:

- Do 2-4 a2a transfers for a clean mycelial growth. 

Yep. 

- prepare 6 qts of grain for each strain ( 36 total)

that’s a shitload of shoeboxes but sure.

- inoculate the quarts with an LI made from clean Agar to sterile water shaken and put into a syringe for injection.

noooooo.  Just chop your agar up in little chunks and drop them in the jars.

- let the jars grow out & then take 1 jar from each strain to 6 individual shoeboxes.

Yeah, sure

- in the meantime, let the other 5 jars per strain continue to colonize and Shake 1-2 times while the shoeboxes are growing out to keep them from consolidating into a rock.

I’m not sure why you wouldn’t  just spawn them all as they become ready, if you have the room and facilities.

- if shoeboxes look good. Spawn the 5 jars per strain with a 2:1 ratio ( 2 coir to 1 spawn)

3:1. Keep at least four quarts of sub in your boxes.

I’m trying to get my gameplan down, as the agar grows fast and I need to get my schedule and order of operations in check.

Don’t worry so much about it, plates store in the fridge.  So do jars fully consolidated.

Can someone help me with a timeline or a way to grow 6 large tubs, but making as sure as possible that things will go smoothly? 

You just did, minus that lc step.  Don’t over think this. 

I have a fridge full of finished plates, right?  Every ten days I do whatever work I need to do.  I like to have 14 jars going in two sets of seven offset.  Every ten days, I inoculated jars with plates and spawn tubs if I have room.  If not, jars go in fridge.

Clone your best fruit onto plates and test again.  When you get something badass, put it on thick plates and put them in the fridge. 

So you wanna do a big tub? Ok. Go for it.  I think shoeboxes are great to manage.  Start there.  Walk don’t run. 

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