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Every noob mistake and now a dilemma
    #25944326 - 04/19/19 06:41 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Well, I feel like I've committed all (or most) of the obligatory noob mistakes on my first grow which has taken almost 2 months now and finally coming to fruition.  Fortunately I've learned a lot along the way by observing my mistakes and by spending a lot of time lurking here and learning from the experts.

First mistake was not finding Shroomery before I purchased a grow kit.  A lot of money for a bunch of crap.  Anyway, I went ahead and inoculated a bunch of pre-prepared BRF cakes, made a little incubator and had nice mycelial growth in 75% of the jars after a couple of weeks.  I failed to let the cakes consolidate and did the dunk and roll about a week or so too early, and popped them into my SGFC (which I failed to construct properly - poor ventilation, too few holes, etc).  I placed the thing onto a thermostat controlled heating mat which eventually started to melt and I'm surprised didn't burn my house down.  Eventually, after a lot of misting and fanning, my cakes all turned blue and I assumed they were contaminated.  Nevertheless, after a lot of reading here and looking at photos I decided they may just have dried out and were bruised, so I soaked them in water again overnight and grated them into pasteurized coir and put them into a couple 6 qt shoeboxes, and put them into fruiting conditions ala Bods easy AF shoebox tek.  I didn't really expect anything to happen at this point,  one of the boxes looks like shit and is going into the garden soon, but the other has had great mycelial growth and is starting to have a couple of pins on top.  So I'm looking at this box, and I notice that the sides look a bit funky and when I look closer there are like hundreds of pins and baby mushrooms.  Very exciting, I don't care if they are growing on the sides or the top, they're still mushrooms and its an unexpected surprise considering all the fuckups along the way.  So the dilemma is I'm going on a weeks trip this Monday (3 days away) and am wondering what to do, if anything.  Taking the box isn't an option unfortunately.  Depending on how big these guys get in the next two days, maybe I should just pick them all before I leave and let the shoebox start a second flush while I'm gone.  If I don't pick them before I leave I'm afraid I'll get back to find a rotten mess.

All in all its been a great learning experience and nothing too much lost if the current experiment fails because of the poor timing of my vacation.  In the meantime, I've constructed a flowhood and have some nice clean looking agar cultures going that I'll use to inoculate some grain jars when I get back.  One thing I know now is that I won't be messing with BRF cakes or SGFC ever again.

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Re: Every noob mistake and now a dilemma [Re: endemicfrogs]
    #25944916 - 04/20/19 01:13 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

They should be big enough to pick by the morning you leave. Might be a better choice because of the length of the trip.


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Re: Every noob mistake and now a dilemma [Re: southbounpachyderm]
    #25945586 - 04/20/19 11:49 AM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Here's how things look now.  Leaving in about 48 hours so I'm going to be harvesting these guys just before I jump in the car.

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Re: Every noob mistake and now a dilemma [Re: endemicfrogs]
    #25948009 - 04/21/19 06:27 PM (5 years, 8 months ago)

Just got 90 grams wet of partially grown fruits off this shoebox, in the dryer now.  I added a bit more water to the tub and will see if anything more grows by the time I get back from a weeks vacation.

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