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Mycologist217
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Thufir_Hawat]
#26016904 - 05/27/19 06:57 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Day 14-
So here we are two weeks into our experiment! I for one like ruman numerals. I would say we are bang on course. Admittedly we are a little behind Bod's godspeed timeline in his Tek list, but hey, that's perfectly okay, as it really is a game of style and I enjoy my style. It is important for you all reading and learning along to cultivate your own style alongside the fruits you produce. There should be a point where you move from just following steps written by those who came before you to actually understanding the why of it all, and then after that: development of your very own style and real foundation in mushroom cultivation. That is why I like to do these real time grow logs; so you all can see the various little gadgets and Jerry rigs and vessels and $1.50 pieces of hardware you can use to reliably cultivate these magical fruit and then later maybe food to feed your community and loved ones.
At any rate, things really are getting busy here a couple weeks into the major summer grow. 2/3 of the first three grain jars are just about fully colonized and the minitub from them will be spawned in the next few days!

This will admittedly be my first time doing anything smaller than a full 66qt mono so let's see if I can pull it off.
Very exciting. I was digging through some of the boxes in my garage and I found these:

And this afternoon we did our first inoculation cycle with the taller pint of LC prepared in day 1. Our total jars inoculated now are at 21/63 with jars 22-28 going into sterilization later this even for inoculation tomorrow.

A couple of the jars inoculated on Friday we're looking like this today:
 Picture doesn't do it justice. looks great in person. Anyway the ones that were this far along got a good shaking.
Things are really moving along and with the first mini tub being spawned sometime this week, the first pins to be featured in this grow long might not be far off.
I bought Jiffy mix at Walmart today , and got some gypsum and vermiculite so add that to the materials list. And a five gallon bucket with lid.
I might stop inoculating jars after 35 and wait til some filly colonize and reuse the jars then Because I kind of don't want to buy 3 more cases of jars but we'll see. I'll let you know...see you at the bucket Tek so we can talk about that.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26017056 - 05/27/19 08:03 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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My lc never looks that good after that short a time I have about a 50cent size piece from Thursday Haha.. it usually takes about a week for me to get that kinda grothe showing maybe more
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26017091 - 05/27/19 08:19 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I foresaw the issues with the polyfill filter and the hot needle, so yesterday I started construction of grain jar lids with SHIPs, and simple GE filters.

Working on cranking these out in Mass over the next few days. Went ahead and got 14 ready to keep soaking, sterilizing,and inoculating grain.
Will post pictures of inoculated grain as they start colonizing...clean or dirty.
What do you use to construct your filters?
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: towndaze]
#26017153 - 05/27/19 08:53 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Painters coveralls and cloth medical tape. The painters coveralls are available at any Hardware store and can be cut up into thousands of filter squares or hundreds of whole mouth disc filters.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26017360 - 05/27/19 11:46 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26017606 - 05/28/19 05:22 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Am I the only one who wishes they have something like a painter's tie? I've got one of them too. The cuffs are both gone. I don't know if I'll ever use it all up.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: thecynicalstoic]
#26018851 - 05/28/19 04:42 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Day 15-
I think the painter coveralls ive been using are very different from ones I've used in the past. Almost like it's coated in plastic. I suspect some compromises to so grain filters, but we are going to keep on trucking as the filters worked fine for my agar plates.
I might go back to simple polyfill injection ports from here on out as they are tried tested and true.
Lots of colonization going on in the LC inoculated grain jars, but nothing like the round from Friday which is sporting the plastic lids with polyfill injection ports.
Several jars from Friday have already undergone the first shake and now everything is chilling out for a few days.
I am only going to be sterilizing enough grain tonight for the remaining 5 jars from the original 36 I started with. Of the 36, 28 have already been inoculated with LC and 3 were the preliminary grain jars...
The three preliminary grain jars are about fully colonized! Two are done in fact, and the third (had way less agar plate in than the other two) is catching up fast, so hopefully we will be spawning a minitub on Thursday...no pics today unless you really need to see the preliminary grain jars.
Feel free to post any questions regarding the technique, materials, or procedure.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26018865 - 05/28/19 04:46 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26018982 - 05/28/19 05:44 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mycologist217 said: polyfill injection ports.
Are you worried about pushing in nasties through the polyfil/port?
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: mushboy]
#26019007 - 05/28/19 05:53 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Not really. I take the foil off the jars in the sill air box as the needle is sterilizing. All my grows here on the Shroomery have sported just polyfill ports...I should note that I also put a tyvek sheet (painters coveralls) over the mouth of every jar before I screw on the lid.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26019011 - 05/28/19 05:55 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Gotcha
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Mycologist217
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: mushboy]
#26020608 - 05/29/19 02:17 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Day 16-
We now have 33 qts of birdseed shot up with LC. Today's round only had 5 qts in it. I went ahead and used 10ml LC in each of the give quarts today from the tall LC from day 0.
Pretty much every jar inoculated prior to today shows some good mycelial growth. All the jars inoculated Friday have already undergone a first shake and several have recovered.
I have a few unicorn bags from the farm I am thinking about inoculating with a few of the plates from Day 0iii. What do you guys think?
Anyway...minitub from first three preliminary grain jars gets spawned tomorrow.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26020782 - 05/29/19 03:21 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Do you have pics of either of the LC’s which have gone to grains from when you considered them ready to use that we can see and discuss?
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: ttching8475]
#26021232 - 05/29/19 05:49 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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About here was when I started using it.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26021485 - 05/29/19 07:55 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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About here was when I started using it.
Looking pretty clear when compared to the first pic of the LC jars.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: ttching8475]
#26021605 - 05/29/19 08:51 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah the liquid gets clearer as the myc consumes the nutrients in solution.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217] 1
#26022595 - 05/30/19 09:31 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Day 17-
Uggggh I really wanted to be showing you all the bucket Tek this afternoon but the slow grain jar of the three preliminary jars is being a little stubborn about catching up to it's brothers. It is not surprising given that the third jar was inoculated with just a couple.wedges while the other two each got many wedges dropped in. But as of this afternoon it will be at the earliest tomorrow before we can do the bucket Tek and spawn a mini mono with out agar inoculated preliminary grain jars.

The 33 LC inoculated grain jars are really booming to life, and the first seven that were inoculated on Friday (Day 11) are about 50-60% colonized already.

Hopefully the next entry we will be talking about the bucket Tek and spawn ratios, and substrate recipe
Keep the good vibes coming.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217]
#26022926 - 05/30/19 12:59 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I know I'm late, but for shits and giggles I'm guessing 155g dry from your first tub. First pins June 14th.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: ShaperDreaming]
#26024335 - 05/31/19 06:13 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Just want to take a second to reflect upon the success of the equipment we built for this grow so far. all of our lids including the gas exchange filters and injection ports that we built onto them have worked flawlessly thus far. At this point hour to liquid cultures have been used to inoculate three dozen jars just about and not a single one has contaminated. These drivers have been touched a lot moved around, shaken, stirred, kept in a closet in a room where lots of weed gt smoked....just really proud of my lids.
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Re: ~INTERACTIVE SUMMER GROW 2019~ PRESENTING THE M217-B PE CLONE~ LAB MANUAL STYLE WITH PICS [Re: Mycologist217] 1
#26027950 - 06/01/19 10:15 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Day 19-
Here we are about 19 days in since we inoculated our first two LC's and first 3 preliminary grain jars.
As though of you following along k ow, we inoculated our first seven grain qts with LC last Friday (Day 11ish) and they are now colonizing away. We will likely be spawning the first 2 or 3 of 12 full size monos this coming week, as our grain jars reach full colonization!

Every single one of our first 33 qts has at least undergone it's first shake, probably only needing one throughout colonization, maybe two. A couple jars are looking like there is a little bacteria present, but honestly...I don't really think there is. Everything is still looking really nice minus a bad photo of one jar about 36hours after LC inoculation prior to it's first shake, but I assure you in person you can see clearly that it is a healthy looking jar....either way... bacteria or no bacteria...all 33 of the our first 33 jars will make it to spawning and be part of a full sized Monotub.
Exciting things today:
Finally after 18 days we got to spawn a mini Monotub with our 3 preliminary grain jars! Remember these three jars were all inoculated with less than 33% of a single agar plate, so the slow colonization is expected. But truthfully, I didn't mind waiting.
This morning we cut a coir brick in half and put one half of it through the Bucket Tek along with 1.25qts vermiculite, a small handful of water and approximately 3qts boiling water.

After it was cooled we collected our three colonized preliminary grain jars, opened them up and smelled that beautiful alkaline smell of fresh fungus! We filled them with some cool water and let them rest in it while I got the tub ready to spawn:

We lined our minitub with a black liner and poured in about half our CVG before dumping in all three grain jars (now drained and broken up with the handle of a wooden spoon). We spread that mixture out to blanket the floor of the tub completely...getting it to the corners, then dumped in the rest of our substrate and mixed. After mixing we brought it to a nice even plane and trimmed our liner down...

The lid was placed on and the tub was set aside somewhere peaceful to colonize! I expect it to be ready for casing by Tuesday evening. To whomever predicted June 14th for the first pin... your guess is looking pretty good right now!
We will be back with you later in the week as we start spawning our full sized Monotubs!
Keep the good vibes coming! Have a wonderful weekend...and as always: FUCK AOC
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