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Wonderful success for noob experimenting with chicken feed as spawn * 2
    #26006991 - 05/22/19 09:05 AM (4 years, 8 months ago)

First of all, I'd like to express gratitude to everyone here who answered my early questions and nail-biting questions. This adventure would have been a lot less fun (and likely more frustrating) without your encouragement and advice.

Now, I know the conventional wisdom is to master long established techniques before doing any experimentation, but I had so much enthusiasm and energy for my first grow that I couldn't help trying some "on the side" experiments while at the same time trying to master the admittedly basic PF Tek brown rice flower 1/2 pint jars.

I'm so glad I did some fooling around, because while the BRF jar results have been underwhelming (obviously I haven't mastered the tek yet) one of my side experiments has turned out wonderfully.




This morning I harvested 223 wet grams (enough to last me for more than a year of microdosing) from... wait for it... ORGANIC CHICKEN FEED! I guess it's very similar to wild bird seed, except it also has a lot of cracked corn. The thing is, I didn't have any WBS around, but I did have buckets of chicken feed and a lot of noob impatience to try shit out, so I decided to have a go at using the remainders of my B+ syringe to colonize a couple quart jars of chicken feed.

I assumed the experiment was doomed from the start. After rinsing and pressure cooking, the chicken feed was super starchy (cracked corn!) and couldn't be shaken.

So, when the jars colonized four times as fast as my BRF jars I assumed, "yeah, that's got to be some kind of crazy fast chicken-loving mold in there. After all, these grains have been cohabitating with my lovable albeit *dirty* chickens for the past weeks..." But after a couple of weeks, the jars looked beautiful and solid white, just right.

There's also some nice aged horse poo around here, so I pasteurized up a batch of 70% coir 30% horse poo (boiling water in a cooler method) and mixed it up with the two quarts of chicken feed spawn in an aluminum lasagna pan I found blowing around the back yard. (And yes, as predicted on this forum, the aluminum did get holes in it right away... actually kind of handy for draining when bottom watering!)

Popped it in my fruiting chamber along with my sad little PF TEK jars and ... BOOM! So much happiness. And so much to improve on for next time.


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