ShaperDreaming said:

I see a pretty solid flush from that coir yeild! It could be better for sure.

Did you start with agar or go spores to grains? I'm assuming it's agar. I mean, an obvious way to get better flushes is to clone your fruits. That's a pretty easy step moving forward.

I think right now that your surface conditions during colonization look pretty great. Tiny little beads all over the myc that's poking up. So that looks good. Your surface looks pretty level, and based on the sides I can see you mixed things pretty well...

Which leaves me with genetics That's all I can think of honestly. Your technique seems right on. Also, possibly I'm just going to say it could have been the environmental conditions too. I find that growing anything in August-ish (July-Sept) to end up with terrible results from high mold/pollen/temps.

But my guess is that you just need to clone it and do the same thing again. Your box looks great!  I am also curious about the end weight. I feel like you probably have around 250g wet, which ain't bad, honestly.

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TedTheHighlighter said:

I actually started from a spore syringe with this batch, I’ll get a clone or two for the next one and see how that improves things

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Yeah, that was my thought. Even if you'd started with agar it would have isolated the genetics a tiny bit so you'd have a more balanced flush. Good luck moving forward! I've had worse things happen to my shoeboxes because of Contamfest 2019 (aka August) lately

What was the dry/wet weight?

ShaperDreaming said:

Yeah, you both are killing it. That knot-set is killer Cthulthu! Inspiring you two!

And yeah, I don't know if it's my tek or if it's just the coir in general (likely the coir), but when I use this method I can basically spawn as-bacterial-as-I-want spawn and get great first flushes. The reason I didn't realize my oats were having bacteria problems is because I was using this method, and when I switched I couldn't get anything to grow

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I love it, honestly I'd probably still be doing oats to coir in Tupperware containers and fruiting in a SGFC

Also did some pans to using your tek, just waiting on pins now

I love it though, I know MS to grains sucks but I can knock up 6 jars while I'm waiting on cultures to grow out (I like to ALWAYS keep ALL my jars growing something at all times so I usually end up doing some MS to oats to fill in the extra jars while I wait on cultures) and even though they all stall from bacteria 90% percent of the time I can just scoop out the colonized bits and spawn them like normal and still get a couple fruits, granted it's not the best practice but helps fill that urge while I'm waiting on petris

Wet weight was 152 wet and 11 grams dry

DnDRnD said:

Also did some pans to using your tek, just waiting on pins now

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Cthulhu23 said:

DnDRnD said:

Also did some pans to using your tek, just waiting on pins now

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I always thought Pans required more FAE than a shoebox could provide?

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ShaperDreaming said:

Cthulhu23 said:

DnDRnD said:

Also did some pans to using your tek, just waiting on pins now

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I always thought Pans required more FAE than a shoebox could provide?

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I thought pans... wait how are you using my tek for pan! I'm super curious, and want to also do this, so let me know.

Pans require pretty intense conditions to get them to want to grow. It's not so much fae exactly (that's more oysters), it's about temp, humidity and air cycling all working together.

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ShaperDreaming said:

Cthulhu23 said:

DnDRnD said:

Also did some pans to using your tek, just waiting on pins now

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I always thought Pans required more FAE than a shoebox could provide?

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I thought pans... wait how are you using my tek for pan! I'm super curious, and want to also do this, so let me know.

Pans require pretty intense conditions to get them to want to grow. It's not so much fae exactly (that's more oysters), it's about temp, humidity and air cycling all working together.

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I just added in horse manure with the coir and made the sub and casing layer about 1.5-2 inches thick, not sure how it'll do but we'll find out, I cased with some cactus mix (its peat, perlite, soil, and a few other miscellaneous things)

I left one of them uncased for a couple days but it wasnt forming water droplets on the myc so I cased it to

Although one box turned green on me so I guess my spawn could've used an extra transfer (I went back to the main petri and did a few more transfers, its only on T3 now so I wasnt expecting anything super spectacular although I gotta say I wasn't expecting trich before the first flush since it colonized semi quickly and such so I just assumed bacteria, I thought maybe manure prep at first but the other box hasn't turned green )

staytrippy420 said:

I’m about to mix up a few boxes. Had to re-read this tek.
This one is top 3 for me. 🙏🏽

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DnDRnD said:

I just added in horse manure with the coir and made the sub and casing layer about 1.5-2 inches thick, not sure how it'll do but we'll find out, I cased with some cactus mix (its peat, perlite, soil, and a few other miscellaneous things)

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ChardRich said:

FleeceManeLion said:

Sorry if this question has been asked before but does it matter if the lids aren't clear?

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The white lids will work, but I have found the clear lid boxes to give much more favorable results. I am going to use only those from now on

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