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Critique and trouble shoot my first build
    #26441441 - 01/19/20 09:59 AM (4 years, 10 days ago)

Hello shroomery!

First off, much appreciation to this forum for being a very informative resource. I´ve been lurking for a while, time to say hi.

So, I´ve done my first build. I drew a schematic picture of it and I want your help to kind of critique it, or help me to improve it. I wouldn't dare to say its good and its not something that you haven't seen before.

So far I haven't really gotten the results that I feel it has the potential to deliver. So what's the problem? Pinning is very scarce, I don't get the nice carpet of pins that I've gotten using simpler builds with multispore. It's just handfuls of stray mushies. The pinning is also way slower than usual (2+ weeks). Do you think that this is due to genetics, or is it me doing something wrong?

General build
It's a monotub build(?), but I don't pour the substrate into the big plastic box, instead I use two smaller boxes that fit perfectly into the bottom of the big boxes. The big boxes are 52liter, and the smaller ones fits about 9 litres of substrate (3,5 inches thick substrate). I only do this because it is convenient when harvesting etc. I'm also able to inoculate two new smaller boxes while I'm fruiting the others, that way I can always keep the fruiting chamber active.

Substrate
I use rice as the initial substrate(has been working great before). Then mix with coco coir, coffee ground and vermiculite for the bulk substrate. I base this off Damions proportions.


Climate
I inoculate at 25°C (77°F) in darkness, and the fruiting chamber is at 21.5°C-22°C (70.7°F - 71.6°F). I have ALOT of pearls (water droplets, quite big) on the substrate, no tendencies for the cake to dry around the holes. Although after 2 weeks the cake has some tendencies to separate from the edge. Sometimes I have the wardrobe open (where I keep everything)for light intake, but I also supplement with light since I live at the north pole.

I use micro-pore tape for the air exchange (1 layer), two larger intakes at the upper short end of the large box, and a row of smaller holes just above the substrate level (see picture).


Genetics
So I´ve taken biopsy from fruits of big clusters. I´ve cloned them on agar, and been trying to only inoculate using nice sectors. I have to emphasize that I'm not an expert at this part. Although I can't really identify what I could have been doing wrong at this part of the process. I have good hygiene practices.

Other than this, no signs of contamination. Nice smell, all white, very fast colonization, no mycelia stretching upwards. Umm.. what else, can't think of any more information to give you at this point.

By the way, I'm sorry if this thread is useless, delete if you must.



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Re: Critique and trouble shoot my first build [Re: siphonaptera]
    #26441470 - 01/19/20 10:17 AM (4 years, 10 days ago)

post a pic of the actual tub/growth or else we’re all guessing


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Re: Critique and trouble shoot my first build [Re: siphonaptera]
    #26441473 - 01/19/20 10:17 AM (4 years, 10 days ago)

I just... don't know where to start. You combined many teks into a monster and then you want us to tell you what to change. Take some pictures, start with that. Why don't you like the simplicity of monotubs?


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Re: Critique and trouble shoot my first build [Re: mushhiehunter]
    #26441494 - 01/19/20 10:40 AM (4 years, 10 days ago)


There is light above the lower box aswell, currently not working though.



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mushhiehunter said:
I just... don't know where to start. You combined many teks into a monster and then you want us to tell you what to change. Take some pictures, start with that. Why don't you like the simplicity of monotubs?




A monster.. is it really that different? I mean, the substrate goes into a an equal volume, it's just not the big fruiting box.
Like I said, I can just switch smaller boxes, that way I don't need 4 big fruiting chambers, just 2. And like I also said, its convenient to harvest when you can remove it.


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