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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26523686 - 03/08/20 10:10 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow, 10 pages and just shot spores on some cakes? I'm just over a month into my first grow. switched to agar half way through and it's way ahead of my jars injected with spores that have no visibly activity at all. Maybe you'll have better luck
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: C12ShroomMan] 3
#26523721 - 03/08/20 10:41 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't get why people insist on criticizing the way others like to learn or learn best. If there are experienced people willing to offer help and the new grower is receptive to implementing the things they have to offer, just let it be. It's a discussion forum.
Here, you want a waste of space... read through this Even in that mess, a lot of generous people still tried to offer their assistance. It's what we do around here.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: footpath] 2
#26523730 - 03/08/20 10:53 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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What a great thread to link! Love it!
Yeah I think the older I get the less tolerance for bullshit I have. I agree more and more people are often saying. "Why not do it this way or that way."
This thread is one of my favorites because the level of detail the OP puts into it. You put in hard work and ask good questions, you will always get more experienced Cultivators paying attention and responding politely with accurate information.
Nice work so far woodrose!
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: footpath]
#26523732 - 03/08/20 10:55 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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footpath said: I don't get why people insist on criticizing the way others like to learn or learn best. If there are experienced people willing to offer help and the new grower is receptive to implementing the things they have to offer, just let it be. It's a discussion forum.
Here, you want a waste of space... read through this Even in that mess, a lot of generous people still tried to offer their assistance. It's what we do around here.
Not criticizing how people learn, just surprised at all the responses. Maybe this subform is just that much busier than 'getting started' my advice gotten was something like ' your questions aren't important, you seem to know what your doing'
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: footpath] 1
#26523736 - 03/08/20 10:59 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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footpath said: I don't get why people insist on criticizing the way others like to learn or learn best. If there are experienced people willing to offer help and the new grower is receptive to implementing the things they have to offer, just let it be. It's a discussion forum.
Here, you want a waste of space... read through this Even in that mess, a lot of generous people still tried to offer their assistance. It's what we do around here.
👆🏻 this so hard!! I was happy to offer my experiences if they can help in any way. Again, as I said throughout this thread, I love learning and helping others learn. If they ask 100 questions I'll happily answer as long as they are listening and I'll take what info they have and add that to my mental roladex for later use. Are some questions just fueled by uncertainty and easily pushed aside once they is a familiarity with the topic? Absolutely. Does that invalidate the question? Absolutely not. Start PF, start with agar, or stick to PF forever; it only matters to you and you alone. Fulfill your needs and curiosities.
To be clear, this goes both ways. No one has any obligations to suffer questions they deem unworthy of overly simple, or even just boring. No one here is required to help anyone they don't want to. And no one here is required to turn away the most repeatedly ask.
And holy shit I forgot about meaculpa, footpath.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: Randalf the Grey] 2
#26523742 - 03/08/20 11:04 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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LSA, I missed your last few updates it so glad to see you got everything up and running. You are in for a treat. I loved my first PF Tek. You'll check everyday surely for a sign, and once you see it, your interest and fascination will only grow. At least mine did.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: Randalf the Grey] 2
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If your not checking every jar 2x a day for PF first run your doing it wrong.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: Sockadin]
#26523824 - 03/08/20 11:57 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sockadin said: If your not checking every jar 2x a day for PF first run your doing it wrong.
Ha! I wish I was only going into the kitchen and checking all those jars in the light a couple of times a day. But, in my defense, I’m not actually expecting anything to change in the 30 to 40 second space between peeking LOL I just realize that I can’t help myself.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26523831 - 03/08/20 12:02 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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LogicaL Chaos said: Usually 5 to a 7 days you will see growth. It can take awhile.
Yeah, just to be clear, I feel unbelievably impatient to see my jars begin to turn white at the 4 inoculation points, and see that mycelium slowly take over the entire jars, like the beautiful, mind-altering fungus it is. But, of course, I'm a rational adult and know that this takes time. Haha, I guess my biggest thing is I want to know, not in 5-7 days, but yesterday, whether my jars will colonize, and how many will be successful, versus either mold or just failure to thrive.
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woofwoof said: This is why agar is important. Spores are not suppose to be 100% contam free. With agar you clean it up, this is why we use agar and not just inoculate straight to grain, or pf tek..I don't like pf tekbecause it is a hit and miss. Don't get me wrong its nice to start out, but you seem like a smart dude.
Thanks for the compliment and information. First off, when I first started inquiring as to the possibility of growing my own magic mushrooms, literally no less than 99% of all sources, on and off this site, were pointing me toward PF Tek. That's why I chose it. I wasn't rejecting the idea of Agar willfully, and stubbornly. I was basically putting myself into the hands of the many experts here and on some other Blog/video/informational sites around the web. Anyway, the vast majority of people I spoke to, many of whom PM'd me because they didn't always want to post publicly, and many in the public threads, were pointing me toward PF Tek and many members suggested RogerRabbit's video. After a successful grow or two, Goddess willing, I would be amenable to taking the training wheels off and going a little more high Tek (lol pun intended). Maybe this is a bad analogy, but I am an avid cyclist, and I remember when I was just turned 5 years old, my Dad bought me and my little sister these twin bicycles. Mine was a green boy's bike and her's was a purple girl's bike. I rode around the block all the time with the training wheels on, and at some point maybe a month or two later, my Dad took me to a park near me in Brooklyn called Marine Park. He had a few wrenches and a pair of pliers, and he took off the training wheels, and in a short time, taught me how to ride a two-wheeler and balance myself and the bike so I could ride straight.
Unless I'm wrong, my sense is that PF Tek is a great set of training wheels. Once I get at least one successful grow out of the way, I will be much more open to switching to Agar, as you and some others have suggested.
Here's a thought on this topic: once I made up my mind to do Pf Tek, I was kind of shutting people down who were suggesting other Teks or methods. Particularly once I started ordering supplies, getting all my gear, ingredients, and workspace ready for the big start. The two days when I started getting my jars prepped, substrate made, holes drilled, jars sterilized, and then finally inoculation day, I couldn't even think about any other way because I was myopically focused on the task at hand. But now, even though I look at my inoculated jars on my kitchen table with the 6500K light on them 12 hours, desperate to see signs of colonizing absurdly early, I have a window for what I will imagine should be the next 4 to 6 weeks?
I mean, its not like I can do anything now, other than keep an eye on the temperature in my apartment, and make sure its always at a comfortable room temp. Right now, and since inoculation, my kitchen table is a constant 74-78 degrees, which according to RogerRabbit is actually better than 68-74 degrees. My point is, I have the time and the headspace now to learn about other things now, including Agar.
Do you have any suggested reading and videos? Bear in mind that when it comes to stuff like this, for some reason, I do better FIRST watching videos, seeing it done in real time like a recipe taught on some cooking show, and then reading up on it later. That's what I did with PF Tek. I watched all 4 of his videos like a dozen times each, and between viewings I read up on it on this site and his site.
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woofwoof said: Doing pf tek is like..well, i don't mind risking jars, I just want to get some fruits so I can learn. But why do that? Just start from beginning and learn the hard way first. Hell, pf tek is difficult for a brand new grower, may as well get into the habit of doing it clean- your gunna spend time and enegry anyways, just do it right so you get into good habits quickly
Of course, if I understand you correctly, then if many or all of my Pf Tek jars fail to colonize, your words in the above paragraph will come back to haunt me, I promise. 
That said, let me ask you this. Right now, I have no desire to be an amateur mycologist or a mushroom aficionado. Some of the PM's I received were from people who were real, hardcore hobbyists. They grow all kinds of different mushrooms, some of them the non-magical variety. At least right now, my only desire is to grow myself some shrooms. I don't want to sell them, I don't even want to share them...well, that's not true, I would LOVE to share them with the people I care about, but then I have crossed that line into trafficking, which is a whole other ballgame. Anyway, all I want out of this are some safe shrooms, not purchased in a back alley, from who knows who, grown who knows where, or spiked with who knows what. Does that change anything regarding your advice to use Agar? Unless the mycology bug hits me, of course. But for someone like me, who isn't looking for a new hobby, is your Agar advice still as strong in your opinion? Just curious.
Yep, I meant in the future. agar is so awesome
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26523837 - 03/08/20 12:03 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sockadin said: If your not checking every jar 2x a day for PF first run your doing it wrong.
Ha! I wish I was only going into the kitchen and checking all those jars in the light a couple of times a day. But, in my defense, I’m not actually expecting anything to change in the 30 to 40 second space between peeking LOL I just realize that I can’t help myself. 
Yea I know that feeling! At least looking at it frequently allows you to hopefully notice something you didn't before
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: woofwoof]
#26524068 - 03/08/20 02:49 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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woofwoof said:Yea I know that feeling! At least looking at it frequently allows you to hopefully notice something you didn't before
Try to imagine my very justified and understandable, not to mention completely logical rage and frustration when I peek at my jars and they look one way, then I patiently wait a full 30 seconds. And would you believe it? I see no change at all!
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26524085 - 03/08/20 03:00 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Remember, Patience is a Virtue, especially with cultivation. Its not instant. Spore germination is a slooooow process. But if u get into making your own syringes from your own spore prints, it gets a lot faster.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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LogicaL Chaos said: Remember, Patience is a Virtue, especially with cultivation. Its not instant. Spore germination is a slooooow process.
I know, I was kidding.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26524150 - 03/08/20 03:37 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Perfect example of cake fragmentation and why its important to *gently* pack your jars: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26524148/vc/1#26524148
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: woofwoof]
#26524168 - 03/08/20 03:48 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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LogicaL Chaos said: Usually 5 to a 7 days you will see growth. It can take awhile.
Yeah, just to be clear, I feel unbelievably impatient to see my jars begin to turn white at the 4 inoculation points, and see that mycelium slowly take over the entire jars, like the beautiful, mind-altering fungus it is. But, of course, I'm a rational adult and know that this takes time. Haha, I guess my biggest thing is I want to know, not in 5-7 days, but yesterday, whether my jars will colonize, and how many will be successful, versus either mold or just failure to thrive.
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woofwoof said: This is why agar is important. Spores are not suppose to be 100% contam free. With agar you clean it up, this is why we use agar and not just inoculate straight to grain, or pf tek..I don't like pf tekbecause it is a hit and miss. Don't get me wrong its nice to start out, but you seem like a smart dude.
Thanks for the compliment and information. First off, when I first started inquiring as to the possibility of growing my own magic mushrooms, literally no less than 99% of all sources, on and off this site, were pointing me toward PF Tek. That's why I chose it. I wasn't rejecting the idea of Agar willfully, and stubbornly. I was basically putting myself into the hands of the many experts here and on some other Blog/video/informational sites around the web. Anyway, the vast majority of people I spoke to, many of whom PM'd me because they didn't always want to post publicly, and many in the public threads, were pointing me toward PF Tek and many members suggested RogerRabbit's video. After a successful grow or two, Goddess willing, I would be amenable to taking the training wheels off and going a little more high Tek (lol pun intended). Maybe this is a bad analogy, but I am an avid cyclist, and I remember when I was just turned 5 years old, my Dad bought me and my little sister these twin bicycles. Mine was a green boy's bike and her's was a purple girl's bike. I rode around the block all the time with the training wheels on, and at some point maybe a month or two later, my Dad took me to a park near me in Brooklyn called Marine Park. He had a few wrenches and a pair of pliers, and he took off the training wheels, and in a short time, taught me how to ride a two-wheeler and balance myself and the bike so I could ride straight.
Unless I'm wrong, my sense is that PF Tek is a great set of training wheels. Once I get at least one successful grow out of the way, I will be much more open to switching to Agar, as you and some others have suggested.
Here's a thought on this topic: once I made up my mind to do Pf Tek, I was kind of shutting people down who were suggesting other Teks or methods. Particularly once I started ordering supplies, getting all my gear, ingredients, and workspace ready for the big start. The two days when I started getting my jars prepped, substrate made, holes drilled, jars sterilized, and then finally inoculation day, I couldn't even think about any other way because I was myopically focused on the task at hand. But now, even though I look at my inoculated jars on my kitchen table with the 6500K light on them 12 hours, desperate to see signs of colonizing absurdly early, I have a window for what I will imagine should be the next 4 to 6 weeks?
I mean, its not like I can do anything now, other than keep an eye on the temperature in my apartment, and make sure its always at a comfortable room temp. Right now, and since inoculation, my kitchen table is a constant 74-78 degrees, which according to RogerRabbit is actually better than 68-74 degrees. My point is, I have the time and the headspace now to learn about other things now, including Agar.
Do you have any suggested reading and videos? Bear in mind that when it comes to stuff like this, for some reason, I do better FIRST watching videos, seeing it done in real time like a recipe taught on some cooking show, and then reading up on it later. That's what I did with PF Tek. I watched all 4 of his videos like a dozen times each, and between viewings I read up on it on this site and his site.
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woofwoof said: Doing pf tek is like..well, i don't mind risking jars, I just want to get some fruits so I can learn. But why do that? Just start from beginning and learn the hard way first. Hell, pf tek is difficult for a brand new grower, may as well get into the habit of doing it clean- your gunna spend time and enegry anyways, just do it right so you get into good habits quickly
Of course, if I understand you correctly, then if many or all of my Pf Tek jars fail to colonize, your words in the above paragraph will come back to haunt me, I promise. 
That said, let me ask you this. Right now, I have no desire to be an amateur mycologist or a mushroom aficionado. Some of the PM's I received were from people who were real, hardcore hobbyists. They grow all kinds of different mushrooms, some of them the non-magical variety. At least right now, my only desire is to grow myself some shrooms. I don't want to sell them, I don't even want to share them...well, that's not true, I would LOVE to share them with the people I care about, but then I have crossed that line into trafficking, which is a whole other ballgame. Anyway, all I want out of this are some safe shrooms, not purchased in a back alley, from who knows who, grown who knows where, or spiked with who knows what. Does that change anything regarding your advice to use Agar? Unless the mycology bug hits me, of course. But for someone like me, who isn't looking for a new hobby, is your Agar advice still as strong in your opinion? Just curious.
Yep, I meant in the future. agar is so awesome
Are you quoting your self and then responding to your quotes? I'm confused.
Make a agar first timer thread and we will all go there to spend time answering questions cause honestly. ..we are all just waiting on jars or subs or fruiting. Ain't like we got nothing else to do.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
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LogicaL Chaos said: Remember, Patience is a Virtue, especially with cultivation. Its not instant. Spore germination is a slooooow process.
I know, I was kidding. 
Ah, noted Wasnt totally sure considering your level of attention to details
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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LogicaL Chaos said: Ah, noted Wasnt totally sure considering your level of attention to details 
And also, in your defense, I did have two separate meltdowns in this thread.
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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LogicaL Chaos said: Perfect example of cake fragmentation and why its important to *gently* pack your jars: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26524148/vc/1#26524148
Very interesting thread. I will say that I don't think I have serious cake fragmentation. At least nothing like the pics in that thread. Plus I did lightly pack before putting the top layer of verm on and sealing it all up. I have noticed in a few jars that there are a couple of little "cracks" here and there, but very small ones. So its very possible that I either didn't pack quite enough in a couple of cases, or maybe the substrate settles after 3 and a half full days (30 hours just as substrate in a jar and about 51 hours post-inoculation)?
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Randalf the Grey said: LSA, I missed your last few updates it so glad to see you got everything up and running. You are in for a treat. I loved my first PF Tek. You'll check everyday surely for a sign, and once you see it, your interest and fascination will only grow. At least mine did.

From your lips, Brother!! If this grow tanks, for whatever reason, I still have 24 jars to boil clean, a little MS in two syringes, plenty of Perlite, Verm, BRF, and all the other stuff I need to get right back on that ol' horse!
And a ton of Morning Glory and Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds to keep me busy while I wait for the coveted harvest!
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footpath said: I don't get why people insist on criticizing the way others like to learn or learn best. If there are experienced people willing to offer help and the new grower is receptive to implementing the things they have to offer, just let it be. It's a discussion forum.
Agreed 100%! I mean, I get that I am somewhat backward and my knowledge level in this thread should put me somewhere on a very short bus. But I think I have one thing going for me. I don't argue with people giving me advice. I mean, not for anything, and I am sensitive to this issue, I hate, hate, HATE it when people come to me seeking advice, particularly in areas where I am an expert, like health care, physiology, chiropractic, fitness, diet, and weight loss. And yet some people, no matter how you try to help and no matter what well thought-out advice you give, seem to want to argue with you. Which, of course, begs the question, why in the hell are you asking me for advice when all you want to do is either pick a fight or have me pat you on the back and just tell you what you want to hear?
Don't get me wrong, I can be an argumentative f*ck, but not when I am seeking advice and trying to learn from people like yourself, who know ten times more about this than I do.
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footpath said: Here, you want a waste of space... read through this Even in that mess, a lot of generous people still tried to offer their assistance. It's what we do around here.
Holy crap! I was only able to get through a few pages. That thread was painful to read. No matter how many of you generous folks tried to help him, he just argued with you, justified his own bizarre and ignorant improv, and ended up ignoring pretty much everything you all tried to tell him.
Dude, if I EVER behave like that when I have solicited advice, please, come to Brooklyn and slap the living shit out of me. Jeeze!!
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Sockadin said: What a great thread to link! Love it!
Great example of what NOT to do when you're soliciting help from people who have a vast wealth of knowledge you don't! The worst part was the harder you guys tried to help him, the more he just dug in and disregarded all the sage advice given.
Tell me, how did it end up working out for that guy? I couldn't get through 20 pages of watching someone front off about a topic they know nothing about while everyone that actually knew something tried in vain to help him.
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Sockadin said: Yeah I think the older I get the less tolerance for bullshit I have. I agree more and more people are often saying. "Why not do it this way or that way."
This thread is one of my favorites because the level of detail the OP puts into it. You put in hard work and ask good questions, you will always get more experienced Cultivators paying attention and responding politely with accurate information.
Nice work so far woodrose!
Thanks again! You guys are the freaking best! Any time you're anywhere near the Big Apple, the food and party favors are on me. lol Assuming I actually grow anything worth, ya know, eating. If not, then the food is still on me!
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
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Update Day 4 - Post Inoculation:
Okay, this is a very minor update. Nothing showing yet in terms of mycelium growth, and joking around about impatience aside, I'm not expecting anything yet. I inoculated only 65 hours ago, so technically day 4 doesn't even really start for another 7 hours.
I just wanted to post a couple of very minor questions. I think I'm okay all around, even regarding question #2, but I just want to dot all my I's and cross all my T's.
(See pics below)
1. In Pic 1, is this a good idea? Last night, I decided that I would space the jars a lot more than I was doing. I had them originally up against one another as I posted in previous pictures. But it occurred to me that if the 6500K CFL bulb I'm using is going to have any effect at all, then the only jars getting light are the ones on the outer perimeter, facing the bulb. So I spaced them in such a way that every jar was mostly out of the shadow of the jar in front of it, with respect to the light. I also started rotating the jars periodically so that all sides of the cylindrical shaped jars are getting light. Is this all right?
2. Is it all right to carefully move the jars when I need to? The reason I posted pics 2 and 3 below are because when I have company, I don't want anyone seeing those jars and asking questions. Not only that, I am going to be moving downstairs to the main floor once I rent out this top floor apartment I currently reside in. So in the coming weeks, Real Estate agents are going to start bringing people to show the apartment. So whenever anyone comes over, I carefully and gingerly transfer all the jars to the compartment in the lower left corner of my entertainment center and close the glass door. Now I thought it would cause a problem because I have a big receiver in the middle, open chamber adjacent to the one I put the jars in when people are over. The receiver generates a lot of heat. So I put one of my thermometers in the section where the jars go temporarily, and the temperature isn't rising more than a degree or two. But I leave the thermometer in there with the jars just in case anything spikes.
3. Is this temperature all right? My kitchen temp is very comfortable, but the weather is really warming up now that Spring is coming, so I am watching the two thermometers I have in the kitchen on that table like a hawk. So far, the temp stays steady between about 76 degrees and 78 degrees, mostly hovering around 78. According to RogerRabbit's videos, the temp should be between 75 degrees and 81 degrees, which puts my 78 degrees dead center in his sweet spot. But many people in this forum suggested I think it was 68 degrees to 72 degrees? Is this going to be a problem for me?
Note: The humidity gauge on this cheap AccuRite thermometers are not accurate at all. I have two of them, and even at times I put them right next to one another, they don't even agree with each other. lol I will obviously have to buy better ones to go into my SGFC when the time comes.




Edited by LSA Woodrose (03/09/20 06:38 AM)
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Re: I Need A Lot of Help to Start Cultivating Mushrooms - Total N00b Here! [Re: LSA Woodrose]
#26525081 - 03/09/20 07:25 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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That's pretty warm. I'd cut that heat back to ~70F.
You're thinking a little harder than you need to so far as things like how they're arranged and how much light they need during germination/colonization. Ambient light is fine and you can stack them in whatever way works most conveniently for your situation. Keep in mind, people used to strictly colonize in the dark until it was found to not be necessary.
I know they're your precious babes right now, but they're resilient little buggers. As best as you can, just let them do their thing. (I know it's hard.) However, higher temps can give contaminants a better opportunity to outperform your cube mycelium, so reduce that some.
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