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jfaustus
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First harvest!!! Advice for improvement?
#26504016 - 02/25/20 08:37 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Process below, pics at the end. You'll see that I have 'Goldilocks' boxes -- one looks really nice, one looks kinds medium, and one looks not so hot.
I'd love any thoughts or advice!!! Want to make my second round even better.
Friends I am so stoked! I didn't keep a log with dates, but the process went something like this:
1. Mid-December: syringe to agar 2. A bit later: cut the good bits and transfer to clean agar. 3. First week or two of January: colonized agar into 7 qt jars of oats (per Bod's Easy AF Oat Prep Tek). 4. Wait, wait, wait. 5. 3 jars DOA -- 4 good ones 6. Right around end Jan/beginning Feb: spawn to 3 shoeboxes in coir per ShaperDreaming's tek, g2g the 4th jar into 4 new jars (that's all the oats I had left). 7. Wait, wait, wait. 8. Today: harvested my 1st shrooms evah! The veil broke on one but I don't think it released spores because I don't see anything that could be called a mess. The rest look like they're just before tearing the veil. 9. Harvested just the bigger guys, but leaving the boxes another little while to give the rest some time to grow.
Things I've learned:
Don't leave the oat jars too long after the PC before you drop the agar in. I know, I know... I got a little busy. Almost certain that's why I lost 3 jars...
Drill the damn hole and stuff it with the damn poly. The first set of jars I did with unmodified lids, and I just feel like they didn't like it -- grew very slowly. Entirely subjective since it's my first grow. But still. When I did g2g I used poly lids. Those are doing very nicely.
Harvest so far:

Best looking box:

Medium:

Least growth:
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antmanmax
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Re: First harvest!!! Advice for improvement? [Re: jfaustus]
#26504024 - 02/25/20 08:42 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Don't leave the oat jars too long after the PC before you drop the agar in. I know, I know... I got a little busy. Almost certain that's why I lost 3 jars...
Nah. You lost 3 jars because the agar wasn't as clean as you thought it was. Or you just got unlucky or need to work on your a2g skills. I've used month-old PC'd jars and they've been fine.
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Drill the damn hole and stuff it with the damn poly. The first set of jars I did with unmodified lids, and I just feel like they didn't like it -- grew very slowly. Entirely subjective since it's my first grow. But still. When I did g2g I used poly lids. Those are doing very nicely.
Yeah they gotta breathe. I did unmodified lids, and I still do, but now I just loosen the jars a little bit, so that the rings rest on the SFD instead of pushing it against the cap.
Congrats on a successful first grow, dude!
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Edited by antmanmax (02/25/20 08:44 PM)
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jfaustus
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Re: First harvest!!! Advice for improvement? [Re: antmanmax]
#26504038 - 02/25/20 08:47 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Thanks! I did loosen the lids. Maybe I'm just impatient...
Definitely need to work on my sterile technique. Total n00b at that though I did my best.
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Re: First harvest!!! Advice for improvement? [Re: jfaustus]
#26504043 - 02/25/20 08:50 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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jfaustus said: Thanks! I did loosen the lids. Maybe I'm just impatient...
Definitely need to work on my sterile technique. Total n00b at that though I did my best.
If you're using modified lids you're fine. And yeah, of course you're a n00b, it's your first grow, nobody should expect otherwise. But, you got fruits your first attempt. Which is more than many people here can say.
As far as advice, take spore prints and make clones.
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Edited by antmanmax (02/25/20 08:55 PM)
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Re: First harvest!!! Advice for improvement? [Re: antmanmax]
#26504163 - 02/25/20 10:26 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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congrats! I'm excited for you 8) as someone who also today harvested for the first time I know how you feel! it's awfully rewarding and gets you giddy for what's next!
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Re: First harvest!!! Advice for improvement? [Re: sighmun]
#26504225 - 02/25/20 11:36 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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+5 to both new guys for successful first grows
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Re: First harvest!!! Advice for improvement? [Re: c10h12n2o]
#26504233 - 02/25/20 11:47 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nice boxes man!
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