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First Grow Journal : Monotub 2
#26518532 - 03/05/20 12:10 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hey, everyone. This is my first time growing. Any pointers are appreciated!!!
So I started this February 27th with agar dishes. I made three different strengths of agar using Brown Rice Flour using BODs tek. In the pic it shows Malt extract but I opted out of this. I had gotten some Penis Envy and Jedi Mind Fuck. I transferred in front of a flow hood I built and used a cork hole borer. I also pressure cooked some oats and used the water in my second batch of agar. I let the oats sit for 24 hours in water first. I noticed some hulls cracking so I think I went a little too long in the pressure cooker (2 hours). The second batch of agar is a more cyan ish color.
I started noticing growth on the third day for the agar. I think my room was a bit too cold (low 60s) because growth was slow. I put them in a 70ish degree room and overnight growth really took off. I ordered an incubator and that’s coming tomorrow so I’ll post pics this weekend.
I used agar wedges in my oats in hope of a G2G transfer soon. I had some questions though:
My dishes are having a lot of condensation in them, even though I poured them at 125 degrees. I also flip them upside down because it’s said to stop condensation, although that didn’t help. Any insight?
In the pic with the agar wedge in the jar, did I use too small of a piece? Kinda just winged it.
I made about 28 jars of oats, they’re drying on the table. I’m considering buying a bakers rack with 20 shelves for them to dry since I intend on doing ten tubs once I get the hang of it. How do my oats look? I think I cooked them for too long.
I also need to practice how much agar to pour. I believe i did it too much. Hmm, I’m totally stoned and had a bunch of other questions but I’ll bring them up as they come! Thanks everyone for the help!
Also my bad all the pics are lumped together. It’s difficult on my phone to piece them out, especially during my break :-p.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26522001 - 03/07/20 10:16 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just got an incubator for the dishes and jars
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26522082 - 03/07/20 11:25 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Looking good so far.
Next time use less oats per jar, helps with the shake at 30%. I usually fill halfway and then shake the jar after the PC cycle to distribute the grains.
Wedges in the transfer look a little bigger than I use, most people say 1 grain of rice size. I do about the size of my scalpel blade tip.
The oats look really good to me. There will be some hulls split anytime you boil grains, but they look plump and dry on the outside. Nice work so far.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Sockadin]
#26522579 - 03/07/20 05:44 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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So I took a few agar pics. The Jedi mind’s both appear to be spreading outward in what appears to be a very fluffy white. Is this normal? I only ask this because the penis envy are growing it what appears to be obvious lines reaching outward. You can see it on the pics.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26522686 - 03/07/20 06:53 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I fill my jars up about that much, and you can't "shake" at 30%. What you have to do is bang them on a tire or a pillow covering the edge of a piece of furniture to break them up. Not a big deal.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: LongBeak]
#26526101 - 03/09/20 08:17 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just some updates. I’m seeing some rhizomorphic growth on some plates. Still the Jedi is growing out in a fluffy even growth. I’m going to try transferring tomorrow onto new dishes. I used the same technique for the envy’s and they seem to be doing fine so I’m hoping it’s just the way it grows.
I shook one of my jars that was in the incubator since it was about 30% colonized. Any thoughts on how they look? I’m definitely noticing quicker growth in the incubator as opposed to room temp.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26526188 - 03/09/20 09:09 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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All the extra parafilm is driving me crazy.. looks like it's coming along nicely tho

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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Mr Solo Dolo]
#26527832 - 03/10/20 05:33 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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This is one of the jedis. Shook last night at 30% and it totally recolonized super fast. Since it hasn’t really been cleaned up in regards to clone selection, does this look normal. It’s pretty fluffy. Penis envy appears to be colonizing much slower. I’d say it would take another week for it to get to the point the Jedi was at as of last night. I have maybe 10% colonization.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26528042 - 03/10/20 07:26 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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So you’re saying you went from spores to this in less than 2 weeks on your first grow, and you have a flowhood.
I’m having some trouble with the facts here even in the best of conditions.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: SynKyd]
#26528075 - 03/10/20 07:45 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think you got a case of the moldys.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Sockadin]
#26528292 - 03/10/20 10:31 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Def in that last pic of that jar
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: SynKyd]
#26528479 - 03/11/20 04:12 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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SinysterKyd said: So you’re saying you went from spores to this in less than 2 weeks on your first grow, and you have a flowhood.
I’m having some trouble with the facts here even in the best of conditions.
These were from agar dishes. I bought Two colonized dishes because I didn’t wanna play the genetic lottery with multi spores. I documented my process on the transfer of dishes to grain up top, including pics of the wedge transfers to other dishes and into the quart jar. Side note, I have a friend who inoculated some jars on the same date as me with some Amazonian multi spores and is just starting to notice the littlest bit of growth.
I don’t have my paper journal in front of me but from memory I sterilized and transferred into the quart jars, I believe, March 2nd or 3rd. So about 8 days. I also read that contamination is one of the hardest things for new growers so I decided to build a flow hood and get things off too a good start. Apparently it didn’t work out since it’s moldy 😤
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26528500 - 03/11/20 04:52 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah it’s definitely not easy to recognize clean when you first start. Some of your original agar pics look like they might have condensation OR some fluffy mold on top, the one labeled JMF is suspect in hindsight. Make a ton of plates now that you have a flow hood, you’ll figure it out. Seems like you have the right ideas overall.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: SynKyd]
#26528510 - 03/11/20 05:05 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I had a TON of moisture. I thought I had poured it at 120 degrees but it was a sketchy baking thermometer. I think the JMF isn’t the best of genetics. I made six plates of the JMF. All became extremely fluffy and didn’t have any good points to clone off of compared to the 14 dishes of Penis envy (only 2 displaying anything clone worthy). I’m not sure if the condensation, which I had a bunch of, played any effect in this. I tried flipping the dishes upside down, but it didn’t help at all.
Also important to note you can’t pressure cook plastic Petri dishes. lol.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26530006 - 03/11/20 10:06 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just some updates. Last ones definitely mold
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26534735 - 03/14/20 12:37 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just an update. So my JMF finished yesterday. Gonna attempt a g2g just to experiment. These are the agar pics. As you can see the penis envy is displaying noticeable rhizo growth. The JMF flattened out when I didn’t stack it up (it was In the middle of the stack). Condensation also decreased. Making some more dishes tonight to start selecting.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26539679 - 03/16/20 11:28 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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So I did a light malt extract agar last night and attempted a grain to grain transfer of two different jars of the JMF.
Definitely like the clarity of the LME. All of the JMF’s are displaying cottony growth. But I went back to my first plate of it, what was once extremely fluffy completely flattened out. Condensation also went away.

Here’s two pics of the most recent JMF agar samples:


Here’s two of the JMF after 24 hours from a g2g:


Finally this is the Penis envy taking its time. Put into the jar on 3/4 ish? Sorry don’t have my journal in front of me. Is it usual for this to take this much longer than other cubes? All of my other envy jars seem to be in the same stage of colonization.
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#26539943 - 03/17/20 05:00 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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One white hand, one black hand. Nice.
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#26566367 - 03/30/20 01:16 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just an update. Started having the substrate fully colonize from 3/21 and 3/22. I was able to throw one into a Monotub tonight. I’m doing four more tomorrow. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
I tried getting the surface area as even as possible and realized that my holes aren’t aligned perfectly. Also the two bags that appear really dark I soaked in a weak coffee while hydrating just to see if it played a factor. Waiting on some gypsum once this corona virus stops screwing up all my mycology deliveries.
Substrate is coir 650g with 4 quarts water. This led me to field capacity using eco earth coir. Each bag contains 7 quarts at 210g dry weight a court. Plus two quarts of vermiculite mixed in at a total of 160 g. Bringing the total dry weight to 2280g. (Just to see how my BE is gonna come in).
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26582505 - 04/06/20 07:15 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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5 days since I’ve added the spawn to coir and verm mix. I added more water to this substrate, about 5 quarts compared to 4 for the others, and this is by far the most progressed. So is field capacity just a recommendation? This was a light squeeze a few drops come out. A hard squeeze and it’s a mini stream. This was the only one I did this for just to experiment compared to my others where a hard squeeze would be a few drops.
Also I noticed that it seems like they’re reaching for the air. Is this common? The sides of the Monotub are all duct taped and no lids have been opened since spawning. Thanks for any help as always.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26582694 - 04/06/20 08:34 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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That is looking perfect. I would not mess with it. That looks like just some beautiful rhizo action to me. My prefered method if you do poly is a tight stuff durring col and loosen up at fruit. But you current mode looks pretty set. Thats great for day 5.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Grungeman17]
#26583401 - 04/07/20 07:46 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thank you! I’m debating if I wanna do micropore. Still reading up on it, but the fact that it’s so simple is pretty appealing as opposed to pc’ing the poly trying to find the right amount to stuff it for my room, etc.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26583430 - 04/07/20 08:15 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I like the 3" 3M Micropore 1530-3 tape over my 2" cut holes. It really is just set it and forget it.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: rumfor69]
#26583633 - 04/07/20 10:10 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Truth about monos is there really is no one way. I do believe they're are certain things you can do for a set and forget feature or you can set it up to take care of it. Im og I like casings, fanning and misting, checking the smell. I used to think it was like inncoulation protocol, everything followed to A T, found out quickly mono tubs offer the best buffer zones for beginners to bulk.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Grungeman17]
#26583827 - 04/07/20 11:43 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I was lied to about the shelving. The box said 48 inches it’s only 47. Plus I didn’t factor in the bars taking up almost an inch on each side. I was hoping to get lucky and do 3 tubs per shelf, but it didn’t work out unfortunately. Gonna return it for some metal shelving I can just screw in. Also some pictures of two agar plates after 2 transfers.
Also I’m encountering a contam issue. I’m getting blue mold on my oats. I’ve been tweaking the Boiling and drying process. I started pressure cooking for 2 1/2 hours at 15 psi since noticing this happen again. I also put a clean agar plate in front of my flow hood to see if it’s an issue on that end. Haven’t noticed anything but it’s only been day 2 since testing it. 
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26588730 - 04/09/20 12:16 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Spawned 3/31. The two that have the most colonization so far
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26588772 - 04/09/20 12:30 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Also have a PE that’s about 30% colonized but it’s displaying a lot of aerial growth. At what point should I case it? 100%? Also does the aerial growth mean it needs more FAE? From what I read you should leave the lid shut for at least ten days. Thanks for any help.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26588781 - 04/09/20 12:34 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Grim11311]
#26588842 - 04/09/20 01:13 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Did you put a really thick top layer?
For nine days it’s not very colonized.
Hard to see but the myc looks healthy though.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: A.k.a]
#26588929 - 04/09/20 01:56 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah. Since I threw two bricks to hydrate with some verm I didn’t know the exact amount I’d have for each. So I mixed in 8 quart jars of coir/verm with 7 quarts of spawn. Then threw 4 more quart jars full of coir on top to cover the spawn.
Is it necessary to even add that pseudo casing layer? I’m still in the trial and error stage so I’m just tweaking certain things to see what they respond well to.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26588942 - 04/09/20 02:02 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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It’s not necessary but it can help a lot. I have super low humidity and it solved a ton of problems for me when I was learning.
Usually top layers are 1/4-1 inch thick. Thicker won’t hurt it’ll just take an extra couple days to colonize.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: A.k.a]
#26589103 - 04/09/20 03:37 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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🙏🏻 Appreciate the advice
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26592291 - 04/10/20 10:16 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just some updates pics. Bunch of tubs varying over 6-11days since spawn
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#26592870 - 04/11/20 07:23 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lookin good man.
The last two look jsut like my maz always grow. Lots of thick rhizo.
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#26593644 - 04/11/20 02:27 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sweeeet! Appreciate it man. I wanna throw into fruiting Conditions a day or two after 100% colonization?
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#26593707 - 04/11/20 03:07 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Most people fruit at spawn.
I’d start now if you haven’t.
The ten day thing is outdated in most cases.
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#26596350 - 04/12/20 06:23 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Threw 5 into fruiting today. Can I get some help identifying if the one JMF is contaminated? I boxed it on the pics. Also have a penis envy that’s 100% colonized but I have to make some coir to case. I’m running a side by side comparison of cased vs uncased Envy’s. I temporarily stuffed with polyfill. Getting my micropore tape on Tuesday. As always, much thanks
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26601077 - 04/14/20 05:03 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Coir isn’t a great casing for PE.
Jiffy mix is best but if you can’t get it I’d make a coir verm mix heavy on the verm.
That one with the contam box does look iffy but Im more concerned about the dark spot in the center.
Most of the rest look great though, hopefully that PE does well.
All my biggest yields have been PE. Worth the wait for the yield and potency.
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#26601322 - 04/14/20 06:52 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Actually the Amazonian, the bottom dark spot turned all green on me, about the size of a fist. I cut out a third of the box just to be safe and threw it outside just to see what happens. The JMF’s I haven’t been impressed with. It’s a grayish white at the moment as opposed to the super white Amazonians and PE. I think I’m gonna take it out of rotation next go around. Even the agar dishes. I’m on transfer number four and it still hasn’t displayed anything special.
Does the casing, specifically with PE, make a huge difference? Appreciate the help man
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26601417 - 04/14/20 07:23 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah My first round with PE I made three shoeboxes, and cased two of them.
This how they came out, the two cased looked the same.

The uncased one was so bad I tried adding casing to half but it didn’t help.
They were all ms, both cased ones put out about 380g and the uncased one was like 25 of little blobs.
What’s jmf? Never heard of it.
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Jedi mind fuck. I asked the guy the lineage, but he didn’t know. I thought it was just a flashy name to help it move but googling it, it is listed on a few spore sites. All that aside, I’m having a hell of a time cleaning it up.
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#26603552 - 04/15/20 05:35 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Got bored so I wanted to experiment with outdoor just to see. I ended up using two bags of black kow manure. Which is just about 30 quarts per bag (1 cubic foot). 15 quarts of verm. And an 11lb brick of coir. So that’s about 72 quarts. I used 9 quarts of spawn (3 Amazonians, 1 JMF, and 5 penis envys). These were extra jars I had lying around Incase I needed it. This puts me at a roughly 1/15 or 1/16 ratio. Don’t really have any expectations here, just wanna see what happens.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26603835 - 04/15/20 07:11 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Did you mix all the strains or try and keep them somewhat separated?
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: metaphoric]
#26603990 - 04/15/20 08:17 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Totally mixed them. I have another spot. These were all the slow colonizers. I haven’t read much into the creation of strains, but do they grow into their respective strain or can they cross into a new one? Either way I wanted to get this out of the way because I’d like to dump all my spent substrate into the pile once it’s done. I’m pretty excited to see if there’s any similarities or differences compared to the indoor method.
The black sheeting is covering everything since we’ve been getting a decent bit of rain here. I don’t wanna flood the substrate too much.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26606192 - 04/16/20 04:50 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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So I threw all of the tubs (12) into fruiting conditions. I also just received my micro spore tape so I subbed that out for the poly fill. One of my tubs has green mold on top. I’m think it’s lack of FAE due to me duct taping the holes during colonization. Lesson learned. The one I’m curious about is the tub I fucked up and mixed both Amazonians and JMF. I’m interested to see if they’ll grow together in clusters. Also the one labeled ‘coffee +’ I misread when adding the coffee. Instead of adding it to the substrate I added while soaking the grains for my 6 quart spawn bags. So that one had the coffee in it since the beginning.
I tried an unmodified tub without any pseudo casing.
Just to experiment I heated a spoon and took off the bit of mold. I went about an inch deep and did well around where it was located. Also put this in another room.

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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26611521 - 04/18/20 09:01 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Finally, so much relief that I didn’t screw this run totally up
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26612022 - 04/19/20 03:47 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Looking good. Surface conditions might be slightly dry. Maybe do a high altitude mist get a few droplets of water hanging around in there.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: rumfor69]
#26612156 - 04/19/20 06:45 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thanks man. Still trying to figure out the time frame of the micropore and how often I have to mist. Micropore is definitely a lot more user friendly (set and forget) as opposed to trying to figure out the poly fill.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26618231 - 04/21/20 04:40 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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3 full days since I noticed them
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26618549 - 04/21/20 07:38 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Right on man.
They might be getting a little dry
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: A.k.a]
#26618905 - 04/21/20 10:27 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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What’re the signs to look for? I look through the tub with my cell phone light and it’s looking like fine water droplets. I did notice fuzziness at the base of the stem. Is that an airflow issue? The rest of my tubs are slowly popping up. Also some tubs have been getting a little too humid so I cut holes in the micropore just to allow better airflow. It’s definitely interesting how specific parts of the room require minor tweaks to tune it in.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26628158 - 04/25/20 08:58 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26629050 - 04/26/20 07:23 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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There's mush in them thar hills!!!
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: rumfor69]
#26632282 - 04/27/20 02:23 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fruited this 4/12. I had it labeled as Jedi but I’m thinking it’s penis envy? I thought I had more than one in rotation. Think I found the second.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26638901 - 04/30/20 12:13 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just some updates. This is the first time doing spores to agar. Does this one look okay? I know I should’ve picked the ones earlier too, I just hate only picking one and waiting for the others to mature.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: Surf707]
#26638950 - 04/30/20 12:53 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Plate looks normal, I’d stay away from the yellow streaks when taking transfers though.
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Re: First Grow Journal : Monotub [Re: A.k.a]
#26646614 - 05/03/20 05:48 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Updates on the penis envy. I misread about using coffee and threw that in the 6qts of oats used as spawn. Also cased. This is how it’s turning out:
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