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Peevesz


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Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow?
#26649508 - 05/05/20 01:20 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hi!
I'm waiting around for collection of jars to colonize. Oat grains, and most of them seem healthy. Thing is two of the jars went ahead and have been 100% colonized for weeks with the other ones either stalling or growing really slow the last 20%. The jars are rather small, 1/4 quart or so. (I live in Europe and couldn't get hands on a large enough PC, so there's a lot of the smaller jars being used heh)
As the title says, what is the "smallest" amount of spawn to use in a bulk grow/minitub? I have around 0.5qt of spawn totally ready. Can I use that or is it better to wait for the others?
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: Peevesz]
#26649531 - 05/05/20 01:37 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Get creative, find a small container, a bible
a coffee cup or wine glass. Have some fun with it. Check out Novelty Grows for ideas.
half a quart would go a long way inside legos flipped upside down 
I took at max 20 grains from the bottom of a jar that got stuck when i was spawning, put them with my avocado tree in a planter that got water regularly, and got many... mannny suprises.
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: Ababyphoenix] 1
#26649552 - 05/05/20 01:49 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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These are 1/2 qt in a glad container @ 1:1 rye to CV

Colonized with the lid on with a few 1/4” holes covered with micro pore tape until colonized and then put into 2 gallon ziplocks with needle holes poked in the bag at about 2” apart

Worked pretty well

Even smaller works too.. ~1/4 cup of rye to 1:1 CV in a tall 1/2 pint... press n seal was put over the jar with 1 needle hole poked in the middle and when I fruited them, I took the PnS off and put a sandwich baggie over them
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Just gotta get creative like ababyphoenix said
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: fahtster]
#26649589 - 05/05/20 02:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Take a transparent 1l ice cream tub and spawn it in there. Just don't seal the lid off.
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: fahtster]
#26649664 - 05/05/20 03:35 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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fahtster said: 
Just gotta get creative like ababyphoenix said
Faht
Jeeez it looks like that one read a few to many times during sex ed... I guess the spores still could've caught the current outta there 
Finally some of my advice agreed upon by a TC lol, im getting somewhere. Glad u included ratios, those fucking things always confused me until i realized i was over thinking and the 1:1 ratio wasnt by volume or weight or something complicated etc lol, you just KISS and eyeball 1:1 (or preffered ratio) or use jars if u wanna be preciseish
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: Ababyphoenix] 1
#26649672 - 05/05/20 03:44 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks for your ideas!
Gonna check on Novelty Ideas.
Haha, legos, glads and ice cream tubs - Great! Guess it's a matter of perspective and outside thinking then. Ty!
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: Peevesz]
#26649700 - 05/05/20 04:05 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Peevesz said: Thanks for your ideas!
Gonna check on Novelty Ideas.
Haha, legos, glads and ice cream tubs - Great! Guess it's a matter of perspective and outside thinking then. Ty!
Of course man! I linked that just to show how some people take this hobby a bit more serious but if you're firmiliar with the process and have a half a brain about what your doing you can throw some spawn and coir in a damn shoe (Or on a HAT!) and get a few flushes
Let us know how she turns out, btw page 33 of novely grows is all RR's novely stuff where i got the bible :P Also look at that sexy bra
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RogerRabbit said: Here's a few of mine from over the years. It's all real, nothing is photoshopped. RR
Ps dont wait, one your jars have been colonized and consolidated for about a week spawn em if u wait to long it can make the process harder i hear. You dont want old spawn. Also if you did all the jars at the same time, same shake intervels and everything the jars that are taking a long time to recover are probably contaminated, just saying. Now Get to finding some nice sized legos, or a wet phonebook or somethin lol
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Edited by Ababyphoenix (05/05/20 04:24 AM)
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: Ababyphoenix]
#26696112 - 05/26/20 02:22 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hello again! A little follow up, since some of you asked and it's nice to share the process.
Here's two of the four small containers I used for my spawn. Coir/Verm sub and plastic on top for humidity etc.
A lot of sidepinning in the smaller one, and some issue with dryness (I think?) in the bigger. Other than that, any thoughts? Should I pick the "blobs/curved" shrooms and let the others grow complete? Does the shrooms look okay so far, or are there any signs of contam? Appreciate every input, this is a first grow after all, and there's lots to learn heh.
Thanks!
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: fahtster]
#26696195 - 05/26/20 03:54 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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How long did the small glad containers take from inoculation to your first flush? Same question for the jars? Was trying to find a quicker method in getting a healthy clone for larger grow setup doing g2g transfers
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Peevesz


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Both kinds of jars were spawned to sub 20 days ago. Around 1:1 spawn/sub and put into fruiting 9 days after spawn 
But I inoculated the oat grains used for this grow two months before spawning, though the grain had been fully colonized for at least one month prior to this.
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Re: Smallest amount of grain spawn in a grow? [Re: Peevesz]
#26696425 - 05/26/20 07:17 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Don’t leave grain spawn so long unless you’re slowing the growth in the fridge. Those mushies look a little deformed but solid. Make a qt jar of grain spawn, and then cut it in half into two qt sized ziplock rounds with coir substrate and you should have some solid results.
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