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Advice on my first tub?
#26866091 - 08/06/20 09:40 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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It has been about 10 days since I started this tub using some of Bods teks. (agar—>Oats—> coir and unmodified tub). Lots of condensation on the sides of the tub and lid. I have been misting whenever i notice there aren’t many droplets visible on the mycelium. I was worried about how some areas look more matte and yellow rather than white and fluffy, but I’ve read other threads about that that say it’s fine. Hoping to find out if my first ever attempt is on the right track. It have it at 74F and lids are flipped for FAE.

Thanks a ton! Kuchikopi
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Kuchikopi]
#26866297 - 08/06/20 11:27 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'd tilt the lid a bit to introduce more FAE. Moisture is enough.
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Goatrider]
#26866358 - 08/06/20 11:54 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Okay thanks! Is the yellowing due to insufficient FAE?
Also, what makes it better for a newbie such as myself to post in Cultivation? Just higher traffic or something? I had fine luck with previous posts to Getting Started and figured that was the place for newbie inquiries. Honest question!
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Kuchikopi]
#26866397 - 08/06/20 12:26 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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There are many TC's on the mush cult board, usually not on the getting started. You may be lucky to get good answers there, but on the mush cult are always experts and veterans. As you set up a mono, you're not getting started anymore, but you're into cultivation now. Of course it's up to you, it was just an advice. 
Can't see clearly on my fukken tablet right now, but it should pin every time from now.
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Goatrider]
#26866401 - 08/06/20 12:29 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ah gotcha! That makes sense. Just trying to learn the ropes here so I appreciate the advice(:
I am hoping I’ll feel less like a newb once I get a successful pin set, haha!
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Kuchikopi]
#26866416 - 08/06/20 12:42 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hear ya!
The hardest lesson to learn in this hobby is patience
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Goatrider]
#26871554 - 08/09/20 12:42 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Aaaaand I’m realizing how right you are. I thought waiting for pins was tough.... how little I knew of patience! Back to square one(:
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Kuchikopi]
#26871604 - 08/09/20 01:10 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ah shit man.
So, one lesson learned. When you catch trich before a first flush, your spawn was bad, as you just used coir for bulk. (Right?) How did you inoculate by the way?
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Goatrider]
#26871649 - 08/09/20 01:42 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yup, just coir. I cooked the coir (Boiling water into a large cooler for 12 hours) and checked it was at field capacity and cooled off before using it.
I cooked the oats, put those in my PC for 1.5 hours, let it cool. I put them in my SAB and took my agar plates and put them in the jars. Once those completely colonized I broke them up and mixed it with the cooked coir.
I didn’t realize what trich looked like before it becomes green and I’m guessing i had some on the plates? Thing is, I didn’t see any green or bright white areas in the jars like I do now in the bins. Was it hiding beneath the surface all along?
Also, should I only mist with distilled water? I feel dumb for not doing that now.
Edited by Kuchikopi (08/09/20 01:46 PM)
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Kuchikopi]
#26871680 - 08/09/20 02:04 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes, i guess it's from agar. How many transfers did you make?
Next time, when your jars are fully colonized, you may do the final shake, and let the jars sit two more days. If myc recovers, it should be safe. Trich may hide inside, and waits to go to bulk.
Distilled water isn't needed, tap water won't cause trich.
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Goatrider]
#26871753 - 08/09/20 02:56 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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It was for sure the spawn.
Could be it wasn’t sterilized completely, the culture had contams hiding in it, or stuff got in while dropping wedges into the jar.
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: A.k.a]
#26871758 - 08/09/20 03:02 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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out of the house, pronto. 
if you have a terrace, I had a tub like that, except it was on its 3rd flush, trich, immediatly placed it outside when i saw the white blob of trich
I put a generous amount of toothpaste over the trich, which slowed it down for several days, allowing a few extra fruits to mature toothpaste fucks mold and bacteria, but more importantly, it dries out organic matter, just try putting it on acne or a flesh wound.
but that was only okay to do because it was outside where it doesnt matter how you pillage your done subs, and the trich was only supressed, it came out the sides again later, when i finally trashed it
not something u should spend time on either, rather make new spawn, because this one u made here was both bacterial and has trich, which means it never had a chance
clean spawn is the basics, and even people who fruit most of their jars, can still be doing stuff that makes their jars bacterial and less good
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afaik u arent completely sterilizing coir either, with 2h pc cycle so the more water fat your coir prep is, the worse this becomes with "boil sterilization" or what was used here i think this must be even worse
im leaning towards your spawn being horrible, aka whatevr u mixed the coir with
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Goatrider]
#26871879 - 08/09/20 04:21 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I did three transfers but I wasn’t always confident that what my plates had was purely mycelium, so I wouldn’t be at all shocked if this all started from that.
I’ll try that waiting period between a final shake and spawn to bulk next time, thanks for the tip! I also am going to be more meticulous about cleanliness during the process. I think I did alright, but I could certainly be more careful anyhow.
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Unfortunately it isn’t within my abilities to bury this anywhere at my residence currently... I sure wish though. I’ll take it outside to bag it up.
Should I be pressure cooking my coir somehow? or is PCing my oats for a longer amount of time probably the solution?
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: A.k.a]
#26871885 - 08/09/20 04:28 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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So many variables! I guess that makes it interesting and even more rewarding once I get it right(:
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Kuchikopi]
#26871891 - 08/09/20 04:31 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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"I cooked the oats, put those in my PC for 1.5 hours, let it cool"
caught this, thats too short for oats, could also be other problems with your pc technique
PC cycle
heat the pc load jars into pc, jar lids loose close the pc open the vent fully once vent reaches steam, let it do this for 10 minutes put the vent/valve to 15 psi setting (Max usually) wait for full steam from vent set the timer to minimum 2 hours for oats usually people reduce heat from full to less maintain pressure for the time period take it off let pressure go out naturally
then either:
a) open and tighten jars while they are still pretty warm (me)
b) or just be very careful and close the lids when you open the PC after the jars have completely cooled
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post ur agar next time so people can see if it's clean
beautiful=usually clean
if you took bad agar to grains, thats the source.
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"Should I be pressure cooking my coir somehow?"
you can use coir in any state. many people cook it, som people pc it, some people cold soak it, bucket teck it.
cooked or pasteurized are both okay, its definitely not required to PC it
coir is used for its contam resist and its water, the truth about whether or not coir is nutricious or cube myc can "thrive" on it, is unknown to me. colonizing coir gives very ropey growth to me , suggesting lack of nutes.
a TC could probably help with this
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Oats are so easy and fast.
If your In a area where's there are horse you'll find a feed store that sells hay and oats... They're cheap...
For 10 myco quarts.
I start with 4 qt. oats and wash them with water and drain. 2 min. total..
I place the rinse oats in my 23 qt. presto and add 1-1/2 gallons of tap water.
Turn on flame, the hottest setting..
35 minutes later I start pulling a few oats out of the pot and cut them In two with a pair of scissors. If the grain Is white inside the cut area I boil longer until grain are no longer white.
I always save a 1000 ml. of grain water for my agar plates. Then drain the oats.
I have a rectangle wooden frame 3 by 4 foot with shade cloth attach to It. This Is for spreading the wet grain out thin for drying. It normally takes 3 to 4 hours out in the sun and wind to dry the grain. (I do not like wet grain going into my jars.)
2 hour pc. cycle at 15 psi.
Grain water works great...
500 ml. grain water 10 grams agar 20 ml. to a plate will make 24 plates.. 12 psi for 45 min. lower temp. are easier on my pp5 plastic plates.
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smalltalk_canceled said:afaik u arent completely sterilizing coir either, with 2h pc cycle so the more water fat your coir prep is, the worse this becomes with "boil sterilization" or what was used here i think this must be even worse
Not the best information. I don`t like the idea of killing the good microbes in the coir with sterilization. Bucket tek always works fine, and isn`t the cause for trich for sure.
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Goatrider]
#26872383 - 08/09/20 09:30 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't pasteurize my coir. cold tap water, mix in the verm. walah ready for the tub..
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: micelio]
#26872777 - 08/10/20 06:37 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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micelio said: I don't pasteurize my coir. cold tap water, mix in the verm. walah ready for the tub..
Yeah, exactly that`s what i mean  With clean spawn, there`s no need to be paranoid with coir.
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Goatrider]
#26873017 - 08/10/20 10:25 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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smalltalk_canceled said:afaik u arent completely sterilizing coir either, with 2h pc cycle so the more water fat your coir prep is, the worse this becomes with "boil sterilization" or what was used here i think this must be even worse
Not the best information. I don`t like the idea of killing the good microbes in the coir with sterilization. Bucket tek always works fine, and isn`t the cause for trich for sure.
afaik i didnt recommend coir sterilization, i dont do it either coir pc sterilization is a complete waste of time almost as much a waste of time as boiling popcorn 2 hours
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Goatrider said:
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smalltalk_canceled said:afaik u arent completely sterilizing coir either, with 2h pc cycle so the more water fat your coir prep is, the worse this becomes with "boil sterilization" or what was used here i think this must be even worse
Not the best information. I don`t like the idea of killing the good microbes in the coir with sterilization. Bucket tek always works fine, and isn`t the cause for trich for sure.
afaik i didnt recommend coir sterilization, i dont do it either coir pc sterilization is a complete waste of time almost as much a waste of time as boiling popcorn 2 hours
Coir is actually one of the few substrates that can't be sterilized. It doesn't have many microorganisms living in it to begin with but the few there are are necessary to prevent contams.
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smalltalk_canceled said: afaik i didnt recommend coir sterilization, i dont do it either coir pc sterilization is a complete waste of time almost as much a waste of time as boiling popcorn 2 hours
Sorry man, i took it totally wrong.
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: micelio]
#26873124 - 08/10/20 11:31 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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So I have just been using an instant pot because it is what I already had. I don’t know how that compares to a regular pressure cooker? I usually throw in a cup of water, then the jars, and set it for 90 minutes (I’ll be doing 2 hours at least based on this thread though, from now on). The timer doesn’t start until it has come to temp/pressure. Is that just as effective as a regular pressure cooker? Is there anything else I should tweak? Is getting a different pressure cooker necessary for this purpose?
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: Kuchikopi]
#26873163 - 08/10/20 11:55 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Instant pots are fine as long as they hit 15psi. I used one for a long time but it only had presets so I had to read the manual to figure out which ones would get to 15. The chicken button is what I ended up using.
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Re: Advice on my first tub? [Re: A.k.a]
#26873338 - 08/10/20 01:20 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Good to know, thanks! I’ve been doing pressure cook but I might switch to chicken haha!
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