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fumble1130
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Registered: 07/26/20
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Fumble1130's First Shroom Grow - BRF Tek
#26860360 - 08/03/20 09:27 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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So I decided to try my hand at growing P. cubensis, so I did some research and settled on a simple BRF Tek fruited into a SGFC. Everything went well, 17/21 jars colonized with no problems. The other 4 didn't have visible contamination, but a couple showed no growth and a couple were acting weird (the mycelium was growing around spots, so I was afraid it could be bacteria and tossed them. Sorry, I actually didn't think about doing my own grow journal until after I had colonized and fruited them. Here's the timeline so far: 6/29: inoculated half-pint BRF jars with spore syringe 7/11: jars are fully colonized, so I fruited them in a SGFC I bought from an online retailer that shall remain nameless. 8/1: first pin appears. I wasn't expecting three weeks until the first pin, so of course I was freaking out. After doing some research, it looks like I missed the step about letting the jars sit for a week to consolidate. Oh well, next time I'll know 8/3: I have pins on 5 different cakes. Here's the overview of the SGFC. You can see one mushroom shooting out of the cake to the left of the hygrometer.

Here's a closeup of the first cake to pin. The bigger mushroom went from nothing to that size in about 6 hours, so I'm thinking the splitting is from fast growth
One note. I bought cheapie little hygrometer/thermometers online and while I know they aren't accurate, especially near 100% humidity, it has been accurate enough to let me know generally when misting is needed. Of course when I started, I had it on a bottlecap about 1/2 inch above the perlite layer. So it was always reading 99% even while some of my cakes were bluing. I moved the hygrometer up to the level of the top of the cakes and lo and behold! It was down to 92%.

I'll update later. Hopefully the 6 little pins I have will turn into a lot more soon
Edited by fumble1130 (08/03/20 10:16 AM)
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AlsetAlokin
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Registered: 07/30/20
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Re: Newbie's First Shroom Grow - BRF Tek [Re: fumble1130]
#26860368 - 08/03/20 09:30 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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That blue and green throughout the cakes seems suspect. Following this until someone with better knowledge than me can chime in.
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fumble1130
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Re: Newbie's First Shroom Grow - BRF Tek [Re: AlsetAlokin]
#26860393 - 08/03/20 09:41 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's my understanding that bluing is common with P. cubensis cakes, particularly if the RH gets too low, but I anxiously await someone more knowledgeable than me
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fumble1130
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Re: Newbie's First Shroom Grow - BRF Tek [Re: fumble1130]
#26866537 - 08/06/20 01:48 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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So out of 13 cakes, 2 have sprouted one awesome looking mushroom each, and 3 others had 4 aborts between them. The other 8 cakes, nada. All 5 pins appeared within about 4 hours of each other last Saturday. Do cakes tend to pin at the same time or is there wide variance? Is one good mushroom enough to consider the cake done with the first flush? Humidity is 99% and I fan several times/day. Temps are low to mid-70's. All cakes have been fruiting for 3 1/2 weeks though I didn't wait a week after full colonization so I'm expecting a longer fruiting time.
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fumble1130
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Registered: 07/26/20
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Re: Newbie's First Shroom Grow - BRF Tek [Re: fumble1130]
#26883196 - 08/16/20 10:30 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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After an aborted first flush where I inadvertently let my cakes dry out, I dunked them for 24 hours in the fridge and put them back in the SGFC. And yay! It's funny because they get indirect sunlight from one side and indirect indoor lighting from the other side. It gets about 2 hours more of the indoor lighting than the sunlight, and (I'm guessing) as a result the vast majority of the fruits are on the side of the kitchen light.
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