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Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb?
#26902353 - 08/27/20 01:00 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hello and thank you for the help,
I did post about this. Here are the pictures of the 1:1 56qt I am worried might be too wet.  That was before I had the moisture issue I believe and this second one is after I cleanly cut the couple spots where it had pooled after taking a sterile syringe and removing any water built up looking like it may collect droplets and pool or where it was a big droplet. After seeing how wet it was and cutting out the 3 wet spots with space around them I have all the micropore tape holes with 1 piece of the plastic micropore tape. Is plastic better or worse in your opinion?
See the 3 cut spots. Zoom in and you will see the moisture. As you can see it is white as snow!

This is the 32qt... this was 2lb spawn to 5lb sub. 14 days. My question Is do you wait till the entire cake is white before fruiting? I saw some videos where people fruited with the surface as it looks now? Also once it pins I have to figure the best way to dial the mono in. I like the double layer of micropore tape and take off what you need as you need. Any help is greatly appreciated!
This 3rd pic is a 1/2 pint jar I knocked with GT LC and before it became 100% pins were growing in patches dying to get out. They swelled up the cake till it took a lot to get out of the jar and still keep the 2”+ mushies. Here is a picture from above. There was no chance for me to soak them right so I put the cake in a clean glass of distilled water and held it in the water within 1/2” from top and pulled it out 18 hrs later.
Question here- is the fuzzy stuff growing on the stripe of the mushroom contamination? Is that cobweb? Is it safe to eat? Thank you for any help! 
Any help will be very appreciated as I need to know what to do not to loose this work, time and $?
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: MDS213]
#26902365 - 08/27/20 01:06 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Why'd you cut holes in your substrate?
The 32qt looks dry
The cake is fine, the mushrooms grew fuzzy fee due to low fae and you misted them causing them to look funky
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: MDS213]
#26902394 - 08/27/20 01:21 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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You made an invitement for contams with cutting holes in your colonized brick. Could have sucked up standing water with kitchen roll or something, but i guess it wasn`t needed at all. Myc starts to fruit on his own, as it decides there`s nothing more to colonize. A monotub usually is dialed in from the start, you just tweak on fae in relation to moisture later on. The 32qt looks dry a bit, but not the best picture. The cake low fae i guess.
EDIT: Ah man, again that trypt faster
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: Goatrider]
#26902404 - 08/27/20 01:28 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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You just made a challenge you cant win buddy I've practice in the art of response racing
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: tryptkaloids]
#26902418 - 08/27/20 01:35 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: tryptkaloids]
#26902914 - 08/27/20 06:53 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hello,
Thanks for the input! I cut the sub thinking Contamination could spread Because the humidifier glitched and ran too long causing a few dime to Nickel size pools I couldn’t suck up with a new 10ml syringe. I sucked up a good bit successfully so I was proactive in my mind. I had the PF cake get stuck in the mason jar from pins expanding trying to get out before the cake could even get 100%. When I birthed it there were 1-1/2” to 2” mushies. I soaked the cake standing up in a clean glass holding all but 1/2” under water 18hrs. That got it fuzzy and my FAE is not dialed in. That is why I am so appreciative of you all on here! I need people to help me with the details since I have yielded very little so far. I will spray the 32qt if you think it is dry. It is 14 days so it should have more coverage but it was 2lb:5lb where the 56qt is 5:5lb. Thank you again Bro!
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: MDS213]
#26902924 - 08/27/20 06:57 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Use a paper towel next time. Thats why humidifiers are best for external use or greenhouses
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: Goatrider]
#26902930 - 08/27/20 06:58 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I did think about the opening for contamination after I did it and to my defense I sucked up many syringes of water before I decided these areas needed to go with what I was seeing. Thank you Brother!
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: tryptkaloids]
#26902935 - 08/27/20 06:59 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I will Trypt!
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: tryptkaloids]
#26902942 - 08/27/20 07:01 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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I spent $$ on a humidifier, 4 controllers, heat mats etc and haven’t gotten any to just cruise! All RH sensors don’t work in the high 80’s to mid 90’s. I am working on the feel! Takes time to be you Trypt!
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Re: Donating Noob, 3rd grow 1st Mono. Help! is the mycelium too wet? Is the fuzz on my BRF cake cobweb? [Re: MDS213]
#26902956 - 08/27/20 07:08 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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dont i know it Heat mats are useless.
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Update to the post above. [Re: MDS213]
#26908264 - 08/30/20 04:12 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here is the pathetic little in-vitro mushrooms I came home to since I couldn’t be here to pick them when they needed. At least this was in-vitro and not big full size mushies. GT BTW. 
So the 32 Qt tub I put up in the dark space I spawn that stays 72-73 permanently and closed the bottom holes after I misted the surface as was suggested to me here. This is what I came home to after 2+ days with that. 
This and the 56qt tub are PE. Would you call that sub colonized? It had healthy from LC spawn? It looks okay to me but seeing the dark through the myc is concerning. I guess that’s why I’m a noob.
Would you call that ready to fruit or do I wait till I see primordia? Would you increase any air? I am using the vinyl or plastic micropore, does that change things??
The 56Qt is looking okay but cannot get a pic worth sharing. It looks like there are more dense myc and some droplets look to be milky which I think is a good sign?? I have the air on it wide open as I can get it without fanning? Any help is appreciated!
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Re: Update to the post above. [Re: MDS213]
#26908346 - 08/30/20 04:43 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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u shouldnt even be needing any of that shit. in what part of any monotub tek does it say add useless shit here?? id send or take all that crap back and get ur $$ back cuz it will do nothing but hurt your grow. you can not beat a monotub for fruiting cubes. so many of us wasted so much $$ in garbage in the begining i know i sure did. but it all just went into a pile in the garage once i found the monotub..so take this advice and send all that garbage back and if ur serious about the hobby and would like to make an investment i suggest you use the $$ on a good pressure cooker and a dehydrator. unless your growing pans or other exotics all that stuff is useless. just a few words of earned wisdom. just cuz i learned that the hard way dont mean u have to. so save yourself the headache and return that shit👍👍
Edited by jcm4620 (08/30/20 04:45 PM)
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Re: Update to the post above. [Re: jcm4620]
#26908500 - 08/30/20 06:02 PM (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thank you! I wish I had spoke with you before now 4 humidity/ Temperature controllers and they all suck! Unless you have a room Or large tent for a FC a sensor In an InkBird or the Reptile controllers DO NOT WORK!! I thought it was a bad sensor and bought a Second after a refund then sat on it and now I need to sell them so I will let a controller go if someone wants? Brand new, will knock $20 off the price paid,($69). Not really trying to sell so please don’t report that. That said, I am a noob but the volcanic like growth across both the 56 and 32 qt tubs would indicate to me along with some milky in some droplets that are HUGE in the 56 that I should see pinning inside 24-48 hrs? Thoughts? There are areas,(this is PE, 1 from LC and 1 from Spore Syringe), that are in some places as big around as 3/8” and as tall as 5/8” and some even larger. There are also clearly small bright white mushroom shape mycelium growing like hair 1/16” thick? The droplets are formed on both the 32 & 56 have those volcanic like growth happening but the 56 is much more aggressive and has much larger droplets probably because I used 5lb spawn to 5lb sub in it and 2lb spawn to 5lb sub in my 32? Thoughts are seriously encouraged!! All that said please let me know if the shot of the new 32 pic shows promise? It is acting like it is 100% colonized and I have done agar or Petri dishes and I see the Hyphal growth spread across the top but it’s not shining white like the 56. If I am wrong in my spelling or use of hyphal let me know?
The pictures of the new GT out of an In-Vitro BRF cake were left and I was 20 hrs late picking them.
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