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Update to my previous post. Pin pics. 46 & 32 qt mono’s Got good info and seeing blobs
    #26923543 - 09/07/20 06:24 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

So I found out that most of the growers didn’t know that there was 2 types of micropore tape, plastic and fabric. I was using plastic micropore and I got fuzzy feet ,(usually means not enough FAE), on my BRF’s ... Thought I wasn’t fanning enough?? I left the same tape on my consolidated 46qt and it bricked up nicely but following patsy’s method I switched to fabric tape because I did a test and the volume of air allowed through the fabric Micropore tape at the same pressure as plastic was greater. I still had pooling in my tub but it had thick snow like mycelium across the whole sub? I sucked ip the pools with a sterile syringe and cut out the spots I thought were Contamination. ,(I know now to soak it up with a paper towel).


After speaking to a cultivator of 15 years I got the info I needed. I was told that I had not allowed enough FAE and was choking the mushies. I was told to switch the micropore for poly fill which I can adjust where tape is not adjustable once you are only using 1 layer. I did switch out the tape for poly and I was also instructed to mist and fan the 32 once a day because it is ready to fruit with Hyphal knots looking almost like constellations. I did and it is showing signs of growth already with no pins visible at 15 hrs. I am keeping up on a once a day open,  spray a handful of pumps of fine Most letting it fall into the tub..

THIS IS AFTER I cut the 3 spots I now know were just metabolite but look at how much moisture is on that sub?


THIS IS THE PIC’s of the same 46qt brick after I started getting air in and opening the lid to fan once a day... STILL WET but if I keep fanning and don’t add moisture until there are clear signs of the sub getting more dry it should bounce back correct? Sorry my Pin Porn is weak right now but I will get you guys the pics when these take off!


The 46qt was initially set up with a humidifier and an Ink Bird humidity controller but after the InkBird malfunctioned as all 4 humidity controllers I bought did it left to much moisture in the 46 I believed. I was told by a guy on here that the 46 looked good and the large droplets were good, change nothing. I did poly fill in all the holes on the 46 as well and already had 1 blob. After 24 hrs of more air I now have 6+ pins popping up. I took the condensation on the lid of the 46 and slung it all into my bathtub. The 36 I dumped that water back on the Sub. Then I fanned the 46 a few times over a 6-8 hr period.

Both the 46&32 , are the PE strain and are both consolidated showing the 1/4” shrink all the way around the tub making that wonderful brick.

The plan is to adjust the poly fill as I mist and fan the 32 waiting for pins 1 time a day and then open and fan the 46 once a day as I adjust and watch the cake to see what the pins do and if I get fuzz Or the cake drying out etc. These may sound like easy enough to figure out things but I am a very intellectual person who has build a business from the ground up with $400 as well as being able to do manufacturing of some very sensitive stuff for my job in a clean room so I am far from from dumb IMHO but these things were not super clear even with my reading Paul Stamets writings and knowing that the fungi want evaporation and then condensation over and over. If you are a NOOB like me please head this advice that was given me. Monotubs, once you have the colonized spawn solid and 100% and put the spawn to Substrate,(I mix it in and do not do layers. Just preference), take and seal all 4 lower holes and put micropore tape over the top 2 holes. This will hold the “Field Capacity” moisture in the mix and keep it in the tub during colonization and consolidation,(if you wish). Then when you see the surface is either covered 100% in snow or if you let it consolidate when the brick shrinks you open the bottom holes and fill them right with poly as well as the top. Put in an area with light but not direct sunlight,(I use and old iPhone to light mine).  Once you have light and the poly is in the holes the next step is once a day you mist,(if needed, as with my 46qt it is wet and I will not be misting and am giving more FAE than the 32qt trying to get some moisture out.), and use the lid to fan adding FAE. Once you see The 1st pins start to form you will know you are close with your FAE or amount of poly in the holes. If you get fuzz then loosen up the poly. If the pins seem to have dark heads and are not growing well it could be too wet and if the caps of the pins are dark almost Black blue then you are way too wet,(make sure they are not aborts!).  Then once you have the poly right, mist/fan once a day you should be set!

I credit all of this information to a Colorado Friend as well as the wonderful fellow cultivators on here that helped a Noob ... lol.. Thank you all and this is far from done so I will post pics as things develop.

MDS213
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