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OfflineEagerNoob42
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Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed * 1
    #27029911 - 11/09/20 10:03 AM (3 years, 2 months ago)

Hey guys, here's the basic rundown of what's up.(sorry if
This is too long)

First off, I wanna say that while I'm still confused about a lot of stuff, some of which I'm about to get into, that this site has been a treasure trove of knowledge over the past few months, and you guys all really kick ass for the most part and are extremely helpful and I love the community, yadda yadda, all that good stuff.

Anyways, after the classic mistake of buying a grow kit and lurking here to find why my first PF grow was so terrible, I went to the "getting started" section of the Shroomery and overloaded my brain with information on supposedly "proper" teks for a month and a half before deciding to ditch the pump/humidifier/heating pad and convert the grow kit to a SGFC, per basically every single Shroomery approved tek in the getting started/beginner section of the site, as well as the million posts/threads that popped up when I searched the forums for solutions to my problems.

But now that im about to birth 6 more jars in the SGFC in a week, and I thought I had a handle on pretty much everything in theory, I start randomly going down rabbit holes on recent posts and come to find everyone completely dogging on the SGFC and basically saying its trash?

I realize that a lot of the threads recommending the SGFC were a few years old at least, and I could be held accountable for not checking more recent posts, but the site pointed me in that direction from the get go and offered no other shroomery approved methods I can see for PF.

Did I fuck up? Should I start duct taping holes back up and make an MSG?( I literally somehow just found out about those after trolling the site for hours a day for 2 months)

IDK, its probably just me being foreign to forums and how they work nd I could just be ignorant, but I feel like i've been guided in the wrong direction by the site (not the community) towards outdated and inefficient methods, and I'm unsure what do do next.

My 6 jars are consolidating now and i've got anxiety about birthing them until I know how to take care of them properly.

On the plus side, I'm at home basically 24/7 to attend to them and mist if the SGFC proves to be as bad about overdrying as recent posts lead me to believe.

Ok rant over, sorry. I had more but im stoned and forgot. Oh well 🤷


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Re: Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [Re: EagerNoob42]
    #27029942 - 11/09/20 10:24 AM (3 years, 2 months ago)

It can all definitely be a bit overwhelming. Grow kits are indeed frowned upon.

SGFC are rather tricky in my opinion. I don't feel they are the best option for a new grower to get their feet wet. They have a tendency to dry out because people don't fill the tubs with cakes like they were designed for.

I was in your same position. Did cakes for my first grow and realized that I hated the SGFC design. I started reading up on other options and fell in love with Pasty's ez dial monotubs. On my next batch of jars I birthed the cakes and made them into a bulk substrate using one of the ez dial monotubs.

Check out the link in my signature for a full grow log.


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OfflineEagerNoob42
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Re: Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [Re: tiptrippy]
    #27030219 - 11/09/20 01:09 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks for the tip, bud. I can't view the link til I get 5 more posts though. Will a mod get pissed if I just reply a few dots to my own thread to fill the gap?


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Re: Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [Re: EagerNoob42]
    #27030239 - 11/09/20 01:18 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

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EagerNoob42 said:
Thanks for the tip, bud. I can't view the link til I get 5 more posts though. Will a mod get pissed if I just reply a few dots to my own thread to fill the gap?





Increase your post count here for FREE!

you're not ages behind, in fact I think the humidity chambers and whatever a MSG is are fairly new adaptations to the same principle

you want a humid environment with lots of air exchange, SGFC do that by all the perlite holding moisture and slowly evaping, all the air exchange from the million and 3 holes you put into it

like mentioned, it was designed to be filled with cakes, not 1 or 2
it needs to be elevated


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InvisibleLoadedFish
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Re: Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [Re: EagerNoob42]
    #27030315 - 11/09/20 02:01 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

Sorry to hear it man. I'd highly recommend this process for your grows going forward:

pasty plates -> transfer to oat jars -> spawn to unmodded tub with coir substrate

You'll also want to create a SAB, bod has a tek on that too. He's pretty much the holy grail for noobs now that I think about it lol. It may sound overwhelming at first, especially starting with agar, but I promise this will be the easiest and most successful way to do things

Pasty plates
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/19208976

Easy AF Oat prep
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/24126032

Coir Bucket Tek
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/24077162

Unmodded Tub Tek
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/22337800

SAB Tek
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23990888

Good thread on sterile technique
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/21896900#21896900

These links are enough to give you all the shrooms you could ever need/want very easily once you read up and get the hang of it.


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Re: Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [Re: Camera93]
    #27030361 - 11/09/20 02:37 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

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Camera93 said:
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EagerNoob42 said:
Thanks for the tip, bud. I can't view the link til I get 5 more posts though. Will a mod get pissed if I just reply a few dots to my own thread to fill the gap?





Increase your post count here for FREE!





Very funny :P

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Re: Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [Re: EagerNoob42]
    #27030535 - 11/09/20 05:20 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

EagerNoob42 said:
Thanks for the tip, bud. I can't view the link til I get 5 more posts though. Will a mod get pissed if I just reply a few dots to my own thread to fill the gap?




Here's a thread you should be able to view that describes a similar process to what tiptrippy's grow log shows:

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/24945782


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Re: Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [Re: adhoc]
    #27032429 - 11/10/20 10:37 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

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OfflineEagerNoob42
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Re: Frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [Re: EagerNoob42]
    #27032455 - 11/10/20 10:48 PM (3 years, 2 months ago)

Thanks dudes 😊
I have absolutely zero cash to get any coir or anything to spawn to bulk, so I think I'll just go ahead and birth these to the SGFC in a few days and just tend to them lovingly and make sure they don't dry out.
After all, I spent all that time poking holes in it with a red hot screwdriver lol.
Speaking of, could I use this micropore I have to sort of dial in the FC to optimize humidity and just supplement the subsequent loss of FAE with extra fanning?
Like I said, I haven't left the house in months really and have no plans to do so for at least a few more, so I'll always have an eye on it.


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