Home | Community | Message Board

Mycohaus
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: North Spore Bulk Substrate, Injection Grain Bag   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Mix   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder, Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Offlinetanuki
Friend
 User Gallery


Registered: 10/08/20
Posts: 35
Last seen: 2 years, 10 months
Shoebox Mutation
    #27038524 - 11/14/20 10:06 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

I'm looking for some criticism on my first shoebox attempt. I'm pretty certain that I've botched it.





I'm using an unmodified shoebox with about one inch of sterilized CVG, cased with verm. I used such a small amount of substrate because I only had 1 bag of Uncle Bens spawn. I started this shoebox 3 weeks ago now. :shocked:

Everything took off nicely but it seems to have really stalled out, and I got some sort of weird looking mutation growing that can be seen in the second pic.

Roast me. Thanks.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineGreens21
DayTripper
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/03/07
Posts: 437
Loc: The Void
Last seen: 3 years, 1 month
Re: Shoebox Mutation [Re: tanuki]
    #27038691 - 11/14/20 12:21 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Looks hella dry


--------------------
I've been trying to justify you

In the end I will just defy you







Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinetanuki
Friend
 User Gallery


Registered: 10/08/20
Posts: 35
Last seen: 2 years, 10 months
Re: Shoebox Mutation [Re: Greens21]
    #27038710 - 11/14/20 12:33 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

The walls are definitely dry right now but the vermiculite is still wet so I was trying to dry it out a little.

I was kinda thinking that it was too wet because my substrate isn't shrinking and pulling away from the walls at all.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinetanuki
Friend
 User Gallery


Registered: 10/08/20
Posts: 35
Last seen: 2 years, 10 months
Re: Shoebox Mutation [Re: Greens21]
    #27038723 - 11/14/20 12:40 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Gave it a lil spritz for good measure. You're probably right.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleSunny Skies
Cluster Head
 User Gallery

Registered: 05/03/17
Posts: 421
Loc: my house
Re: Shoebox Mutation [Re: tanuki]
    #27038746 - 11/14/20 01:01 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

looks like enigma


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineGreens21
DayTripper
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/03/07
Posts: 437
Loc: The Void
Last seen: 3 years, 1 month
Re: Shoebox Mutation [Re: tanuki]
    #27038747 - 11/14/20 01:01 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Idk, maybe it’s a trick of the camera but it looks like if you touched it it would feel like the surface of a basketball, and it looks like the substrate is cracked from dryness


--------------------
I've been trying to justify you

In the end I will just defy you







Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinelookintolearn
Stranger becoming Strangest
I'm a teapot User Gallery


Registered: 06/02/20
Posts: 574
Loc: Up in the Cut
Last seen: 2 months, 6 days
Re: Shoebox Mutation [Re: Greens21]
    #27038825 - 11/14/20 01:48 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

My criticism would be that the tub is probably fooked. You could let it stay around and see what happens but from what I read it didn't have a good start. That is definitely not healthy mycelium. Looks like a dirty bubble lol.

Verm is not a casing material it's used to hold moisture which is great for using in the substrate but not on top. You pretty much have wet non-casing material making it harder for the mycelium to rise towards the top and fruit. There are proper casings that can be pasteurized however coir makes a great casing, just use about 4 qts (is using a 66qt tub) when you are preparing coir/verm and put it on top to make about a 1/4in layer. It just keeps your substrate from dying out.

Uncle Bens tek is shit and yet it always pops up everywhere. Not your fault, it's literally everywhere and people take it as a good start. It's not. You should either try out BRF cakes as a starter or learn how to make and use agar (preferable method) and then put that clean agar to grains.

BRF cakes are a great place to learn technique but agar is easy too, just do a little reading.

Hope you succeed my friend!


--------------------
Don't be afraid of feeling the feelings

Lookin to LAGM 2021



Looking to start growing? Read through Bod's Introduction to Everything
Looking to start agar? Start with Alien's Holy Grail
Looking to perfect your transfers? Start with D3monic's Perfect Transfers
Looking for easiest prep to Coir ever? Eat's UNBUCKET Tek
Looking to start LC? Try LI first! Munch's super easy Blenderless LI


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinetanuki
Friend
 User Gallery


Registered: 10/08/20
Posts: 35
Last seen: 2 years, 10 months
Re: Shoebox Mutation [Re: lookintolearn]
    #27039133 - 11/14/20 04:44 PM (3 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Greens21 said:
Idk, maybe it’s a trick of the camera but it looks like if you touched it it would feel like the surface of a basketball, and it looks like the substrate is cracked from dryness




haha shoot. I thought for sure I was over-watering my shit too.


Quote:

lookintolearn said:

coir makes a great casing

BRF cakes are a great place to learn technique but agar is easy too, just do a little reading.






Damn I would have sworn I read in the unmodified shoebox tek that I was supposed to put a layer of verm on top and wet it down. I'll give the straight coir a shot when my next spawn in ready.


I've got some BRF Cakes colonizing right now too, and some grain spawn in jars. I'm trying different things for fun and I expected a high failure rate after all of my first uncle bens bags contaminated :smile:


Quote:

Hope you succeed my friend!




Hell yeah. Thanks guys.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: North Spore Bulk Substrate, Injection Grain Bag   Mushroom-Hut Substrate Mix   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder, Maeng Da Thai Kratom Leaf Powder


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Making shoeboxes
( 1 2 3 4 ... 730 731 )
mushboyMDiscord 624,741 14,614 10/07/23 05:39 PM
by spino556
* How do shoeboxes work in unmodified tubs? in_dot 1,177 4 09/12/17 01:41 PM
by mushboy
* Update and Questions on Those PE Shoeboxes (with PICS!)
( 1 2 all )
Skulltivator 1,899 38 01/03/18 06:08 PM
by Skulltivator
* Unmodified "Shoebox" Grow Dacauz 4,107 17 04/15/17 10:26 AM
by Royalmensch
* Shoeboxes in different stages in unmodified tub psilocyanide 1,065 3 01/20/18 03:15 AM
by nube424
* BOD's Easy AF UnBODified Monotub TEK (No Holes No Polyfil)
( 1 2 3 4 ... 228 229 )
bodhisattaMDiscordReddit 1,336,920 4,569 02/13/24 11:06 AM
by takesix
* Mushroom cultivation: The Chernobyl Diaries. (Official thread for MASS mutations) TheMadHatter420 257 8 12/15/17 09:08 AM
by Fungus Mountain
* Ready for shoebox bulk Shroominmojo0213 786 9 03/16/17 07:10 PM
by Shroominmojo0213

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
246 topic views. 25 members, 172 guests and 33 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.026 seconds spending 0.01 seconds on 14 queries.