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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27256059 - 03/16/21 07:06 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hey Fahtster. There are a ton of pins coming up through the layer of casing I thought I’d show you a picture. The casing layer is kind of moist. That was my biggest concern. It figures that’s what you tell me to be careful of. I kind of already knew that so I had to go out for A couple of hours and I cracked the lid on the tub to help dry it up a little bit and when I get back I just missed the walls and cover. Here’s the picture of the Tasmanians and an update pic of the PE’s. My gut feeling tells me that the pins of the Tasmanians just don’t look right. I want them to get past the casing! I know I know don’t get freaked out it’s a learning experience.

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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27256131 - 03/16/21 07:44 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Tas pins will be fine.. just don’t mist them anymore if the layer was plenty hydrated. PE tub might be a bit blobby, but blobs that are easily manageable.. it’s when they’re all really small and on top of each other in a solid layer that they get to be a PITA. Shouldn’t be long now. You can probably fix the blobs in the next tub by casing sooner and follow teds strategy. Still might end up golden.. too early to tell
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27256189 - 03/16/21 08:07 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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You’re a real good guy Foster I saw you coaching that dude on his broke boy tech. I was going to do that in my early days on here and I was talked out of it. This kid rocked it like a champ...so far. I’m really rooting for him. I could feel his excitement and I loved it. I encourage him. It was nice to see somebody besides me learning. Getting out of yourself is amazing it works for me every time. Peace, Love, Mycelium Ernie
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27256279 - 03/16/21 08:52 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks for the kind words yo. I like experimenting too.. you learn a lot.. but honestly, I didn’t think they were going to write a “tek” on it you’d normally at least have some success with fruits and maybe repeat it before you tek it out haha. Oh well.. I’ve been known to jump the gun before too. I wish them the best
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27256417 - 03/16/21 10:53 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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fahtster said: Thanks for the kind words yo. I like experimenting too.. you learn a lot.. but honestly, I didn’t think they were going to write a “tek” on it you’d normally at least have some success with fruits and maybe repeat it before you tek it out haha. Oh well.. I’ve been known to jump the gun before too. I wish them the best
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Oh you mean the “BrokBoi Tek” that one over my head it first. Yup I guess that’s PGT’s Tek... I’m guessing. When I ever watched it on YouTube I was like… I can do this. I’ll tell you this though after watching that video is when I realized how easy this could be. Because all the steps were there and he did a great job walking you through it. So after watching it I realize I just had to change a few of the items he was using. So I bought some Elzhi learn how to make some agar and tested it out and went from there. No here I am hounding you for your help! Lol.
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27256434 - 03/16/21 11:04 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nah, I meant home grower. If that vid gets peeps here, that’s cool.. I’m sure it works from time to time and ppl can get good at it and increase their chances. A pc is a must for any somewhat serious grower though
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27256733 - 03/17/21 05:54 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sorry I’m missing something. What did they write a Tek on? He used the Brok Boi Tek he got from YouTube. I’m a little slow at times...as you already know.

Speaking of unorthodox Teks. I attempted the Uncle Ben’s again. The first one Triched out on me as I was warned it may. I spawned this bag 80 hours ago and I put a piece of bubble wrap in the shoebox. So far so good I had some seriously long rizo. However at this time before I Spawned it it was a solid mass of mycelium. Shit it almost looks fossilized. Anyway hopefully it works out these are illusion Weavers!
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27256779 - 03/17/21 06:58 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nvm.. you weren’t in that thread so you wouldn’t know what I’m talking about. Good luck on the UB
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27257173 - 03/17/21 10:47 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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fahtster said: Nvm.. you weren’t in that thread so you wouldn’t know what I’m talking about. Good luck on the UB
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Haha! No wonder why I was not understanding that. My PE’s are really pushing up some fruit. Premature or not, early birds or not, I believe the yield is going to be up there. Hopefully the layer of cased Mike we were trying to prepare will evenly set. It’s hard for me to tell because I haven’t seen this happen yet. However regardless of what happens I’m sure I’m going to be happy and like we discussed I will now have the experience to boot. Check’m out buddy.
 The majority of them are on the sides but there are some pushing their way through the middle as well. It’s also tightening up and starting to knot as well... I believe. Watchoo think mon!?
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27257182 - 03/17/21 10:53 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nice.. guessing those early ones will be PE balls and the parts of the sub that aren’t fruiting will start forming pins. The nice thing about PE is that there’s almost no aborts in a healthy tub.. if you see a pin, it’ll most likely mature.. might not get huge (or it might) but it will mature. It all looks great.. those balls are going to be just as effective as a normal looking fruit. I’m sure you’ll get a great flush weight overall. 
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27258137 - 03/17/21 09:32 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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My only question is when do I pick them!? LOL there aren’t any stems, there are no caps,, there is no veil. Lol. Everything I was taught about harvesting doesn’t apply here. LOL that’s pretty freaking funny. The Tasmanians have an incredible pinset. Well at least for my first large tub of normal cubes it has a pretty damn good pins. I just wish I hadn’t case them. However the casing may help on the second flush. What do you think about that? Isn’t that what they say?
 Look at all those itty-bitty pins and then look it over all those funny balls! LOL. I can’t help but think if I never posted the original tub of complete wall-to-wall white and you never told me about the casing I would’ve been standing here waiting for them to start getting tall. I would’ve been waiting a long time LOL
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27258144 - 03/17/21 09:39 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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When they get soft and squishy.. the balls. It’ll probably be at least a couple days. They’re probably rock hard I’m guessin
Casing won’t hurt.. be kinda messy when harvesting and can help with 2nd
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27258166 - 03/17/21 10:07 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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... and yes they are rockhard. I’m guessing you’ve done this before. Ha!
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27259462 - 03/18/21 07:48 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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How’re things looking Ern? Any normal pins starting on the casing layer yet?
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27259636 - 03/18/21 10:18 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hey Fahtster! That’s very kind of you to reach out. Unfortunately not ...,just more balls coming through. I’m going to call these testicle envy instead of penis envy. Lol! I’ll end up dehydrating these thoroughly and then grinding them up. I’ll weigh out doses is like that. Here’s how they’re looking today.
 The Tasmanian tub is pumping pretty good for shredded PF cakes. BTW... what are those specs on the caps? I think I heard somebody called them oatmeal one time.
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27259706 - 03/18/21 11:25 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Haha.. oatmeal is a new one for me. I believe they’re a film that covered the caps when they were very small pins. Normal. Everything’s looking good. When you do dry out the balls, I’d suggest breaking them up into much smaller pieces.. they’ll dry much much faster.. presentation is really why most ppl keep fruits intact, but if you’re going to grind them up anyway, break them apart. It’ll cut drying time in half. I split all the stems of my fruits.. especially PE.
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27260207 - 03/19/21 10:30 AM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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As always.... great advice. I’m sure common sense would have told me to do this at drying time. I find that pulverizing the fruit before consumption makes the onset and come up much faster. I’ve also found that if I do the tea route I skip any digestive issues. Or heat them in some way, like I threw some in my soup. I believe the bacteria and/or fungal properties work like the opposite of probiotics and disrupt the good bacteria balance and mess up the whole gut flora causing all kinds of intestinal discomfort. Nothing major but my insides are definitely off track. Let’s just say I could clear a small football stadium. And I can do I it over and over. Lol. I’ve also found that I can’t do large doses. I’m pretty bummed out over this because my intention for this medicine was to do some pretty heroic dosing sessions with blind folds and do some deep inner exploration. I can’t do it...well, not by myself. This is a very powerful medicine and although you can have some fun with it as I did when I was a kid , my motives are much different now. It can be dangerous if you don’t know what your doing. A good example of this is my one and only experience with DMT which as you may be familiar with is very similar to psilocybin molecularly. Instead of having a good and eye-opening experience with it, it nearly traumatize me and scared the fuck out of me...as did one of larger doses of psilocybin. I almost felt like that DMT world was right around the corner and I did not want to revisit that! LOL. Yeah this stuff is no joke and if you’re a newbie and reading this. Be careful!! The next time I do any deep inward exploration I need a sitter. One I can trust. So when this whole casing thing got brought to my attention I also had a tub of APES that I cased on the 14th. I had a lot of colonization when I did it but it hasn’t recovered yet. Should I be concerned?? Here’s a peek at it.
, I feel like they should’ve been more growth by this time. I don’t know if this was a good move or not but I put some white bubble wrap down. Leave it? Or take it off?
... and yes, somebody said they look like oatmeal flecks. Not mine but somebody was referring to them in the description somewhere I was reading
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27260583 - 03/19/21 02:32 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Don’t put bubble wrap in there.. some times casings won’t fully colonize.. or top layers.. just depends on the culture
Apparently ape is even more powerful than PE so be careful
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: fahtster]
#27260751 - 03/19/21 04:31 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Are you referring to Psilocybe in content? Ever since that bad DMT experience I had any High dose of psilocybin bringing me close to the edge and I don’t like it. So I always am. I keep forgetting to show you the shoebox. I have never seen my psyllium grow like this not that I have a lot to compare it to but it is so thick paper. Well not thick, but wide. It’s very wispy and tentacley... just made that word up. The variety is illusion Weavers! I freakin love it. It actually came from my first successful uncle Ben’s. Here’s a picture of it. Hopefully you can enlarge it and you can see it clearly because it is definitely different.... at least to me it is.
 Check it out. I love how it is. And I actually had bubble wrap on this. By the way I will take your advice and remove that from the APES.
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Re: New guy. Trouble navigating /coversall and agar [Re: ErnieErgot67]
#27261007 - 03/19/21 08:07 PM (2 years, 10 months ago) |
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Those thick myc tendrils means it’s reach for air.. looks cool but means it needs more FAE.. probably due to the bubble wrap. There’s a reason we aren’t all putting bubble wrap on our substrates. The low amount of FAE at the surface will also cause bacterial infestation in all the pooling water.
Bubble wrap is a crutch. Much better to dial the tub in so you don’t need it
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