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MrBingo
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Re: Looking for PF Tek to Monotub advice. [Re: Vibetyme]
#27749846 - 04/24/22 06:02 PM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I’m Australian so my definition of cold is probably pretty different to yours 😂 I think the coldest it’s ever gotten where I am is about 20f.
Anyways, I should be in inoculating the BRF cakes in the next couple days. Wish me luck!
Doing 8x 250ml cakes in total. I’ve sanitised my bathroom and SAB top-to-toe with iso twice in the last week, but I will again right before I begin the process.
Any advice on minimising risk of contamination? Also, when storing the cakes for colonisation, do I have to worry about contamination? Or are they pretty robust?
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Re: Looking for PF Tek to Monotub advice. [Re: MrBingo]
#27750168 - 04/25/22 02:44 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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If you don't mess up the dry verm layer, they're safe. Everything else is up to the inoculant. Just place them and don't handle them around. The dry verm always needs to stay on top.
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Not really sure. Genetics, maybe. The jars were all inoculated with a GT MSS so. Harvested my third shoebox yesterday and I'm bottom watering it instead of a 3hr dunk to see if it makes a difference. I've got 2 flushes off my cakes in the tub & just took them out from an overnight dunk. We'll see if I can get a 3rd. Haven't weighed them yet but total I think I'm gonna end up with around 70g-80g dried so I'm very happy with that from 18 cakes and my first grow.
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MrBingo said: Hadn’t heard of that second tek before your reply!
If you had to guess, why do you think your second flush was mostly unsuccessful? Seems like you did everything right…
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Re: Looking for PF Tek to Monotub advice. [Re: MrBingo]
#27770605 - 05/10/22 01:45 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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So, initial inoculation went smoothly and 7 of the 8 jars are looking clean and healthy, with strong “ropey” mycelium rapidly colonising the substrate.
However…
The 8th jar has started to grow mold  This jar had taken the longest to show any mycelial growth, and until this morning there were no signs of mold at all, so I’m a little bummed out.
I have a few questions:
1. Should I give up on this jar now? I’ve read about mycelium sometimes outcompeting mold, so I’m wondering if I should keep it in the hope that this happens.
2. If I do keep it, would it be a good idea to seperate this jar from the others?
Any help or advice would be much appreciated. This is the first road-bump I’ve experienced during this process and I’m a little stressed about it haha
P.S.
I’m having trouble attaching pics to this post. I’ve uploaded to shroomery, and the pic is showing in my gallery, but whenever I follow the link provided it tells me the image has been deleted…
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The Tao
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Re: Looking for PF Tek to Monotub advice. [Re: MrBingo]
#27770684 - 05/10/22 05:17 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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I use this to post pictures. https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=255&Number=27127917&fpart=&PHPSESSID= You might get something from a moldy jar, it’s up to you if you want to keep it around. I kept some to watch and learn what contaminants looked like and how quickly they grew. Be careful opening the jar, you can get quite a discharge.
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Vibetyme
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Re: Looking for PF Tek to Monotub advice. [Re: The Tao]
#27770953 - 05/10/22 09:50 AM (2 years, 8 months ago) |
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You might be able to top fruit the jar like this
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Honestly though I'd probably let it go. I would take it outside and dump it in a shallow grave and hope for the best.
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