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TonZ
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How are these Golden teachers looking? Close to pinning?
#27798887 - 05/30/22 10:26 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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I received the grow kit (had mycelium already) a week ago, soaked it last sunday, so today is day 8 having started the kit.
How is it looking? Does it seem it will pin soon? Temperatures around here are high (85-99°F, 22-36°C) but so farm no signs of contam 

Thanks in advance!
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Re: How are these Golden teachers looking? Close to pinning? [Re: TonZ]
#27798952 - 05/30/22 11:44 AM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Your temps are way to high
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Re: How are these Golden teachers looking? Close to pinning? [Re: TonZ]
#27798971 - 05/30/22 12:05 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hi friend!
Sorry for a wall of text and hopefully this doesn’t scare you away, it’s something I learned and it’s real simple actually 
I started out just as you, with a growkit. And after a while of nothing happening I decided to do a little research. And the number one thing that made almost an immediate difference was taking the kit out of the bag and putting it in a shoebox plastic container. The problem with the bag is that the kit is not getting enough fresh air exchange and it’s almost impossible to keep optimal surface conditions to trigger pinning. This is so important and often not ever mentioned in the instructions for these grow kits (I’ve looked at several)
Basically what I did was got myself a plastic container, cleaned it out thoroughly. Filled the bottom up with clean perlite about 3-4cm (you can find this at any good flower/hardware store) and saturate it with water by misting it till it’s wet. Then I placed my grow kit in the middle of the container. From there I left the lid open about 2cm so the container has constant passive air exchange. Just a few days later I started seeing a lot of signs for pinning and now my kit is filled with pins and it’s growing fast.
Here’s a shot of the kit inside the container

And a shot of the space between the lid and container allowing for passive air exchange. I use two marker pens to raise the lid just enough from the container but you could use anything.

The only thing you have to do after this is take the lid off a few times a day to mist the surface of the kit carefully. What you want to see on the surface are tiny tiny beads of water, not big drops or pooling, that might cause issues. What I do is I point the misting bottle up and let the mist fall gently over the kit. Three or four pumps usually do it for me. Then you only need to check the surface a couple of times each day to make sure it doesn’t dry out.
Those tiny beads of water will evaporate because the lid is opened and fresh air is allowed to enter the container and this is what will trigger pinning and eventually you should see some nice fruits growing.
If you have the time and money to pick up a plastic container and perlite I highly recommend it. This is how my kit looks now:

Of course you might just try to grow it from the bag and following the kits instructions but in all honesty they’re not always the best ways of doing this, I learned this after spending hours researching what actually works here on shroomery.. and it does work!
In worst case scenario trying to grow the kit out of that bag is you end up with a gunky wet surface cowered in blobs and old decaying mycelium. I’ve seen so many kits now that are beyond salvation and this is almost always because it’s impossible to maintain good surface conditions inside those tiny tightly packed bags.
If you still want to try with your bag, it’s very important that you make sure you open the bag and allow for fresh air to enter and keeping that surface just perfect with tiny beads of water. You don’t have to worry too much about contaminations because the mycelium should be strong enough to deal with any contams around. Just stay clean when working with the kit and you should be good.
Sorry if this seems overwhelming I just wanted to share my experience and what worked for me. I’ll try my best to answer any questions if you have any
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Re: How are these Golden teachers looking? Close to pinning? [Re: 0001001]
#27799122 - 05/30/22 02:38 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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I know but it is what it is. I think I'm starting to see some pins!!! I'll confirm tomorrow if what I think are pins get bigger.
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Re: How are these Golden teachers looking? Close to pinning? [Re: LaLaG]
#27799127 - 05/30/22 02:40 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
LaLaG said: Hi friend!
Sorry for a wall of text and hopefully this doesn’t scare you away, it’s something I learned and it’s real simple actually 
I started out just as you, with a growkit. And after a while of nothing happening I decided to do a little research. And the number one thing that made almost an immediate difference was taking the kit out of the bag and putting it in a shoebox plastic container. The problem with the bag is that the kit is not getting enough fresh air exchange and it’s almost impossible to keep optimal surface conditions to trigger pinning. This is so important and often not ever mentioned in the instructions for these grow kits (I’ve looked at several)
Basically what I did was got myself a plastic container, cleaned it out thoroughly. Filled the bottom up with clean perlite about 3-4cm (you can find this at any good flower/hardware store) and saturate it with water by misting it till it’s wet. Then I placed my grow kit in the middle of the container. From there I left the lid open about 2cm so the container has constant passive air exchange. Just a few days later I started seeing a lot of signs for pinning and now my kit is filled with pins and it’s growing fast.
Here’s a shot of the kit inside the container

And a shot of the space between the lid and container allowing for passive air exchange. I use two marker pens to raise the lid just enough from the container but you could use anything.

The only thing you have to do after this is take the lid off a few times a day to mist the surface of the kit carefully. What you want to see on the surface are tiny tiny beads of water, not big drops or pooling, that might cause issues. What I do is I point the misting bottle up and let the mist fall gently over the kit. Three or four pumps usually do it for me. Then you only need to check the surface a couple of times each day to make sure it doesn’t dry out.
Those tiny beads of water will evaporate because the lid is opened and fresh air is allowed to enter the container and this is what will trigger pinning and eventually you should see some nice fruits growing.
If you have the time and money to pick up a plastic container and perlite I highly recommend it. This is how my kit looks now:

Of course you might just try to grow it from the bag and following the kits instructions but in all honesty they’re not always the best ways of doing this, I learned this after spending hours researching what actually works here on shroomery.. and it does work!
In worst case scenario trying to grow the kit out of that bag is you end up with a gunky wet surface cowered in blobs and old decaying mycelium. I’ve seen so many kits now that are beyond salvation and this is almost always because it’s impossible to maintain good surface conditions inside those tiny tightly packed bags.
If you still want to try with your bag, it’s very important that you make sure you open the bag and allow for fresh air to enter and keeping that surface just perfect with tiny beads of water. You don’t have to worry too much about contaminations because the mycelium should be strong enough to deal with any contams around. Just stay clean when working with the kit and you should be good.
Sorry if this seems overwhelming I just wanted to share my experience and what worked for me. I’ll try my best to answer any questions if you have any 
Thanks! I think I'm starting to see pins so I guess I'll keep them on the bag just to keep things simple, I'm considering doing the monotub next time I grow.
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Re: How are these Golden teachers looking? Close to pinning? [Re: TonZ]
#27801677 - 06/01/22 04:17 PM (2 years, 7 months ago) |
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Here we are today!

There are several pins so far, 10 or so, this is the biggest one of now.
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