rumfor69 said:

Jars are fine to just use right away no problem there. I recommend 4 of the 1/8" holes for gas exchange. But I'm not sure how clean ur dishes are. They're showing odd growth patterns from the activated charcoal so it tough to know if they're clean cultures.

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shigmon said:

rumfor69 said:

Jars are fine to just use right away no problem there. I recommend 4 of the 1/8" holes for gas exchange. But I'm not sure how clean ur dishes are. They're showing odd growth patterns from the activated charcoal so it tough to know if they're clean cultures.

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It's not charcoal, it's black food coloring. I think the odd looking growth is multi spores germinating in one spot. I'll be cutting wedges from the edges, away from the clusters. IDK, looks pretty clean to me. Thanks for the quick reply.

Any other thoughts more than welcome! Thanks

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Screwup said:

Oh wait maybe I did a 3/8th hole cause yours are way smaller. Perhaps I’ll try your way as well though and see if there’s any difference. Thanks!

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Screwup said:

If that’s the first plate from inoculation  with spores you may as well just have squirted the spores into the jars. Same thing at that point if I’m not mistaken. IE likely not clean until proven otherwise.

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rumfor69 said:

Ahhhh ok cool. You definitely will want to cut transfers to new plates then before going to grain. These look good for germ plates but you have to transfer them to new dishes a couple times before going to grains imo

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I will definitely do the transfers. Thanks. But I need the meds, and I'm gonna knock up some grain also and gamble a 60qt tub. Damn right I am!

toadstooled said:

Hope someone here can help, didn't get any responses on dedicated threads...

What are these brains with ears? Was a multispore hodge podge of PE and B+



They don't bruise blue but they pass Ehrlich.

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shroomsurf said:

Hey, I have to harvest some tall one's in my tubs cause their veil broke and I don't want spores everywhere. I'll call it my first first flush!

Do I just leave the white stuff on the bottom of the stem/stipe? Or leave it and just straight into the dehydrator?

Also what temp/duration for the dehydration?



Thank you...

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Grind365 said:

shroomsurf said:

Hey, I have to harvest some tall one's in my tubs cause their veil broke and I don't want spores everywhere. I'll call it my first first flush!

Do I just leave the white stuff on the bottom of the stem/stipe? Or leave it and just straight into the dehydrator?

Also what temp/duration for the dehydration?



Thank you...

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It's up to you if you want to clean up the fruits. I personally cut the bottom portions off and save them for making tea with. You can also just kinda rub that stuff off once dry.

As far as temp no idea I don't have a adjustable dehydrator I believe mine gets to around 165° but not sure. I dry for around 24hrs. Usually a little more. Harvest and begin drying in the morning. Remove from dehydrator sometime the next day whenever I can get around to it.

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Thank you, I redid the picture so you can have a reference to their size as is the one in the upper left corner bigger than my hand ...lol

knupKlY said:

So my cake has been put into fruiting conditions for 17 days now and I see the mycelium reaching out, so lack of FAE and I have stepped up to misting twice a day and fanning throughout the day so around 5-6 a day. There is also a lottt of water droplets on the mycelium, not pooling up, but it won’t evaporate, I believe that’s the reason I am not getting pins. The tub is in my closet so no moving air, I was thinking about putting a fan under the desk.

Any tips to upping the FAE and getting air circulation in the closet would be great!

Noob tis I

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Bajazly said:

Quick question. Having the choice between getting MSS or LC, both from a commercial supplier, is there much of a difference for a PFTEK to shoebox grow?

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The MSS will have to germinate, and the LC will already be germinated so it might just be about how fast they get going as does the LC usually come from a live culture (Real Grown Mushroom), which is a piece of the mushroom stem that is put into the LC...

But always take your MSS/LC to agar first to avoid contamination!

Hope I said that correctly?

Bajazly said:

This is a first time grow and I'm not set up for agar yet so that is why I chose to start with PFTEK. All the reading I've done seems like that is the preferred way to start and go from there. Seems LC might be a better way but nor sure. The vendor only has one of the varieties, hope that is the correct terminology, I want so one will def be MSS.

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It all depends on how clean the MSS/LC is...

I got lucky with a semi-clean syringe/MSS but still had a little bacterial but it flushed ok as did I go straight to 50qt tub and I missed the joy of PFTEK so I can't comment on PFTEK, but some do a 6 qt tub and you could get a spawnbag, put agar into it then into the 6qt tub but it's all up to your desires and current information...

Have fun...