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Reporting Failure
    #28171588 - 02/04/23 02:52 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

Pictures could not describe what I'm about to divulge. I think my best chance and a second attempt would be using micropore tape on my lids. Looking for encouragement, that is all. If I were seeking shittalk, I'd bring up this problem on discord.

So I started with 14 PF jars, 4 days apart (2 batches of 7) 4 are remaining, but I'm 95% certain their end is near.

I inspected my jars today, one had a little gnat or fly? a couple other's had some larva wiggling around. Grossed me the fuck out. (Sorry I didn't take photos) I'd like to automatically blame my roommate who cooks in his rooms, which I believe is the cause of these little fruit fly type bugs. (I took a chance anyways) Bought all the required things for PF Tek, but my first attempt here in over a decade was a failure. And since it only was realized about an hour ago, it isn't humbling...

I have 4 jars still colonizing, but I'm sure they will go green and host some sort of small bug in no time.

My whole plan was to begin microdosing off my first harvest, I don't think I was going to even attempt a trip seeing as I've got addictive tendencies.

So what can I do? Bleach and deep clean my entire room? Pack it all up for when my living space is more suitable? Micropore tape over the lids is my only thought at second attempt?

And then... I need those mosquitoes Bits to put in sub, and good to go?

Ahh failure what a bummer tonight...

Please take 'er easy on me fellow shroomerites


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: SpencerPhillips]
    #28171596 - 02/04/23 03:19 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

bummer.
I've actully been away for a while so I'm not really up to date with current operating procedures...

is there any reason *not* to incorporate a poly-fil/mircopore tape hole and some self healing injection ports?

it would greatly reduce contam worry as your cakes sit around colonizing :shrug:

i dunno, sorry to hear it


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: SpencerPhillips]
    #28171626 - 02/04/23 04:55 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

I once had that problem. Pf-tek cakes almost fully colonized and then the gnats found them and trichoderma began to take over. I buried those cakes outside in a pot with a potted plant. I was able to get two flushes of mushrooms from my outdoors growth.

Micropore tape will prevent those bugs from screwing up the colonization. It worked very well for me. But you will have to figure out how to keep them off your cakes during the fruiting stage.  Maybe some polyfill can help. I got rid of anything were gnats could breed or hide and did the fruiting in the room that was the farthest from the kitchen. No food, no plants, nothing that could invite those bugs.

Goof luck. I hope you find a solution.


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: VP123]
    #28171630 - 02/04/23 05:02 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

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I once had that problem. Pf-tek cakes almost fully colonized and then the gnats found them and trichoderma began to take over. I buried those cakes outside in a pot with a potted plant. I was able to get two flushes of mushrooms from my outdoors growth.

Micropore tape will prevent those bugs from screwing up the colonization. It worked very well for me. But you will have to figure out how to keep them off your cakes during the fruiting stage.  Maybe some polyfill can help. I got rid of anything were gnats could breed or hide and did the fruiting in the room that was the farthest from the kitchen. No food, no plants, nothing that could invite those bugs.

Goof luck. I hope you find a solution.




Gnats are a bastard, they breed in houseplants and around taps/faucets too.


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    #28171636 - 02/04/23 05:17 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: Phaedra]
    #28171649 - 02/04/23 05:36 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

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Clean the house. Not your roommates rooms, but, yours, the bathrooms and common spaces. Encourage them to take care of themselves.  If you want it to work for you, you may have to carry a bigger part of the burden than the roommates.

Make small vinegar and soap fruit fly traps and check/re-make them as they get full of death or dry out. Seriously. 5-10mm apple cider vinegar in a small cup and a drop or two of soap to break surface tension. This will also give you an idea of how many you’re dealing with.  Place them low, by the sink, by the trash, by the fruit, etc.

No plants, other pets, or moisture that you can’t control around the grow area (other than mush cult stuff). You can get a sticky trap for near your grow, but dont use the vinegar traps because those attract them.

I grow flightless fruit flys in my house, for dart frogs. My Martha is 30 feet from the frogs/fruit flies. So far I haven’t had issue.

Yes, use micropore on PF jars just to obstruct anything from entering to drop off a load which will cause you problems. Good luck!





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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: SpencerPhillips]
    #28171660 - 02/04/23 06:02 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

One drop of peppermint oil in a spray bottle of water. You can spray jars, tubs, substrate surfaces, fruits, anywhere you don't want to see flies or gnats.


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    #28171730 - 02/04/23 07:36 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

I just had a major infestation of fungust gnats late last year that shut down my entire grow for a month while I cleaned up. You don't want to let it get out of hand. Here is my advice:

1. Get rid of everything you are growing in open air now (meaning, anything that the flies could get to.... closed filtered grain jars don't count, PF cakes without open holes in the lid don't count, etc)
2. Set off one or more aerosol bug foggers (aka bug bombs) in all areas of the house that you are able to and follow the instructions. It will kill off all the live flies (adults live for two weeks so this is important), and will provide residual killing when they land on any surfaces like floor, walls, and ceiling
3. Get a UV light trap like one of these and put it in your growing area - ensure all other lights are turned off at night so they are attracted to this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B6RZP4H ; or  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08S49753K ;
4. Get a large pack of yellow sticky card traps from Amazon like these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0839QH3G8 ; and put a handful of them all around your grow and living areas. Use these to both catch, and more importantly MONITOR infestation levels so you know if you've tackled the issue or still have it. Even put some inside your monos. Also put some by any houseplants you have anywhere in the house.
5. Add BT and Spinosad to your substrates. This won't work so well for cake grows because the heat during sterilization of the cakes will render these things inactive, but if you are growing with coir it will work. Just ensure you add them during grain spawn mix, not during coir hydration and pasteurization.

You can also try using a fruiting tub that is air-tight (gasket on the lid, like this: https://www.target.com/p/ezy-storage-52-8qt-ip67-waterproof-storage-box/-/A-81967134), then add holes down low and up high like you normally would in a fruiting tub, but make the holes larger and cover them with micropore tape. I haven't tried this myself but it is possible you may get enough air exchange if the holes are large enough even though they are covered with the MP tape. Again, I haven't tried this one myself so can't say if it will work. You could try polyfill instead of the MP tape but I am not sure how gnat-proof it would be and if it would let in any more air than the MP tape. The point of the air-tight tote with the gasket lid is to just ensure that all entrances to the tub are filtered with the MP tape and they aren't getting in through the lid.


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: Phaedra] * 1
    #28171786 - 02/04/23 08:31 AM (11 months, 17 days ago)

Tbh they're IME mostly attracted to already contaminated subs and moldy mushroom stumps, definitely use mo on your pf jars next time no reason no to and make sure to clean up well.. dump anything after first flush for a while, and use a combo of MP tape on totes to prevent them from easy access, essential oils to keep them away, sticky traps to keep them under control and monitored, and add mosquito dunks to your sprayer.





I’ve had them on and off for years, i live by a cow field on a veggie and gourmet mushroom farm and they’re unavoidable certain times of year, but doing all of the things i mentioned and making sure not to leave stumps and tossing anything remotely questionable, as well as spraying your houseplants with the mosquito dunk sprayer and making sure you have windowscreens will keep them manageable

None of these will eliminate them but doing all of them will reduce/mitigate the problems they cause and make it possible to continue growing in the same space  IME


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: AyePlus]
    #28171938 - 02/04/23 11:17 AM (11 months, 16 days ago)

You don't need to kill animals to stop infestations. There are better ways.
Do mushrooms not teach us that we are connected to everything and everyone?
Preventing breeding habitats is always better than killing the offspring.


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: HappinessStan] * 1
    #28171965 - 02/04/23 11:42 AM (11 months, 16 days ago)

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You don't need to kill animals to stop infestations. There are better ways.
Do mushrooms not teach us that we are connected to everything and everyone?
Preventing breeding habitats is always better than killing the offspring.



You must have really hated that movie "A Bug's Life"


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: SpencerPhillips]
    #28177155 - 02/08/23 06:28 AM (11 months, 13 days ago)

Bumping this, to officially thank the input I received! I can recall.
  • peppermint oil in water spray bottle
  • UV lamp (maybe $70 CAD on Amazon)
  • set up some apple cider vinegar dish soap traps
  • mosquitoe dunks

I plan to do a bleach water cleaning of my closet/room (and I'm still mad I failed so procrastinating...)
At what point do I incorporate the mosquitoes dunk puck looking thing? I intend to do more cakes, so do I mix in the mosquitoe dunk puck when I do my coir prep? (bucket tek) I will be certain to use MP Tape here on out.

I do not believe the gnats are totally taking over the house, but they fucked up my cakes. so I'ma change something to fix that. is it possible that simply the peppermint water spray bottle in the area I grow (after my deep bleach cleaning) that-that will maybe be enough? and same misting to my shoeboxes (when I get to that point)


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: SpencerPhillips]
    #28177168 - 02/08/23 06:45 AM (11 months, 13 days ago)

I live in the forest with a couple kinds of gnats and a few types of flies. It is just a fact, they live here. But they don't bother my stuff because of one drop of peppermint oil in a spray bottle. It's the same water I mist tubs with. Ayeplus uses a commercial version, also contains peppermint oil.


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: LadysKnight]
    #28177187 - 02/08/23 07:03 AM (11 months, 13 days ago)

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I live in the forest with a couple kinds of gnats and a few types of flies. It is just a fact, they live here. But they don't bother my stuff because of one drop of peppermint oil in a spray bottle. It's the same water I mist tubs with. Ayeplus uses a commercial version, also contains peppermint oil.



AH, thank you. So I could forgo these mosq. dunks?


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: SpencerPhillips]
    #28177214 - 02/08/23 07:30 AM (11 months, 13 days ago)

And cleaning and anything else.

BTI (mosquito dunks) are great for killing larvae, only. They won't keep adults away from your stuff.


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: SpencerPhillips]
    #28177231 - 02/08/23 07:43 AM (11 months, 13 days ago)

For the record about addictive stuff, psychedelics are known to be self regulating thanks to the diminishing returns with regular usage.  Meaning, while some drugs are addictive, psychedelics are not.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to be addicted to them or have problems.  It just means the vast majority of people do not have those issues.


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The next move is Shoebox Tek. After that you move onto grains, agar, monotubs.  Agar is easy, just do it.
Other useful links - Picture guide for how things should look and proper surface conditions guide
Growing APE or PE?  P9 pseudo casing tek


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: Excess Taters]
    #28177259 - 02/08/23 07:59 AM (11 months, 13 days ago)

I keep a piece of mosquito dunk in my sprayer


The essential oil mix gets sprayed all over the room/ walls floor etc, especially around any air intakes, the bt only gets sprayed on totes.


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: Excess Taters]
    #28177364 - 02/08/23 09:30 AM (11 months, 12 days ago)

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For the record about addictive stuff, psychedelics are known to be self regulating thanks to the diminishing returns with regular usage.  Meaning, while some drugs are addictive, psychedelics are not.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to be addicted to them or have problems.  It just means the vast majority of people do not have those issues.



Had to re-read. Thx, either way. Would you suggest avoiding a trip and just sustain a microdose.
If. Topic to sensitive :pm: thx


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Re: Reporting Failure [Re: SpencerPhillips]
    #28177371 - 02/08/23 09:33 AM (11 months, 12 days ago)

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Quote:

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For the record about addictive stuff, psychedelics are known to be self regulating thanks to the diminishing returns with regular usage.  Meaning, while some drugs are addictive, psychedelics are not.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to be addicted to them or have problems.  It just means the vast majority of people do not have those issues.



Had to re-read. Thx, either way. Would you suggest avoiding a trip and just sustain a microdose.
If. Topic to sensitive :pm: thx




We have proven therapeutic benefits to large doses of psilocybin, and no proven therapeutic benefits to microdosing.  There is enough anecdotal reports to assume that there is something to microdosing, but scientifically only one of these methods has so far been proven.

I say do what you want, try whatever.  Just don't rule out tripping, it's the most proven method of benefiting psychologically from psychedelics.  They've tried to eliminate the tripping aspect of psychedelics to see if the benefits still manifest, iirc they did not, so the trip in itself is the real therapy imo.


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Other useful links - Picture guide for how things should look and proper surface conditions guide
Growing APE or PE?  P9 pseudo casing tek


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