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Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log 4
#28282366 - 04/17/23 04:33 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Hello and good afternoon fellow fungus fiends it is I, mushhead, I know it has been some time since we last had to roll our eyes at one of my posts. I have been off in dimension R-83 biding my time until I could return to bless you all with a hearty salutations.
I have recently gotten myself an induction style Presto 23 Quart Pressure Cooker

This thing is pretty awesome with how fast it heats up, given you have proper induction cooktops, you're off the races quick.
As always I got my grain ready with a wash, soak, and boil.
 Looks good!
 soaked in hot soapy water and polished nice and shiny I'll be using regular mouth quarts for this grow.
The spores I'll be using have been acquired form a reputable source and are to be assumed clean though syringes are never as axenic as we seem to think.
 
Ready to plunder C:<
The cooktop: https://www.amazon.com/Secura-9100MC-Portable-Induction-Countertop/dp/B00GMCAM2G Not a bad little cooker at all, heats up the PC super quick, and does the job. I recommend something a wee bit better than this little guy but if you're strapped for cash it's a cheap option. The Pressure Cooker: https://www.amazon.com/Presto-01784-23-Quart-Induction-Compatible/dp/B07PYLD742 Drop this bad boy onto any almost any induction cooker that's at least 1800W and it wont do you wrong. The inside is just slightly wider than the original Presto we're all used to which makes for an easier time loading jars/bags.
Thanks all! Let's all have a cheers for mushhead and his triumphant return

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04/18/2023
 15psi was held for 90 min, I used about 3 Quarts of water, allowed for the water to boil before I sealed it and left it over night to cool for use the next day.
 Pulled my jars out this morning, tossed them into my SAB, and inoculated. During Inoculation I used a torch to heat the syringe needle after each jar to prevent infection. I used micropore tape to seal the vent holes, two layers is what I use, some people use one and it works just fine - I'm just paranoid. The gray blemishes on the jars is caused by calcium and other minerals left over by the water. You can get rid of this by using Vinegar which I forgot to add to my PC.
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04/26/2023

Germination and colonization is off to a good start. This is about 8 days, these jars sat mostly in darkness at ambient temps of 74f or 23c.
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04/29/2023
  Things are progressing as expected. B+ is a predictable cube and these jars will get shaken here in another day or so.
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05/01/2023
Alright It's time for a full update on all the jars. In total I've done 20 rye grain jars. This is spore syringe to grain, not recommended but I'm experienced with this process and it's just a cleaning method to gather prints for agar work. Finding the comtams before you spawn is what we're doing here, weeding out the possible time wasters. Here are the good looking jars, no irregular growth, discoloration, or other notable inconsistency that could perhaps be contamination.
Here we have the stragglers, again no unexpected or irregular growth, discoloration, etc. Just slow.

Then we have the suspects, these are jars with irregular growth, some discoloration, possible bacterial spots, etc.
 If anyone spots anything sus in any of my jars speak up, I'm no TC, only highly experienced and even the eyes of experience can miss things.
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05/08/2023

It's Spawning day!
I have boiled water to use in the bucket tek method, it will sit and cool for immediate use today.
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05/1102023
 
Tubs looking good, this is a five qt tub, coir/verm bucket tek style.
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05/22/2023
   Alas at long last, after some time, we have our fruits. And a surprised looking sprout, a plant that I'll never ID because removing it would mean destroying my mycelia, sorry little buddy.
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05/24/2023
   Well we're off to a fantastic start, soon daily pics will start coming in, and I'm gearing up to start doing time-lapse gifs as well.
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05/26/2023
   The little plant is looking alright. The mycelia in the last two pics is reacting to a bacteria that is present, this is perhaps why the plant is alive still. The battle between the bacteria and mycelia is providing the plant with food.
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05/27/2023
 Update on the larger tub, it's doing pretty well. I would get a better pic but it's on the bottom of a few tubs and I'm lazy.
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05/30/2023
  Here's some updated pics of the tubs. During this process I have reached my goal. One of the tubs has already given fruits and I have collected a clean spore print. I followed basic procedure to take a print, one print was done for 6hrs, the second for 24hrs. 6 Hour Print:
 The 6hr Print I really didn't care for so it got folded a bit funky and tossed into my emergency spore collection.
24 Hour Print:
 This is the print I used to make my plates.
I then made up Four spore plates.
 
Now we've reached a critical stage of this log. I have gotten my print, my plates look clean, and I now have a pretty clean culture. From here I intend to take transfers, propagate onto grain, and my next flushes with this culture will end this log. Stay tuned!
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06/04/2023
Alright! Another full tub update! Here are all the tubs from the jars that passed the contam check.(I say passed but what I really mean is "good enough") You will notice that some of them are having bacterial issues, though that does not matter to me. I am just cultivating this out to clean up the cultures by collecting spore for agar work as previously stated.
      
   You can see from the above that spore syringe to grain is a bad idea. However, since grain was at the time my only option to cultivate with, and because I did not have the funds to acquire additional equipment I worked with what I had. I expect within the next couple of days that these tubs mature out and I'll toss up pics of them fully fruited off. There are the exceptions:
  This is the only good tub out of the whole lot that looks at all healthy enough to keep around for a second flush.
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06/05/2023
Just a quick update on the one good tub out of the whole lot:
  After a little under ~20hrs and she's looking gorgeous as hell.
Additionally the other tubs are doing alright as well, except they're just slower due to the bacteria present, though I will say still quite as beautiful.
    
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06/08/2023
 Overall the harvest has been nice, dried weight at about 408g rounded down. Most of the fruits I've harvested have been fairly chunky with solid stipes and thick caps. During this time I have taken clones, spore prints, and will continue propagation.
  I did re-hydrate all my tubs, I allowed them to sit in distilled water until soaked(10hrs), then drained. I have already observed pins and an additional flush coming off most of them, will post pics soon.
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06/17/2023
Alright! So it's been a second since I posted an update. Here are the spore swab plates from this grow now. You'll notice wedges have been taken.
  
Here are the first transfer plates. You can see wedges have also been taken from these.
 
And here we have second transfers.
   
Soon these will be going to grain and the final culmination of this log will be those final tubs.
Here are the surviving test plates. The others will not be shown as they have been disposed of. 2% LME to 500ml water is your best bet with agar.
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06/06/2023
Alright so it's been a second since I've updated this and I want to say I've been pretty lazy with the cultures. I know that the plates are labeled GT, this does not stand for Golden Teacher, This stands for Row G, Column T. I store my plates with a categorized lettering system for easy retrial and identification so that I don't have to write all over my plates too much.
    
You can see that my agar work has been pretty good, there's some amazing looking growth there. I have given the cultures time to grown, mainly because I'm lazy and have had other cultures to work on but i wanted to finish out this thread. These plates look amazing. I'll be putting these to grain soon, tomorrow actually since today I am making more grain spawn fresh for the occasion. Can't wait for the coming tubs as I am quite confident we'll win out proper. Once my tubs have flushed out from this it will end this log.
Edited by mushhead (06/26/23 02:29 PM)
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 1
#28282374 - 04/17/23 04:35 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Im excited to see this grow log! And learn a thing or two
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 2
#28282419 - 04/17/23 04:51 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I don't know why but I imagined this actually being a grow on a log
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: dragster] 1
#28282457 - 04/17/23 05:15 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I would love to an one point do a log grow. If you know what I mean.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 1
#28282483 - 04/17/23 05:42 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: johnukguy] 1
#28283631 - 04/18/23 11:46 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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 15psi was held for 90 min, I used about 3 Quarts of water, allowed for the water to boil before I sealed it and left it over night to cool for use the next day.
 Pulled my jars out this morning, tossed them into my SAB, and inoculated. During Inoculation I used a torch to heat the syringe needle after each jar to prevent infection. I used micropore tape to seal the vent holes, two layers is what I use, some people use one and it works just fine - I'm just paranoid. The gray blemishes on the jars is caused by calcium and other minerals left over by the water. You can get rid of this by using Vinegar which I forgot to add to my PC.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 1
#28296829 - 04/26/23 08:38 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Germination and colonization is off to a good start. This is about 8 days, these jars sat mostly in darkness at ambient temps of 74f or 23c.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 1
#28296860 - 04/26/23 09:03 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Nice, looking good
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: Dave Bowman] 1
#28299832 - 04/29/23 09:38 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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  Things are progressing as expected. B+ is a predictable cube and these jars will get shaken here in another day or so.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead]
#28302104 - 05/01/23 11:07 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Alright It's time for a full update on all the jars. In total I've done 20 rye grain jars. This is spore syringe to grain, not recommended but I'm experienced with this process and it's just a cleaning method to gather prints for agar work. Finding the comtams before you spawn is what we're doing here, weeding out the possible time wasters. Here are the good looking jars, no irregular growth, discoloration, or other notable inconsistency that could perhaps be contamination.
Here we have the stragglers, again no unexpected or irregular growth, discoloration, etc. Just slow.

Then we have the suspects, these are jars with irregular growth, some discoloration, possible bacterial spots, etc.
 If anyone spots anything sus in any of my jars speak up, I'm no TC, only highly experienced and even the eyes of experience can miss things.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead]
#28311442 - 05/08/23 01:21 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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It's Spawning day!
I have boiled water to use in the bucket tek method, it will sit and cool for immediate use today.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 2
#28311469 - 05/08/23 01:39 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
mushhead said:

It's Spawning day!
I have boiled water to use in the bucket tek method, it will sit and cool for immediate use today.


Is there some uncolonized grain on the left hand jar? :o
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: Pandaskis]
#28311984 - 05/08/23 09:04 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Pandaskis said:
Quote:
mushhead said:

It's Spawning day!
I have boiled water to use in the bucket tek method, it will sit and cool for immediate use today.

Is there some uncolonized grain on the left hand jar? :o
Yep! to the left are about 30+ other jars, the five pictured, other than the one to the left are the ones I Spawned which were fully colonized.
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Edited by mushhead (05/08/23 09:19 PM)
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead]
#28316187 - 05/11/23 06:22 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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Tubs looking good, this is a five qt tub, coir/verm bucket tek style.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 2
#28330088 - 05/22/23 02:44 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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   Alas at long last, after some time, we have our fruits. And a surprised looking sprout, a plant that I'll never ID because removing it would mean destroying my mycelia, sorry little buddy. I will be posting the other tubs as they begin to fruit off as well.
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Edited by mushhead (05/22/23 02:52 PM)
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 2
#28332501 - 05/24/23 12:22 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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   Well we're off to a fantastic start, soon daily pics will start coming in, and I'm gearing up to start doing time-lapse gifs as well.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 1
#28332538 - 05/24/23 12:55 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Looking great to me. And I will admit that I'm rooting (pun intended) for the little green guy.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: johnukguy] 1
#28333305 - 05/24/23 08:52 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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The plant is just there to suck up the co2 and facilitate fae by releasing oxygen.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: FungusFan] 1
#28335218 - 05/26/23 08:37 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
johnukguy said: Looking great to me. And I will admit that I'm rooting (pun intended) for the little green guy.

I'm rooting for the wee man myself here, hopefully when I take my first flush out of this tub I can save him.
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FungusFan said: The plant is just there to suck up the co2 and facilitate fae by releasing oxygen.
It's an automated fungus terrarium.
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Re: Musheads 2023 B+ Grow Log [Re: mushhead] 2
#28335231 - 05/26/23 08:53 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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This is the true "automated FAE", fuck the fans and reptifoggers
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