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Screwup
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Help US Help YOU TEK 16
#28440289 - 08/20/23 08:37 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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So you came to the shroomery asking for help but provided absolutely zero useful information on your post that could be answered in a simple sentence from one of us in the “Quick questions, quick answers” thread? Let's try to help us help you by not wasting time asking you basic questions and having to claw the information out of you. All these questions may not be applicable but if you have the information it may be helpful for all involved. If you have a different answer to any of these feel free to put it where you think it fits. MOST IMPORTANTLY IF YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT WHAT SOMETHING LOOKS LIKE…ADD SOME PICTURES! NO ONE CAN GUESS WHAT IS HAPPENING WITHOUT THEM. MORE MOST IMPORTANTLY MAKE SURE YOU PICTURES ARE WELL LIT AND ABLE TO BE SEEN!
GENERAL QUESTIONS
What ACTIVE strain or ACTIVE variety are you growing?
What are you using to inoculate your substrate/grains/medium with? Multispore syringe (MSS), Liquid Culture (LC), Semi solid liquid culture (SSLC), Agar.
What are you inoculating into? BRF (Brown Rice Flour), Grains (WBS, Rye, Wheat, Millet, ETC), LC, SSLC, All In One bag (AIO bag).
What substrate for water retention are you using? Coconut coir (Coco coir), Vermiculite (Verm), Manure, AIO bag.
Are you using a still air box (SAB), fan filter unit (FFU), or a Laminar flow hood (LFH) when you inoculate your media or to perform actions that require sterility?
If you are using Syringes of any kind to inoculate, are you flaming the needle until it is red hot between jars?
JAR, GRAIN, OR OTHER PREP QUESTIONS
Are you using a steamer (Pot of boiling water with lid) or a Pressure cooker (PC)?
Are you soaking your grains before PCing? If yes for how long? If no are you doing no prep?
Are you venting your PC before allowing it to reach pressure? If yes, for how long are you doing so?
How long are you steaming or PCing your materials for? Materials can be PF tek jars, grain jars, agar plates, agar bottles, syringes, and etc.
What material are you using as a filter for your grain jars? Synthetic Filter Discs (SFDs), Tyvek, Multipore Tape, Polyfill, Syringe filter.
What is the ratio of spawn (grains) to sub (coir) you are dealing with?
Was your substrate at field capacity before mixing?
Are you using a dry layer of verm with your pf tek jars?
What ratio of verm and BRF are you using for your pf tek jars?
AGAR QUESTIONS
What Tek Are you following to create your agar or what ratio and what ingredients are you using to create the agar? Ratios such as 500ML water to 10G agar to 10G LME (light malt extract).
Are you using no pours or pours for your agar? No pours are poured into the plates and PC’ed. Pours are when you use a media bottle then pour your agar plates with the use of a FH, LFH, or SAB.
If you are taking transfers from your agar to another plate are you flaming the scalpel before each transfer?
LENGTH OF TIME QUESTIONS
How long has it been since you inoculated your substrate/media/agar?
How long has it been since you spawned your colonized grains and mixed it with substrate?
How long has it been since you first saw pins, hyphal knots, or etc?
How long has it been since your shook your grain jars and how long has it taken for them to recover and begin colonizing again?
TEMPERATURE QUESTIONS
What temperature is your environment with your set up? Are you using a heating pad underneath the tub (bad idea) or a space heater (good idea) in the same room?
What temperature and for how long are you drying your mushrooms?
HOW DOES MY (OBJECT) LOOK?
Have you taken well lit and clearly visible photos?
Have you tested your LC or SSLC on agar to ensure it’s not contaminated?
Truthfully I didn't put too much effort into this as I started adding questions I realized it could get quite long. I'm also too lazy to figure out how to best group questions within a process to make it more streamlined. Furthermore I'm not entirely sure if this will even be useful as it'll be buried pretty quickly I imagine. If you have any suggestions on questions/grouping that can be done feel free to add them. I'll make changes to it from time to time if even one persons calls me a dip shit just to spite you.
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Edited by Screwup (08/20/23 05:27 PM)
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Shrimps
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: Screwup] 1
#28440303 - 08/20/23 08:53 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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Just M
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: Screwup] 1
#28440304 - 08/20/23 08:54 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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Awesome
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Cluster heaven.
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med man
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: Just M] 1
#28440318 - 08/20/23 09:02 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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Yessir it's a fine list of relevant questions!
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Kinoko314
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: Just M] 1
#28440324 - 08/20/23 09:09 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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I'll have to link this thread when people give no info.
Otherwise it probably will just get buried.
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Screwup
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: Kinoko314]
#28440334 - 08/20/23 09:17 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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Quote:
Kinoko314 said: I'll have to link this thread when people give no info.
Otherwise it probably will just get buried.
I assumed as such. Perhaps it’ll get dragged up when’s someone tries searching for answers (lol). I feel like there’s quite a few missing obvious questions but I’ll add them maybe at a different time as they come to me.
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VP123
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: Screwup] 1
#28440464 - 08/20/23 10:39 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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What are the temperatures like in your growth setup? If too cold, are you using a heating pad (not a good idea) or a space heater (better option)?
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Screwup
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: VP123]
#28440501 - 08/20/23 11:10 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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Thank you sir added that one and a few others.
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Hysteria
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: Screwup] 1
#28440553 - 08/20/23 11:58 AM (5 months, 6 days ago) |
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What is the ratio of spawn to sub and was sub at field capacity?
Good thread.
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RoscoeReturns
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Re: Help Us Help You TEK [Re: Hysteria] 1
#28440761 - 08/20/23 03:13 PM (5 months, 5 days ago) |
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Nice.
I always want to know what they are growing. I know 99% of noobs are growing cubes, but I always waste my time answering questions about why some shoebox with coir won’t fruit and at the end the guy tells me he’s trying to grow shiitake.
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Re: Help US Help YOU TEK [Re: Screwup] 2
#28440775 - 08/20/23 03:26 PM (5 months, 5 days ago) |
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Someone pin this shit.
I am still a noob here and can see how helpful this would be not only as a guide for asking questions but also as a sort of checklist for new cultivators like myself.
Awesome idea, man.
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DrunkPunk
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Re: Help US Help YOU TEK [Re: Pnin]
#28440799 - 08/20/23 04:05 PM (5 months, 5 days ago) |
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<<<What are you inoculating into?
You left out UB, and you know it's going to be UB... Hey if this is intentional *high five*, let's start the purge.
just sayin'
Edited by DrunkPunk (08/20/23 04:08 PM)
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Castles
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Re: Help US Help YOU TEK [Re: Pnin]
#28440806 - 08/20/23 04:15 PM (5 months, 5 days ago) |
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MicroMycelium
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Re: Help US Help YOU TEK [Re: Castles]
#28440847 - 08/20/23 04:44 PM (5 months, 5 days ago) |
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Coming from a noob,
Putting “Click this for help” in your sig with the relative helpful threads attached would probably work better..
Compared to creating another thread, when the trend is already not reading them, and speaking condescendingly toward people new to the community asking for help.
If they didn’t read the other 10 threads with 50 pages of useful info each, why would they read this one? Just a thought.
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Screwup
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Let’s be real if people aren’t going to click the pinned and obvious threads at the top that have all the information they need…you really think they’re gonna click links in signatures? Updoot and let me get my dopamine sir.
There you freaking happy? Now you can ignore my sig too
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Edited by Screwup (08/20/23 05:28 PM)
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MicroMycelium
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Re: Help US Help YOU TEK [Re: Screwup] 1
#28440909 - 08/20/23 05:36 PM (5 months, 5 days ago) |
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Quote:
Screwup said: Let’s be real if people aren’t going to click the pinned and obvious threads at the top that have all the information they need…you really think they’re gonna click links in signatures? Updoot and let me get my dopamine sir.
There you freaking happy? Now you can ignore my sig too
Love it gonna tell everyone to check that thing
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Precubescent
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Re: Help US Help YOU TEK [Re: Screwup]
#28551178 - 11/21/23 07:29 AM (2 months, 6 days ago) |
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I’m greatful you did !
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MrJong
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It's crazy but at this point it should almost be a "read this page before posting" thing before your first post on the forum.
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ShroomingtonThe3rd
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Re: Help US Help YOU TEK [Re: Screwup] 1
#28621643 - 01/14/24 11:42 PM (13 days, 13 hours ago) |
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This post is still find-able, coming from a 1st time poster noob. Though I found it when searching "mold", then clicking on links presented in mold threads.
I agree this is very helpful information but may have become buried or hard to stumble upon.
Thank you for the write up my dude.
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