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My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy.
#28542643 - 11/14/23 12:53 PM (2 months, 12 days ago) |
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This is my first grow. I started in a grain spawn bag and injected it. After noticing the first clump i mashed it and this speeded up the process tenfold. Then I proceeded to mash it a couple more times once i saw that every part of the bag was evenly being colonized. Once the top layer was 70% colonized, I transported to my monotub. The day I started with the grain bag was 10/25, kept it on heated mat the whole time as this seemed to make the progression speed up quite fast. Transported to monotub on 11/10 and so far this is my progress. Will be casing soon once it's ready with gypsum water cause I just wanna go crazy on my first grow. So we shall see what happens




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I'm a bit confused...
You transferred your grain spawn to a tub when you realized it was 70% colonized? Was it an all in one bag with substrate in it as well? Or was it just grains?
What does casing it with gypsum water even mean? When will it be ready for that? What's the purpose?
Just from the gypsum water thing I think you're getting some info from some people who don't have your best interests at heart so be careful friend.
Looking good from what I can see though
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way]
#28542659 - 11/14/23 01:11 PM (2 months, 12 days ago) |
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I started in a grain bag of a proprietary blend of hydrated nutrient rich organic millet and wheat berries which has been sterilized. Then it was becoming white quite fast so when the top layer was about 70% white I transferred it to a monotub with manure-based substrate. The gypsum water is just a different approach. It's not gonna hurt it so just would like to divert a little.
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and I'll be casing it with coco coir. Then misting with a 2 litre spray bottle with 2 grams of gypsum powder.
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RogerRabbit said: Gypsum contains both calcium carbonate and sulfur, thus it tends to keep the pH near neutral, preventing swings as the metabolites try to push the pH down. We add lime to make the casing layer inhospitable to competitor fungi which are less tolerant of a high pH than established mushroom mycelium. Calcium carbonate or hydrated lime is not used to counter the effect of the metabolites. As said above, that's what the gypsum does.
Use gypsum on substrates such as compost or horse manure, but don't use lime. Save the lime for the casing mix, where you should use gypsum and lime together. RR
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Johnnygreenthumb said: RogerRabbit said: Gypsum contains both calcium carbonate and sulfur, thus it tends to keep the pH near neutral, preventing swings as the metabolites try to push the pH down. We add lime to make the casing layer inhospitable to competitor fungi which are less tolerant of a high pH than established mushroom mycelium. Calcium carbonate or hydrated lime is not used to counter the effect of the metabolites. As said above, that's what the gypsum does.
Use gypsum on substrates such as compost or horse manure, but don't use lime. Save the lime for the casing mix, where you should use gypsum and lime together. RR
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Well you are going to need a LOT of luck to avoid contamination from spawning uncolonized grains, especially into a manure substrate. Not much anyone can do to help you at this point as there ain't no going back from where you're at. All you can do now is wait and hope.
So I'll just say good luck and start here next time : https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28501530/fpart/1/vc/1
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: RockinRobot]
#28542678 - 11/14/23 01:23 PM (2 months, 12 days ago) |
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😲🫣 Damn. I can only hope it goes well. I’ve been running air purifiers through my rooms well before I intended to grow. So this area is quite better than most. But hoping for the best outcome. Contam would just be disheartening at this point.
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So you exposed grain that wasn't fully colonized to open air? That's a recipe for contamination if so.
Most of us don't even mist any more, let alone with gypsum water. Misting when it isn't needed is detrimental. Like you said though, adding gypsum to your misting water isn't going to hurt. Try getting your tub dialed in to the point where you aren't having to mist often though.
I'd recommend keeping to posts that have been made in the past 5-10 years or so. Roger rabbit was a good dude who advanced mycology tremendously, but he said a lot of incorrect things or stuff we have figured out isn't necessary. There is a lot of hilariously bad information the further back you go on this site.
Take the common advice of always having something else in the works to heart, especially if you really did spawn uncolonized grains.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way]
#28542687 - 11/14/23 01:34 PM (2 months, 12 days ago) |
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Will keep yall posted on the following days. I bought a fish air tank pump to transport fresh air into the tub once it’s ready for casing. Since I won’t be around much to keep opening the bin for FAE. I will also be supplying light from the simple full spectrum red and blue lamps. For 6hrs a day. This is all just a test for me. I dont want to starve them of light nor do i have natural sunlight available for them indirectly.
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Will be trying to get max 3 flushes out of them. Will be drying then dehydrating at 55 degrees celsius for 8 hrs for long term storage. Hoping for a good amount of weight if I get that far.
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That tub doesn't have holes in it? Looks like a fancy bought one so there should be holes you can just leave uncovered to allow fresh air exchange.
Air pumps and fanning are both things we tell people to stay away from since it is so easy to dry the substrate.
Differentiating colonizing and fruiting conditions is also unnecessary. Pretty much all of us just stick the spawn and substrate in a tub with a few holes in it and leave it alone until we get mushrooms. We never starve it for fresh air.
Just trying to help you out for your next grow by the way. I really hope you see success on this one.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way] 1
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Johnnygreenthumb said: Will keep yall posted on the following days. I bought a fish air tank pump to transport fresh air into the tub once it’s ready for casing. Since I won’t be around much to keep opening the bin for FAE. I will also be supplying light from the simple full spectrum red and blue lamps. For 6hrs a day. This is all just a test for me. I dont want to starve them of light nor do i have natural sunlight available for them indirectly.
The air pump will create an avoidable situation where you actually need to do more maintenance to keep it from drying out. Shoebox and tub teks are designed so you can do virtually nothing except add spawn and substrate. Ideally you don’t need to open the tub (or do much of anything) until harvest.
For smaller tubs look into shoebox teks, which the majority of folks here use “off the shelf” without modifying/drilling. These can be had for a couple bucks a piece. No pumps or extra gadgets required!
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Nonagon]
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Funny thing is i actually just realized a couple days ago i left those small holes exposed without covering it with the micropourous tape it came with. I did cover them afterwards but that freaked me out.
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Well if your tub has holes that are covered with micropore tape, it is already technically in fruiting conditions since it is getting fresh air exchange. It might not be getting as much as it needs for when the pinset comes, but it is getting air.
You can just remove some micropore tape to increase fae when you decide to. No air pump needed.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way]
#28543237 - 11/14/23 07:59 PM (2 months, 12 days ago) |
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Also it would be great if someone would let me know when they see pins and I can take the lid off to add the casing. I’ll be adding pics every couple days. Thanks a ton
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Todays status.
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I didn't notice it in the first pictures, but what are those black blobs that look like they are sitting on top of the sub?
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way]
#28544313 - 11/15/23 05:29 PM (2 months, 11 days ago) |
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oh just small clumps of the manure substrate that hasn't fully colonized yet
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Okay great. I figured that was likely substrate but I wanted to make sure
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way]
#28545018 - 11/16/23 08:47 AM (2 months, 10 days ago) |
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Johnny, you're gonna be able to recognize when pins start popping up, trust. I'm just about to harvest my first grow, which is also APE. They look like little tiny mushrooms sticking up above the surface.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: shakology]
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Thank you so much thats a perfect example
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 Surface at this point has so many tiny water droplets. It’s super pretty to see. I always have to be careful not to bang the top that water knocks down onto the surface cause this tub is covered in condensation. I could only get pics thru the small hole in the middle.
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Current status today of how it’s looking. Appreciate any feedback. Just waiting on the early signs of pinning so I can case it. Haven’t opened the container yet, it’s only been 9 days since transferring it to the monotub. Not sure if its contamination resistant yet.








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Looks good try to leave it alone and don't let it dry out.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Screwup]
#28549382 - 11/19/23 04:32 PM (2 months, 7 days ago) |
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Regarding the dehydration method @screwup replied to. Does that mean I can skip the drying stage and go straight to dehydration. I just got my dehydrator today. It has 8 trays and was on sale for black friday deals woot 100 bux. goes up to 170 degrees
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There is no drying stage before dehydration. Harvest and put in the dehydrator.
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Yeah not sure which drying stage you are referring to. ~160f for 24 hours is all you should need.
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Got some better pictures cause I got a flashlight. Here goes. 









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Todays status. Ik you guys are against casing and all but god is it ready to case yet? Is it contam resistant at this point. I just wanna case it and wait for my mushrooms.



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Good and bad news. I noticed a fluffy white patch that seemed very tint green. I did the qtip test and it was indeed trich. I managed to salvage my cake thankfully. It dug deeper than i thought. I tried cutting out the corner initially. And cut out deep enough to not see any green in the middle. after a couple hrs each time i would check to see if i saw any green. For two more times i saw a couple grains that would turn green after taking a quarter of the cake out. There has been no more further growth of green coming from inside the substrate. I think I managed to save it. Im really glad i noticed a tiny fluffy circle and I’m very glad it was in the very corner. Must have been from the water dripping from the top case. I noticed a few drops of water had pooled there while it was colonizing so i didnt wanna disturb. But glad I managed to salvage what I could. Keeping a close eye on it now.
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The trich wasn't from water dripping. It was from your spawn, especially if it wasn't fully colonized. Contamination almost always starts with dirty spawn.
I'm rooting for you, but trich is a mean bastard and tends to spread through the entire substrate. You're likely fighting a losing battle.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way]
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Johnnygreenthumb said: Good and bad news. I noticed a fluffy white patch that seemed very tint green. I did the qtip test and it was indeed trich. I managed to salvage my cake thankfully. It dug deeper than i thought. I tried cutting out the corner initially. And cut out deep enough to not see any green in the middle. after a couple hrs each time i would check to see if i saw any green. For two more times i saw a couple grains that would turn green after taking a quarter of the cake out. There has been no more further growth of green coming from inside the substrate. I think I managed to save it. Im really glad i noticed a tiny fluffy circle and I’m very glad it was in the very corner. Must have been from the water dripping from the top case. I noticed a few drops of water had pooled there while it was colonizing so i didnt wanna disturb. But glad I managed to salvage what I could. Keeping a close eye on it now.
You're following some awful information. You need to forget everything you read elsewhere, read the hitchhikers guide to the shroomery, and stop following dodgy teks. Contamination almost always comes from unclean spawn, as soon as you spawned uncolonised grain we knew it would fail. Listen to the good people of the shroomery, we have your back. Fingers crossed but that tubs probably a gonner.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: HappinessStan]
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 Idk man it still looks good going into day 2 of after all the cuts i made. No more internal green. And looks like white mycelium growing again.
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Lets see what happens. I told myself id toss the tub if i had to do one more cut cause I didn’t wanna go through all the sterilizing and cleaning up after again and again but so far no green.
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Todays progress. Still looking good. Casing started to get colonized slowly but surely.




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Todays status. Still looking very good. What a stroke of luck. Man am I happy this is still going.




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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way]
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Way said: I didn't notice it in the first pictures, but what are those black blobs that look like they are sitting on top of the sub?
Seems like uncolonised substrate...probably trich soon.
EDIT: Sorry didn't notice there are more pages. It will probably trich out, but GL.
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Seems like uncolonised substrate...probably trich soon.
EDIT: Sorry didn't notice there are more pages. It will probably trich out, but GL.
It's good to know that uncolonized substrate on top of the myc can be a sign trich is incoming. I wasn't aware before.
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Way said: I didn't notice it in the first pictures, but what are those black blobs that look like they are sitting on top of the sub?
Seems like uncolonised substrate...probably trich soon.
EDIT: Sorry didn't notice there are more pages. It will probably trich out, but GL.
It's good to know that uncolonized substrate on top of the myc can be a sign trich is incoming. I wasn't aware before.
I'm just speaking in my experience, these last "islands" of uncolonised sub. without any aparent reason turned into trich for me a few times. I don't want to misslead anyone. I also took into account that OP spawned grain that wasn't fully colonised.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Giermmo]
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Still looking pretty good. Wish me luck.
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These were cool screenshots I took while taking a vid of them. So fascinating. Such dope ass threads.




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3 baby peens now 😬😬😁
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A few more potential clusters in the works. See you guys in a couple days. Also my cake has become 40% of its size due to all the cuts i made to control the trich that was popping up. Had another outbreak on bottom right and top right which resulted in my removing the whole right side to save the cluster on the left that was super healthy. Every time i made a cut i would notice that the grain from the surround trich area would always seem to change colors as it if it was bruising but I didn’t notice the effects of this on the healthy side or the color change. The first trich infestation was the top left in which i was able to stop seeing the grain change colors after the initial 2 cuts. However the bottom right would never recover to staying white and the top right thankfully i removed in time because there was the wettest blob of trich on the top right i almost freaked out. All in all this will my first and last time since this was way more work then i thought it was gonna be. Im just happy to have a supply of these that ill be able to enjoy with some good pals. Hoping to get as many as i can from this healthy block.
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The wettest blob was from me making a cut after witnessing fluffy white clusters on the top. Once i made the cut the wet blob of trich was against the tub towards the middle of the cake. It hadnt matured at the surface yet.
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I decided to expose the left side and push the left block over since i was seeing mushroom progress on the cut side. Seems to have worked. Pins are starting to grow on the left and bottom side that was covered by the tub
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When will I know which ones will be ready to pick off the substrate? And how do I go about taking them off? Do I just pluck them off? Do I leave the base attached. Do i pluck it so if theres a root it comes out too? Need answers thank you
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Penis Envy varieties are slightly different than normal cubes for knowing when to harvest. An easy way to tell is the caps usually turn more blue and if you squeeze below the cap the stipe should be soft.
Twist and pull or cut as close to the substrate as possible.
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Re: My First Grow. Albino Penis Envy. [Re: Way]
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Looking oh so delicious!!!
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These are my favorite so far. They seem to merge together as if they are fusing if they are so close together so cool!!!
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Lights are on now. They’re growing so fast I feel like it’s gonna fill out pretty soon. I’m anxious to pick the first big three but I’m gonna wait.
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Is this guy a shroom cause it doesn’t look like the head but more like the stem. Who knows? Waiting for it to pop up more.
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So I picked the 2 biggest mushrooms. The one big mushroom weighs 42g. How does one know how much to consume if it’s wet? Is it the same as if its dry? Or are the wet ones stronger? I cant imagine consuming a 42g mushroom
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A good rule of thumb is dry mushrooms are around 10% of wet weight. The 42g one would be around 4g dry so a pretty good trip. It's not exact though and that should only be used as an estimation.
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Just did my first set of the regular PE. Your P is much fatter than mine. lol. Mine was longer though. I guess you can’t have it all. Nice grow!
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Thank you! 😬😬
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Ended up with 6 gram dry weight from those first two that i plucked. Theyre in a vacuum sealed bag with silica in the fridge as we speak
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It's cool to see a grow that doesn't go perfectly, but still bears fruit(s). Encouraging for a fellow new grower.
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I tried to salvage every little as I could. As you could see the other brick is basically a halve sliced horizontally across the middle of the cake. The top half which had more mycelium was always triching out no matter how much i tried to cut it away. So I managed to save the bottom half.
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Rehydrating the cake now and going for the second flush. See yall in a few days
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Decided I’m gonna keep growing but gonna be doing things differently. Next strain is jedi mind fuck. Just ordered the spore syringe.
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Haven’t plucked any from this little bad boy yet. Gonna give him a few more days to fruit. See how big i can get em from that half a cake.
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I ate like 4 or 5 really tiny ones and the room became orange and started vibrating. Coulda swore I did almost next to nothing and everything started becoming bright and distorted. It was nice. Got 12 grams dry weight from the 128. In total 18g dry so far. Not bad.
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Why JMF instead of cloning a couple of these beautiful APEs? Clones will be a significant time savings over spores again.
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I haven’t done any research on cloning yet. I’m a complete noobie. I’ll have to look into it but I’m open to the adventure.
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Current status. Looks like the main cake is starting to pin again for the second round. And LOTS of them this time. Smaller cake apes have grown quite a bit. Gonna give it a couple more days and see how big they get. So exciting.
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Todays look. Picked all the apes off the smaller cake. Now waiting for main cake shrooms again . Waiting for small cake apes in dehydrator now
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I'd like to note that I have been misting this whole time, carefully avoiding the mushrooms with sterilized water and gypsum powder still. Even the casing when sprayed in the beginning to moisten up was using the same solution. Not sure what difference it would've made from doing it with just regular sterilized water or tap since this is my first time so there's really no 'control' here to go from. Nothing seems to have gone awry from it. And I feel the best has yet to come.
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Only left him on 😬
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Man these babies are kicking it into overdrive. Did not expect to see this much progress. But a matter of time now before theyre huge.
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So i left that little piece in there that broke off the small cake. Hoping maybe that a mushroom would grow off it and I think it’s working. I kept it moist each day. And it seems to be pinning on top. 😄
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Decided to harvest. Saw a couple fruit flies lurking. And curses one of them must have made it in while I was giving them air. Might have to start fresh with the jedis soon. Not ready to see an infestation of them in a few days.
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Back to trying for another go let’s see how this goes.
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Ape journey is over guys. When I opened the tub today. The lid had about 6 fruit flies under it so I tossed the whole cake. They must have breeded so it’s over. Started up on Jedi mind fucks tho.
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In total I got 33g dry weight from the apes. Not bad at all
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Congratulations!
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I think we got action. Peep the white grains 😬
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Still working with it. Noticed that it was getting way too cold in the closet. And since the heat mat was only distributing heat to the bottom i decided to lay the bag on its back with all the grain evenly distributed throughout the bag so it can be heated evenly and oh boy did that help quite a bit when i did that 4 days ago. Suddenly noticed more mycelium growth so I just broke it up today and mixed it one more time. We’ll update photos in a week or so.
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