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Siamese Shroom
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melmac monster grow log
#28626855 - 01/19/24 08:11 AM (8 days, 23 hours ago) |
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Hey guys, first post here. Im a novice grower, did some pf tek before and a lot of reading up. I dont have a PC and I need a certain level of secrecy in my shared apartment so this time I tried Uncle Ben's Tek with a melmac monster LC.
In this post there's 2 shoeboxes with ~ 1.5 : 1 coir to rice. It is currently winter where I live and quite cold (and very dry air). I dont heat my room very much so I placed the boxes close to my radiator, otherwise they would not reach more then 16 Celsius. This makes it kinda hard to control the temp and moisture.
Also note: Feel free to give advice but I am going for a minimal effort setup here so please dont be too harsh.
Inoculation on December 10th Spawned to coir on January 6th
First pics from Jan 11: Colonization going well IMO, lots of water pearls.


Side by side on Jan 12:

Jan 17: Blobbing has started, with one tub developing a few nice eggs. Mycelium dried out a bit over the weekend and it developed a blue hue (not very visible on the photos) I was suspicious for contam at first but it turned out to be fine. Turns out this happens to PE species when they dry out.
Also before this grow I didn't know blobbing was a thing. Now I am very excited to try these fruits. Everyone here says they can be very potent.

Jan 18: Blobbing and a few pins very visible on both shoeboxes. Question about the big blobs: are they just very strange shrooms with the dark parts being the caps? Do all blobs develop this, and when should I harvest these?


Jan 19: some close-ups. This looks like a torn veil on te blob so should I harvest?

Some growth developing in the other tub:

When do you guys think the first flush is due?
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stockw

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Hello & welcome, I've got a fair few Melmac Monster jars colonising at the moment so I'll keep an eye on your log out of interest 
The only advice I can give is don't put your heater too close to your tubs as you'll get uneven evaporation, negatively affecting your surface conditions.
I can see in some pictures there's dry spots in your tubs, you're aiming for a nice even layer of tiny water beads.
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Re: melmac monster grow log [Re: stockw]
#28630812 - 01/22/24 09:03 AM (5 days, 22 hours ago) |
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Pics from yesterday: The blob

And the mushrooms

And then the latest pics from today:


The fruits are growing very quickly, some of the veils are breaking, also today the huge blob felt a little softer for the first time. I think I will be harvesting both tubs tomorrow, hoping the blob tub will have a real flush afterwards.
The substrate has been shrinking a lot but any extra water just pools at the bottom which is undesirable, I think I'll dunk after harvesting and see what happens.
So far I'm not disappointed at all
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Golden.Teacher
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Wow. Nice. Is that just the regular MelMac or is it a hybrid?
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Siamese Shroom
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Quote:
Golden.Teacher said: Wow. Nice. Is that just the regular MelMac or is it a hybrid?
This is grown from a regular Melmac Monster lc that I purchased from a webshop.
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Just harvested the blob! It came out to 109.54g (wet).



Decided to not harvest the other shoebox yet, the shrooms don't feel any softer yet like the blob did today but they are coming along nicely.
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Howdy! Harvested some shrooms yesterday (99.5g). They were giving me all the signs: - Broken veils - Stopped growing - Edges curling up - Texture on the upper stem changed - Shrooms started to feel softer


Before:

After:

Shown here 99.95g wet

Pictures from today: These fruits are still growing. I think there's a few aborts, might harvest those and all the remaining fruits on sunday.

This is the tub that had the huge blob, its pinning very nicely (not all showing up on the picture) and it looks like I'm getting a nice second flush! After the harvest I dunked the mycelium under water for a couple of hours however it didn't grow back in size. For a while after I drained it water kept 'leaking' out of it and pooling up, which I removed to prevent contam/bacterial growth. Anyway here's the pic.

I haven't had the time to take any yet. Currently I have fan dried everything I harvested before storing it in an epsom salt jar however I'd like to take at least one dose fresh if I can.
PS I'm having a lot of fun posting here. Will keep you updated, I hope you guys still enjoy my posts
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Mwj12977
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After the harvest I dunked the mycelium under water for a couple of hours however it didn't grow back in size.
They don’t typically swell back up. At least not that I’ve ever noticed. What I have noticed is they get smaller after each flush regardless of the hydration level. That blob was epic!
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