Melgo said:

mycosispeon said:

Okay, looking for some guidance on spawning to bulk here in a few days...

• What is your preferred substrate? Is pasteurization necessary?
  
• What is your preferred spawn/sub ratio?
  
• My plan was to spawn to two 20qt Sterilite tubs modded using EZDial TEK. Will these work? Do the holes need to be covered with SFD?
  

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Keep it simple for your first try.

• Use coir (maybe add verm) and do pasteurize it. A spawn/sub ratio of 1/1 or 1/2 will speed things up.
  
• Case with sifted and pasteurized cactus soil.
  
• EZDial tek will work, it'll give you spaghettis tho' (not a great look, but amazing yield), no need to cover holes with SFD.
  

Again: keep it simple for your first try. If you have only the most basic ingredients & prep (coir, verm, cactus soil) you'll reduce the amount of variables, it'll be easier do debug.

When you master that, you can give a go to a different sub recipe such as ekabpils' Growing Psilocybe Zapotecorum - MicoZ Tek.

Best of luck!

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mycosispeon said:

I'm considering spawning these today. Is it too soon? Should I let them go longer?

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eLShaMukO said:

 

provably not going to get in the gold member club with the cool grows in here but at least i made it to the tin can club
i just placed them near a window and used the sun

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ekabpils said:

Subtropicalis is very sensitive to substrate recipe and conditions:
Below are two grows with the same culture:

First grow. Coir/straw/manure/verm



Second grow. Wood added.



Again - this the same culture! And how different they are

Experiment with ingredients wisely - it is easy to fail the whole grow. Start from simple. I had several failed iterations. Subtropicalis is more aggressive and stable - difficult to fail. Zapotecorum is more sensitive. 

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The color difference is just crazy

RoscoeReturns said:

I agree. I see the gills through the caps when I get large fruit that I keep wet.



Here are some just before a good misting. I basically drench these caps twice a day. You get those nice radial lines, and they drop spores much more readily if kept wet.

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Thanks for the info Roscoe! It’s your print I’ve been working from

Gleyck said:

are you sure that's semps mycelium? looks very cube

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