Seriously_trippin said:

I got 6 cakes 4 are pinning everywhere. One looks normal and one looks a little concerning. Top pic middle cake




In the bottom Pic it's middle right

The growth seems pretty slow and steady

What do you guys think? What am I looking at? So I can learn what it is. Just thick mycelium I'm guessing?

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Azhiaaziam said:

"Properly Vented" "Make sure you Vent your PC"

As someone probably a week or so away from his first PC Cycle, I could use some clarification this subject. I see it a lot but I'm not sure I've ever read details.

I understand that the intention is to keep the PC at a set psi for a set time, but venting would lower the psi, wouldn't it?

so.. why? when? how many times?

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Just to add, don’t start the timer for your vent cycle until the safety lock pops up on your lid.

It usually take 15-20 minutes for that to happen for me, and then you set a 10-15 minute timer, put your weight on.

Tri-Polar said:

Azhiaaziam said:

"Properly Vented" "Make sure you Vent your PC"

As someone probably a week or so away from his first PC Cycle, I could use some clarification this subject. I see it a lot but I'm not sure I've ever read details.

I understand that the intention is to keep the PC at a set psi for a set time, but venting would lower the psi, wouldn't it?

so.. why? when? how many times?

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Just to add, don’t start the timer for your vent cycle until the safety lock pops up on your lid.

It usually take 15-20 minutes for that to happen for me, and then you set a 10-15 minute timer, put your weight on.

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I seen you active on this topic wanted to thank you you were right 135 degrees:

notthatsorry said:

Azhiaaziam said:

"Properly Vented" "Make sure you Vent your PC"

As someone probably a week or so away from his first PC Cycle, I could use some clarification this subject. I see it a lot but I'm not sure I've ever read details.

I understand that the intention is to keep the PC at a set psi for a set time, but venting would lower the psi, wouldn't it?

so.. why? when? how many times?

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You 'vent' the PC by leaving the pressure regulator off while the PC comes up to temp, and until the only thing being expelled from the pressure relief vent is steam.

The goal is to remove all the air in the PC and replace it with steam before sealing the PC and increasing the pressure. Any air left in the PC will dramatically lower the temperature even at high psi, leading to incomplete sterilization.

Common recommendation is to leave the cap off for ~10 minutes at the beginning, but it sometimes takes mine 20ish minutes to completely vent all the air and only produce steam.

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Smellyhobbit said:

Looks like cube myc to me

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Sweet thank you

Smellyhobbit said:

callmehippie said:

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Smellyhobbit said:

Your bag was extremely bacterial. That gel is bacteria.

I send that at a 1:1 ratio of spawn to substrate and cross every finger and toe you can cross. Expect contamination but hope for mushrooms because it’s not impossible that you could still get some.

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How do you mean?    It's already spawn and substrate together since it's an all in one bag. So are you saying just break it all up into a tub and cross my fingers? Or I need to break it up into a tub and add some more substrate?  Am I a fool for even trying at this point? Or should I toss it and just spend my time learning the pf tek  before anything.i mean at this point it's all experimental.

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Oh it has substrate. I assumed it didn’t because I thought from the chunk you had in your hand you’d already broken it up.

If you want to try fruiting it, try fruiting it. If a jar I made in house looked like that I would throw it out without hesitation, BUT it would be one of many jars and the loss wouldn’t be felt.

It’s contaminated. It will probably fail, but we’ve all seen contaminated spawn throw out a few mushrooms. The only thing you have to lose by waiting to see if it fruits is something you were going to throw away anyway.

Definitely start PF tek if that’s your next step. Always start working on the next project

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chutney said:

Seriously_trippin said:

How do i have 15k posts and not know what coir is? Fair question honestly.That's actually an interesting story sort of. Firstly when I registered no company would sell LCs to California so for a majority of that time I just thought I'd never be able to grow . Plus I was younger and had access to many shroom dealers.

I started here because I found mushrooms near me house, I picked about 10lbs of it and was "drying it" under a ceiling fan. I had been posting on the shroomery about other psychedelic adventures and alot of pill based posts. And someone here saved my life told me that 10lbs of mushrooms I picked was extremely poisonous. I instantly recognized the value of this site as a resource for unintended harm reduction.

Just about a month ago I checked more sites and sponsored vendors kind of out of desperation because I'm so depressed and found that now Lcs can be shipped to Cali So from that moment on I've been trying to learn all I can.

It is kind of insane I've been a member of a site called "the shroomery" for so long and never learned how to grow shrooms I just loved the community and whenever I had harm reduction questions for other drugs I always git great advice here but it's never too late to learn and I've been here so long I know to take the advice because I've grown to really really trust this community over the years and honestly I think that's why I've been so successful so far.

Also I think it's worth noting I started this journey 25 days ago lol so I have alot of learning to do

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Dude best of luck to ya!

I too just started a couple months ago. First batch I grew were ridiculously weak. I had to travel so took a 5lb actively fruiting block on a 12 hour drive and my hunch is all that stress (myc was BLUE when I got there lol) freaked em out and caused em to be lackluster. All good though, got another batch almost fully colonized now, and it's been fun learning!

Keep us posted.

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Thank you my friend Oh damn, yeah I think my cakes would freak if I moved them even a foot to the side once a day that's cool you got some though even if weak. You're going to nail this next one though I'm rooting for ya here's a link to my progress if you'd like to see I'm getting some great pins https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28850157

Pineapples7 said:

Just started my first PF grow after 2 successful attempts of growing mold on grain.

I probably should have asked this before inoculating the jars but regarding field capacity, how dry is too dry? And what happens if you inoculate dry PF cakes?
When squeezed the mixture a little water came out between my fingers but there were no drips from below. I used the ratios in the TEK and didn't want to mess with it for fear of messing it up.

Also, I plan on sending my cakes to bulk (provided they are all clean). I'm slightly unsure regarding monitoring surface conditions. Am I right in thinking I should leave it until the bulk is fully colonised then mist as needed to keep water droplets on the surface? Then stop misting again once the pins come through to avoid bacteria?

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