LoneliestEnuretic said:

Hello all!

I'm brand new to trying my hand growing and bought an inflatable monotub kit online as I wanted to see if I had any proficiency before outlaying a large chunk of dough.  I've read that this is largely frowned upon on this site so please keep your boos to a minimum.

I believe I've had success so far and I'm at the fruiting stage but I'm a bit concerned that I've got the "cotton ball" type contamination (sorry, I've forgotten the name) growing that I saw demonstrated in a video on youtube. Below are a few pictures and I'd appreciate any feedback as to if things are looking as they should at this stage. Thanks for the time and taking a look!

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blorbblorb said:

Any ideas on how to fix my setup would be appreciated!

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callmehippie said:

I recently dunked my PF cakes in my insulated cooler I normally bucket tek my coir in.


I just realized I did this. If i make up slme coir in it now Is it going to cause me issues? 


Is it the same rule as keeping your coir bucket separate from your grain bucket? Did I mess up here? Can I just wash it out and be okay?

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Feltigami said:

If you are trying to keep a certain genetic trait going, say, potency, or taste, etc. how do you both consume the speciman as well as get a sample of it? In other words, if you were going for size, you could simply clone the largest speciman, etc. But if you are wanting something that comes from consuming the speciman, you obviously can't go back and clone it after consumption, yet you woulnd't know how it tastes or how potent it is until consuming it, so how do you know which ones to clone when they haven't been consumed, yet? Since in theory, each mushroom grown (unless already from a clone) is slightly genetically different, how do you select for something like taste?

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ReverendMyc said:

Feltigami said:

If you are trying to keep a certain genetic trait going, say, potency, or taste, etc. how do you both consume the speciman as well as get a sample of it? In other words, if you were going for size, you could simply clone the largest speciman, etc. But if you are wanting something that comes from consuming the speciman, you obviously can't go back and clone it after consumption, yet you woulnd't know how it tastes or how potent it is until consuming it, so how do you know which ones to clone when they haven't been consumed, yet? Since in theory, each mushroom grown (unless already from a clone) is slightly genetically different, how do you select for something like taste?

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Lots of clones and good record keeping.

Take clones of several likely candidates labeling each. After cloning, prepare the remains for consumption keeping track of which fruit remains go with which clone. Consume remains and decide which clones are worth pursuing further. Toss the rest.

Easy if you are going for taste of gourmets. Much more time consuming if you are testing for potency and need to wait on tolerance to reset between dosing. Either need a lot of willing friends, a lot of time, or to use some lab testing such as QTests.

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Tweeq said:

The Q-tests are probably as accurate as the scales one uses to weigh the sample amount.

I've used them for clone selection, ie. I grew out 3 clones, Tested homogenized samples, selected the darkest one.

Pretty straightforward. It's pretty hard though to get exact numbers from the color.

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LewDoja said:

That's a great way to utilize those tests. Not being hung up on the numbers..

Also the lighting in which it is read, being second to the (mg) scale accuracy.


Unless you buy the fancy Colormeter thing,

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