LewDoja said:

I'd wait till 100.01% to shake. That way you know for sure it was fully colonized and can spawn a day two when signs of recovery.

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I'm trying to be patient, but I was wondering if it is normal that the top grains take longer to colonize? How does my jars look in general?

Jar 1




Jar 2

Huskies said:

Jebi said:

GenesisCorrupted said:

All in one plastic ball jar lids


You don’t have to modify any jars anymore just a quarter turn opened when you put it into the PC and these work fine. No more replacing rusty lids.

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Isn't the SFD there for FAE?  or do you keep the lids a 1/4 loose after inoculation?

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Those lids are not canning safe according to the website. Says non-canning for usage.

If they are made with plastic, you need pp5 ones. Ball seems to have discontinued their old ones, they were white tops. I bought some knockoffs recently. I remove any silicone ring, and yeah, just turn the lids a tiny bit after shaking them.

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Those are all I use, they're 100x better than the white plastic ones,  imo. They're not used for canning because they don't self seal by pulling a vacuum, like the 2 piecemetal lids. They're Perfectly fine for spawn.



They don't warp either.

Fiet said:

What you guys think of this Idea Growing Mushrooms in a Oven? The Heat source comes from the the light bulp temps are constantly 28 Celsius the Humidity can later in fruiting stage with hot water bringing up the humidity and when it's too humidit then open the oven.

Know i just let the Bulk cologize full then open the bags the light is maybe enough lux for fruiting?

Maybe a ideal place for growing some stuff just becareful not heat it up lol

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GenesisCorrupted said:

They’re honestly seems to just be a bit too much variability to give you a definitive answer. It depends on the genetics and the environment that you’re attempting to grow it in. Mostly it depends on genetics.

If you’re bringing clean grain to the spawn.

Just have patience as long as it looks fully colonized something is going to happen eventually.

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The reason I asked is I just harvested a first flush from a jar I inoculated 27 days ago and this is my first grow in about 8 years and I can't remember how long it took when I grew back then. This one seemed to fruit relatively fast but I'm just curious how long it takes with different growing approaches?

Because I inoculated the jar with LC and shook it I never had to break up the mycelium and shake it again or spawn it so it never had to recover and re colonize. Then I just top fruited it out of the jar and am wondering if that cuts the total number of days from inoculation to 1st harvest?

Mackload said:

or you could put the bags anywhere in your place, then use the oven to bake yourself a cake for your approaching Shroomiversary 

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Fiet said:

I am careful buddy but at home i don't have 28 Celsius only 19-22

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LoneliestEnuretic said:

Hello all,
Here's the T.L;D.R.:
How do my surface conditions look and should I be spritzing more or less water? What about a couple of fans set on low a good distance away from the tub? Is that too much air moving around? Thanks!

  My girlfriend and I are going to start amassing the supplies to start working with agar soon since that seems to be the starting point that is most often recommended from what I've read. We have a bit of kit that we purchased to go along with the A.I.O. and that will transfer over to a more "traditional" grow so far as I can tell.

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