blueberrybroccoli said:

Can i make agar with only sugar/honey, water and agar and skipping the potato flakes? What are potato flakes anyways? I only find instant potato mash that has other additives

Edit: The most convenient thing for me right now would be brown rice flour. Everything else i would have to order from the net

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golfin_ernie said:

How much dry coir would be used to make 1 quart at field capacity? 

Somewhere in the back of my brain I'm thinking 80 grams.

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BonsaidMycelium said:

Anyone try these instead of the Automotive style hepa filters?

https://www.amazon.com/GL2103-Filter-Replacement-Compatible-RIGOGLIOSO/dp/B0CP66MGMS/

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Mr Piggy said:

Jebi said:

AI is already smart enough, and competent enough to do basically anything a human can do.

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AI fucks up everything constantly.  It's gotten good enough to sound like it knows what it's talking about while having no fucking clue at all, which basically makes it a politician.  A family was recently poisoned from AI mushroom identification.  It still tells people to put wood shavings and concrete in baking mixes.  It's garbage, and now it's starting to eat its own tail.

It's awesome that it can translate well, but don't use it for anything serious that could matter.

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lfn said:

First timer here.

Inoculated 1/29.

Seeing signs of what I believe/hope is mycelium growth.
4 of 5 bags look similar. The others are harder to notice. One has no signs of growth.

Are these bags on the right track?

I am trying not to disturb them, but how often should I be checking the bags?

What should I be looking for specifically in terms of contamination and growth?

Bag 1


Bag 2

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KauaiOrca said:

Those are the smallest bags I've ever seen!

If you inoculated with spores, then that was 6 days ago so you should be seeing white specks gradually increasing in size in the next 7 days. If no signs at all by day 20, time to start worrying, but until then chill, just look at them every other day. Picking them up and handling them can only do harm.

Are you planning to fruit them right out of the bags?

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lfn said:

KauaiOrca said:

Those are the smallest bags I've ever seen!

If you inoculated with spores, then that was 6 days ago so you should be seeing white specks gradually increasing in size in the next 7 days. If no signs at all by day 20, time to start worrying, but until then chill, just look at them every other day. Picking them up and handling them can only do harm.

Are you planning to fruit them right out of the bags?

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HA, they are small, but I also have large hands so I dunno.

Not sure how to ask this, but is all white growth 'good'? Like can some contamination look white? From what I've read and seen green/yellowish colors seem to be the most obvious.

I'm loosely following CHAPTER 6: The Rich Mans Guide to Cultivation of The Hitchhiker's Guide. I plan on mixing them in a monotub with compost that I'll purchase if everything looks good.

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BonsaidMycelium said:

Sorry, I should have been more clear. This isn't for a flow hood, but for the inline fan for FAE in a Martha tent. I don't think Laminar Flow is an issues in this case.

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Axman said:

Some contamination show up as white see How it should look.

No need for compost friend, just hydrate some coco coir and you're good to go.

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lfn said:

HA, they are small, but I also have large hands so I dunno.

Not sure how to ask this, but is all white growth 'good'? Like can some contamination look white? From what I've read and seen green/yellowish colors seem to be the most obvious.

I'm loosely following CHAPTER 6: The Rich Mans Guide to Cultivation of The Hitchhiker's Guide. I plan on mixing them in a monotub with compost that I'll purchase if everything looks good.

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KauaiOrca said:

I'm nowhere near as knowledgable as others here, but a few things to consider:

• White growth is better than other colors, but not all white growth is healthy. It's too early in your grow to tell. In another week, maybe.
  
• If you started with spores instead of clean LC or agar, the likelihood there's some contams in there is fairly high. Doesn't mean you can't have a successful grow, it's just something to consider.
  
• When you spawn your grain that started with spores to bulk substrate, you dramatically increase the chances that contams will take off and possibly take over. Not saying it will for sure, but it's very possible.
  
• Generally speaking, if your plan is to spawn grain to bulk substrate, you should start your grain with very clean agar to dramatically lower your contam rate.
  
• Good news is you can top fruit right out of those bags if you don't want to risk a lost tub or maybe top fruit one of them and spawn the others???  Top fruiting, as long as it's not horribly contaminated, is pretty likely to work. There's a new tek I saw about how to fruit AIO that was really good.  https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29106914
  

Hopefully this was helpful and, again, others know a lot more about spawning to bulk than I do.

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