mike-ologist said:

Nilo1983 said:

Are the white points a contamination? I have done a agar transfer on the right side last week.

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Hard to say from the picture, especially without species info

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suicideprevention said:

Is my climate ok for these shoeboxes?  Grain spawn to coir bulk in a shoebox at 1:1.5(ish).  I verified proper field capacity of coir before mixing with my spawn. I mixed them Sunday night so it has been ~40ish hours. There is some condensation on the side of the boxes which is what I would expect. But I'm wondering if there should be more. I'm curious because a wood stove is my primary source of heat and I live in a very dry area. It drops down to the negatives at night but my house stays 68-75F depending on the stove.  The humidity level in that room is 29% which is what I'm concerned about, I don't want it to dry out the substrate. Is this humidity level ok or should I puy a humidifier in that room?  I put the light on for better pictures and will put it on a 12/12 when it's time for that mono

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Throwaway said:

catnip40 said:

10, 7 on bottom 3 on top

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I don't use the standard mason jars but this only goes for the regular mouth ones right? It's only 2 on top for the wide mouths I've heard

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Depends on the lids.


With the cheap white lids I can get 3 on top. But with the gray Ball lids that I use now I can only get 2.

ReverendMyc said:

Throwaway said:

catnip40 said:

10, 7 on bottom 3 on top

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I don't use the standard mason jars but this only goes for the regular mouth ones right? It's only 2 on top for the wide mouths I've heard

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Depends on the lids.


With the cheap white lids I can get 3 on top. But with the gray Ball lids that I use now I can only get 2.

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suicideprevention said:

Is my climate ok for these shoeboxes?  Grain spawn to coir bulk in a shoebox at 1:1.5(ish).  I verified proper field capacity of coir before mixing with my spawn. I mixed them Sunday night so it has been ~40ish hours. There is some condensation on the side of the boxes which is what I would expect. But I'm wondering if there should be more. I'm curious because a wood stove is my primary source of heat and I live in a very dry area. It drops down to the negatives at night but my house stays 68-75F depending on the stove.  The humidity level in that room is 29% which is what I'm concerned about, I don't want it to dry out the substrate. Is this humidity level ok or should I puy a humidifier in that room?  I put the light on for better pictures and will put it on a 12/12 when it's time for that mono

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Nilo1983 said:

mike-ologist said:

Nilo1983 said:

Are the white points a contamination? I have done a agar transfer on the right side last week.

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Hard to say from the picture, especially without species info

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It is psilocybe cubensis - orissa india.

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Mark_M said:

BeefSupremeJr said:

she got matted a bit didn't she? You ever try and mow a lawn when it got so tall then it rained and it all fell over?
I have the same struggle when im trying to cut my best buds hair.  Its like its not exactly straight but not exactly nice and curly either. like tryin to mow a wet lawn left go too long.

Anyway, what? ohyeah ill agree with my bud LK.  She'll go.

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So the coir came today and I peeled the bag and moved it to a plastic bin but I immediately realized I need a bigger bin. I think I have some so, tomorrow...  Meanwhile it's on its side. But I was wondering if I couldn't take a bread knife and cut this thing down the center and lay the two sides down.

In any case, I lightly scratched the sides and bottom with a fork and rolled it gently in the coir.

I've got pinning from what was the top but I don't see why try to limit it to the top. Are there any rules about this? Intuitively I'd think splitting the loaf and bedding the inside faces down onto the coir might be a good thing. Or am I begging to kill the whole deal? I could just get something taller like a bucket or whatever and stand it back up.... ?

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This morning's five minute solution... Looks like things are taking off!

ParanoidGuy said:

I have two shoeboxes in my martha that smell weird, I think they are contaminated by bacterias. One smell good actually almost like beer or sugar, and the other one smell like death! Should I trash them already or try to get some fruits anyway?

The one that smells like death is grown from wild cyanescens print. They are both still colonizing.

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DERRAYLD said:

Go to a filter manufacturer and ask them for offcuts of their prefilter material which is almost always poly.

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You just made me realize that I have an industrial sized roll of this stuff at my workplace. How lucky is this. Trying to think of applications because I can't change the air exchange rate by making it thinner. Probably good for PF jars? Maybe I can use it on my water mono tub I have right now just to see how it works.

cronicr said:

Plate pin to grain day 13

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LewDoja said:

lushmush said:

I was thinking about dunking but ended up misting heavily. I have read through these forums a TON researching before growing. (Thank you everyone for the helping hand btw) but, this term is new to me. What’s a floating lotus?

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Misting is more of a surface conditioner.

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Beef said:
"Floating Lotus" tek.  This is simply where you just put an inch or two of water in your tub on the second flush and just let it float. I recently did this with one of five identical tubs and was pleasantly surprised to find this tub kicking out some monsters while the other tubs were spitting out frail skinny seconds.

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cronicr said:

That's why I like bags , 10 qt jars  is only 7.5 QTS of grain in your PC , bags you get 20 QTS of grain per run

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callmehippie said:

How long can it sit floating in water like that before you start to worry about it getting slimy and possibly bacterial?

Are you talking about like at the beginning of the second flush you floated it and then you leave it that way the entire way through?

The reason I ask. That's cuz like let's say when we normally bottom water something we are usually recommended to leave it for only 24 hours or so and then dump it.

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