catnip40 said:

if u stack them more than 3-4 yeah kinda. the lids also warp after awhile.

it could cause either but usually it seems to me that the weight causes the corners to bow out and the corners  dry up faster.

i have a number of shoeboxes that dry out in the corners more than others from stacking over time and the lids are just bowed and the corners get more air even when not stacked lol

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callmehippie said:

Shout out to

☆fiddle_head☆  @sporemonkey you dude

Everything arrived fast and clean
Thanks for the freebies.that was a very unexpected.


Good luck with the venture. Keep up the good work!

Hope this helps spread the word.

#supportyourmushcultfamily


Shout out to

☆lew doja☆ @ a badass dude.
You

I found about the monkey because of your recent givaway. Just sayin,
We need more people like you around here. Keep up the good work!

#supportyourmushcultfamily
#supportyourpeers
#whatslifewitouttheshroomery


Shout out to

All the other wonderful members here helping each other do amazing things. Keep up the good work!
Everyone stay groovy.



Thats all.  Srry for being off topic

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potato11teen said:

Rate my growth. Personally it's been difficult to find pictures and information for the time in between pins and harvest. From what I've read it takes a week on average to fruit and at the rate we're going that average isn't applying to me.

I guess what I want is just more input. I'm not worried about when I get them, I'm practicing patience and LITFA, I'm more looking for people's thoughts since my searching has been unsatisfactory. Like, one thing weird to me is that there's no obvious cap on my pins like everyone else I've seen. It's so tiny! It just feels like they're slow coming.

Species: P. Ochraceocentrata
Tek: PF cakes in water tub

February 6 - first obvious pin blobs



February 9 - Blobs into pins



February 12 - Pins turn into... longer pins.



Surface conditions, also taken Feb 12



Normally I wouldn't be so interested in some validation but I'm going to be gone for 4 days starting today. If the week average timeframe is what happens for me, they will fruit and I'll come home to rot. If they're slow like I'm hypothesizing, I think I'll come home right in time. Should I send someone to peep them on Saturday?

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potato11teen said:

Thank you for your perspective.

I guess one reason I feel it's going slowly is when I dunked and rolled these cakes they were pinning in two days. That timeframe seemed way faster than what I had read from other PF Tek users so I figured I was on the fast track. I was also getting mycelial growth within 24 hours of inoculation so these genetics really spoiled me up to this point.

Which is fine. I'm not complaining. Everything happens exactly when it needs to.

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My first time with pf tek (which happened to be with ochraceocentrata, coincidentally enough) things started growing so fast that it actually pushed up the filter patch:




But then I was told if it's going that fast it was probably bacterial. But it ended up still growing just fine. Once I birthed the cake (immediately after finding the jar in this image like this, actually), the rest of the pins started coming in, and then it took like 7 days to get to full size.

mike-ologist said:

callmehippie said:

Shout out to

☆fiddle_head☆  @sporemonkey you dude

Everything arrived fast and clean
Thanks for the freebies.that was a very unexpected.


Good luck with the venture. Keep up the good work!

Hope this helps spread the word.

#supportyourmushcultfamily


Shout out to

☆lew doja☆ @ a badass dude.
You

I found about the monkey because of your recent givaway. Just sayin,
We need more people like you around here. Keep up the good work!

#supportyourmushcultfamily
#supportyourpeers
#whatslifewitouttheshroomery


Shout out to

All the other wonderful members here helping each other do amazing things. Keep up the good work!
Everyone stay groovy.



Thats all.  Srry for being off topic

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Spore monkey is ignoring me and has not shipped any of my items.....

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GenesisCorrupted said:

They look thirsty.
Did you get the sub straight to field capacity?

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I believe so. There's just a bit of free water in the bottom corners of the tub. Here's new pictures this morning.

Lilgrower said:

I think my bacterial jar problem is from having to pull the pressurized lid off the PCed mason jars to innoc with agar wedges. The air sucking into the jar, even in a SAB, probably isn’t a great thing. Not sure how they even pressurize, as they are modded lids with filters. How are others avoiding that?

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Lilgrower said:

I think my bacterial jar problem is from having to pull the pressurized lid off the PCed mason jars to innoc with agar wedges. The air sucking into the jar, even in a SAB, probably isn’t a great thing. Not sure how they even pressurize, as they are modded lids with filters. How are others avoiding that?

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catnip40 said:

They look great to me actually. Imagine wasting 3 or 4 pages bc someone that didn't know any better said they were thirsty

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The Tao said:

Looks good to me. Mushrooms are growing and there are lots of pins and knots. No caps turning black, nothings stopped growing since yesterday.
Caps start out dark brown and lighten up, stipes are often slightly coloured. Lighting and editing can certainly change the way things look but I don’t see anything odd.
Post another picture tomorrow to track progress.

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