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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: QuantumZ00]
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Hi there,

2 quick questions if I may:

1.) Pf tek 11 days of growth (only 2 innoc holes - one in middle and one on side)



Does this look like right amount of growth for that long?



2.) this jars top layer of verm has shifted (was to the brim before PCing) but now can see the top of lid through the jar so am scared of contams wicking once myc goes topside.


Should I open the jar and dump a new layer of verm or just pray?


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: SillySighBen]
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SillySighBen said:
Hi there,

2 quick questions if I may:

1.) Pf tek 11 days of growth (only 2 innoc holes - one in middle and one on side)



Does this look like right amount of growth for that long?



2.) this jars top layer of verm has shifted (was to the brim before PCing) but now can see the top of lid through the jar so am scared of contams wicking once myc goes topside.


Should I open the jar and dump a new layer of verm or just pray?


Yes that’s a good amount of growth for 11 days. Sometimes my PF jars will take a month or so to finish, sometimes much less. Everything looks good.

Do NOT open the jar to add verm. You (hopefully) sterilized your jars before inoculating them. Opening them up undoes all of that. Top layer will shift as the puck shrinks due to moisture loss. At this point all you can do is let it finish up. If it’s contaminated bury it in the yard or something, but I think you’ll be fine. We don’t worry about the myc getting contaminated, we worry about the uncolonized nutrients getting contaminated. As long as everything still has dry verm on top, you’ll be fine.


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: RoscoeReturns] * 3
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awesome, thanks for the advice and reassurance dude!
(ps yep I sterilized jars in PC before I inoculated.)
Back to the zen of waiting for shrooms. :rainbowcloud:


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Edited by SillySighBen (03/25/25 06:33 AM)

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers *DELETED* [Re: SillySighBen]
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Reason for deletion: reposting on main forum -

Edited by SillySighBen (03/25/25 09:54 AM)

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: SillySighBen]
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Looks a little strange to me. Do you have any agar plates handy?

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: SillySighBen] * 2
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SillySighBen said:
Hi there,

2 quick questions if I may:

1.) Pf tek 11 days of growth (only 2 innoc holes - one in middle and one on side)



Does this look like right amount of growth for that long?



2.) this jars top layer of verm has shifted (was to the brim before PCing) but now can see the top of lid through the jar so am scared of contams wicking once myc goes topside.


Should I open the jar and dump a new layer of verm or just pray?


You can combat the shrinking cake/verm layer by heaping the verm over the jar rim and using the lid to push down on the layer when you screw it on, when you make the jars.

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: oat bag]
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Heya

Recently I got this strain of Turtle Oysters from the Mycelium Emporium for free as one of their deals: https://www.themyceliumemporium.com/product-page/turtle-pond-oyster-pleurotus-ostreatus-maine-wild-strain

I'ev always kind of had issues with Oysters not getting as big as I feel they should be. I figure it has to be air exchange but I also figure I ask here to see if there's anything I'm missing in particular

Below is one of the bags that began pinning about 5 days ago

For the first two or three days I had the humidity in my chamber at 87.5-90%
The past few days it's been 82.5-85%

Also I have two 12v 120mm intake and exhaust fans running at half power 24/7 with lights coming on 12 hours a day on/off

The sawdust bags I've been using are 16% bran

Disregard the cheap blown out humidity sensor. I have an actual relay adjusting the humidity to be in range I just wanted to check a few different spots





In the past I've grown Oysters out in my compost bin and those always got to be egregiously large when they fruited kind of like how you see in the photos here: https://www.themyceliumemporium.com/product-page/turtle-pond-oyster-pleurotus-ostreatus-maine-wild-strain

Which is why I think it might be air, but even with the fans running constantly I would think it'd be enough. I guess not though!

Thank you in advance for any info


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: LemonHead]
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I don’t have much experience with oysters but ive been reading a ton because I’m about to start but I always see over and over if they are getting leggy like that it’s due to not enough fresh air.

also there is a dedicated forum for oysters and other gourmets

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: san pedro guy]
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Thank you and yeah I just posted in both tbh in case it was too dead in one


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: LemonHead]
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They don't need to air, they need oxygen.

Which means if you're fruiting them inside and you're not bringing fresh air in from outside, it might not be enough even with the fan on all of the time.

Aside from Kings and crosses of that, I just fruit them outside when the weather is nice.  It's easier and I don't have to worry about the obnoxious spore load.


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: tree frog] * 1
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Yeah that makes a lot of sense ill have to run the intake through the windows then


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: QuantumZ00] * 2
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QuantumZ00 said:
DERRAYLD said:
What's the question?


Maybe he wants to know what we think they actually are since they're not snowball?

Remember, though, dinosaurs: small pins are Hella potent. There is a small consensus around here that they are actually significantly more potent per volume than their full grown sibling mushrooms. I've seen many many people sure of that. I haven't really done pins often like that to compare, but just something to think about.


Disagree.  I have not seen consensus on this on the forums, nor has it been my experience in general.


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: LemonHead]
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LemonHead said:
Yeah that makes a lot of sense ill have to run the intake through the windows then



Good luck!  If you get it to fruit well and spores become a problem, mycelium emporium has a sporeless strain too.


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: tree frog]
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tree frog said:
LemonHead said:
Yeah that makes a lot of sense ill have to run the intake through the windows then



Good luck!  If you get it to fruit well and spores become a problem, mycelium emporium has a sporeless strain too.


yea my bad, I assumed they would understand air means fresh air exchange (fae)
(EDIT: fresh air exchange- I was referring to growing NONACTIVE mushrooms, actives are grown, mush easier fashion!)

we all know what happens when we ASSume :lol:

Edited by san pedro guy (03/25/25 01:13 PM)

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Mr Piggy]
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Howdy,
:flyby:
this is my second PF Tek grow. I'll get to the quick part of my question first since that's the thread title haha. Please excuse the half ass clingwrap job on those petris in the background. I'm learning lol.

Is it trich? This is Jedi Mind Fuck MSS from a trusted vendor.
Here's the bottom of the puck.

Smells right and no other signs of contam, just that one little wedge right under the verm layer. So here's the longer part of the question which is how did I fuck up? My guess is that I didn't flame sterilize the needle thoroughly enough, or not far enough down the shaft (hehe), then I plunged that sucker too deep when inoculating and brushed some trichy stainless steel on some shit. Does that seem plausible? I did 3 pucks of this strain, 1 had the same issue and 1 was seemingly clear. So I don't think it's that I didn't sterilize properly or something like that. Anyway, just curious if anyone has any thoughts.

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: san pedro guy] * 1
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No problem :lol:

There's been quite the debate about the term fresh air exchange in a couple of threads over the last week.

But yeah, we tend to mean turning our fans up higher or cracking our lids more. But if the air we are bringing in isn't fresh then it's not fresh air exchange it's just more air exchange.

Anyway, if it wasn't for those discussions I probably wouldn't have realized we needed a little bit more precise language to help them understand what the issue was.


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: tree frog] * 1
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My apolocheese I'm pretty new in general to growing mushrooms and I just cobbled this tent together recently so I'm still figuring out how to dial it in properly

We will continue to learn and improve
Thank you everyone for your help I have a lot of new approaches to take now


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: tree frog] * 1
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I did see some of that, thanks for the reminder, i edited my reply to note i was talking about gourmets to avoid more confusion about it, hopefully.

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: KlarnEvil9]
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KlarnEvil9 said:
Here is the official thread for true Ps. natalensis. Apparently most of the cultures labelled nats in the past were actually Ps. ochraceocentrata, which you can grow like cubes.

I think the real deal nats are pretty rare, good on you if you secured those genetics!


Thank you


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Nichrome]
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Question: How to go about rescuing/casing my shallow tubs? I recently started a grow and fucked up my proportions, leaving my substrate wayy too shallow. I had them covered but some of y'all urged me to uncover them, and when I did they dried out within a day because of their low volume and the mycelium visibly shrunk and looks to have stopped growing. I have now re-sealed their tubs to lock in moisture and have been misting them a few times a day to where condensation is finally returning to the tub walls. Now I'm curious about how to rescue them. They look like they've completely stalled out, at the very least they lost basically all of their "fuzz", possibly a tiny bit of new growth but I'm not sure, and I'm worried about keeping them hydrated after they start pinning. Would a casing layer be a good idea? And if so, what composition/thickness would y'all recommend?
For context: pic of one of the tubs before I unsealed it:

Same tub today:

pic of the side for context as to how shallow they are:


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