Foreighn2891 said:

Some updates , my little zaps finally reached their “adult” condition 😎

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That's a stellar tray you've got there Foreighn, nice work

Any chance you could share the variety and how long it took from pins until you saw spores dropping

Foreighn2891 said:

That was really looong way buddy lol .spores  swab of those zaps var. Texolo I got last year in September, and it took around a month to germinate them on LME agar, at some point I thought it’s or empty or dead… then first attempt took 4 months before first fruits on wood chips and straw with vermi/pet moss casing layer, but that was was my first experience with them and I got not so much but with spores. I learned what was done wrong and fixed all mistakes. The one on  photos took roughly same time, 4 months from grain till full maturity, it was done on popcorn spawn and mix of sand with mud from forest creek plus some composted leaves and same mix of casing layer of verm/pet moss. A container was modified, to give a good drain to let water flow through cake and humidifier on fruiting stage was running every 10 minutes. I just recently returned from my trip to Costa Rica for better understanding in what nature they do grow in cloud forests 😳😎😁 here’s some pictures





of set up and places they do grow naturally, it’s pretty chill places 17-24C in mountains.

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Definitely lol. Pretty sure temp was my issue. I grow in a small closet and it was staying pretty consistently upper 70’s to low 80’s, we had a “cold” front blow through recently and it was getting down to mid 60’s at night and low 70’s during the day. Either that or it was a survival response knowing I was coming to throw them away

Beautiful pics btw.

Foreighn2891 said:

That was really looong way buddy lol .spores  swab of those zaps var. Texolo I got last year in September, and it took around a month to germinate them on LME agar, at some point I thought it’s or empty or dead… then first attempt took 4 months before first fruits on wood chips and straw with vermi/pet moss casing layer, but that was was my first experience with them and I got not so much but with spores. I learned what was done wrong and fixed all mistakes.

The one on  photos took roughly same time, 4 months from grain till full maturity, it was done on popcorn spawn and mix of sand with mud from forest creek plus some composted leaves and same mix of casing layer of verm/pet moss. A container was modified, to give a good drain to let water flow through cake and humidifier on fruiting stage was running every 10 minutes. I just recently returned from my trip to Costa Rica for better understanding in what nature they do grow in cloud forests 😳😎😁 here’s some pictures of set up and places they do grow naturally, it’s pretty chill places 17-24C in mountains.

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Thank you for taking the time to describe some of the process and timelines, appreciate it
And as Henry said, great pictures.

kirkeng said:

Killer first grow man! Got that magic touch for sure!

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Thank you so much for saying that kirkeng, it really means a lot

Soloist said:

 
 

Amazing.

Curious, how many transfers away did you get from germ plate before you decided to send it?

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Thanks Solo

T0 spores
T1 looked organized and clean
T2 cabin
T3 grown out and sent to grains.

Melgo said:

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Thanks Melgo, cool to see your more active again, really enjoyed your semp write-up, helped a lot.

wavyedge said:

What a canopy Kloakk

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Thank you for saying that wavy, it's been a ride, weird how invested one can get in this hobby

Thanks again

chris77 said:

Heyyyy wow beautiful!!
you got it

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Thanks chris, I'm so happy with how this tray turned out, and all of you guys and gals following along makes it so much better. I treated myself to two of my favorite beers thanks to all of the kind words

3.A.M said:

Goddamnit Kloakk!
That’s so fuckin epic 😮

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Thank you for saying that 3.A.M, I am so happy with how this grow went, and at the same time, it's kind of hard to take it in. I have wanted to grow Zapo's for most of my short, but intense cult journey. Most of the time I was afraid to even try this early after getting in to this hobby and when I first saw Mojave's giveaway I wasn't sure if I was going to take part in it.

I know Zapo's don't enter the marketplace that often and I didn't want to ruin it for more experienced growers to have the chance to grow them, while I'll waste the print with wishful thinking I could do it

I did however, obviously take part and somehow it all lined up really good. Spores was clean, sent T3 to grains and AIO bags and they colonized pretty fast as far as Zapo's goes. Fall was around the corner and keeping the right temperature for them lined up real smooth once I cased.

So when I first saw the pinset and realized I won the genetic lottery I felt honored and a little frightened by the mushroom entities

Every day I just waited for trich to move in and ruin the day, but they stayed healthy and it turned out so much better then I could ever have guessed



I've got more trays coming in, and I'll be doing a giveaway when I've got enough good prints for 10, would love to do more, but I'm brokeboi and stamps here is expensive af