neuroshaman said:

FounderZ said:

For the photo conversion guys, use WEBP format, it's the most efficient and high quality, 10MB+ photo's dropped to 512KB~ or less. Future format all browsers and devices support now.

Not sure how the mobile devices do it but I use irfanview with plugins, it's awesome turning my high quality photo's into something you guys can see no blurs.

Hope this helps someone.

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It is really strange. I hadn't had any issues uploading files from my mobile device until yesterday and now every picture says it's too big.

Not sure if something randomly changed on my camera app or if it's a shroomery thing.

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Archespore said:

Flat top stove is fine. Pretty sure the reason you don't want to use the coil stove is because your giant 23qt pressure cooker with 3 liters of water in it and all the jars probably weighs like 15 lbs. That could potentially damage those filmsy elements over time.

A flat top stove evenly distributed the weight, go to town, sport.

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BeefExtreme said:

hate to be mr safety all the time but its critical for the mycelial cultures that their growers dont DIE.

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I'm dying, lmao. You sir, are technically correct haha.

Alright so I made my first distilled water preservation tubes yesterday. ~2 ml water and a single wedge.




I made 4 of each one just in case I fuck some up, and I intend to test one sample from each culture before committing it to long term storage by putting it to agar.

QQ: How long do it have to wait for the mycelium to go fully dormant when using "lazy man's Castellani" to test my vials to see if my method worked?

BeefExtreme said:

yep true.  once them coils get hot they can get smashed.

use a cast iron trivet like this in such cases:

https://a.co/d/09Lz4Bba

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BeefExtreme said:

so if you use a gas hotplate get the one that takes the big propane bottles like azy showed you and make sure your room is vented.  hate to be mr safety all the time but its critical for the mycelial cultures that their growers dont DIE.

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I should have mentioned propane bottles and ventilation like a cracked window. But hell I cook with a natural gas stove all day long in my house with no additional ventilation, so I’m sure it’s not too crazy. I used to have a propane stove as well and never died. But just to be safe, ventilate.

Those green 1 pound Coleman propane bottles last a while. I get 4 hours out of them in my tree stand while deer hunting with the heater on medium. I’m sure you can get a 3 hour PC run on one for a small burner top.

Archespore said:

Why do you want to speed things up? Trying to produce large amounts? You mention increasing the number of batches, but that only increases quantity. It doesn't reduce time.

I cultivate as a hobby, ( mostly c; ) so I prefer to have a little bit of something at each stage "so there's always something cool to look at" as a wise man once said. Like an assembly line you know? Once you have a jar or 3 of dried shrooms you're set for personal use lol. Time it better next time and don't run out!

But you're here for better answers so...

For me I'd say it takes 2 or 3 weeks to fully colonize a jar , then 3 or 4 weeks ish to fruit. Species, variety, and temperature can affect the timelines greatly.

If you want specifics, then I spawned to bulk some overdue jars of BV on December 28th and then harvested the chonky fruit in my signature on Jan 23rd... So 26 days. So yeah your 2-3 month estimate seems right to me.

Now if you wanna speed it up and that's your main priority, here's some things you can do:

-transfer your agar wedge as soon as you see it's clean
-use liquid culture
-keep your temps at the higher end of comfortable for cubes
-break and shake asap, use a smaller grain for more inoculation points

I'm sure there's more but that's what I got, off the dome.

Please keep in mind that if you start taking shortcuts, you will experience more failures. It's kinda like a tradeoff, the more you start min maxing this shit, the more fuckups you'll have as you test limits.

You gotta decide if it's worth it. I reckon most folks around here will tell you it isn't worth it but we all have different goals and motivations. I would not tell a newbie to do any of the things I mentioned up there , but you said you have some experience so... Do with that info what you will!

Now if you wanted the absolute fastest way to get mushrooms growing (and you've no soul, nor shame) and are willing to accept heavy losses I'd say get a 10cc LC syringe from a trusted vendor of a fast grower, say Ochras,  and buy yourself 8 AIO bags from amzn because you'll probably lose half of them, knock them each up with 1cc and throw em on top of your fridge. You're bound to get a mushroom pretty quick.

Best of luck, bud!

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Kimono said:

This?

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/25133936/fpart/all

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AZ Starman2112 said:

BeefExtreme said:

so if you use a gas hotplate get the one that takes the big propane bottles like azy showed you and make sure your room is vented.  hate to be mr safety all the time but its critical for the mycelial cultures that their growers dont DIE.

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I should have mentioned propane bottles and ventilation like a cracked window. But hell I cook with a natural gas stove all day long in my house with no additional ventilation, so I’m sure it’s not too crazy. I used to have a propane stove as well and never died. But just to be safe, ventilate.

Those green 1 pound Coleman propane bottles last a while. I get 4 hours out of them in my tree stand while deer hunting with the heater on medium. I’m sure you can get a 3 hour PC run on one for a small burner top.

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BeefExtreme said:

AZ Starman2112 said:

BeefExtreme said:

so if you use a gas hotplate get the one that takes the big propane bottles like azy showed you and make sure your room is vented.  hate to be mr safety all the time but its critical for the mycelial cultures that their growers dont DIE.

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I should have mentioned propane bottles and ventilation like a cracked window. But hell I cook with a natural gas stove all day long in my house with no additional ventilation, so I’m sure it’s not too crazy. I used to have a propane stove as well and never died. But just to be safe, ventilate.

Those green 1 pound Coleman propane bottles last a while. I get 4 hours out of them in my tree stand while deer hunting with the heater on medium. I’m sure you can get a 3 hour PC run on one for a small burner top.

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depends on several things cheifly the size of your house and how much air is in it. co1 is heavy and will fall to the floor but at 3200 ppm, it can kill you dead in 30min flat.

also depends on how clean your gas burns and at what elevation you are.  lower elevations have deser atmospheres so the fatal ppm takes a lot more co1 to reach.  high elevations and in a small apartment?  not a good thing to fuck with.

as with every post i make, i er on the side of safety, always. too many factors to fuck with your own life. 

and like i said, mushrooms cant grow when their growers die so i really need that not to happen.

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auroradawn said:

Hii, new first timer. Used a GT grow kit for the first time, that now has its first pin. It's one of those fully pre colonized bricks that you rehydrate and then sit in a bag.

Vendor instructions say to leave the bag open for airflow when I have pins - is this actually necessary? I unfortunately have fungus gnats in my apartment. I have some super fine mesh I can put over it if it is necessary; but I also WFH and can manually refresh the air frequently if that's fine too.

Thanks! (And yes I'm going to do this hobby properly next time 😊)

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Ovoidhunter said:

I've asked several folks on here already but if anyone is interested in a wild landrace cube print from Queensland just send me a PM and I'll get a sample out to you. The only thing I ask is that you take part in my grow along thread. I was gonna do a giveaway after so you could send the prints to me to send out after (this is optional). So far its just me and another member but im looking for one more person. Thanks

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auroradawn said:

auroradawn said:

Hii, new first timer. Used a GT grow kit for the first time, that now has its first pin. It's one of those fully pre colonized bricks that you rehydrate and then sit in a bag.

Vendor instructions say to leave the bag open for airflow when I have pins - is this actually necessary? I unfortunately have fungus gnats in my apartment. I have some super fine mesh I can put over it if it is necessary; but I also WFH and can manually refresh the air frequently if that's fine too.

Thanks! (And yes I'm going to do this hobby properly next time 😊)

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Just an update, got 289g from the first flush today. Not bad for a little container I think. Thanks again all for helping!

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Congratulations on the harvest! glad to hear it all worked out

auroradawn said:

auroradawn said:

Hii, new first timer. Used a GT grow kit for the first time, that now has its first pin. It's one of those fully pre colonized bricks that you rehydrate and then sit in a bag.

Vendor instructions say to leave the bag open for airflow when I have pins - is this actually necessary? I unfortunately have fungus gnats in my apartment. I have some super fine mesh I can put over it if it is necessary; but I also WFH and can manually refresh the air frequently if that's fine too.

Thanks! (And yes I'm going to do this hobby properly next time 😊)

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Just an update, got 289g from the first flush today. Not bad for a little container I think. Thanks again all for helping!

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Kimono said:

Me again, I'm back!

I'm having some really bad luck with Tamp spores.

I've put it to agar but all I grew was Penicillium

I made an LC (which was dirty as shit) and put it to agar to see if I could grab some myc, which then turned into this weird, hard growth which then turned green.

The closest I've got is what looks like VERY fine myc that never turned green with a bit of bacteria. I've then transferred that to no pour plates and I've got green mould and bacteria everywhere (with white myc still on the transferred agar)

I'm going again this evening with some myc from the original fine myc plate to peroxide agar as I've had fairly good experience with other species due to my house being a black mould paradise.

Anyone got any images of very early Tamp myc? Any advice on what else I can try to clean this shit up?

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Personally, I've never once had success cleaning up something that turned green after transferring. (If there's a spot of mold on a plate, that's not too bad. But it sounds like instead you are transferring mold mycelium, either isolated or enmeshed with tampanensis.)

Do you have the original print or syringe? You're going to be happier going back to the source if you do. Streaking a plate (rather than scraping spores off or rolling around a drop of solution) can help if there are some mold spores hiding in the source - the idea is for each part of the plate to receive a very small amount of spores, so that any mold spores and bacteria (which are hopefully there in much lower concentration than the tampanensis spores) germinate in isolated spots on the plate which are easy to avoid when transferring.

I couldn't find a picture of an early tamp plate of mine, but I find it looks a lot like cubensis at the beginning, maybe a little more consistently round on later transfers (no rhizomorphic reaching). Aging plates turn a little brown and sometimes grow little stones.

Edit: ah, here's a T2 from a few years ago (lower left):