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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: catgirl117]
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Scrape off the uncolonized areas, dunk roll and fruit like normal. You can leave the shrooms on, they may develope more, or you can harvest for a snack. Either works:cool::mushroom2:

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Peleus] * 1
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Those look good to me!:cool::mushroom2:

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Nichrome]
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Can I pressure cook borosilicate glass petri dishes with MEA inside to sterilize them, as a no-pour tek? The two glass pieces of each dish sit right on top of each other so I'm worried there is no air gap.

Is it better to do no-pour or just pour the sterilized agar mix bottle into sterilized glass Petri dishes all inside a SAB?

Sorry if it's a basic question I'm new. I just want to avoid contam.

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: jumbodit]
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Here you are friend :cool::mushroom2:

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/28006384/fpart/1/vc/1

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Nichrome]
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I'm going to build a monotub but I don't know what size tub to get. How many quarts does it need to be? I want to grow a lot of shrooms but minimal chance of contam since I'm a newbie.

Even a shoebox size tub needs the holes for air exchange, right? How many cakes do I need for each tub size?

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: jumbodit] * 1
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You can use most any size if you have the spawn. Monotubs can increase your chance of contamination if you are using many grain jars. Higher chance of harboring something.

I don't do anything to my shoeboxes, some do. just keep the moisture content on the surface slightly wetter than the rest when you spawn and monitor surface conditions. Shoeboxes are great for new cultivators because if one goes south, you only lose that one quart of spawn and shoebox, instead of several jars of spawn and lots of coir.

4 half pints = 1 qt of grain spawn

1qt per 6ish qt shoebox

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Agar Wedge] * 1
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:whathesaid:
I don’t recommend holes in a shoebox. Clean spawn, prepped coir only (for cubes), and some daylight. When you see pins, maybe flip the lid.

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: AstroSporeFiend]
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I'm having analysis paralysis on how to set up my new space.

In the past, I had 12-15 Beefy tubs going on, but I just wasn't getting good flushes. I have a new space now, more room, and I'd like something that is more scalable.

I had previously been considering a martha tent, but was told that may be a little bit of a pain to get it all dialed in. Dreamer tubs were recommended.

I think my holdup on dreamers is just that they seem too small - too much wasted space in the dreamer tubs themselves.

I need to shit or get off the pot, I know - can a some people weigh in and just point me in the right direction? I just don't want to put the money and work in to something like dreamers only to find out in 2 months that I should have just gone for it with a bigger martha tent.

Thoughts on this all? I have 20 jars that are just about fully spawned and will be very ready to roll soon :smile:


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: FamiliarFinding384]
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If you weren't getting good flushes, it probably wasn't because you didn't have enough scale. Get your culture work and spawn handling dialed in so it's always clean and you'll fix that problem.

Dreamer tubs and humidified tents are not needed for cubensis. You can use them, but they're not going to fix whatever was causing your disappointing flushes.

With a decent clone of a normal cube, canopies on 6 qt shoeboxes are easily achieved, over 28g dry per quart jar of spawn.


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Phaethon]
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I am in the same state as you, so I'm glad to hear. I was concerned that it was the overall dryness that we deal with here.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I feel comfortable about the robustness and cleanliness of my spawn. I use a flow hood and I let my plates really grow fully before spawning grain. Sure, I still get contamination from time to time, and of course I have much to learn, but since I spent more time focusing on the foundation (agar), I've had very few contaminated jars or tubs.

My position at the moment is that I have less time to spend dialing things in than I would like, and as such, that allows a bit bigger budget for some equipment to save time.

I definitely hear you that that dreamers or tents are not NEEDED for cubes. However, I would like a more robust setup - before I spend the money, I'd like to feel comfortable about the direction I'm going.

With that in mind, what would you preferred method be?


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: FamiliarFinding384]
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Sorry, going to have to duck out for a few hours after this post.

I guess I'm still not sure what issue you were having. We're talking about cubensis? How much were you getting per quart jar and how much are you expecting or hoping for?

I've never used automated stuff for cubes, only gourmets, but aside from slightly less babysitting (shoeboxes in arid climate require more misting than monotubs, which even here I could basically leave alone, but I actually prefer smaller batches), I don't think they'd do much for cubensis. Dialing in conditions isn't too bad if you use Pasty's EZ dial hole patterns and some micropore tape on your tubs.

Do you run clone cultures, and save the cultures that perform well?


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Nichrome]
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Experimented with using some taller mason jars for PF tek. It's taking a long time to fully colonize and I'm now seeing some yellow liquid in the jar. Should I be worried it's contamination? Or is this just mycellium piss?



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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: MushMush9]
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FamiliarFinding384 said:
With that in mind, what would you preferred method be?


20 jars of cubes even fruiting subpar should be a decent harvest.

Parroting phaethon: you haven't said what you are growing nor what your issue even was, other than it's not contamination.

If you are getting decent growth on all phases the remaining factors are likely growing conditions or culture work.

Those are assumptions though.


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Supplemented coir experiments< Currently ongoing spring 2026.

~Agar~ 1000mL water = 1000g water. use ~1% agar...1% of 1000g is 10g.  For cubes, use between 1-2% nutes (10-20g). For pans use 0.5% nutes (5g).

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All images I've posted are not mine and I am simply posting interesting things I found on the Google.

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Agar Wedge]
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Thank you!

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: catgirl117]
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I have a shoebox of penis envy that has been introduced to fruiting conditions about 10 days ago. I hear PE takes longer to fruit than GT. It hasn't contaminated but every time I mist, the surface of the sub just seems to soak up all the water. Should I leave the lid open closed or cracked? I'm using an unmodified shoebox. Any insight would be appreciated.


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: the_chosen_one]
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It is not fuzzy at all just discolored all of it has a sort of tint to it

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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Pickyourpoison33]
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So this attempt at cloning was just 4-5 days ago. The fruit was APE Revert and this stuff is growing quite fast. Is it just trich? I can see it is fuzzy when looking at the plate sideways...



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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Elixirel]
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Whatever it is it isn't ape mycelium :frown:


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: MushMush9]
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MushMush9 said:
Experimented with using some taller mason jars for PF tek. It's taking a long time to fully colonize and I'm now seeing some yellow liquid in the jar. Should I be worried it's contamination? Or is this just mycellium piss metabolites?




You're doing okay. The last inch or so of your jar will take a very long time to colonize. So when you birth them, birth them early, and you can cut off any cake that wasn't colonized by the mycelium.


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Re: Ask Quick Questions, Get Quick Answers [Re: Sulfurshelfsean]
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Sulfurshelfsean said:
Whatever it is it isn't ape mycelium :frown:


What makes you say that?
Looks like myc to me


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