Wedgie said:

WEZA x PAN IND01 I am loving how these are coming out...
but hmm, I dunno...

It seems normal for WEZA but fast-pins don't seem typical for INDO1 It's still pretty early though my friends 🥳
So I will bring food 🍔 you guys get the drinks while we wait 🍻

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Love the funky casing

PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

Updates have been posted to my journal:

https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29702148#29702148

I'm really pushing the limits of what pans can tolerate with this one.

After pasteurization, my casing only showed a pH of 7.2. Either my meter is wrong or I didn't add enough hydroxide. Only one way to find out.

Also, I think my substrate was a bit on the wet side leading to less vigorous colonization.

Either way, you can't un-ring a bell so I'm running it to see what happens.

I'm planning to spawn more jars tomorrow, so there will always be another battle. Hopefully after a few more runs I'll have a method that is repeatable and consistent which will help me test variables better.

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Your reader is probably not accurate.  60ml is about 1 tsp of lime per dry cup of peat and that’s plenty.  I wouldn’t add any more

If you want a true accurate ph reading, you need to get a somewhat nice digital reader that comes with calibration liquids (7 and 4 ph for example) and calibrate it often.  But if all you’re using it for is the casing, I’d just stick with the 1 tsp per cup of peat and call it good.. it hasn’t failed me in many years of using the same recipe


BVI tray that keeps giving up the goods.  Fifth flush


It’s starting to get cooler here and I want to run 6 trays during the winter.. 3 in the jcm and then 3 ziplocks.  I don’t want to have to heat the room tho so I’m trying out a reptile heating pad. 

The ziplocks are sitting directly on the pad.  My question about it is whether it’s the substrate/surface alone that needs to be at pan fruiting temps or does the actual air inside the ziplock need to be at that temp as well?  I assumed the air would follow close behind the sub temp.

There’s a thermostat with probe connected to the pad.  The only way (at least starting out) to fully control the sub temp with the probe is to stick the probe end fully into one of the subs



I have the temp set to 81F and there’s a 3 degree buffer so when the temp target is hit, it shuts off until the temp reaches 78F.  So far it seems to be working great. 

I’ve used a laser temp gun to read the surface of other ziplocks when I’ve had the heat turned off for like 12 hours and the ziplocks without the pad are reading significantly lower than the ones on the pad.. which are reading right in that target temp of 78-81F

Knowing that the temp of the air inside the bag moves 2.5F lower than the sub temp is useful because then I can set the probe target temp at say, 78.5F and I wouldn’t have to stick the probe directly into the substrate of one of the three trays. Not that I mind putting the probe into the substrate.  I sanitized it and it’s metal

I lasered the pad itself and doesn’t get above 90F so I’m not too worried about overheating the bottom part of the sub that’s closest to the pad.  But I’ve only had this set up for a couple days so I guess I’ll see if there’s anything like that that pops up

fahtster said:

It’s starting to get cooler here and I want to run 6 trays during the winter.. 3 in the jcm and then 3 ziplocks.  I don’t want to have to heat the room tho so I’m trying out a reptile heating pad. 

There’s a thermostat with probe connected to the pad.  The only way (at least starting out) to fully control the sub temp with the probe is to stick the probe end fully into one of the subs


I have the temp set to 81F and there’s a 3 degree buffer so when the temp target is hit, it shuts off until the temp reaches 78F.  So far it seems to be working great. 

I’ve used a laser temp gun to read the surface of other ziplocks when I’ve had the heat turned off for like 12 hours and the ziplocks without the pad are reading significantly lower than the ones on the pad.. which are reading right in that target temp of 78-81F

Knowing that the temp of the air inside the bag moves 2.5F lower than the sub temp is useful because then I can set the probe target temp at say, 78.5F and I wouldn’t have to stick the probe directly into the substrate of one of the three trays. Not that I mind putting the probe into the substrate.  I sanitized it and it’s metal

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fahtster said:

It’s starting to get cooler here and I want to run 6 trays during the winter.. 3 in the jcm and then 3 ziplocks.  I don’t want to have to heat the room tho so I’m trying out a reptile heating pad.

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shroboo said:

Is evaporation a problem with the heating pad and the ziplocks? Would you rehydrate while fruiting or between flushes?

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Baba Yaga said:

fahtster said:

It’s starting to get cooler here and I want to run 6 trays during the winter.. 3 in the jcm and then 3 ziplocks.  I don’t want to have to heat the room tho so I’m trying out a reptile heating pad.

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How cold does it get in the room? Temps ranges of between 12-20C (night/day) wold still work here but growth speed was diminish to almost that of regular cubes.

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