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FluShu
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Questions from an aspiring shroomologist
#5369477 - 03/06/06 01:11 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hey everyone. I've enjoyed a bit of success from my first grow attempts and am presently relishing the glee of my first successful casing, and now I'm looking to upgrade the terrarium a bit and refine my technique. Right now I'm using a double-tub terrarium with perlite humidification and a bubble wand buried in the perlite to help out (thank you shroomery contributors!!!). Temperature in the terrarium stays at a comfortable 72 and I know the humidity is fine from all the droplets that gather on the lid, can get caught by the drip guard, when I give the thing it's bi-daily fanning. I was hoping I could get some help with some snags I've come across;
1) How do I produce larger mushrooms? I'm getting a lot of thin mushrooms mixed with some nice fat beauties now and then, but I was wondering if there's anything I can do to make them fatter. Is there a perfect time to harvest them when you know they wont get any larger? I usually don't harvest them until after the veil descends, and if I do jump the gun it's only to make room for some fresh new hopefuls on the cakes.
2) What's the deal with blue lighting? Right now the terrarium gets about 16 hours of daylight from just the lighting in the room, but I'd like to move things into my closet and set it up with its own lighting on a timer. Do blue lights really work better? And do I have to find a special "blue spectrum" light or can I just use a dark light bulb or have a blue window at the top where the light will be coming in?
3) What's the best way to prepare a PF jar intended to receive a mycelium transfer? I like having the dry layer of vermiculite on top as an added layer of protection... so can I just leave room in the jar before I sterilize it and then sprinkle in sterilized verm. after I drop in the colonized chunk?
4) What's the best way to get a PF cake out of the jar? I know all the guides say just spank the bottom and it will pop out, but almost every cake I've birthed gets stuck about half way out and I have to gently tug it out with a disinfected latex gloved hand. I know that anywhere I touch on the cake probably wont fruit, and some of my nicest shrooms have grown near the bottom of the cakes, so I loath sacrificing such precious surface area... I follow the PR recipe to the dot, so I don't think it's a matter of adding too much water and it collecting at the bottom and making it thicker there or something like that... and I've tried to find jars that are wider at the top, but I can't find them in 1/2 sizes, which is my favourite... I bet there's a real simple answer to this one, but I don't have the foggiest.
5) How can one website be so magnificent? Seriously, what's up with that?
Any tips or advice would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!
-------------------- Dosin' up my Dharma with a drop of gasoline. There's a tome by Terrence McKenna in my Frontline Library
Edited by FluShu (03/06/06 01:15 AM)
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mycodetour
Mycologist inTraining

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Re: Questions from an aspiring shroomologist [Re: FluShu]
#5369498 - 03/06/06 01:21 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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All of these questions can be answered in the General cultivation FAQ and under "Getting started". It's good readin
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Edited by mycodetour (03/06/06 01:22 AM)
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FluShu
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Re: Questions from an aspiring shroomologist [Re: mycodetour]
#5369514 - 03/06/06 01:28 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Seriously? I've spent more nights than I can count getting my eyes nice and red from a combination of reading the FAQs and... other stuff... I didn't find much on these specifically, 'cept the making them bigger question, and I was hoping I could get some tips that weren't mentioned
-------------------- Dosin' up my Dharma with a drop of gasoline. There's a tome by Terrence McKenna in my Frontline Library
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mycodetour
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Re: Questions from an aspiring shroomologist [Re: FluShu]
#5369541 - 03/06/06 01:37 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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1) substrate... more nutes = better shrooms
try horse poo, cow poo, straw, worm castings, etc
2) regular flouros will work just as well.. there is a certain range in the blue spectrum that mushrooms supposedly respond better to
3) as far as grain transfering to a pf tek jar, thats pretty tricky... your better off using a syringe for pf teks.. g2g work better for grains, unless you opt out of the dry verm layer which leaves it way more vulnerable to contams
4) there are wide mouth 1/2 pint jars, i have like 24 of em they are all around
5) shroomery 
md
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FluShu
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Re: Questions from an aspiring shroomologist [Re: mycodetour]
#5369581 - 03/06/06 01:59 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Phew, just got back from the FAQ and most of my questions were certainly answers. For being so redundant, I suspect I am measurably less cool... but yes, nutes... I suppose that's what I need to take it up a knotch.
Thanks!!
-------------------- Dosin' up my Dharma with a drop of gasoline. There's a tome by Terrence McKenna in my Frontline Library
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mycodetour
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Re: Questions from an aspiring shroomologist [Re: FluShu]
#5369592 - 03/06/06 02:06 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's all good man, no one is cooler than anyone
You should read up on horse poo though.. 
http://www.tennstud.com
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