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treckstar
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Rough Experience(now with pics!)
#5427526 - 03/21/06 09:14 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hello everyone, I am new to shroom cultivization, but I have read a lot about it on this website. This is my first cake. I currently have 1 half-pint jar. Its covered with mycelium. On different parts of the cake, look like there is more amounts of mycelium, though. The cakes texture feels somewhat hard on the top.. maybe it needs dunked or something? I have it in a rubbermaid container, with perlite used for humidity. It's been in there for about, a little over 2 week now and I still am not getting any primadora. The humidity fluctuates from around 80-90% humidity on my gauge. On the sides though, there are little bumby things which look like they would be primadora, but there is not. Based on this info, could anyone help me out on why I might not be getting any mushrooms? If oyou need to know anything else, please post back. Thanks!
edit - I Will Try to get pictures in around tomorrow. Also I am using a Vermiculte/Brown Rice cake, and it probably gets around 3-5 hours of light a day. I also think that my container is not very airtight, and humidity gets out, making it sometimes drop down into the 70% humidity.. this may have an effect?
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Edited by treckstar (03/22/06 03:03 PM)
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TrippingDuality
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Re: Rough Experience [Re: treckstar]
#5427554 - 03/21/06 09:23 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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on my first grow my cake took what seemed like forever to pin, like 14-15 days... are you providing air exchange? without seeing a picture it's hard for me to tell you what's up. but i'm thinking the bumpy things will turn into pins. just keep everything at optimal levels and give it a few more days. good luck
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wiggles
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Sounds like FAE is your problem 
How often are you fanning? When i first started I fanned 3x a day but couldn't get pins. I started fanning once an hour, and whenever else I could think of, and pewpewpew went the pins.
You can make it a bit less painstaking by taking an old fish tank filter, get new hosing, and run in an airstone through the terrarium's side. Then put the airstone in some distilled water in a pill bottle or something. It doesn't free you up from fanning by hand, but it makes it so you can forget every now and then without any worries. You can also add an exhaust hole near the bottom, just small, like the width of a pencil.
Also make sure that the cakes can get enough light... if they're in a room where you can read, they have enough, but they deffinately need light. I personally got a mini flourescent bulb at home depot for about 17 dollars, and it worked great, and they operate on a spectrum that mushies like from what I've been told.
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treckstar
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Re: Rough Experience [Re: wiggles]
#5430353 - 03/22/06 02:59 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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oh yeaa.. I got some pictures uploaded now.. have a peek, and see what you think. thanks for the above replys, i am applying them. Image 1
 Image2 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/incubus00/secret/Cake2.gif
Image3
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/incubus00/secret/Cake3.gif
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Edited by treckstar (03/22/06 03:00 PM)
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treckstar
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Re: Rough Experience [Re: treckstar]
#5430656 - 03/22/06 04:15 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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well anyways... i decided to give my cake a dunk, its sitting in water now, and we will see how this goes.
my cake seems to be very hard and dryed up, so hopefully this will help out.
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