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gogrowgo123
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WBS too slow
#5452234 - 03/28/06 05:44 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have 4 WBS jars colonizing, two half pint jars and two pint jars. I inoculated last monday and they spent the first week incubating wrapped in a blanket on a heating pad (same one i used for first grow with brf w/ pretty good results). yesterday i made a TIT setup and they have been incubating in it for around one day now. temps are around 82-85 degrees and the grains were soaked for 24 hours then simmered for 10 minutes and pressure cooked for an hour.
the jars have a layer of tyvek, then the lids, then polyfil in the inoculation holes. the bad news of all this is that after a week there are tiny specs of mycelium in each jar, and it hasnt changed in a day or two. waht could be the problem and how can i go about fixing it
for part of the week i had tin foil covering the lids of the jars but i took it off for the TIT.
thanks
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starseed1066
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well, tyvek and polyfill is way overkill for one. i've done it for a while with just polyfill and it was plenty...
so air x-fer will help. how's the moisture content?
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gogrowgo123
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sometimes there are little bubbles of moisture on the sides of the jar between the grain and the glass. around 40%-50% of grains opened a little bit. the above average moisture could have been due to too many cc of spore solution as i wanted to use the whole syringe and not waist it, so each jar got around 3 cc, some less.
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ShroomInduced
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An hour in the PC for that small of jars is way overkill. You *may* have cooked off alot of the nutrients.
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Rahz
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The heating blanket will cause the jars to dry out, TiT is far superior.
Letting your grains incubate at room temp (what I do) is better than using a heating blanket.
Give them more time in the TiT before you get bummed.
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Akira
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Quote:
gogrowgo123 said: sometimes there are little bubbles of moisture on the sides of the jar between the grain and the glass. around 40%-50% of grains opened a little bit. the above average moisture could have been due to too many cc of spore solution as i wanted to use the whole syringe and not waist it, so each jar got around 3 cc, some less.
You just answered your own question. If more than 25% of your grains opened, then your grains are officially caca (shit in spanish ). It happened to me the first time i used WBS, about 50% of the grains had opened. I went ahead and inoculated anyways. Everything went well for the first week, mycelium grew but very little and slow. Then after about a week, growth stopped completely and all the jars contaminated after another 2 weeks.
You sir need to learn from this and start all over. sorry to be the bearer of bad news.. Just take it as a lesson. I mastered the art of WBS once that happened to me, knew what to do and what not to do the next time around.
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Akira
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Re: WBS too slow [Re: Akira]
#5452394 - 03/28/06 06:24 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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OH BTW, the bubbles are another sign of "too much moisture." All my jars had bubbles too, they all eventually contaminated, and trust me they were sterile.
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