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TGD21
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inducing fruiting
#5652488 - 05/20/06 07:17 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I bought a myco bag over a month ago and injected some mazatapec strain into it. I'm doing the TiT method for incubation and fruiting chamber. my first fish tank heater that I had was very poor and didnt heat the incubator over like 75 F which is probably about 20 C. Finally after about 3 weeks of no signs of colonization i went out and bought a better heater. after i installed that it began colonizing within a couple days. now it's about 60-75% colonized and its stopped for about 4 days. Im getting ready to start the PF tek as soons as my new spores get here, because this bag just blows. I know most of the problems were things i could have avoided but i just want it to fruit so i can get it out of my incubator and start my jars. so is it ok to go ahead and try and fruit it when it's only about 65% colonized? its colonized all through the middle, i can tell because its really hard. one side is colonized all the way to the outer layer, and one side you can see coming through, and then one huge chunk is like untouched. what would be the disadvantages of fruiting it now? less yield? if thats the case i dont really care, as long as i get something out of it and have my tub to use for my jars when the spores get here
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Re: inducing fruiting [Re: TGD21]
#5652498 - 05/20/06 07:21 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Did you shake the bag up at all to mix the colonized and uncolonized portions?
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TGD21
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Re: inducing fruiting [Re: FooMan]
#5652500 - 05/20/06 07:24 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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nope, but im not really worried about the rest colonizing unless i can only fruit after 100% colonization
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Re: inducing fruiting [Re: TGD21]
#5652506 - 05/20/06 07:32 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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You should mix it up to see what happens. The bag will need a day or two to recover, but it should look good again after that. I would definitely wait until you get 100% colonization or just cut out the uncolonized parts, then crumble and case the rest.
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Re: inducing fruiting [Re: FooMan]
#5652517 - 05/20/06 07:39 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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so you wouldnt suggest just cutting off the uncolonized parts and putting the colonized on top of some perlite in a tub? the bag has a lot more substrate than a pf jar would have so i mean even though the bag is not 100% colonized, theres still more colonized than there is substrate in one jar. haha if that even makes sense to you
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Re: inducing fruiting [Re: FooMan]
#5652521 - 05/20/06 07:40 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just knead the bag to redistribute (mix up) the myc and have patience. GL
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Re: inducing fruiting [Re: TGD21]
#5652575 - 05/20/06 08:20 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
TGD21 said: so you wouldnt suggest just cutting off the uncolonized parts and putting the colonized on top of some perlite in a tub?
No, there was a member here that did that(can't remember who) and it didn't work well. After he crumbled and cased it, he got fruits in about a week.
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