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dreadful
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Cakes pinning thoroughly, but won't begin fruiting [pics added]
#5680900 - 05/27/06 04:10 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey everyone,
I'm on my second try with the basic pf tek and finally having some real success.
I made up a batch of 8 jars, let them all colonize, and put them in a fruiting chamber. 3 of the cakes are doing great: they have each produced 3-4 decent flushes so far and are still going.
But I can't get the other 5 to start fruiting. They are all covered with pins, and a couple have even produced a tiny mushroom (1cm in length) or two. They have been sitting like this in the fruiting chamber covered in pins for a couple weeks now.
Most of the stuff I've read about cold shocking, etc. seems to be oriented toward getting cakes to pin. But these cakes are covered with pins; they just won't go beyond that point. I tried dunking a couple of the cakes and also cold shocked all of them (put them in the fridge for about 18 hours). Still no results.
Anyone have ideas about what might be wrong? The cakes appear healthy; I've seen no signs of contamination. The fruiting chamber I have them in is a large rubbermaid tub with perlite for humidification. I have a small florescent light attached to the lid to provide light. I leave it on about half the time. I fan out the chamber at least twice a day. The temp varies from maybe 68-74 F.
It's perplexing because the 3 cakes that are doing well are in the same fruiting chamber and have been making mushrooms in spades.
Thanks for any tips!
Edited by dreadful (05/27/06 04:36 PM)
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MLBjammer
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Re: Cakes pinning thoroughly, but won't begin fruiting [Re: dreadful]
#5680918 - 05/27/06 04:18 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cold shocking is a myth with Cubensis. If those pins have been stale for 2 weeks, they are likely aborts. You should clean the pins and any fungal tissue from the cakes, dunk them for 24 hours, then roll in vermiculite, then case both ends in vermiculite, then moisten to field capacity. All this should encourage flushing. If pins do not mature within a 7-9 day period, they prolly won't. You should fan a few more times a day as well, and mist the FC's walls maybe once or twice a day. GL.
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dreadful
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Re: Cakes pinning thoroughly, but won't begin fruiting [Re: MLBjammer]
#5680954 - 05/27/06 04:31 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks MLBjammer.
Here are a couple pics for reference.

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Re: Cakes pinning thoroughly, but won't begin fruiting [Re: dreadful]
#5681188 - 05/27/06 06:12 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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You're not supposed to let them sit on the perlite. It causes them to wick up water from below, and also to attempt to grow into the perlite. Put down a jar lid or something to separate them from sitting right on the perlite so they won't become waterlogged. If they do, they won't fruit. RR
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