|
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
|
Joops
Stranger
Registered: 09/26/04
Posts: 282
Last seen: 4 years, 11 months
|
Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix
#5960498 - 08/13/06 08:51 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Got a real beautiful grow room with auto air exchange, lighting, temperatures maintained perfectly. See the grow log for more details:
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5708118/page/0/fpart/all/vc/1
First flush on the casings in that setup were hella tiny and skinny. 2nd flush was much better, by the 5th flush they were real nice and big like the yshould be, up to 50g each.
Threw all those casings away and started new casings. The first flush is just about to break veils, and again, 1st flush is very pathetic. great pinset with about 150+ on each casing, but very small. Made sure they were very watered this time but apparently that didn't make a difference aside from the casings not shrinking as much as the last grow. See pics.



Whassup with such a shitty first flush if it's not the temps or lack of moisture to suck up? It's a b+ strain, perhaps just a shitty strain for first flush? Thoughts? It's a great setup though, just depressing for the first flushes.
|
dutchmushroom
mushroom invader


Registered: 08/02/06
Posts: 1,393
Loc: Outer Space
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: Joops]
#5960765 - 08/13/06 09:50 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
i wouldint worry as long as your gittin bigger flushes latta ull b iight
-------------------- "Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand says: don't you see? Gotta make it some how, on the dreams you still believe, Don't give it up, you've got an empty cup, only love can fill, only love can fill" < Grateful Dead! The bus came by and I got on, and thats when it all began GROWLIGHT KIT, 250w HPS Digital ballast, + Enhanced Spectrum bulb and Reflector Sale Or Trade!
|
Cubenisseur
Mad Props


Registered: 12/04/05
Posts: 1,392
Loc: Indian Land
Last seen: 13 years, 10 months
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: dutchmushroom]
#5960788 - 08/13/06 09:55 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
You need to read Hyphae's pinning strategy.
|
mrwack0
Stranger
Registered: 10/05/05
Posts: 50
Loc: Canada
Last seen: 30 days, 7 hours
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: Cubenisseur]
#5960799 - 08/13/06 09:57 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Cubenisseur said: You need to read Hyphae's pinning strategy.
care to give a link of Hyphae's pinning strategy for reference. I am sure you know the location
|
RogerRabbit
Bans for Pleasure


Registered: 03/26/03
Posts: 42,214
Loc: Seattle
Last seen: 11 months, 3 days
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: dutchmushroom]
#5960817 - 08/13/06 10:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Those are tiny little tupperware type containers. You're lucky they're that big. If you want bigger fruits, use a larger and deeper substrate.
All I can see from your grow log is you call them 'casings'. A casing is a non-nutritious layer placed over the top of the substrate. Mushrooms may fruit from the casing layer, but the energy comes from the substrate below, which we have no idea what that is other than it came from 19 jars. If you want larger fruits, you have to spawn to a bulk substrate such as manure or straw, then when that finishes colonization, you apply the casing layer. It's a misnomer to refer to the whole project as a 'casing'. RR
-------------------- Download Let's Grow Mushrooms semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat "I've never had a failed experiment. I've only discovered 10,000 methods which do not work." Thomas Edison
|
creamcorn
mad scientist


Registered: 03/13/06
Posts: 2,962
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: mrwack0]
#5960832 - 08/13/06 10:07 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/3290155
mushrooms are mostly water. approx 90%. you have so much moisture to go around... more pins means more mushrooms share in that amount of moisture... which means less size per mushroom. fewer pins, means more moisture thus more size per mushroom. its really about as simple as that. B+ can grow to be quite large when there's enough resources for them to do so. it makes sense that later flushes mean less pins that grow to larger sizes.
how thick is your substrate? those containers don't look very big, nor very deep. how thick is your casing layer? in addition to providing the microclimate necessary to encourage pin development, it also acts as a moisture resivoir. what casing mix are you using? different mixes hold different amounts of moisture.
to put it simply, a thicker substrate means more resources are available to the amount of pins that develop across the surface area of said substrate. a thicker casing layer (without going so thick that it doesn't properly colonize or hinders pinset) can help provide additional moisture. so moving up to bigger casing trays, with more substrate mass, will help substantially.
proper misting throughout the casing colonization stage, and then during cropping, keeps moisture levels up. proper misting means a fine mist, never forcefully applied, and given in small but frequent amounts. i see an awful lot of white on your surface, and "bare" mycelium at the surface isn't quite as receptive to moisture when compared to uncolonized casing. you might want to try initiating pinning sooner (that's where reading the pinning strategy comes in handy.)
|
Cubenisseur
Mad Props


Registered: 12/04/05
Posts: 1,392
Loc: Indian Land
Last seen: 13 years, 10 months
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: creamcorn]
#5960836 - 08/13/06 10:10 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
thanks cc
|
Joops
Stranger
Registered: 09/26/04
Posts: 282
Last seen: 4 years, 11 months
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: Cubenisseur]
#5960923 - 08/13/06 10:38 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah. They are 1ft x 1ft containers each, each casing has 3 quarts grain and a top and bottom layer of 50/50+.
Just surprised that, for a 2nd time in a row, the first flush is identical in that they are real small and tiny. After dunking and going for flush 2 they will be big.
Like said earlier, at the point when the last casings were thrown out they were growing large fruits up to 3/4oz per casings per flush. These size casings do produce large yields for their size except the first flush is always very small fruits. Wondering why and how to counteract this phenomenon to get the good flushes from the first flush without waiting for subsequent flushes...
|
Tippinthru
contented

Registered: 04/07/05
Posts: 1,131
Loc: "The Garden"...
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: Joops]
#5960959 - 08/13/06 10:50 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Do h/poo.  You will never regret it. 
Beats grain substrates hands down.
-------------------- Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time... [
|
creamcorn
mad scientist


Registered: 03/13/06
Posts: 2,962
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: Tippinthru]
#5960982 - 08/13/06 10:57 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
yep... grains alone simply dont hold much moisture, regardless how well you do everything else. a bulk sub such as hpoo as mentioned, will.
its not surprising that if you do the same thing over again, you get the same results. 
in absense of a bulk sub, you could consider mixing some moist verm in with the grains when you lay them out in a tray, to help provide some of that much needed moisture. it will also be more receptive to dunking for later flushes.
|
RogerRabbit
Bans for Pleasure


Registered: 03/26/03
Posts: 42,214
Loc: Seattle
Last seen: 11 months, 3 days
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: creamcorn]
#5960991 - 08/13/06 11:01 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Also, note that the casing layer goes on top, not top and bottom. RR
-------------------- Download Let's Grow Mushrooms semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat "I've never had a failed experiment. I've only discovered 10,000 methods which do not work." Thomas Edison
|
davesj1
Stranger

Registered: 04/11/05
Posts: 260
Last seen: 8 years, 6 hours
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: Joops]
#5961546 - 08/14/06 01:51 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Are those GT? I did a GT tub and it was Hpoo at about 3-4" in depth in a huge tub. They all came out really skinny with normal size caps. They looked really similar to yours. However the sheer number of them just about made up for there size. It was like a sea of lollipop shrooms.
|
Babo911
Pooper Scooper


Registered: 09/05/05
Posts: 1,745
Loc: Arizona Bay
Last seen: 10 years, 7 months
|
Re: Great setup - but why first flush always SO TINY! pix [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5961890 - 08/14/06 05:39 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
RogerRabbit said: casing layer goes on top, not top and bottom. RR
Also try a casing of verm/peat w/buffer aka 50/50+
Looks to me like you also only used verm as a casing layer?
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/3290155/an/0/page/0
^^Read it, learn it, use it
--------------------
Ronhero on the Growery is me
|
|