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Mushroom Venture - November/December 2001
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Strain: P.C. Thailand Lipa Yai
Provided By: The Hawks Eye
Substrate: BRF/verm + honey (as per www.shroomwizard.com)
Jars: 12 - 1/2 pint jars (Ball wide-mouth)
Casing: Verm
Innoculation: November 5th, 2001 @ 7pm
Note: Substrate jars sat for one week to observe any would be contams

Observations:
Day 3: Spores have germinated in about half of the jars. Dime size growth in few.
Day 5: All jars show growth at various stages. Added all jars to an aquarium with
water heated to 86? to speed colonization.
Day 10: Most jars are apx 25% colonized. One jar with only quarter-size growth.
Day 15: Ripped off tape on top of jars. Most jars apx 35% colonized. Also removed
saran wrap cover on aquarium. Will replace evaporated water every 2 days.
Day 20: Jars are between 60-90% colonized. No contams.
Day 25: Jars birthed before full colonization due to too much moisture. I suspect
the dry verm layer absorbed moisture evaporating from the warm water bath.
Lost one-half cake to purple contam that smells like wine. Most cakes
at 85%+ colonized.

Casing Date: November 30th, 2001 @ 7pm
Casing Observations: 0.5" verm base / 1.5" substrate / 0.25" casing layer
Day 1: Covered in foil.
Day 2: After 48 hours about 10 patches of mycelium (~1-2cm) poking through casing.
Sprinkled fresh casing over patches, removed foil, placed in terrarium.
Day 4: Mycelium has begun to overtake casing layer again. 12 hr light on. Fanning
three times daily followed by a mist to boost humidity.
Day 5: Mycelium fuzz poping out evenly throughout all three casings. Still fanning
3-4 times daily.
Day 7: Mycelium growth continues. I have stopped misting and am fanning every 3-4
hours, day & night. Light on for apx 15 hours/day.
Day 8: Pins! Three-pin cluster (quite large) on one casing. Hypal knots forming
on other two casings. One small pin on second casing. Fan every 2-3 hours.
*Day 9: That three-pin cluster... gettin mighty big
20+ pins total on all casings. Fanning every 3 hours.
Day 10: Pins, pins everywhere. One casing with a very even pinset, others are
scattered. Fanning every 4 hours.
Day 11: Cluster harvested (6.9g wet wt.) 2 shrooms. Many pins devloping.
Day 12: One shroom harvested (4.9g wet wt.). Got a farm goin! =D
Day 13: Harvested 34.5g wet wt. (3am). Largest specimen was 13.8g wet. Harvested
29.7g wet wt. (1pm). 4.1g wet wt. (3:45p) 22.6g wet wt. (6:40p)
Day 14: Harvested 23.7g wet wt. (12p). Harvested remaining 61.1g wet wt. (6p)
Patched bare casings with new damp verm, misted, covered with foil.
Sitting in terrarium for 6-7 days while I go to Oregon.
Day 23: Trich on one casing, the other two are alive with nasty albino deformed
shrooms... i'm trashin this operation out of lazyness. on to the eq's!

Flush 1 Harvest Date: 12/11-12/14
Flush 1 Wet/Dry Weight: 201.3g/25.7g

Total Wet Weight: SAA
Total Dry Weight: SAA