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crumblebum
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My plan...
#6837410 - 04/26/07 03:27 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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So I've gathered all my supplies, now I'm just waiting for my jars to hit 100% cultivation. What I'm looking for here is any obvious errors or mistakes in my plan. I figure if something is going to go wrong, it'll be an incidental moment of contamination, but it never hurts to run this all by experts to see if I'll be doing anything obviously wrong.
Set up and maintainance of terrarium: As suggested by RR, I've got a clear plastic tote, kind of narrow and fairly deep. I'm going to drill 102 evenly dispersed holes in it, 17 per side. I'm going to get some distilled water, boil it, and soak the perlite in a container of some kind, then put it in a collander or two in the sink, and wait till it stops dripping. Then I'll swab the interior of the terrarium with alcohol, let it dry, and pour a layer of perlite in the bottom. Then I'll place it in a walk in closet. The terrarium will be on a 4 inch high mesh rack to hold the holes on the bottom off the ground, with a 2 inch high rack inside to set cakes on to allow more surface area of the perlite to evaporate water. They'll be a flourecent light about 4 feet above the terrarium angled down set on a plugin timer. Once cakes are inside, 2-4 times a day the lid will be removed and used to gently fan the interior for 2 minutes.
Moving cakes from jars to terrarium: First, I'll put on a breath mask and latex gloves , and then swab the gloves in alcohol. Then, if the jar has been 100% colonized for more than 4 days or so, I'll remove the top layer of dry vermiculite, being careful not to scrape or damage the mycelium. I'll have a 1 pint mason jar, steralized, ready with distilled water. I'll quickly transfer the cake from the 1/2 pint pf tek jar to the 1 pint dunking jar, seal it off with the lid, and put it in the fridge. Then, I'll wait 24 hours, drain off the water, carefully dab the cake till it's not dripping, and roll the sides with dry, oven steralized vemiculute. Then, I'll make a square of tinfoil slightly larger than the cake, set that on the rack in the terrarium, and set the cake on top of it. Then, I'll wait for it to make drugs. In between fruitings, I'll remove the cake from the terrarium, soak it for 12 hours in the same method described above, reroll it in vermiculite, and place it back in the terrarium.
Does all this look good?
A few questions: The informaton I've got says that the light should be 18 hours on, 6 hours off while there are no pins, and then 12/12 when they start to form. The problem is, my 10 jars are colonizing at different speeds, and won't be ready to place in the terrarium at the same time, and so most likely will be pinning at different rates. Is it a big deal if the light is always just 12/12 or 18/6, or is it vital that prepin cakes get 18/6 and pinning cakes get 12/12?
This is kind of a dumb question, but I can't find an answer anywhere else. Will the cake be colonized on the "top", where the layer of dry vermiculum is? If so, does it matter from then on what way the cake is oriented, or will the pins and mushrooms grow whatever direction the light is and gravity is not? If not, does this blank patch go up or down?
I'm growing the amazonian strain, if that makes any difference anywhere. I can't afford a whole lot more equipment of any kind right at the moment, so any suggestions anyone has reguarding extra equipment, while helpful and appreciated, won't be immediately implimentable.
Thanks
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kyleda1kid
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whoooa way too long.
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xaxphaanes
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use 12/12 cycle..pins will go everywhere on the cake. i would spawn the cakes to horse poo and make a casing which would have better yield results.
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blood4blood
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u shud keep the fc at least 1 foot off the floor
i dont think you need to fan for 2 minutes at a times ten seconds should work just to get the stale air out
place the cakes in the fc divot side up
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kyleda1kid
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1st it's Colonization, not cultivation, everything else sounds ok. only need few hours, 12/12 is fine, indirect light
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crumblebum
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I'd thought about casing later on when I can manage the simpler tek of a fruiting chamber. Divot side up, I'll assume that means the rounded end of the jar, or what would be the bottom the cake while it's still in the jar. I'll fan for 10 seconds, 3 times a day, and keep the lights at 12/12, and use something else to keep the fruiting chamber 1 foot off the ground. Maybe some cinder blocks or something. Anything else?
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Edited by crumblebum (04/26/07 03:36 PM)
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blood4blood
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nope i think you'll do fine.
yea i started off with the dunk n roll first too i think its a good tek for noob's like us to get our feet wet with
yea the side with the verm layer on it goes up
i mist mine 3 times or a day also not directly kust let the mist fall down onto the cakes then i fan right after that
good luck
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crumblebum
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Sweetass.
Oh, one more thing. Is the rolling part just for the first time afterbirthing, or should I reroll them after every dunk?
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blood4blood
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after every dunk, and afer you roll them wait a half hour or so and lighlty mist the verm on your cakes just to get it moist.
your gonna redunk after every flush then i take it?
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crumblebum
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Quote:
your gonna redunk after every flush then i take it?
Thats the plan. Is there a reason not to, besides contamination if I don't sterilize the water right?
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blood4blood
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nope thats what im gonna do to. i personally dont steralize the water when i dunked but i suppose it wont hurt. just make sure its cooled
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crumblebum
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Checked my jars tonight (have to make a drive, they live in the country with freinds, I'm in the city) and I've decided to try flipping some of them. I've seen this referred to a few times here, that basically when all 4 patches of mycelium are touching, you can flip them to purge some CO2 and speed the growth back up, because it HAS slowed a lot from the first week. It seems like they grow in spurts rather than gradually over time. I suppose I should have mentioned the flipping in the above passage, slipped my mind, I flipped 2 of the 10 last night and they've already shown more growth.
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