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No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC
    #7696149 - 11/29/07 06:20 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Alright well this is my second time growing mushrooms (the first time I got a very small yield because I didn't let the myceium fully colonize).

I dunked and birthed the cakes on Sunday and today I noticed a white cotton like fuzz growing on the cakes which I hope is myceium. However there is no pinning! My temp has been pretty consistent between 68-75F and my humidity is always 100% or over (I can't keep it under 100%). I also keep the light on for 8 hours a day and change the air every 4 hours. I think I'm doing everything right?

Heres a pic... do I just need to wait longer or change the conditions for my fruiting chamber? I want a big yield this time!!


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7696359 - 11/29/07 06:50 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Patience, grasshopper!

All looks well, although it doesn't look like you did the "dunk and roll". The actual elapsed time from introduction to fruiting conditions and actual fruiting may vary for a wide variety of reasons too exhaustive to set forth here. I strongly suspect that all your cakes are in need of is >>TIME<<.

FWIW, I recommend you print your best shrooms and abandon the cake method for the Rye tek if what you are looking for is more productivity.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Nature Boy]
    #7696402 - 11/29/07 06:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

yeah rye is the way to go. i grow potent as hell mushrooms on just rye, no need to mess around with crap unless you have too much time on your hands... rye is cheap, easy, and very clean. as far as your cakes go, i say 2-3 days and youll see your first pins just be patient


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: poot]
    #7696496 - 11/29/07 07:20 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Hey man, me and you are on almost the exact same schedule, i dunked sunday and went into the chamber on monday. i have seen some growth as well. However after my dunk, i rolled the cakes in verm.

see you at the finish line!

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7696837 - 11/29/07 09:12 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Hey no worries my friend, that cotton like fuzz popping up is knotting. I birthed mine on the 21-22 and I saw my first pins yesterday. Started out as two and now I have 20+. So just be patient, keep FAE and watch them grow! :smile: Good luck! Lonnie Edwin:thumbup:


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7697046 - 11/29/07 10:23 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

you forgot a very important step. you dunked, but didn't roll. that is the ONLY was to do PF as far as i'm concerned. can't do 1 without the other.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Optx]
    #7697281 - 11/29/07 11:58 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

are those cotton spots knots?? is that what is going to turn to pins? then eventually shrooms!! someone tell me!!

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Ender Wiggin]
    #7697308 - 11/30/07 12:08 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Yes. Any time now, just keep up the FAE and you'll see results soon enough.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: JewelessCaesar]
    #7699559 - 11/30/07 03:35 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Thanks for the reassurance guys... also yes, I forgot to do the verm roll because I started the procedure and then read about it after they were already birthed. For future reference... would I just buy vermiculite and roll them after the dunk? that simple?

also - I will look up the rye tek... never heard of it before, but I'll def check it out.

Thanks.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7700227 - 11/30/07 06:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

did you use vermiculite in your cakes?
i literally weighed down my cakes and submerged them in water for 24 hours, then had a bowl of vermiculite and with clean hands just placed the cake in the bowl so the vermiculite stuck right to it. sprinkled it on spots it didnt take, and that was about it. I dont know if this is the right way but im showing a lot of growth

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Ender Wiggin]
    #7700265 - 11/30/07 06:19 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

No idea how i posted here.. my bad

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: catbear]
    #7714782 - 12/04/07 10:50 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Here's an update of my cakes. It has now been 7 days after birthing them. I am a little concerned because I don't really see any pinning. I am keeping high humidity, 72F temp, 8 hour daily lightening, and I exchange the air every few hours or so.








Any advice or do I just need to be patient? Thanks so far for your help and input.

Edited by GreenNirvana101 (12/04/07 10:51 AM)

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7714796 - 12/04/07 10:54 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

haha.. just keep waiting.. it will happen.. as long as you are keeping up the FAE and doing everything else you are doing, then you will be good.. growing fungi takes patience

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: DJYoshaBYD]
    #7714822 - 12/04/07 11:00 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

FAE? What is that acronym? I think a sticky should be made to reference acronyms, like FC, fruiting chamber...

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: verminute]
    #7714851 - 12/04/07 11:06 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

They are kinda easy to figure out. But yeah that would help alot.
FRESH AIR EXCHANGE (FAE)

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Cloneufc]
    #7716383 - 12/04/07 04:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

once again thanks for the reassurance guys - also is it encouraged to mist the fruiting chamber too? Right now I don't have enough humidity to create moisture on the sides and roof of the fruiting chamber and I think these puppies are bruising blue!

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7716399 - 12/04/07 04:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

ur humidity is too low

also did u dunk?

id dunk if u didnt

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: elnico]
    #7716450 - 12/04/07 05:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

you may be waiting up to 2 weeks!!! so dont expect nothing.


it will get real puffy. and if you had a layer of verm, it would somewhat colonize it too. then lil white bumps will appear. then youll wake up and see this one day



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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: sproket13]
    #7716750 - 12/04/07 06:22 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm right there with you man. I birthed on the 26th and only have 4 pins on one of 6 cakes. They just showed up today. The other cakes have white spike but no pins. My FC is like yours except I drilled holes in all 6 sides to help with the FAE. The pins didn't show up until I placed a small fan next to the FC. I have to believe the air provided by the fan is helping.

(72 F and 99% RH)

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: DitterDog]
    #7718721 - 12/05/07 08:02 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah, those bad boys are under hydrated from reading the sympotms on PF Tek.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: verminute]
    #7719262 - 12/05/07 11:23 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

alright - im redunking and rolling RIGHT NOW. These babies are underhydrated and I need to do something about it!

Is there a certain type of verm to buy? I bought the jars pre-mixed, so I dont know anything about verm. THanks.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7719340 - 12/05/07 11:47 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Get mid-grade verm., not fine.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: verminute]
    #7719520 - 12/05/07 12:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

my grow is right with you guys. I dunked on the 27th birthed into the FC on the 28th and they show no signs of pinning either, I JUST GOTTA WAIT IT OUT!
I use an automated FC 73 degrees @ 97%-100% Rh 12/12 light cycle, Also its my first grow i have 8 strains

this is a little of what i have going on a few days ago, i need to take updated pics


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: P.Menace]
    #7719538 - 12/05/07 12:37 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

my pf tek jars took about two weeks to pin. just be patient and keep up the fae.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: goldieman]
    #7721811 - 12/05/07 08:39 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

alright - well I got the vermiculite and I am "re-birthing" and rolling the cakes tomorrow and then I will take a new picture and keep ya updated!

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: verminute]
    #7723814 - 12/06/07 10:27 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Alright so I dunked for 24 hours and rolled in some vermiculite. I also cut out the top of my FC and put a plexi glass insert in there for more light source.

Now its time to wait!!! Heres some pics for my update!







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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7723850 - 12/06/07 10:44 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Another question...

Is there any suggestions for FAE? Right now I have a filtered air pump constantly pumping air into the chamber, and I take the top off and fan it every 4 hours or so.

However, this Saturday I will be gone all day and will be coming back Sunday morning. So I would like to know if there are any other ways people FAE their chambers if they aren't there for a weekend or so.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7723870 - 12/06/07 10:51 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

coolmist humidifiers, poly-fil stuffed holes, fans, etc. your method should be fine though. soon enough you will be tripping balls, just be patient.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: CantiSama]
    #7724123 - 12/06/07 12:03 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Haha, great response above.

Yeah, for a single day you should be fine. Keep that light off though.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: verminute]
    #7724261 - 12/06/07 12:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

it should be fine


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: armyabe]
    #7726056 - 12/06/07 08:13 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

what i see now, is tiny, white, pin head size dots, some with color, others just white, im pretty sure this is the beginnings of pins
the question is

what does a sizeable amount of clustering mean? a lot of these are grouped fairly close to one another, is this going to infringe on the growth of some, being so close together?

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Ender Wiggin]
    #7729988 - 12/07/07 06:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Catbear, I think you can kinda tell that your cakes are dehydrated (presumably due to lack of the "roll") by looking at how different the shapes of the cakes are... especially before the fruit shows up. Look in the picture without the lights on, if you look at the cake in the upper right hand of the pic. it looks a LOT different than when it first came out of the jar. Cakes deflate, all media will deflate or warp with the loss of moisture. You might want to experiment around with the straw tek on your next grow. With a little probing you'll find pics of cakes with straws jammed in them. I'd wait until after you get your results from this crop and then compare with the results from your next. It should be a lot of fun for you!


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7730375 - 12/07/07 07:53 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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GreenNirvana101 said:
Another question...

However, this Saturday I will be gone all day and will be coming back Sunday morning. So I would like to know if there are any other ways people FAE their chambers if they aren't there for a weekend or so.

Any suggestions?




Based on the pics I have seen I can't tell how you are delivering humitiy to the FC aside from the meduim you have the cakes sitting on... How are you maintaining 100%+ RH and what are you using to measure RH?

If you are just pumping air into the FC, that is really not exchanging the air inside of the FC from an efficiency stantpoint, may want to get some poly-fill ventage in there. The problem with a tub FC is the daily manual maintenance that has to go into exchanging the air, but if you can only fan once one day that isn't going to hurt it too much.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: blueshroprachaun]
    #7730424 - 12/07/07 08:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I just use perlite and have a hydrometer in the FC. I also occasionally mist the FC too. I've heard of polyfill before, but what does it actually do and how does it work?

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7730525 - 12/07/07 08:28 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

If you are confident in your hydrometer's accuracy, you should be ok. Polyfill helps FAE and helps keep contams out and RH in better than just a plain hole in your tub. Here is a recent post that shows how to implement.

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/7516303/page/0/fpart/5/vc/1

The tek he is using here is more advanced, but gives you a good general idea of how it's used.

IME the perlite / tub / cake tek was a frustrating PITA, low flush regret. If you have the same type of encounter I would recommend the upgrade to a MARTHA FC with a timed coolmist inside, and switching to casings the next time around. That may sound complicated and expensive, but after you have gone as far as you have it's really not that complicated and the slight expense is more than worth it.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: blueshroprachaun]
    #7746760 - 12/11/07 08:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

FIRST PINS!! wooooot. However, it looks like everything is growing on the bottom... is it because the water flows to the bottom of the cakes? How can I get shrooms pinning everywhere?




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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7746886 - 12/11/07 08:27 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: ewikk055]
    #7747494 - 12/11/07 11:00 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

RR says they grow from the bottom because it's closer to perlite. But, I think it could also be because while you were incubating the jars, they were right side up. When you birth them, the cakes are upside down and if you don't turn them right side up again, they'll pin from the bottom.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: c0_hush]
    #7747878 - 12/12/07 01:50 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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RR says they grow from the bottom because it's closer to perlite. But, I think it could also be because while you were incubating the jars, they were right side up. When you birth them, the cakes are upside down and if you don't turn them right side up again, they'll pin from the bottom.




This is not the case in my grow... I incubated the jars turned upside down (for gas exchange) and then i birthed the cakes to that position as well. All of the pins grew from the parts of the cake that were covered in verm. (some of my cakes were rolled and others werent) I simply flipped the cakes over to discover large clusters of pins forming. I intend to leave the jars in this position
The Verm is a place needed for the hyphal knotting stage to occur. Hyphal knots grow from below the surface. the verm in this case is the top... and being moist these two factors create the ideal environment for the pinning to occur.
also the moisture contained within the cake migrates toward the bottom of the cake due to gravity.

Indirectly Mist the cakes when fanning and watch the pins double in size at an exponential rate, while watching other pins appear all over the entire cakes surface in time.

DISCLAIMER: I am a noob to this as well. This is just the result of MY personal findings and experiences growing so far.
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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7748051 - 12/12/07 05:00 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

your cakes are showing you where conditions are best for pin formation in your fruiting chamber; increasing the humidity level, raising the number of fresh air exchanges per day, and spraying the cakes to give them more water are all possible solutions to your problem.  Sherlock holmes that shit and find out what is the best solution for your situation relative to your fruiting chamber :grin:


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    #7748173 - 12/12/07 07:00 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

There pinning from the bottom because thats where the best conditions are, i have had that on a few cakes, my last cakes pinned from the bottom on the first flush, then the pinned from the middle and top on the 2nd flush, now they are pinning from the bottom again (they were left for 3 days this time with very little fanning and spraying)


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: P.Menace]
    #7748229 - 12/12/07 07:36 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

When cakes pin at the bottom it has nothing to do with the fact that the cakes were grown right side up, upside down, on their sides, or constantly spinning. Hyphal knots (which become pins) form on the surface of the mycelia but only in those areas where the humidity is high enough.

That means that unless your setup is perfect, most of your pins will be either on the end close to the perlite or on the end with the verm protection layer (which you should have taken off anyway) or near the top verm reservoir if you added one later

Don't put straws or wicks or anything else in your cakes to rehydrate them as you will waterlog the cake.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: verminute]
    #7750713 - 12/12/07 06:40 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

If your myc continues to shoot out and be fuzzy with no pinning your temp may be a few degrees too high. Also, yes IME it is important to keep rH up but during pinning it wont hurt for it to be 90%..if you can lower temps a few degrees you might be able to drop the rH slightly...also with stubborn pinners I have found increasing lighting to 12-24 hrs helps, especailly with the temp drop..also more FAE more often will help lower the rH a bit...and you can never have enough o2 to get pins going. Good luck!


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Gretchenmeister]
    #7753287 - 12/13/07 11:31 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

New Update! These things are HUGE! When do I pick them? Do I wait for the top to unfold or do I pick them and then cut around the top?





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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7753437 - 12/13/07 12:13 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

you don't cut arond anything . Try to harvest them just when the veils are tearing . Which you should probably see within a day . Holding the shrooms closer to the cake . Pull them while giving a twist .


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: whereismymind]
    #7753516 - 12/13/07 12:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm no expert, but I think some of those guys could probably be picked off now.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: BuddhaTree]
    #7753619 - 12/13/07 01:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

i cannot wait, this is pretty much my first time growing, so im pretty psyched to say the least.

also what do you advise for drying technique? Just set them out in front of a fan?

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7753995 - 12/13/07 02:35 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

its a matter of choice , i love em fresh yummy =)
but people will tell you to buy desiccant and put the desiccant in a box
and on top of desiccant a wire for seperating the shroomies and desiccant this way you can have cracker dry shrooms , otherwise i guess it takes from 2-3 days to fan dry em , depending on your climate (humidity)


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: whereismymind]
    #7754281 - 12/13/07 03:40 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

so i decided to harvest some of my shrooms today. Take a look at what I got, and will fanning be sufficient? Or should I get some epsom salt as well?





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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7755624 - 12/13/07 08:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Do a search. Drying teks, fan drying, epsom salt, dessicants, dehydrator...etc. I've heard about it being done with a black t-shirt and some lights.

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: BlargIAmDead]
    #7756931 - 12/14/07 12:27 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm probably going to only be using a fan.. Should be pretty dry after 72 hours, so they say. In addition to the above methods already mentioned, some reported using a dehydrator, placing the shrooms on top of their CRT monitor, etc etc.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: c0_hush]
    #7757473 - 12/14/07 08:27 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Fan dry to get the bulk of the humidity out of the shrooms and then put in a box with dissecant once they are nearly dry but still a bit soft for that extra cracker dry goodness.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Nibin]
    #7758124 - 12/14/07 12:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

alrihgt well right now I got the fan set up and I think I'm gonna go out and get some epsom salt today... with the salt I just bake it for about an hour and its good to go, correct?

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7760701 - 12/15/07 12:25 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

you can just lay in a cardboard box with a fan over the top and they will dry. Refridgerators have a lil fan on the bottom, you can set them there...or invest in a nesco six tray for $25.00. They rock.


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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: Gretchenmeister]
    #7768105 - 12/17/07 01:02 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

alright so my first flush is done.... 5 out of the 6 cakes total have produced a great amount of mushrooms - so im pretty psyched. Everything is drying out right now, so I will eventually see later this week how many dried grams I got.

However, I was gone over the weekend - and when I came back today the perlite and thermometer had a black suit on them. It easily came off though, and was only on some of the mushrooms. Are these spores or some kind of contam? Safe to eat?

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Re: No Pinning, but cotton-like growth. PIC [Re: GreenNirvana101]
    #7768349 - 12/17/07 05:54 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Thats spores, nothing to worry about. When the caps open that much they go crazy dropping spores.


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