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kykeon
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My problem and how i solved it...

#777436 - 07/25/02 11:14 PM (24 years, 1 month ago)

First of all i would like to thank this forum and everyone who ever helped me (Anno, Moe, Tripmeister and so on). Most of all i would like to thank MeneerCactus for being my tutor and great helper of my whole attempt.

Well...

After a month of research and another month of actually practising the teks, i have only one point to comment on. Climate is something VERY important and on most teks it isnt even mentioning that. The problems i faced were not of those commonly to be found on amateurs, such as lack of sterilization or lack of proper care for the work. What was needed? I did more than that. I wore surgeon's mask and gloves, sterilizing everything etc... my friendz used to laugh on my method.

So, what was the problem in my method? CLIMATE. I chose to start this interesting personal occupation in summer, in Greece... what a mistake! I have read a hundred of different teks. And i have done exactly what is written in there. But then... i faced a huge problem. Temperature. How on earth could i keep a casing on a sealed [for humidity reasons] terrarium in 25 C (78 F) to initiate pinning, when outside on the streets the temp was higher than 40 C ??? I just couldnt. No matter fanning, misting, praying, the terrarium was in an almost constant temp of 31-32 C which is very bad, because not only pinning cant start at those temps, but also it is too high for the mycelium to leave normally (colonization has a max of 30 C and i was over it). The result: no matter what i did, fridging or whatever, no pins at sight for my verm casings. Two of my casings on soil resulted in overlay, probably due to long exposition on vegetative conditions. I also have one single cake which of course was there stooding hopeless.

I thought hard what to do and i realized i had no other option than RISKING. After all, i had nothing in my hands, apart from some null casings and a stupid cake. Days were passing and the only expected result would have been the contamination of them all even if i am using boiled water mixed with H2O2.

First of all, i opened the terrarium and threw the lid away. [too bad i dont have a cam]. I then took a white piece of cloth which is used as a fly-preventer on the windows. It has big holes so that u can see through it, but the holes are smaller than an insect. Hope u know what i mean. This piece of cloth was my new lid.

No need of fanning anymore, as the casings are exposed in the fresh air ALL DAY AND NIGHT LONG. What is needed is misting. A lot of misting, for in an open terrarium u cant keep humidity up if u dont mist once in 2 hours. I know its a pain in the ass, but dont forget that i had nothing, so i risked everything. With this no-lid method, the temp dropped to about 28 C which at least it was okee so as not to kill my mycelium. I needed though to lower it more, and there was another risk to take. Air-condition. I moved the terrarium to another room where an air-condition is working for an hour in the noon and also all night long. When the air condition is working, the temp on the terrarium drops even to 22 or 23 C. So i said to myself, lets see what going to happen in the next days.

But i didnt have to wait long!!!!!! NEXT MORNING there was 3 pins on the casing: 1 beautiful big healthy guy and 2 smalls. The next day I had 2 lovely baby shroomies and 6 small ones, which i think will turn to aborts. Today, is the third day and my baby shroomies show such growth and look so health that i have to admit i am in loooove with them...

I now understand the great feeling of seeing a shroom growing...

its so beautiful!!!!!

The sealed with plastic bucket which has the cake in it, keeped well the humidity but also in high temps. As i saw that it worked on my casing, I moved it also to the air-conditioned room and the result was that today it is full of HUNDREDS! of hyphal knots or primordia, i am not sure whats the right word, but if everything go allright, the cake will have shrooms in a few dayz.

So, as a result, i am not saying that i managed to have something important in terms of yield or crop... on the contrary i have ONLY TWO HEALTHY EQ SHROOMS and plenty of null casing and a cake which carries with it a lot of hope. So, i am far away from being a succesful cultivator as far as yield goes, but i think i can be proud of myself that i managed under such weird and difficult climate conditions to produce at least 2 shrooms. My method [open terrarium on an air-condition] is probably a stupid, wrong thing to do but at least this silly idea showed me that i can do it. I will wait until October when the temps will be significantly lower. Because, after all, u can higher the temp if needed, but its difficult to lower it...

Thanx 4 reading my loooong post

Kykeon
athens, greece

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The living ghost of Kykeon

Edited by kykeon (07/25/02 11:36 PM)

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