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fluni1mg
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Incubation way to slow - but why ?
#7797601 - 12/25/07 07:59 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hello everyone, So here is the problem: I used the PF-Cake method described in the Cultivation Guides. Then I inoculated the glasses with syringes (5 different cubensis strains ordered from www.azari.....) Each glas with about 1-2ml of the syringes. The incubator is an styropor-box with a heating cable on the bottom and a temperature-controller that kept the temp at about 29 degrees constantly ! The humidity was about 80 % but I thought since the glasses are still sealed with the second tinfoil (not the ones I used for injecting) the humidity in the glasses would be OK. So it took 14 days till the first cake was fully collonized - but only one. There where 25 cakes. 5 of them collonized later and I put them into the growing chamber ( one cake had a not-collonized spot on the top - there was a contamination within two days !). So of 6 cakes only one had no contaminations within the grow-period and I think this is because the collonization took so long..... 1) Does anybody of you have a idea what went wrong ? 2) When a cake is fully collonized there is still the vermiculate on top (to act as a air-filter - described in the grow-guide). What do I do with that - remove? and should the original top-site stay up or should I turn the cakes ?
Thankyou for your help in advance!
Fluni
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Re: Incubation way to slow - but why ? [Re: fluni1mg]
#7797766 - 12/25/07 09:27 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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After birthing, wash them under the faucet to remove the uncolonized parts of the vermiuclite filter.
Colonize jars at normal room temperature on an open shelf next time and I suspect they'll do better. Incubators, especially ones with a heat source on the bottom, tend to cook the jars, drying them out and delaying colonization. RR
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fluni1mg
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Re: Incubation way to slow - but why ? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#7803015 - 12/27/07 06:05 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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To: RogerRabbit - Thank you for your help. I'll try without that incubator the next time. But when you say faucent do you mean just regular water ? Don't I have to worry about contamination ?
Fluni
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Re: Incubation way to slow - but why ? [Re: fluni1mg]
#7803060 - 12/27/07 07:12 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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once the cakes are fully colonized they can pretty much protect themselves from mold/contaminants.
hey RR what about TiT incubators for a place where the temperature is low? they are heated by water so they shouldn't cook from the bottom.
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