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Slow gowing Ecuador with pics
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My Ecuadorian strain inoculated on November 25, 2007. They are growing slow. I started out with 6 jars. Two I have removed because they had black stuff growing in mycelium.

I am using the tub in tub method with 2 fish tank heaters on each side of the big tub. The temperature stays between 78 degrees and 82 degrees. The humidity is 98 - 100% all the time.

Any suggestions on how to improve my technique? It seems like the mycelium is taking much longer to get mature than other Ecuadorian growers on the Shroomery

My best looking..Jar 1


Other side of Jar 1


Jar 2


Other side of Jar 2


Jar 3


Other side of Jar 3


Jar 4


Other side of Jar 4


Tub in Tub


Tub with towel keeping the babies warm at night

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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: karmaa]
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They look like there going to grow strong dude :mushroom2: :rockon: Cool job on the incuabation too.  I guess you could air it once in a while...Uhm, I do belive the slow growth is due to the CO2 build-up in the jars, You could possibly flip them upside down, Though If you do that they tend to shrink kinda, though quicker colinization.

Edited by jape (01/20/08 05:40 PM)

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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: karmaa]
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November 25th? Damn!

I bet your incubator temps are too hot. Store them at room temp.

Edit: You also don't need humidity during colonization! I bet that is slowing it down too.


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Edited by endepth (01/20/08 05:38 PM)

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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: endepth]
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Take the foil off. did you tape your holes, use tyvek, etc?

put a coffee filter over it if you've left the holes uncovered.


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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: Crasher]
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Crasher said:
Take the foil off. did you tape your holes, use tyvek, etc?

put a coffee filter over it if you've left the holes uncovered.


Crasher has your answer! I can't believe you still have the foil on that tight. That is you're problem. If you don't have coffee filters, or tyvek or tape, at least loosen the band and sightly lift the lid. keep the foil on loose. You'll see progress in not time.

The Shroomy 1


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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: The shroomy 1]
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I imagine your jars have dry verm on the top and have filters over the holes(tyvek or micropore tape), but I can't imagine that exposing those jars to sitting water is doing them any good- just keep them in a relatively warm(ie, reasonably comfortable for you) part of your apartment/house/whatever. And take off the tin foil- you want some gas exchange.

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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: Yossarian22]
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humidity doesn't mean dick until you get those cakes out of those jars. Until then, you're just creating a massive contamination magnet with that big pool of still, 80 degree water.

You don't even really need an incubator unless temps in your house are falling out of the low 70s. Incubating increases risks for contams, and after a certain point, actually slows down mycelial growth.

On another note, dump that thing out, for real. If you're going to use water at all for an incubation setup, don't put your cakes in the same tub with it. Get another large rubbermaid and put it into the one with the water and heaters. Then the cakes are completely isolated from any kind of nastiness that wants to grow in warm, stagnant water.


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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: Yossarian22]
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Thank you all for your knowledge. I will be replacing the foil with coffee filters asap. I'll let you all know how it goes!

Thanks again,
Karmaa

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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: karmaa]
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I had slow Myc as well on a different strain. Removed the foil and flipped em over. Now they are back on track.Good luck ! That is crazy slowwwwwwww....... :smile:

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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: atomicblue]
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that looks like contam imo, I always do EQ strain..

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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: zeng216]
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Wow that is slow. I'm on my first grow right now. The entire outside of the jars were covered within a week! It's been almost two months for you. I kept the foil on my jars and they were kept in the low 80s. They are being dunked right now!


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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: zeng216]
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zeng216 said:
that looks like contam imo, I always do EQ strain..


Where? it looks fine.


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Re: Slow gowing Ecuador with pics [Re: Crasher]
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I just innocced 8 pint jars with EQ and they are ~70% colonized after 8 days. Extremely fast growth. I'm very surprised/excited for future flushes. Anyways, take off that alum foil like everyone else said but I am pretty sure coffee filters don't really do anything at all (I remember someone else more knowledgeable than myself saying that) because the holes allow for contams to pass through anyways.


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