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dill705
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Monsters on BRF!!!
#8127237 - 03/10/08 12:08 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Here's my grow. I prepared 12 pint jars for inoculation using brown rice flour and vermiculite. I inoculated with Psilocybe Cubensis strain Equador. I had 4 jars contam, because I flame sterilized every 4 jars.
I then crumbled all 8 pint jars in one large ziplock bag and let them "heal" overnight, while I prepared my casing layer. I never dunked them. I used the 50/50 tek with the addition of Sodium Carbonate.
I took an aluminum lasagne tray which measures 8 x 11 x 2 3/4 inches, and put a very thin layer of casing material down. Then I layed the crumbled cakes, yes, all 8 of them, on top of this layer. It almost filled the entire tray. I then covered with as much casing material as possible without overfilling the tray.
I immediately put this in my FC (humidity provided by perlite, FAE proved by fanning with the lid a few times a day).
Within 2 days a few mushrooms were poking up. After 2 more days I was like holy shit, that's almost as fat as my dick!
By harvest time I knew I'd grown my biggest shroom yet, here's some more pics...


I don't know if you guys can see it, but that scale says fucking 112.2 grams. I was like holy shit I thought 30 g , maybe 40, but fucking 112!!! I didn't even think BRF was nutrituous enough for that big of a cube, especially without dunking first. I know lots don't dunk before the first flush, but I do usually.
Anyways here's a pic of the rest of the first flush.

Total wet weight of the first flush: 361 grams even!!!
What do you guys think? Anyone ever seen BRF perform so well?
I've heard that South American strains tend to grow big, but I've never seen anybody have this large of a mushroom on BRF. The second largest mushroom came in at a whopping 85.3 g.
Comments, Thoughts?
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: dill705]
#8127279 - 03/10/08 12:22 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: dill705]
#8127283 - 03/10/08 12:23 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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oh and SPORE PRINT IT.
or clone it...
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dill705
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It's already in LC solution.
Did it last night.
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: dill705]
#8127293 - 03/10/08 12:26 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I had 4 jars contam, because I flame sterilized every 4 jars.
What the hell should flame sterilization be??? never heard of that. Sounds weird!
I guess the reason why you didn't see mushrooms this big from BRF substrate is simply that most people work with straw or other substrates instead of cakes, when it comes to bigger tubs. It's less work and it's cheaper.
If more people would do it, you'd have seen fruits as big as yours, I bet.
Don't get me wrong, this is a hell of fruit, no question about it!
Congratz
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: Fahkface]
#8127307 - 03/10/08 12:30 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm doing the exact same BRF jars but haven't decided whether to case or not. Let me know what your dry weight comes to when its all over with. Congrats
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dill705
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Flame Sterilze = flame on the needle until red hot to kill any contaminate spores that may have landed.
I work in a semi sterile environment (apartment complex), so I can't have a bunch of suspicious looking glove boxes and such. What I've got now is bad enough if someone noticed, but they almost never check our place out.
Thanks for the kind words guys
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: dill705]
#8127413 - 03/10/08 01:04 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Are the first pics fucking huge for everyone?
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~dill705~
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: dill705]
#8127418 - 03/10/08 01:06 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah, that's the way I knew it, but I couldn't think of anything in the context.
So "I flame sterilized every four jars", does mean he AFTER every four jars, so cross contamination had a chance. OK!
For it sounds like he somehow sterilized his jars with flames 
Clearly had some problems to read that info out of this sentence
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: Fahkface]
#8127427 - 03/10/08 01:08 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Are the first pics fucking huge for everyone?
I can only speak for me, but I know that fruits that weigh over a 100 gram are indeed BIG!
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dill705
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: Fahkface]
#8127429 - 03/10/08 01:08 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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LOL I understand the confusion now.
All that effort to not sound like a dumbass and I say I flame sterilized the jars...
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-Icelander-
I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW!
~dill705~
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: dill705]
#8127458 - 03/10/08 01:16 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Happens to the best of us
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dill705
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: Fahkface]
#8128010 - 03/10/08 03:44 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Anyone else seen anything like this on BRF?
-------------------- My advice is to find those things that give pleasure and do them often without too much attachment and relax and wait for the show to end.
-Icelander-
I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW!
~dill705~
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: dill705]
#8129689 - 03/10/08 10:06 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nice Monster Dill! What vendor did you get the spores from?
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: Mana]
#8129784 - 03/10/08 10:35 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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dude thats so effing huge! my biggest was like 28g so far, but ive only harvested like 5 cakes and im not casing, growing off of cakes and my shrooms tend to be pretty small
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Was this an isolate or multispore?
Nice job man
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dill705
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: Mana]
#8129792 - 03/10/08 10:37 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sporeworks.
They ship fast and discrete. Check out the sponsors forum, you won't find any complaints, just praise.
Highly recommended by me.
-------------------- My advice is to find those things that give pleasure and do them often without too much attachment and relax and wait for the show to end.
-Icelander-
I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW!
~dill705~
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: dill705]
#8132090 - 03/11/08 02:24 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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good lord one of those would fuck me up for days lol
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dill705
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! [Re: MrIzzy11B]
#8132111 - 03/11/08 02:29 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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haha, the big one is about 25 grams right now.
I'll be "donating" an oz to a friend/relative, then probably eating the rest or splitting them with my girl if there's enough left over, which there should be...
Their almost dry, I'll update with the dry weight when their done.
-------------------- My advice is to find those things that give pleasure and do them often without too much attachment and relax and wait for the show to end.
-Icelander-
I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW!
~dill705~
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Re: Monsters on BRF!!! *DELETED* [Re: dill705]
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