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wisp

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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Jars completed, Fruiting time!!! maybe a contam'd jar??.. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#8996960 - 09/28/08 05:22 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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More mushrooms generally = smaller mushrooms. If you only have a couple of mushrooms, they should be larger.
It does feel kind of sad eating your babies, doesn't it?
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The Cake Guy
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Jars completed, Fruiting time!!! maybe a contam'd jar??.. Pics.. [Re: wisp]
#8998376 - 09/28/08 02:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nice job
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plonkerism
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Jars completed, Fruiting time!!! maybe a contam'd jar??.. Pics.. [Re: The Cake Guy]
#9001144 - 09/29/08 02:20 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Some insight into my super-complicated drying method:
 
Starts by me turning on my ceiling fan Notice the freshy in the second photo. Thats my biggest shroom yet!! ( ) Looks like a stogy
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9001163 - 09/29/08 02:40 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Some more pics of other cakes:
<The Verm Cake - also where i got the freshy from in the pic above..
< Jar 1 (or 2).. THe one that i didnt case... I forget now..
< And my casing is pinning quite hardcore-ly! There is a massive cluster fuck happening in the top left corner. That will be pretty to look at  
Oh and a couple of the LC jars are starting to show pins. Too small to take pics of yet but woot! My LC worked and i have about a quart jar full of the shit in the fridge. Enough B+ mycelium to last just a little while
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9001246 - 09/29/08 03:32 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wait your liquid culture is pinning?
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plonkerism
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: ray40cal]
#9001252 - 09/29/08 03:41 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sorry i mean jars that i knocked up with LC 
I used the syringe to stir the mycelium so i could withdraw it (i didnt put in an agitator) and im sure the syringe had god knows what on it. Just sorta winged it and it worked so gotta be happy with that!
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9001255 - 09/29/08 03:42 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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would be interesting to see an LC pin though
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wisp

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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9001335 - 09/29/08 04:52 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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It will happen if you leave it long enough. The mycelium will form a mat on the surface of the solution and pins will form from that.
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butralance
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: wisp]
#9001396 - 09/29/08 05:58 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow. This is been very interesting. I will be looking forward to what happens to the rest of your cakes and casing. Please provide info on what they weighed out dry for each cake too! For some1 like me who has never grown but will be very soon, it was nice to see the whole process in very good detail! Lets me know what to expect a little bit more. Also it was a good idea that you tried multiple techniques, like using casing and 50/50, when those are all done it will be good to see how each of them varied! I'm especially excited to see how your casings do as opposed to your cakes, i know casings do better, but i am excited to see just how much!!
I've been reading how to grow mushrooms vigourosly for a few days now, actually a long time, but never grown them! So i know quite a lot! but seeing the proccess this detailed really gave me a grasp!
THANKS!
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: butralance]
#9001413 - 09/29/08 06:09 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Btw, i have tried growing 'rooms before, but i failed.
A little tip to anybody who doesnt have a pressure cooker: do what i did, buy one from wal-mart, cook your jars and do what u need to do, and return it the next day
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: butralance]
#9001570 - 09/29/08 08:05 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
butralance said: Btw, i have tried growing 'rooms before, but i failed.
A little tip to anybody who doesnt have a pressure cooker: do what i did, buy one from wal-mart, cook your jars and do what u need to do, and return it the next day
Wow, that's an amazing idea! For someone who's only going to grow shrooms once...
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: dead]
#9001596 - 09/29/08 08:15 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well done, nice grow.
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: Jetro]
#9006484 - 09/30/08 02:08 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cheers mate 
Verm cake harvested today. It was 32.3 (.5 off the 50/50 cake, but had bigger nicer shrooms)
 
Also the shrooms you see on the bottom of the cake were sterile (no spores dropped and gills were very pale despite the cap being completely open). The cluster at the top all were sporulating though.
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: butralance]
#9006507 - 09/30/08 02:19 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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butralance said: Wow. This is been very interesting. I will be looking forward to what happens to the rest of your cakes and casing. Please provide info on what they weighed out dry for each cake too! For some1 like me who has never grown but will be very soon, it was nice to see the whole process in very good detail! Lets me know what to expect a little bit more. Also it was a good idea that you tried multiple techniques, like using casing and 50/50, when those are all done it will be good to see how each of them varied! I'm especially excited to see how your casings do as opposed to your cakes, i know casings do better, but i am excited to see just how much!!
I've been reading how to grow mushrooms vigourosly for a few days now, actually a long time, but never grown them! So i know quite a lot! but seeing the proccess this detailed really gave me a grasp!
THANKS!
My intention was to create a grow log that would hopefully answer as many questions as i was asking when i started researching. Glad to hear its helped
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plonkerism
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9011863 - 10/01/08 02:32 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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The casing is doing some really weird things. Like growing shrooms that arent attached to anything??? A pin growing sideways off the top of another pin. A tiny cap grew upside down without a stipe and really strange gills. Happening in the cluster i pointed out before as well as some other pins not looking too good. Maybe bacterial contam causing it? Shrooms are still growing strongly, just... weirdly..
 
This cake will prob be picked tomorrow morning or afternoon.. Waiting for some veils to start tearing:
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9011926 - 10/01/08 02:54 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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they look sweet, mutations are expected though
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plonkerism
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: QuantumReality]
#9012011 - 10/01/08 03:43 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ok, cheers. They just look reallll funky. Hopefully I get some mean-looking mutants. That would be cool
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plonkerism
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9016908 - 10/02/08 02:36 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Harvested my 3rd cake today (jar 2, or 1, whichever it was). Got 60.3g wet. More because i waited till they all had completely opened up, so the extra weight came from that i guess. Some really nice shrooms on it.. Ill upload the pics when the casing is done, which it nearly is.
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9016942 - 10/02/08 03:10 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Actually fuck it, ive got nothing else to do.
pics:
 
And here is my harvest so far from 3 cakes. 50/50 cake was about 34g wet (i forgot to add the late pins into the earlier post), verm cake was 32g wet and the final cake which was 60g wet making it a grand total of 126g wet, approx 12-15g dry. The top row in the photo is the lot i picked today. Bottom row is from the verm cake, and in the corner is 4g cracker dry from the 50/50 cake.

Is that about average/below/above? Im happy either way
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Re:first attempt at cultivating... Fruiting/harvest time!!! .. Pics.. [Re: plonkerism]
#9016966 - 10/02/08 03:38 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Haha oh man they all look delicious, i want to see what those mutants turn out like eh, should be crazy cool. 
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