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omu_negru
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Is it ready or am i hoping in vain?
#8686821 - 07/27/08 01:16 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ok please bear some patience with me once more. I know its a custom and it helps immensly if i post a picture of the jar but i just do not have a camera and all my friends who own one are on vacation. To make a long story short one of 2 jars survived. It smells kind of sweet and the stuff inside is silver white. The only problem i have is that it didnt form any strong strands like i read it should and it just barely covered the wheat grains all cotton fluffy like. It actually took the same as green mold sometime takes, puffy and fluffy . Now i was thinking that a jar is kind of little for what i had in mind so i was preparing for a grain to grain transfer , this time using rye seeds. But i need confirmation that what i currently have growing is actually mycelium and not some other stuff. So to sum it up, it smells normally and not like some antibiotics or something else, its silver white, and it didnt form any strong strands. Thanks in advance for advices and for your patience fellow shroomerists
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c1dh3d
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Registered: 07/15/08
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Re: Is it ready or am i hoping in vain? [Re: omu_negru]
#8686851 - 07/27/08 01:27 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have never birthed a jar that was completely covered in mycelium. In fact, the first time incubating, I tossed 12 jars because they didnt fully colonize, which I kicked myself for some moons later - I thought contamination had them.
If you see mycelium on both sides, with a fairly wide expanse stretching side to side, and some colonization on the bottom, and it hasn't grown in days, I just assumed thats all it could do.
I've birthed half colonized cakes a few times, and gotten close to an ounce dry on the first flush. I don't know why I couldn't fully colonize, but what is colonized will fruit. In my experience, it half way colonized and stopped for 1-2 weeks completely. At this point I figured "What the hell, might as well throw them in the fruiting chamber and see if it contaminates."
I've had satisfying results both times, so you can either sit on your hands and see what happens, or go on with birthing.
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pontus
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Re: Is it ready or am i hoping in vain? [Re: c1dh3d]
#8687203 - 07/27/08 04:32 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Really is a pity, that you can not take a picture. Sweet smell sounds suspicious. It is supposed to smell like fresh mushrooms. How fast did it colonize?! Maybe you can lay your hands on a cell phone with camera, any picture would help.
-------------------- "People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed"
Bob Dylan
Edited by pontus (07/27/08 04:33 AM)
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