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Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics
    #8687710 - 07/27/08 10:02 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Hello everyone, I recently got interested in growing shrooms.
On July 7th I gathered all the components to grow.
I inoculated the jars that day.
I am using the standard PFtek technique, with the PF strain i ordered from spores101.com.

So heres the reason i am posting.

Since the inoculation, the growth of mycelium seems very very slow compared to all the other posts I see on here.
I live in Florida, and for the last few weeks conditions have been Ideal.

They are in 80-86 degree weather at like 90% Humidity.
The growth is very small in 5 of the 6 pint jars i am using. One jar has alot more than the other, but that is still very very small.

Please take a look at my pics below.
I only took a picture of two of the jars.
The one on the left is one of the super slow ones, the one on the right is the one with the most growth.

So... 3 weeks into it, hardly any growth. Whats the deal people.

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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: irockdayellup]
    #8687770 - 07/27/08 10:14 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

the jars look like they may be to wet


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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: polyflakes]
    #8687788 - 07/27/08 10:19 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Spores101? And yes, they look very wet.

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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: Ledd]
    #8687809 - 07/27/08 10:26 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Are you using brown rice, and not brown rice flower?


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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: MHbound]
    #8687825 - 07/27/08 10:30 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

The jar contains  Brown Rice flower, vermiculite, worm casings.

Is there anything i can do to fix the wetness?
Will it still fully colonize over time?

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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: irockdayellup]
    #8687831 - 07/27/08 10:32 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

I have heard you can turn them upside down. The dry verm will absorb some of the moisture. I have no first hand knowledge of how effective that is. Good luck.

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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: irockdayellup]
    #8687841 - 07/27/08 10:34 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Ya, ive read that taking the foil off and turning them upside down can help growth. I did do that like 2 days ago.

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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: irockdayellup]
    #8687843 - 07/27/08 10:36 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

To be honest I would try again. They could start to colonize in a week or two, but probably not.

Try using the plain PF Tek. Keep those jars up, and going....Then when you get ready do a few sample jars with your worm castings, and grain jars...So basically what I'm saying is keep refining your method from the basics.

If they have bacterial contaminations then no the mycelium will not grow, and its not good to grow on it even if it could. Its health risk. A serious one in some cases.


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    #8688128 - 07/27/08 12:12 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: irockdayellup]
    #8688195 - 07/27/08 12:40 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

So ive retaken the pictures of my jars.

A few people said it look really wet, i think it was the camera settings.

So here are 3 new pics, of 3 jars.

OVERVIEW:
-3 weeks colonizing.
-very little growth.
-Virm/Riceflour/worm casings.

the one on the left has the most growth.



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Re: Slow Mycelium Growth Questions with Pics [Re: irockdayellup]
    #8688199 - 07/27/08 12:41 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

er... whats with the whole grains of rice in there?


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