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mtfunguy
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: madman2001]
#12572420 - 05/16/10 10:59 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm a total newbie to growing, but about to get started. I've noticed in the PF tek (and many other places) that it's suggested to use 1/2 pint jars, but the pictures often show jars that appear to be even smaller, maybe 8oz jars, and most of the cakes I see look like they came from the smaller jars. Can anyone tell me what's up with this? Does it matter which size jars I use? Do I want the cake to fill up most of the jar (like it looks like in the pictures with the small jars) or do I want some air space, so that a cake in a bigger (1/2 pint) jar actually comes out roughly the size of the 8oz jar?
thanks for your help!
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: CubensisCliff]
#12580730 - 05/17/10 05:47 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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I asked the question about 1/2 pint jars vs what I think in the PF Tek pictures are smaller jars, meant to say 4oz, not 8oz. Are the PF Tek pictures of 4oz jars or 8oz (1/2 pint) jars? should I use 1/2 pint like everyone says, or 4oz like I think I see in the pics?
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: BerryAxle]
#12603177 - 05/21/10 09:52 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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From what I've read, I couldn't tell how important it is to put tape over the inoculating holes while sterilizing my substrate jars. I did it just to be safe, but I've also seen a couple people mention that you should leave the tape off after inoculating. Is that true? Should I just leave the inoculated jars' holes uncovered? Is this because it needs air? Or cover them to keep out contam?
thanks for helping me with my first grow!
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: TacoHerder]
#12787832 - 06/22/10 10:32 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hi, can anyone tell me if I made a mistake by drilling holes in the lid to my fruiting chamber? in the video here http://www.mushroomvideos.com/Terrarium-Tek they say to drill holes in all six sides, which I assumed meant the top, too. But then I didn't see holes in their lid. Is it better not to have holes in the lid so that spores/other contam can't get in through the top?
thanks for your help, I'm getting really excited, my first grow!
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: IamTempest]
#12816961 - 06/28/10 09:22 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hi, working on my first grow, cakes are in the fc now. I have one cake that I pulled aside during colonization because I thought it had contam, but after a few days when I forgot about it, I noticed that it didn't look like it had contam anymore. It had been getting much more light than my other cakes, and now that they're all in the FC, it's got 4 or 5 good shrooms growing on it, which had me excited for a while, but last night I noticed a bluish part of the cake, not really near the mushrooms. Can cakes bruise? The blue-ness looks like it's just under the outer layer of white mycelia, not on the surface, so I wasn't sure about the q-tip method for checking if it's contam. Should I just get it out of the FC, maybe put it in it's own, to make sure I don't contaminate any others? I thought cakes were pretty strong in terms of holding up against contam once they're fully colonized.
Any help/thoughts would be great! sorry for no pics, I'll see if I can get some up if that would help.
thanks for your help
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: CH HELL]
#12818069 - 06/28/10 01:41 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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i'm working on getting a pic. one of the bigger shrooms has a crack/tear in the cap, with a slight amount of dark coloring around it. is this a sign of contam? I've separated the cake from the others while home for lunch for now, and will try to get pics up after work.
thanks, CH, for your help.
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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: misfit78] 1
#12824171 - 06/29/10 03:18 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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First time grower here with some questions. I posted some earlier but I'll repost:
PF tek, now my cakes are in the FC (shotgun). One of them I thought had contam while still in the jar, but it seemed to disappear so I birthed the cake with the rest. It had been out in the light and I got some shrooms quickly from it, the others are coming along slowly but seem to be doing well. On the possible contam cake, I started noticing bluish stuff on the cake, and the biggest shroom had a split/tear in the cap, with some blackish coloring around the tear. one of the other shrooms also had some black on the cap. I decided to isolate the cake, noticed more blue/black on the shrooms, so I picked them and cut open the cake to see...didn't seem to be much contam, just slight blue color on the cake. Threw it away, maybe I shouldn't have. Any thoughts on if it's actually contam would be great. Also, can I eat these shrooms? there was some blue on the inside/cross-section of the stems immediately when I cut them, so I don't think it was bruising. And I don't think the blue on the cake was bruising because it developed slowly after being untouched for awhile in the FC. But really I have no idea.
Anyone out there have any ideas? Did I just waste a good cake? Also, when I harvest the first flush, do I need to get the whole stem off the cake before re-dunking for another flush? And one last question, one of my cakes right now has one big shroom, can I pick it and just let the cake keep going for a while, or should I only harvest the shrooms on a cake all at once?
Thanks for any thoughts/help you can offer!




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Re: The Shroomery and mushroom cultivation, a newcomers guide. [Re: CH HELL] 1
#12824696 - 06/29/10 04:49 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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phew, glad to hear you guys think it's looking good.
I don't think the black is spores, though, because it happened on the tallest mushrooms and there weren't any others to drop the spores, but maybe. Or I guess it could just be some natural dark coloring on them and I'm just paranoid.
So the tear in the big cap isn't a sign of contam or anything bad?
Can a mushroom be blue on the inside of the stem right after cutting/picking it? I guess they sure do bruise easily.
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