The Lipa & Tap Mushroom Grow (CALIGROWKITS TEST)
I've been reading up on growing mushrooms for a couple months now and am anxious to get started. This is my first shroom grow so I decided to buy the pre-made jars from caligrowkits.com and test em out and let you guys know how well they work for the first timer. Feel free to post if you have used the kits before with positive or negative results and would like to share. The kit was $50 and took about 1 week for delivery. They have a $100 kit too but thats a bit much. I got my spore syringes elsewhere.
The kit came with...
6 1/2 Pint Ultra Substrate Jars (Premixed & Pressure Sterilized)
16 Quart Growing Chamber
Termometer Humidity Gauge
1 Quick Bright Grow Light
1 Gal of Premium Ultra Fine Perlite
Alcohol Swab
Instructions
*Gloves aren't included.
The jars are all pre made with the following...
Natural Organic Brown Rice Flour
Vermiculite with Mineral Water
Worm Castings
Bee Pollen (Nature's Super-Nutrient)
Spores...
3x Lipa yai
3x Tapalpa
The instructions they include are well written and easy to understand for the first timer. However, I did read a lot on other sites regarding the topic prior which helped me understand a bit more. For instance how important being sterile is. They no where suggest using gloves, which to me was kinda weird. So I recommend still doing some research on your own to understand whats going on instead of just following instructions that don't explain whats taking place. There are 4 injection sites on the top of each jar. Which you use to inject the spores right into the cake.
Last edited by M.Swills; 10-10-2011 at 04:51 PM. Reason: added pictures
I started the grow last night on 10/8. I placed the jars under my bathroom sink where its pretty much a constant 85 degrees. Which is perfect for incubation. The aluminum foil is for added protection and keeps moisture in. The instructions with the kit suggest that incubation takes 5-8 days. We'll see how accurate that is soon enough.
Always been interested in growing some shrooms. Thanks for sharing, I'll definately be following this.
dude i was checking out the cali grow kits too, and thinking about buying one of their kits. def. sub'd
chillin on it, grilling on it, roll up another blunt, my lungs are filling on it.
Lookin forward to your results. I never knew about cali grow kits, if all goes well maybe ill get myself a kit. Growing mushrooms is something ive always been interested in trying. +rep
Its the end of day 5 and no signs of any colonization. I remember reading though that if you inject directly into the cake(which I did) it takes a bit longer to see results rather then if you were to injected around the inside of the glass. Maybe 2 to 3 more days.
Yah, thought why not try it out. Hell of a lot easier then making your own jars.Originally Posted by heyguy901
I'm curious to see how much these 6 jars produce. We'll see. Thanks for the rep
Quick update, definite colonization in all jars. I'll have pictures up soon.
Day 12
Nice to know its working. Seems like no jar got contaminated!
The Lipa Yai is colonizing twice as fast as the Tapalpa. In fact they are almost finished.
More good news then bad. Looks like 4 jars are colonizing correctly out of the 6. One jar has no signs of growth, so the spores possibly didn't make it into the cake. And the other has been cologinizing a little different and is a grey. Probably got contaminated. If anyone knows for sure, please let me know. The Lipa Yai is still moving twice as fast as the Tapalpa.
Here are the good looking jars...
And the grayish jar (possibly contaminated?)...
As for the 4 remaining jars, looks like they'll all be done in the next week or so.
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