a mediocre shroom garden thread

iHearAll

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Anybody ever check out Myco Willy on YouTube? I think I'm going to do his mini-monotub.

Do you continue to mist and fan when pinning and onto fruiting? Or stop after pinning. I ask because I read you're not supposed to get the mushrooms wet
from experience, it isnt awful to get cubensis moist by accident while misting but if you grow panaeolus you should not ever get the pins wet. That being said, I have noticed that constant misting doesnt make much of a difference after pinning but my superstition keeps me doing it. back to back comparisons, however, say it doesnt matter... i will still fan occasionally to keep the air fresh and re-wet the top layer of perlite with the mister instead, just so it evaporates into humidity.

i havent checked out myco willy, lol, i'll give him a look in a bit!
 

DankTankerous

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from experience, it isnt awful to get cubensis moist by accident while misting but if you grow panaeolus you should not ever get the pins wet. That being said, I have noticed that constant misting doesnt make much of a difference after pinning but my superstition keeps me doing it. back to back comparisons, however, say it doesnt matter... i will still fan occasionally to keep the air fresh and re-wet the top layer of perlite with the mister instead, just so it evaporates into humidity.

i havent checked out myco willy, lol, i'll give him a look in a bit!
Dude you should he's got a Boston accent so it makes the videos entertaining. He has some good stuff
 

DankTankerous

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Hey just curious does 1qt jar full of rye berries equal 1lb? I was watching a mini-monotub tek and he was using a colonized 1qt jar. The website I'm looking to order off of offers them in 1lb bags. I really don't have the space to have two mini-monotubs unless it's ok if I stack them? That would be really cool to have two mini-monotubs going on.

Any advice is welcome and below are the links

Www.out-grow.com
 

iHearAll

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Hey just curious does 1qt jar full of rye berries equal 1lb? I was watching a mini-monotub tek and he was using a colonized 1qt jar. The website I'm looking to order off of offers them in 1lb bags. I really don't have the space to have two mini-monotubs unless it's ok if I stack them? That would be really cool to have two mini-monotubs going on.

Any advice is welcome and below are the links

Www.out-grow.com
It's a 1:2 ratio typically of spawn to substrate in a tub. I'm not sure the weight of quart of spawn.... Good question. I would imagine around 3/4 a lb to a lb. You can eyeball your substrate though. Anywhere from twice as much to four times as much substrate than spawn is safe but the less substrate you add, the easier it is to avoid contamination. I'm speaking from research and tutoring from a local guru .
 

ANC

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Hey just curious does 1qt jar full of rye berries equal 1lb? I was watching a mini-monotub tek and he was using a colonized 1qt jar. The website I'm looking to order off of offers them in 1lb bags. I really don't have the space to have two mini-monotubs unless it's ok if I stack them? That would be really cool to have two mini-monotubs going on.

Any advice is welcome and below are the links

Www.out-grow.com
It can be as much as you need, you can always seed a larger container with what you have.
 

iHearAll

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Psilocybe Cyanescens on pre soaked, nonsterile, bamboo and alder in open air
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Shiitake cake with bamboo, may not fruit because i used bamboo, we will see
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Hauatla
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Treasure Coast clone. The LC is growing really fast on BRF cake.
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I knocked up some coffee/gypsum/lime soaked (24hrs) WBS and coffee grinds then precooked them on the stove before straining and pressure cooking. The colonized one is a panaeolus cyanescens that is taking FOR EH VER because i was too lazy to cook on the stove first. So, the moisture content is all out of whack... Oh yea and forgot to mention this.. or rather, i wanted to wait to post about it until it either worked or didnt work. So, i got a greenish contaminant in the colonizing jar and thought "damn no way will i let this go to waste, i have got no time for that here". I went down a rabbit hole of information and stumbled across a post by someone on some other forum claiming that you can kill a contaminant if it is small by using the sun and a magnifying lens. Sounds logical, but the member had shown zero picture proof. I tried it for myself and did it for 5 minutes twice a day for three days and the spot appeared to boil and died on day one. i see a little suspicious mycelium but it should get consumed during consolidation. Ill probably have to let it go for 3 weeks extra consolidation to be sure... The spot is that circular section on the top of the grains.
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This was black agar, check out how the mycelium consumes the coloring and does not become the coloring!
way cool
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DankTankerous

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It can be as much as you need, you can always seed a larger container with what you have.
True, I guess my concern with going for a bigger monotub is that I've never grown mushrooms before, so I wouldn't want to fuck up a large container. But then again I would hate to have to throw away colonized grain spawn.
 

iHearAll

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True, I guess my concern with going for a bigger monotub is that I've never grown mushrooms before, so I wouldn't want to fuck up a large container. But then again I would hate to have to throw away colonized grain spawn.
So what kind of tubs are you looking at? How many lbs of berries are you using again? If you build a sgfc you can fruit the leftovers in the spawn bag without extra substrate. 20$ total cost and lasts a while
 
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DankTankerous

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So what kind of tubs are you looking at? How many lbs of berries are you using again? If you build a sgfc you can fruit the leftovers in the spawn bag without extra substrate. 20$ total cost and lasts a while
I looked into the sgfc and I'm just going to stick with the tek I found on Willy Myco's YouTube. It's a lot more simple than the sgfc. First I'm going to buy the mini-monotub and construct it, then I'll figure out if I need to 1lb or 1-2lbs. It shouldn't cost me too much.

It's just a waiting game now. I got a lot of bills that I'm paying right now which will all be done paying by the end of the Summer. Patience is usually the hardest part of my hobbies it seems
 

iHearAll

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I looked into the sgfc and I'm just going to stick with the tek I found on Willy Myco's YouTube. It's a lot more simple than the sgfc. First I'm going to buy the mini-monotub and construct it, then I'll figure out if I need to 1lb or 1-2lbs. It shouldn't cost me too much.

It's just a waiting game now. I got a lot of bills that I'm paying right now which will all be done paying by the end of the Summer. Patience is usually the hardest part of my hobbies it seems
I shamelessly just bought a new grow light with no money! Lmao... :-P
 

DankTankerous

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Just ordered a B+ Syringe from Sporeworks and Ryeberry grain bags and Mushroom compost substrate from shroom supply! Looking forward to growing some shrooms
 
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