First Grow Journal - Psilocybe cubensis - Golden Teacher

I used the MYG grow kit which came with: a fruiting chamber, a jar of rye grain, a bag of shredded straw, a bag of casing soil, and some casing starter. www.mushbox.com/myg.html

First, inoculate the rye grain jar and waited for that to colonize.


Once that was fully colonized, I pastuerized the straw and transplanted the mycellium to the straw and once again waited for colonization. (sorry no pic of colonizing straw )

After the straw was colonized, I put the sterile casing soil on top (I used the microwave to sterilize). And yet again we played the waiting game.



After a few days of misting (possibly a little too much), fanning (although not enough), and anxiously waiting I finally saw a little pin poking through.



Once I saw the pins I was excited, but just kept on misting and fanning occasionally. Nothing else that I did was very important, so I'll get to the fun part...PICTURES!

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If you have any questions/comments/concerns/whatevers, feel free to post.
Also, I have more pictures if requested.

Looking Great!! Nice dark looking print you have there too! Are you going for a 2nd flush?

ya I plan to, but I don't really understand how I go about that. Cus this first flush came in very uneven and in the chamber right now I have shrooms that range from "ready to be picked" to pinheads just poking up. Are those pins my second flush?

Usually when most of them are ready, the smaller ones will be aborts. They will usually not grow because the large mushrooms suck out the moisture. When I did trays, as soon as the viels were ready to tear I would pick everything...even aborts. Then mist the old casing layer to add more moisture for the next flush and add another thin casing layer..mist again and wait. Usually the 2nd flush wont produce as much as the 1st, but then again sometimes they surprise you! The aborts can be some potent little shits too!!

If you dont have anymore soil for casing, you can use vermiculite. I like using verm, because it has a verry low contam rate. It can be hard to find this late in the season, so you might have to do some searching.

do you bake your verm before use? i saw RR recommend doing that on a cookie sheet in the oven at 300 degrees F for an hour.

JP

Dude where can i get my hands on som spore prints or syringes?? i live in Australia so prob gonna need an oz supplier, any sugestion? anyone??

lukey boii said:

Dude where can i get my hands on som spore prints or syringes?? i live in Australia so prob gonna need an oz supplier, any sugestion? anyone??

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use the search bar in the hallucinatory substances section for spore syringes

they are all over this thread section man...

spores101.com ships world wide so they will probably be your best chance. I dont remember seeing AU banned on any of the mycology sites.

JP

whatd you yield first flush?

justparanoid said:

do you bake your verm before use? i saw RR recommend doing that on a cookie sheet in the oven at 300 degrees F for an hour.

JP

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every time i rolled my cakes which was AFTER each flush.

i have never baked my verm and got at least 4 flushes of each cake.

i personally think baking the verm is for perfectionists

Kushcrosser said:

If you dont have anymore soil for casing, you can use vermiculite. I like using verm, because it has a verry low contam rate. It can be hard to find this late in the season, so you might have to do some searching.

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hey kushcrosser ahven't seen you around in awhile, got any thing going??



to the OP
i dont bake my verm unless im going to reuse verm or if the bag has been open for a long time

Iv been tryina learn how to do this for a while but only understand a few things..... something about jars.... pressure cooker?... spores... kno nothing about steps... how to.... anyone with tips or a place i can learn ?

Google PF-Tech, this will give you all the info you need, also just look here in the HS forum, there are literally 4 threads on the main page concerning mushi grows