First Time Shroom Grower PF-Tek

cali-high said:

i did notice one of my jars looks infected but im not sure.(1st time grower) its red with little egg looking things in it, they look the size of poppy seeds so idk... my eyes could be playing tricks on me or smoethin..but the mycelium is about 75% covered in the jar and that shit is towards the bottom so i think if it is a bacteria or whatever the mycelium might fight it off.....

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Hopefully it's not the same stuff I had because I ended up having to toss those cakes. I thought the mycelium was fighting off but when I split open a cake I saw that the "small" visible portion was just the tip of the iceberg of the infection that lie at the core of the cake. Anyway best of luck.

And Jollygreen, I would remove the foil entirely. The dry vermiculite at the top of the jar functions as a filter because it traps contaims before they can get to the nutritional substrate beyond them. Jars at this stage do not need much FAE exchange, but some FAE in this stage seems to lead to boosted growth and less time in the jars.

Check out my grow, I just birthed one in the FC and I'm starting to get my first pins.

the weather is getting cooler and my cabinet temp dropped below 80.
im might try to build an incubator
i have a cooler sitting around..i need an aquarium heater

yeah i will try to get a pic like friday or somethin

dangreen said:

Whats the point when you can get a Oz of shrooms for 80 bucks?

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If I could get an Oz of shrooms I wouldn't be here either. You must be a lucky one, dangreen.

jollygreengiant8 said:

the weather is getting cooler and my cabinet temp dropped below 80.
im might try to build an incubator
i have a cooler sitting around..i need an aquarium heater

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maybe try an old blanket. maybe an old winter blanket or electric (not working) blanket wrapped around and over.

i believe my temp indicator is a bit off and although it shows ~88-89 i think it may be closer to 85.


i will post pics tomorrow as i have let them be for 2 days without checking.

i expect to see some more phenomenal growth with some close to completion.

i also just obtained a free 30 aquarium with all the fixings.

considering i have 21 cakes now, i think i may need the terrarium room.

i found an aquarium pump on sale at walmart for $4...done deal.
i just put them in there, ill check later to see what the temps at.

what did you set the temp at? how they looking? you do the other 5 yet ??

careful with all that standing water. You may want to add a capful or two of bleach to the water. You don't want it growing any gnarly-ness and contaminating your cakes at this stage in the game. This is when they are most susceptible.

i have 3 jars with good growth, 1 jar with a little growth, and one with no visible growth
i wanted to have these close to being colonized before i do the other 5.

the heater should be heating up the water, temp is at 80 right now..im hoping itll heat it to around 85

and thanks for the heads up achilles

coming along, that's what I like to see. Any real problems yet?

so the shitty aquarium heater i got isn't what i need.
its not fully submersible and doesn't have a temp setting.
this morning the water felt cool to the touch so i dumped out that water and added hot water which brought the temp sky high. i drained some out and added more cool water and now temps are in the high 80s..
i'm going to get this incubator shit down so hopefully i can create a good environment for the mycelium to take off in.

i'm getting antsy..i want to start the other jars asap.

i still need to make a fruiting chamber..what would be good conditions during fruiting? and can i use a big aquarium?

i used a cheap ass clear rubbermaid (now i have 2 full). I keep my temps 72-75 deg during fruiting.

Ok cool..you just open the top every now and then for fresh air?

i might be over thinking some of this but i want to set this up so that i can keep a steady flow of shrooms since I wont be growing anymore pot for a while.
Like i said earlier, shrooms are hard to come by and people here now pay $15 a gram, ill just be wanting to trade for some weed mostly.

so a good incubator and fruiting chamber with the temps and humidity dialed in would be awesome.

looking good, still waiting.

crazy man looking good, how long till they finish?

the WAIT sucks jgg...guessing at least a week on your best, all of em should be close in 2 weeks....my 2nd batch has started and im harvesting one wild looking cake in the morning. This time i dunk and rolled ( dunk 4 hours) and these turned out much better would you like to see?

yeah i figure a couple might be done in a week at the soonest..

id love to see..what exactly do you mean by dunk and roll?

jollygreengiant8 said:

looking good, still waiting.

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your pf recipe has you put your lid on rubber side down?

interesting.

by the way i used a 10 gal aquarium covered with plastic wrap with 1 inch of wet perlite on bottom. placed cake into small foam salad bowl on top of perlite.

added small air pump from fish tank to help with co2 and provide more air as well as fanning twice a day.

going to be using the 10 and now a 30 gal for terrarium/fruiting setup.

i was going to say something about your jar lids they are suppost to be on up side down. Have you tryed to move the lids and make sure they are not sealed. I was hit with green mold big time about lost everything i had going.

well fuck..i had no idea they were suppose to be on upside down.
is it too late to mess with or should i open them up and switch it around?
theyre colonizing nicely so im not really seeing a problem.

letitgrow...sorry to hear about that green mold, whered it come from?