Psilocybe Cubensis Equadorian

Looking good, that is a nice growth ya got there.

Silk--ooooh, gocha, well i will most likely be making a grow journal of my next grow, im going to grow Afgani/Morrocan with a few 200 watt envirolites.
Godkas--Thanks bud they are doing even better today!

Well today i checked up on them and at least 5 jars have micylia growing on one or more innoculation points, im still working on a way of getting the heat down so i downt fry them...is that even possible? how hot is too hot for a mushroom?

They grow wild out of cow patties where I live, and it gets over 100F while they are in season. So 100F shouldn't be too hot. Also, they are an Equadorian strain, so they are supposed to thrive in a very hot, tropical environment.

ok, im just kind of nervous cause the teks all say to keep them at exactly 82.

Well I'm no expert so I'm sure they are right. Any idea what temperature you have them at?

no i don't, i have a few jars it the box that have no innoculant and werent steralized, i figured i could just stick a thermometer in one of those, but the thermometer wont read that low, only near human temps, and as of right now i am not too worried

Oh well, good luck with fungus!

those gars getting nice and white? if this works for ya i suggest rye grain u can use 1 jar to make 10 , 10 to make 100 werks well once you get it down.

NONONONNONNOONONON do NOT make your incubator 100*F

86* should be optimal. Bacteria thrives in high heat and your cake can dry out.

when you fruit it'll be around 10* under your incubation temp.

okay i turned the heat mat on medium and put a nice thick newspaper on top of it, then the jars. as for the jars, no they aren't that white yet, small dots the size of a pea, on 1-3 of the innoculation points, but they have another week or two to take off, will they start growing faster?

Yes they will grow exponentially faster as it overtakes the substrate.

thanks for the support godkas! the innoculation points have quadrupled in size. here are a few pics of the progress, i can't turn off the flash though, and i don't know how to get rid of the glare, any ideas?



Any guesses as to how long till full colonization?

I dont know but if you are incubating at near 80-86* id say 3-4 weeks

what!!!??? i thought it would only take 2-3 weeks from innoculation??? they have been growing for a week now, i figured it would be colonized within 10 days or so....

nope... you've got at least 3

update, micylia sill spreading, though for some reason it seams like it is spreading slower, most of the jars made a white dot the size of a dime then just kinda stopped...why is that??? also i found one bit of micylium that is right neer the lid and a very slightly darker grey color than the rest, im worried it could be contamination, could i open the jar and chop that piece out with a sterile knife or would that just cause more problems?

does anyone have any mushroom experience who could tell me why growth has slowed down? i thought it was supposed to be growing exponentially faster??temps have been far from constant because of the overly hot mat, i found a cotton t shirt folded up keeps it at a decent temp but it's uneven at best.

well the mycelium is still growing, slow as it is, the parts with the fungus on it are starting to shrink and pull away from the walls of the jar. im assuming thats cause it is eating the rice and water...i havent had them on the heat mat thinking that cool was better than cooking them, something i found very helpfull germinating seeds, as i tend to cook them with warm germination. i would rather wait a while longer than risk killing them. so what im wondering is will the mycilia get mad at me? i mean i know your supposed to keep them warm then cool them to trigger pinning but will they still grow mycylia without being warm? and if so will i have trouble with early pinning?

are you gonna get the stuff underneith the shroom head and make more shrooms?

spore print. most people do ensures you can keep your crop going.