it takes patience. once you get things rolling they will keep rolling. Im gonna buy 2 kits. makes it easier for me since i wil be working full time when i buy them. Man i have a long list to buy.
2 shroom kits
2 lights 1 led, 1 cmh
tent 4x4 or 5x5.
worm farm
more pots i can kiss $2000 away on all of this i'm sure.
yeah 4 sure. Well that's 1 thing I have 4 sure is patience. lol Comes from many years of growing the ganja.
Sounds like your getting ready 2 have some fun! haha
Do you have a picture? The first white/off white color could be the first part of colonization. I'd say wait it out, you'll be able to tell if it's fucked.
I remember the shroomry, been along time since I signed into that site. Shit, I don't even remember my login/password. What I do remember was an obnoxious member named coaster. Wonder if that dudes still kicking, fucker did so many substances.
One of the things I'd do with jars is after colonization, I'd use the cake to essentially seed additional material in baking tins, breaking it up and even distribution throughout the tin. The mycelium usually would out compete pretty much anything else at that point and I'd have much larger cakes. I'd cover with saran wrap with holes for air exchange and ensure moisture was kept high. Nothing to do now, but it was a great transition from cakes to larger mediums.
What was freaky was how the mycelium would literally eat the tin. Mushrooms do freaky things.
eta make sure the jars are not overly moist. No sitting water or having "mush" look in the jars. Man I miss it being like second nature making the BRF cakes. I recall mixing the ingredients and just having the feel for it. I would have some rice finely ground and equal parts semi chunky.
You did sterilize the jars in a pressure cooker, yes? or did you buy pre made. sorry if I'm asking a question already answered.
Cool. Thanks bro. Yes, to answer your questions I ordered from Caligrowkits.com, wished I owuldve just went and purchased all the items from wal-mart! lol would've been way cheaper I would say. The kit had came with 6 pre made jars.
http://www.caligrowkits.com/easy-mushroom-kit.php Are you speaking of RR on shroomery
?: I had ordered my spores from freespores.com & also sporestore.com & bestspores.com. Had thought those where reputable sites. lol I will take a few pictures of the jar thats thought to be contaminated. Hopefully its nothing.
However I do see allot more white growth starting all over that 1 jar - previously thought contaminated.
When one is working with concentrated nutrients, like grain, one cannot "race" mycelium in the traditional sense (isolation is a different matter). Either you have a sterile condtion or you do not. All mycelium have optimal temperature ranges but most of the contaminants in your home are quite comfortable in the same range as the mycelium of p. Cubensis. That means that as temperatures rise (up to thermal damage or death), the rate of growth of ALL contaminations go up with the rate of growth of your selected mycelium. There is no advantage to slowing that rate down.
So, if you run your grow at 70, you will slow down all growth, not just the growth of contaminations. It makes no sense to not grow at the highest optimal rate 82 leaves little room for error as the organism begins to be inhibited at only slightly higher than that and it does crreate its own heat so if your jars are large enough you will be defeating your purpose. I have always kept at 80 degrees for this organism.
As to mycelium overtaking another - yes, it is possible but in most cases you still have growth and spores embedded withing your mycelial block. NOT good. You should either have pure mycelium or none at all.
great info. Thanks
Also Dank, it helps buying spores from a reputable vendor. I personally suggest ANY of the sponsors on shroomery. Try The Spore Depot or Sporeworks, very very clean specimens! I have yet to have a contam from either of them and from what I read....IF you notice a contam from one of their syringes they replace it. Of course do not mention cultivation, then I am sure they will not.
Thanks bro. I had ordered from 3. Bestspores.com Freespores.com & sporestore.com.
Ok. How is it possible for the Shrooms to grow on those type of items
?: Please do break it down 4 a new shroomer. lol
I heard he died of hepatitis. He shall live on threw many future grows
Who RR
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Damn! I'm going to try now! I just knocked up some brf jars with Albino Penis Envy so I think after those ones are done, along with the 10 I birth in a week ALONG with the current 10 i just introduced to fruiting today. I will attempt grains in a PC. I'll do it while the ol lady is at work. She drove me CRAZY today about the perlite! She wakes up an HOUR before I start rinsing perlite. She immediately starts to clean right? I tell her to WAIT until I am done with what Im doing bc it will only make another mess for us to clean and I WILL CLEAN IT! What does she do? She insists on cleaning. So she does. I wait until my dunk period is over and proceed. What happens? Another MESS! Perlite is so damn messy! It gets everywhere, so her cleaning was absolutely futile by the time I was done....Brothers....I LITERALLY just heard the end of it. This was at 11 am LOL its almost 2! Shes been BITCHING nonstop about the mess from perlite, running the sweeper like a maniac, even tho its cleaned up! I think she just likes to argue and bitch.....FML...LOL
Glad 2 hear I have sparked an old interest.
Ladies. cant live with um, cant live without um. What does a man do
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Its very weird, the position im in. I somehow managed to shack up with a complete straight shooter, 360 day and night different than I am. Dhe does not smoke herb, drink nor trip but respects my "wants" and "needs" but man oh man does she like to bitch!
haha lol.
Good luck on the grains. like I said in my edit, I had hit or miss. I know it was a moisture issue which brought in contaminates. I could do transfers to grains, but always fucked up initial inoculation in them being too moist and thus turning mushy with unwanted contamination.
If I used a cake from BRF, and proper sterilization of grains, I could crumble the cake into the grains inside those disposable tins, cover top with vermiculite, and I'd have no problems. Straight grain to start, I seemed to always have too much fucking water.
Pearlite is a bad idea anyway, do f use it
Well, I went ahead and made up 4 new jars. 2 each of the 4 I went with WBS. The other 2 I used popcorn. Getting ready to upload that process now.
My old lady is a down ass chick. She isnt anywhere close to being a neat freak so I think I got that working in my favour. Plus I do all the cleaning and fixing, and laundry. She cooks. So really I dont think she can complain much about the messes I make lol.
Still working on coaxing her into the idea of growing a fungus in our house lol. Any tips?
Dank sorry to hear you might loose a jar, hopefully its nothing. It seems like you were super clean, did everything right. Hopefully you still get some shrooms from it, if not a lession learned lol
Sounds like me doing all the cleaning,cooking, you name it! lol
Haha man! Thats awesome! As for tips...well...I am still restricted to outdoor cannabis growing. Mainly due to the smell, she does not want to worry about our house reeking. Altho I told about reducing it with carbon filters and whatnot, she wont budge. Mushrooms on the other hand do not smell, well they smell but NOTHING like herb loll! I'd describe my freshly birthed cakes in my current SGFC as a fresh foresty/mushroom smell but thats about it, They do not require the lights cannabis does so use that in your favor, your saving $$ in electricity lol! A small 6500k cfl is nothing, hell you can even use indirect light from a window I hear. With that said, minus the mess I make with perlite she does not mind mushrooms, but will not let me grow cannabis indoors.
You need to really invest in some strains that dont have much smell unless messed with during flowering bro
* Getting ready to update guys/gals..
