Dark Side Of The Moon.....

Thundercat

Thundercat

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Man I could be wrong because I've never used the BRF mix like those, but they look like they are done to me. It appears that the inside is all white, and its starting the heavier growth on the outside. Maybe its just the pictures and I can't see the uncolonized part right.
 
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~Dankster~420

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I had thought you let them colonize until fully engulfed with the mycelium :confused: just don't wanna birth these early like I did that last one is all. ;) even though it still fruited, I am sure I would've ended up with a better harvest on the 1st fruiting. Although IDK for my 1st time around growing them 5 grams on the first fruiting is all that bad. :confused: Hopefully I will get some weight with my pan that's still growing.. :)
Thundercat said:
Man I could be wrong because I've never used the BRF mix like those, but they look like they are done to me. It appears that the inside is all white, and its starting the heavier growth on the outside. Maybe its just the pictures and I can't see the uncolonized part right.
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~Dankster~420

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Still going. ;) no signs of contaminate. AND WAIT! Is that the 1st signs of fruiting :confused: haha YUP, sure looks like a tiny Shroom starting 2 me.. ;) Oh, TC. Bro I got to thinking, at first I could smell the Shrooms like they was growing in this pan I have going. If you remember being because all I had I threw the popcorn jars I did into this huge glad dish and poked a few holes in the lid for air exchange with some perlite. :confused: Ok, well I then mixed in vermiculite. Then I was like hmm, they need some food so I added in the BRF and 1 day after doing so I started noticing PINS!! :) Gulf Coast & Pes Hawaiian both growing in this tub ----> PIC_0708.JPG see the little guy :confused: I got to looking and started seeing more.. :) PIC_0709.JPG PIC_0710.JPG PIC_0712.JPG PIC_0716.JPG been letting the reptile fogger run in the box for10 minutes a day, maybe more depending on how dry the medium is looking, then I place the lid back on them, then fan them later in the evenings, then hit them with the fog at night ;)
 
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~Dankster~420

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:) Im stoked.. Still cant believe where its open to air like it is being in that tub that any contaminates didn't setup. Glad they didn't though. lol At the time of doing this I didn't have a good understanding on doing bulk, I believe I have a "better" understanding now, but I will admit, when it comes to growing these little suckers, I am still learning. Like pops always said, gotta crawl before you walk.. ;) I went ahead and took some of the corn that was covered in the mycelium & transferred it to new corn jars I made up a few days ago to see if I could get at least 1 of the new 4 jars I did to take, that and to keep these 2 strains alive and fruiting for a good while.
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Yep looks like a little pin to me too :)!
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~Dankster~420

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All I do (daily ritual) is mist,fan, and let the fogger blow in that glad container my bulks in. Yeah, I baked each jar & lid to start. I then filled each jar with the cooked corn, then PC each jar of popcorn, let cool, then sprayed with my Lysol, then did my transfer. ;)
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What moisture content do you use for your corn, and how did you prep your grain. Pressure cooker for an hour?
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canndo

canndo

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~Dankster~420 said:
Oh yeah 4 sure. ;) actually they look to dry. lol. Placed them out on a paper towel in the window (not in direct sun or anything, just for a day. They are now dry to touch & will break if bent. All the other jars are colonizing slowly but surely still. I went ahead and picked all that was left on the cake that fruited & went ahead and flushed it overnight for around 13 to 15 hours I would say & placed it back into the fruiting chamber.. ;) * getting ready to post a few pictures of the other jars that colonizing. ;)
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A little correction, you didn't flush them. A flush is a fruiting cycle from mycelial "knots", to primordia to pinheads to immature fruit to torn veils to open caps. I still don't understand why you are using brf and vermiculite instead of whole grain - you would be into your next flush by now had you used those things. Oh, and I thought you said something about "baking" your grain? that isn't what you did is it?
 
canndo

canndo

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G2G is grain to grain. One gets a pure fully grown jar or bag of whole grain and puts a few kernels into a new, sterilized jar or bag of grain as a starter or "spawn". g2g takes some practice and needs to be very sterile but it works to speed up your next grow. I don't use it but the whole point of this sort of grow or any as a matter of fact, is to multiply your mass of mycelium as much as you can. the more mycelium you hve the more mushrooms you will get. The only problem is sencience. If you g2g to a jar and then use that jar to g2g another, and do that a few times, your mycelium will become weak, fail to yield spores, grow misapen mushrooms, yield fewer mushrooms and finally the entire colony will die.

Whereas, if you take your colonized grain all from your initial jar or grow, you retard this process. Multiple generations will always cause sencience.
 
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~Dankster~420

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What I was saying/meaning was I flushed (soaked in water) after the fruiting had stopped.
canndo said:
A little correction, you didn't flush them. A flush is a fruiting cycle from mycelial "knots", to primordia to pinheads to immature fruit to torn veils to open caps. I still don't understand why you are using brf and vermiculite instead of whole grain - you would be into your next flush by now had you used those things. Oh, and I thought you said something about "baking" your grain? that isn't what you did is it?
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~Dankster~420

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And why not use BRF & V :confused: It seems to be working good. Besides at that time that's all I had. On baking any grain, no I cooked before using, I baked my jars & lids as an added measure so I woudnlt end up with contaminates.
canndo said:
A little correction, you didn't flush them. A flush is a fruiting cycle from mycelial "knots", to primordia to pinheads to immature fruit to torn veils to open caps. I still don't understand why you are using brf and vermiculite instead of whole grain - you would be into your next flush by now had you used those things. Oh, and I thought you said something about "baking" your grain? that isn't what you did is it?
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~Dankster~420

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Cool deal. I had a question 4 you. Had asked another grower and they hadnt never done it so didnt really know. Say if I/or someone was to just leave a older Shroom on a cake that they had picked all the other fruit, would that Shroom "spread" the spores resulting in more Shrooms, or would it cause problems :confused:
canndo said:
G2G is grain to grain. One gets a pure fully grown jar or bag of whole grain and puts a few kernels into a new, sterilized jar or bag of grain as a starter or "spawn". g2g takes some practice and needs to be very sterile but it works to speed up your next grow. I don't use it but the whole point of this sort of grow or any as a matter of fact, is to multiply your mass of mycelium as much as you can. the more mycelium you hve the more mushrooms you will get. The only problem is sencience. If you g2g to a jar and then use that jar to g2g another, and do that a few times, your mycelium will become weak, fail to yield spores, grow misapen mushrooms, yield fewer mushrooms and finally the entire colony will die.

Whereas, if you take your colonized grain all from your initial jar or grow, you retard this process. Multiple generations will always cause sencience.
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