My first class with the golden teacher

Thundercat

Thundercat

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My taxes should be here in another 2 days which will make it about 14 days. I think I'm gonna spring and buy 2 of the bag kits from hightimes again. I can stick those some place out of the way and not have to worry about them. It won't be as fast as my full setup (under 30 days start to tripping) but last time I got some decent yields.
 
RetiredMatthebrute

RetiredMatthebrute

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Thundercat said:
My taxes should be here in another 2 days which will make it about 14 days. I think I'm gonna spring and buy 2 of the bag kits from hightimes again. I can stick those some place out of the way and not have to worry about them. It won't be as fast as my full setup (under 30 days start to tripping) but last time I got some decent yields.
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welcome to post pics here m8, this is going to be a collage of different style grows its going to be great. also a good learning tool for newcomers to the hobby to be able to see the different tek's all in one place.
 
Thundercat

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http://www.homesteadbook.com/store/ez-gro-mushroomkit-p-141.html I used the page out of hightimes to order them last time, but that is the website. I could set up a whole bulk casing grow for the price of them. However with the kit you literally don't have to do much and no PC everything is already done. There is an isolated q tip with spores on it that you untie a knot and it falls into the bag of grain. You shake it around and let it set in a warm spot for a few weeks. Once it is completely colonized you break it up in the bag and mix it into a bag of pasturized bulk substrate. Let that colonize a few days/a week depending and then fruit it. I got 3 flushes last time of some nice blue meanie shroomies.
 
canndo

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RetiredMatthebrute said:
ok i think i understand a bit more, theres some terms i will need to look up because im familiar with the term but cant seem to define it. anyways from what i grasp your trying to isolate single spores/mycelium or single genetics, then from there you can pick and choose the best strain....almost like planting 10 seeds of the same strain and isolating the best as a mother and letting the rest finish. am i even remotly on track here lol.
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Yes, the first row of pictures illustrates the possiblity of contaminated syringes - there is no other way those dishes could have been contaminated owing to the dispersion - which exactly mirrors the flow of the original solution. I posted this to show that your failures may not be because of your own actions. Another reason for multiple syringes.

the others are what you say, I was looking for superior genetics - indicated by speed of growth, speed of germination, "loft" - or hight of growth, and most importantly the the tendency of the mycleium to create "ryzomorph" or strandy, ropey and distinct "fingers" of invasive growth. In general the more of this you see the better your crop will be. A result of this search (about 5 years ago) was a strain that produced fields of "bubbles", within each quarter to half an inch bubble were dozens of pins all of which broke the "skin" of the bubble at the same time resulting in perhaps 20 pins per square inch all across the substrate - most of which matured. I believe some pictures were posted. This was discovered after about 20 different combinations were brought to fruit. The fruit were quite large and not "hollow" in the stems, they also did not blue but "green"ed, in that the brusing was a distinct bright green.
 
canndo

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aCiDjEsUs said:
Matt, Thundercat I'm planning on doing PF tek just to get the hang of it you know, don't want to go crazy on y first time and fuck things up lol.
I was just thinking about those jars :| if not I can always return them, I know Ball doesn't make 1/2 paint wide mouth it's Kerri (I think that's how you spell it) that has 1/2pt wide mouth jars, but couldn't find any yesterday.
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<sigh> now why would you think that using another method would be more conducive to "fucking things up"? Sure enough the guy that invented this in order to sell syringes did a heck of a job.

Do yourself a favor and look at my "tek" before you get too far along - it does not require any particular sort of jar (even if I said quart).
 
Thundercat

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I felt the same way about PF tek, thats why I chose to avoid it. You can get way better results and yields with no extra work by doing the casings. I've read great things about the popcorn, I decided on wild bird seed after a bunch of reading, and had great results. They are both cheap and effective.
 
canndo

canndo

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Thundercat said:
I felt the same way about PF tek, thats why I chose to avoid it. You can get way better results and yields with no extra work by doing the casings. I've read great things about the popcorn, I decided on wild bird seed after a bunch of reading, and had great results. They are both cheap and effective.
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If your avatar or whatever you call that user id picture is yours, then you have the creds, now don't you - looks like you cased with a high percentage of coir or peat in that pic.
 
Thundercat

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That is one of my favorite strains, thats a tray of Koh Samoi from thailand. I used course vermiculite to make the casing, at about 50/50 with my myc, then used about a 1/4 inch of verm to case the top. I was using between 3-4 1/2 pint jars I wanna say per tray. I had great success with those Koh Samoi, and a russian strain called Ereal. I tried growing Burmas which grew very slow and had small yileds, and I tried some south americans which only grew a few fruit but they were huge and the trip was very visual. The ereals and KS both filled the trays several times with flushes like my picture.
 
technical dan

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Hows it going Matt, Acid mind if I join in on this thread? I'm about to start my first attempt at providing habitat for shrooms I'm just waiting on the spores now.
 
aCiDjEsUs

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What's good Dan?
Been a while? shit everyone is starting on some shrooms haha awesome, and like Matt said grab a seat, grab a bowl of your finest herb and Let's Learn! about this new hobby of ours ;)
 
technical dan

technical dan

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Thank you for the warm welcome matt and like you said it will be very cool to see all these run together. Got my glove box and some jars (still gotta make a couple more), and my "economy terrarium" from the shroomery tek. Waitin on the spores my order has been "processing" since the 11th.
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Acid: Blue mammoth coming down in 2sih weeks Im lookin forward to that, supply's getting down :weed:, I'm also excited to get this project moving. It has been a bit my computer wasn't working for a month or so and even after that I was away for a bit. But since/ during researching for the mushies Ive found myself back by the keyboard.

Subbed up, bout to roll one up, and ready to learn.
 
RetiredMatthebrute

RetiredMatthebrute

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technical dan said:
Thank you for the warm welcome matt and like you said it will be very cool to see all these run together. Got my glove box and some jars (still gotta make a couple more), and my "economy terrarium" from the shroomery tek. Waitin on the spores my order has been "processing" since the 11th.
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Acid: Blue mammoth coming down in 2sih weeks Im lookin forward to that, supply's getting down :weed:, I'm also excited to get this project moving. It has been a bit my computer wasn't working for a month or so and even after that I was away for a bit. But since/ during researching for the mushies Ive found myself back by the keyboard.

Subbed up, bout to roll one up, and ready to learn.
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barneys farm blue mammoth? auto? just planted 2 of them beans...ill be by your journal!!
 
aCiDjEsUs

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RetiredMatthebrute said:
i cooked my corn tonight, got it drying in a t shirt for a bit. got to test out the pressure cooker

heres the incubator i built..

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Matt looks awesome! did you already test drive it?
 
aCiDjEsUs

aCiDjEsUs

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Guys can someone for fok sakes tell me the difference between tapered and non-tapered jars? I've been looking, reading and still can't get it....Thank you :dunce:
 
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