My first class with the golden teacher

[aCiDjEsUs]

Matt sounds like a plan to me buddy Good idea on that humidifier, I'll just go with a clear plastic tote for the FC don't have a lot of space for that, so I'll just put my FC on top of my grow box and I should be fine with that.

Just waiting for them jars to start colonizing the shit out of it lol but no movement so far.. will just have to wait a bit longer.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

tomorow at 3pm will make day 5 for me im really hoping to have something growing by then....something white preferably.

 

[aCiDjEsUs]

LOL!!! Holy Shit Matt!! did we inoculated at the same time? look like it. Yeah I checked my jars today for the first time and I don't see shit haha

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

LOL!!! Holy Shit Matt!! did we inoculated at the same time? look like it. Yeah I checked my jars today for the first time and I don't see shit haha

i checked mine day before yesterday because i was there anyways. will head over tomorow or when i can get my truck out of the drive. just got a ft of snow and now we getting another foot tonight

 

[aCiDjEsUs]

i checked mine day before yesterday because i was there anyways. will head over tomorow or when i can get my truck out of the drive. just got a ft of snow and now we getting another foot tonight

Dang!!! That's a lot of foking snow buddy! We got some sleet last night but not a lot just about 5". I'm so ready for this winter to be over! haha few more weeks and we should start to see nicer weather around here.

 

[aCiDjEsUs]

Matt oh and one more thing, not to shit on our parade buddy but I read that our spores101 has some bad rep so if anything goes wrong this time around maybe we can check some other spore site, I heard sporeworks.com has a very good rep. But that's only what I have read in past few days so will see how it will go

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

dam really man, i have heard good things about them, maybe i was looking in the worng spot

anyways yeah if shit goes downhill then i will for sure be ordering from somewhere else.

 

[Miniie]

If you want maintenance free, why don't you just build a monotub? Its super easy and cheap to set up and you don't need to do anything to it. I still fan them and mist them a bit because mushies like a little TLC too. I also noticed an increase in yield when i give them that sort of attention <3
If you think you are ready for casing and grain tek, i would say go ahead. The more mushies the merrier <3!
Personally, i'm frugal as hell.. So i just do verm/coco in a monotub for rye. It works great!

BY THE WAY!
SPOREWORKS IS AWESOME!
I ordered a few strains from them and then just made my own Liquid culture and spore syringes so i wouldn't have to buy any more. If you don't know what strain to get which was my case, you can order the random ones and see what you get. Its fun to experiment. :3

 

[technical dan]

After seeing my order proccess for so long I started looking at vendor reviews (shroomery) and I also saw that spores101 has some bad rep relating to contaminated syringes, the two vendors that seemed to provide the best service were sporeworks as has been said and also thehawkseye. Both cost a bit more than some others but are reported to have been much more professional site/ staff, better communication, and shorter production times.

Hope you guys see some good growth soon, I'm still waiting for my spores - now, again sayin they are possed to be delivered today, I hope I have enough package karma to get em this time.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

awesome guys, im just hoping for the best at this point but will see. if i get shitty results i will contact spores101 and see what they will do to make it right. it says right on thier site that if you have any problems to contact them and they will ship out new syringes for free.

maybe the bad rep they had in the past has made them button up thier operation...who knows. im just waiting it out and hoping for the best!!

 

[aCiDjEsUs]

After seeing my order proccess for so long I started looking at vendor reviews (shroomery) and I also saw that spores101 has some bad rep relating to contaminated syringes, the two vendors that seemed to provide the best service were sporeworks as has been said and also thehawkseye. Both cost a bit more than some others but are reported to have been much more professional site/ staff, better communication, and shorter production times.

Hope you guys see some good growth soon, I'm still waiting for my spores - now, again sayin they are possed to be delivered today, I hope I have enough package karma to get em this time.

yeah that's the place, and from what I read that's why they got dropped from the sponsors because of the contaminated syringes, or syringes with nothing in it lol...

 

[aCiDjEsUs]

But it's not like they cost a fortune so we can always try another vendor if anything, but like Matt said I wouldn't be surprised if they step up their game to get the trust back.

 

[Thundercat]

Hey man I saw you were trying to figure out how to make the fanning low maintenance and deal with the fresh air flow. In this pic you can see the mason jar that has holes in the lid with the air hose running into it. The top has surgical tape over the holes, and the jar is half filled with water. This worked great to force CLEAN air into the FC which pushed the CO2 out and eliminated the need to fan. I still usually checked on them once a day but didn't open it up more then I had to. This also seemed to eliminate the need for the humidifier, the bottom of my chamber had perlite in it with distilled water poured down in it which in conjunction with the humidity from the jar kept my FC at like 98-99% RH all the time. http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/thundercat_420/projects101.jpg
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/thundercat_420/projects016-1.jpg
The second picture shows how I finished the filter patchs for the sides of the chamber and you can see the RH still sitting at 99%. I also thought I'd throw in these pics of the 4th flush of my Koh Samoi (thailand strain) they were pretty huge, The first flush is the one in my avatar.
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/thundercat_420/projects010-1.jpg
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/thundercat_420/projects014-1.jpg
BTW I'm 6'4 and my hands are about 8-9 inchs long......

 

[technical dan]

yep hopefully Spores101 improved.

Thundercat I'm going to use that humidity jar in my terrarium.

Got my spores today and inoculated two pints and a half pint of rye berries with P. cube golden teacher. I'm going to wait until I see some kind of growth and depending on what is growing Ill inoculate another set of jars with P. galindoi Georgia for sclerotia/ stones or work on my clean procedure.

 

[Thundercat]

Nice man sounds like a great start!

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

that mason jar sounds like a great idea!!.

question though. everyone keeps saying perilite for moisture retention but where im casing its not really and option for me. right?

 

[polyarcturus]

not sure what you mean the perlite doesnt go on the substrate. just a layer in the bottom fruiting chamber to keep the RH up.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

not sure what you mean the perlite doesnt go on the substrate. just a layer in the bottom fruiting chamber to keep the RH up.

yeah and im using popcorn and casing it with a soil/peat casing....so putting perilite on the bottom isnt going to do me any good after i pile all that shit on top of it

 

[polyarcturus]

you supposed to put all that stuff in a container of some sort. im working on a tutorial if you can wait a day or so i can show you. im gonna show how to do it from beginning to end.

 

[RetiredMatthebrute]

you supposed to put all that stuff in a container of some sort. im working on a tutorial if you can wait a day or so i can show you. im gonna show how to do it from beginning to end.

yes im going to put the layer of colonized corn in the bottom of a throw away turkey/cake pan, then case with my pasturized soil/peat mix that has been brough to "feild capacity" and then into a garbage bad so no light gets in, once the mycelium fully colonizes the casing i am going to place a thin layer of dry vermiculite and remove from garbage bag and start fruiting them right in the throw away container....

sound about right?