First Time Shroom Grower PF-Tek

green mold sucks. I noticed the more i messed with em b4 they hit 100% the more problems I have. I lost 7 of 10 of my 9er tek's but the other 3 should be ready by saturday. I still havent mastered the pf tek, but hell im on my 2nd run. dont stress best thing to do is run twice as you think u want.

im not sure if its green mold but it doesnt quite look right so i have relocated it to the cabinet.

i look again this morning and one has these tiny fucking worms moving around in the last uncolonized place in another jar...wtf? worms..i cant believe this shit.

im going to keep trying to get this down so maybe on one of my runs i can actually keep most, if not all the jars.

on a good note, one jar is so fucking close to being completely colonized, im hoping it will get there before something tragic happens to that jar too.

Sorry to hear you having troubles. When I grew them, I used a kit, came with the spores seperated, but sealed inside a grow bag with the grain. You just unseal the spores, with out opening the grain bag, and they colonize. Much less chance of contamination. After its fully colonized, you open that back(for the first time) and add the colonized grain to another grow bag, which has sterile compost in it. It took mine about a month to colonize, and then the first flush took another 1-2 months. I got 4 flushs, but the last flush was small, and not very potent at all. The other three were great!! I think the whole thing would have gone faster, but I moved just after I added the grain to the compost, and had to keep the whole thing in a storage unit....in the summer. It got too hot for them, they would only grow when it was cooler outside. When it was they would grow like 3 inchs in a day. I'm sure if my temps were better I would have gotten biger flushs, faster!

If you do have mold, you can use hydrogen peroxide carefully, right on the mold spots, and alittle beyond them to kill it. I'd prolly use a q-tip to apply it, soak the tip well then dab it on the areas. If it is a big spot you can carefully remove it with a spoon, then steralize the area on and around that spot with the hydrogen peroxide!! The peroxide will kill the mycillium so be carefull not to over do it!

right on thundercat...i just want some shrooms soon, planning a camping trip to the mountains and would really like to have some.

it just sucks because they're getting so close to being colonized and now is when the contams and shit are happening...doesnt help that ive been out of bud for way too long

I hear that, I've been dry for over a week, and so is the whole town I live in!! It gay! The wait is the worst part, that was one nice thing about having them in my storage unit. I would only go look at them on days when I thought they may have grown, and then it was a nice surprise! The only thing I'm gonna say about camping and shrooms, is don't do it if it is cold! I went camping last fall with my second flush from my kit. It got down to like 35 that night, and it was miserable to be tripping, and freezing. Also unfortunatly the place we were camping we couldn't even just sit outside at 2 in the morning, by a fire.(nor did I really feel like feeding a fire, cus I was tripping) There was other campers within ear shot of our site. I didn't have a bad trip, but it was the most unpleasant trip I've had!!

off topic but thought id share anyways
these popped up all around my yard

should i eat them?

lol just a joke.

I started some shroomies on the 23rd of Sept.

















A couple of jars have gone full circle, all the way around middle of jar. Will post them as soon as I take pics.
Thank you JGG for the inspiration.

hey skinflute! glad to see your giving it a go...good luck!

how many jars do you have?

keep us posted...

I did 7 jars. Thought I did 8, but I missed one somehow with the needle .
1st pic was taken four days after innoculation and last pic was taken 3 days ago.

Hey jolly green, I haven't seen and psilocybin mushrooms that looked like that, but i'm not a pro. The only way to tell if they are ok to eat is with some research!!! You should go on youtube, and type in "hunting magic mushrooms". There is a long series of videos on there I think called "shroom hunter". They are very educational as to what you NEED to look for before eating any wild mushrooms. One of the best things you can do is to take a spore print. Its pretty cool too. carefully take one of the caps off two of those. Place one cap onto a white piece of paper, and the other onto a black piece. Let them sit for about 30-45 minutes, and then gently lift them up. You should be left with a spore print on the paper. The color of that spore print is a VERY important identifying characteristic of mushrooms. Each species has its own spore print! Like I said its pretty cool. I like to go pick any mushrooms I find now, and to spore prints on them just to see what happens. You need to use two different color papers, because some prints are either white, tan or other light colors that wont show up on white paper. It would also be a good idea to go to a book store and get a quality mushroom hunters field guild. With a good field guide, a spore print, some research, and excellent observational skills, you should be able to closely identify if those mushrooms are safe or not. Its still best to get a professional opinion before eating wild mushrooms! Be safe, not sorry, and happy shroom hunting!

HE HE! I didn't see your just a joke at the bottom of your post!!

haha nice..

yeah i wouldnt eat any mushroom growing in my yard

never thought about taking spore prints

Spore prints are very cool. I like to go hiking and just collect any nice looking mushrooms I find, and take them home just to do the spore prints! If you learn what you are doing (I'm trying to) then you can find magic mushrooms, and other edibles lots of different places, even your yard. You just have to use your head.(which it sounds like you do)

sweet deal man..ive been wanting to get a mushroom field guide for a while, just havent

seems like a book id enjoy and learn something

Hell ya, I still need to get mine. Check out Homestead Book Company the Oldest Counter Culture Book Distributor in the World its a great site, and if you decide you ever want to try growing them, the kit they offer is 100%. I've used it it rocks!

i had a good book titled mushrooms from the national audubon society. idk where it is tho..

what u think about drilling the holes and pluggin them with a layer of silicone sealant? then just stick em with the needle and when you pull it out it self seals.

what'd you all think? i'm brainstorming here and need all the help i can get.

I would stick with what works. I don't know how/ or if the silicone might contaminate the rye. Its not a bad idea, you would also want to make sure the silicone could withstand the temps of the pressure cooker. Is this your first time growing shrooms phishhead? If so I might really suggest the link I left on my last post, they have a great begginers kit. $120 and its almost fool proof, I've ordered and used it and it went great. Its at the top in the products section.

thanks TC, i've already purchased the supplies for the PFtek, so i'm hoping i don't screw it up....yea this is my first shroom grow.

i'm concerned about the potential contamination with silicone as well, but i think the possibility is minimal. i would of course sterilize the room and everything else,drill the holes, apply the sealant and let dry. then the preparation would be complete.

idk tho, u'r right at this point i need to stick to what works til i get a handle on it. or maybe i'll try one with the sealant,for an experiment.

That's what I would do, if you are headed down that road already, try one, see how it works. I would drill and plug the hole before hand, and the sterilize the lid again afterwords, maybe this will prevent any issue. Its a good idea, They use some sort of rubber seals on blood draw tubes, and those are sterile, so I'm sure there's a way to do it. Keep us informed on how it goes, this might change the way people do things. You should do a journal.