My first class with the golden teacher

ok so heres some pics...gonna have a couple more posts and editing pics to explain a few things but heres all the original pics..

i did my G2G on Thursday

Looking awesome man, looks like your gonna have some mushrooms very soon from that one tray. The rest look sweat as well, fantastic growth on them, I've never seen the straw done before looks good.

thanks man, im personally really impressed with how things are going lol

damn good job keep it up!

ok so i decided to do a liquid culture...i was pretty non sterile about this whole process so if i see contams i definatly wont be surprised.

I took this piece of mycelium



plced it in a 1/2 pint jar with some distilled water. shook it up vigerously and drew a syringe..

then when i was done doing that i grabbed a handfull of straw and stuffed it in the jar, shook it up and drained the excess water.

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absolutly nothing about this process was sterile....i was more or less just fucking around to see what would happen...so we will see what happens..

and i also decided to take the rest of my jar i used for a g2g and do a mini fruit...or w/e you want to call it.

cut the top off a soda bottle and drilled some holes in it, put some perilite oon the bottom and dumped the rest of the corn in...will see how this goes.

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Great idea on that mini FC, you think it's going to work?
Anyhow shiiit looks sweet!! Can't wait to see some pinning and some shroomies

aCiDjEsUs said:

Great idea on that mini FC, you think it's going to work?
Anyhow shiiit looks sweet!! Can't wait to see some pinning and some shroomies

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im kinda wondering the same thing LOL

the LC is no good, and the only way to find out is to noc up some jars, just toss it.

but i just did some risky shit my self, took 5 jars of fully colonized but slightly contaminated jars and mixed in like a 5 to 1 ratio, so colonization should only take one or 2 days then into fruit, so long as i can get a first flush im good then ill toss.

LCs are notorious for hiding contams.

A green mold will usually show by sporulating,
but bacteria can hide well.

LCs usually start off cloudy when they are made. You want
to see the solution clarify over time. (the color will even fade)

I saw some strong rhizomorphic growth on that straw. This
suggests good genetics that should make some good fruits.

Good luck,

JD

Looks like yours is coming right along matt. Saw yours moving too acid.

Got back into town this afternoon and saw the first growth in one of my GT P. cube pints from my first set of inoculations. Its just a few white spots the largest looks like its just on a couple kernels, I want to wait for a bit more colonization before shaking right?

Matt with what you said about smell, they smell fine because the shrooms will not hurt you. Your nose and sense of smell work to keep you safe especially with moldy/ spoiled food it smells bad/ gross because its dangerous for you. Thats why smelling your milk will tell you if its still good.... it is very obvious when its not. Your body or genetics or whatever knows what (at least many) harmful lifeforms smell like and will makes you perceive those smells as unpleasant to deter you from eating them/ being around them. Along with this I also smell my nute/ water mixes when they have molasses in them if the mix is more than a day or two old, after that bacterial colonies start to grow and I can smell them in there before I can see them.

QFT. That is a great point. A bacterial contamination is often smelled first.

Sour or sickly sweet.

Molds smell like dirt. Good growth smells like mushrooms.

Take care,

JD

polyarcturus said:

the LC is no good, and the only way to find out is to noc up some jars, just toss it.

but i just did some risky shit my self, took 5 jars of fully colonized but slightly contaminated jars and mixed in like a 5 to 1 ratio, so colonization should only take one or 2 days then into fruit, so long as i can get a first flush im good then ill toss.

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poly, why do you say the LC is no good? is it just because of the lack of sterilization i used or is it another reason..

either wya i think ill hang on to it and try knocking up a couple jars with it if my straw jar goes south...i would be willing to be though if my straw jar dosent go south then my LC should be fine. unless i used a incorect solution to store it in...

eventually i would like to make up a few syringes o LC and do it the correct way...alll nice and sterile with a solution that will store they mycelium for a longer time...anyways...havent had any contams yet which is surprising me since the place im doing this project is definatly not the "ideal" enviorment since its far from a clean house...verry old...verry messy...verry dusty apartment...

just because you didnt do it sterile.

ive made a couple LCs and even doing them sterile is difficult. out of everything mushroom, LC is the most difficult in my eyes.

I started 12 jars of grain and innoc about 5 days ago and shits taking off but looks almost like cw mold? I dont have pictures but it started as kernels that looked like they had 100 white hairs shooting out. I've never grown on corn so I have no idea.

growyurown said:

I started 12 jars of grain and innoc about 5 days ago and shits taking off but looks almost like cw mold? I dont have pictures but it started as kernels that looked like they had 100 white hairs shooting out. I've never grown on corn so I have no idea.

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try and get some pics if you can if not theres a nice link towards the begining of the journal.

heres that link....going to bookmark it

http://www.shroomery.org/forums/show...umber/17231150.

That second pic hit it right on the nail. I should be good to go. And after doing grain I will never go back to pf-tek. 10x faster colonization speeds.

Wheres canndo? Thanks to him for getting me going on grain and thanks retmatt.

dunno i think he is still lurking here just probably tired or repeating himself to me lol...

prob doing one of these every time he reads my posts