PF tek: Cambodian Grow Report

Updates (Bad News ):

Alright so I birthed the cake with the 2 mini mushies growing up the side. It wasn't fully colonized (about 97%) but I decided that these mushies needed to be free so I was going to cut away the uncolonized part. (Remember these are the cakes suffereing from orange dot syndrome) However, to my dismay, as I started to cut away the uncolonized portion, more and more orange dots and orange paste was coming away with the uncolonized cake. And it seems that the orange infection went deep into the heart of the cake. With that, I promptly tossed it out. I decided that to the benefit of myself and everyone who may eat some of my fruit, it would be wise to throw these questionables out now instead of getting belligirently sick. Here are some pics of my cake disection and the small mushrooms that I picked from the sides. I tossed the mushrooms as well because the mycelium has been fully engrained in this orange shit for weeks now. Those mushrooms are probably just as tainted. From the pics against the white paper towel and white mycelium you can really see how deeply orange the infected areas are. I am unsure of what contam this is.

Update (Good news!):

Earlier in this grow, I was unsure if these orange cakes would have a problem so I used the rest of my syringe to colonize 4 more jars. They are coming along beautifully! All white, lots of stringy mycelium. All the jars should be done by next week at the latest.

But what my really good news was....here is a pic of my first birthday cake! This is from the second batch of jars and it is completely colonized without a doubt not contaminated. Here is a pic of the birtday.

After birthing I promptly dunked and I am eagerly awaiting tomorrow to put my cake in its glass mansion.

Fruiting Chamber pics with first cake

Cake has been in the chamber for 2 days now, no pins yet. The Fruiting chamber has been around 76-82 throughout the day and the humidity was beeing maintained around 91%-97%.

However, since I'm running a modified PMP tek I have one 15 gal pm (10 gal tank) that is going 24/7. But I was concerned with FAE since that is a crucial need for fruiting bodies and decided to fan and make a few more holes to let more air exchange. After reading through shroomery, I decided that I should add one more pump to eliminate the need for me to constantly need to fan it because I won't be around on weekends. I am now having a problem getting the humidity above 88%. Though I fear that my digital RH indicater has become unreliable because I misted the chamber with water/H202 and the water droplets are condensing on the glass walls. Even an hour later they are still there. This makes me think that my humidity as it appropriate levels.

Anyway, here are some pics of my setup. Positions of the fans and a pic of the lone cake. Two of the last three jars are nearing colonization, they will definitely be done by next week.

I got my first pins! I will be posting some pictures after work tonight. But damn do they look good and what a satisfying feeling to see your work pay off.

So I dunked my cake and I'm pretty sure it made a whole lot of difference as I am getting pins ALL OVER my cake. You can see them starting to form as little white clumps of mycelium; then they gradually start maturing out and getting caps. What an amazing sight!

Anyway, I just wanted to update. I'm sure no one is really reading this thread anymore anyway. But if you are, all I have some pin pron for you later tonight

hell yes, pin porn..lets see it!

As promised I got 2 pin shots and a couple more shots of "the lab". I got my stealth poor man's pod at optimum automation effeciency. I think I like it the most though because I have two pumps that provide FAE constantly, but it's very dry where I live so I was just pumping in dry air and it couldn't stay humidified. So I hooked my two air pumps up to two airstones and placed them in glasses with a splash of H202. Humidity went from 81% to 91% in like 15 minutes. And now, I'm getting my first mushrooms.

They used to be pins but now they are maturing out.

nice......

yeah i know these pictures aren't that amazing. My shitty webcam just does not do it justice. I wish I could take a high quality up close shot to show you how colonized the bottom right ridge is. But those few big mushies are coming up fast.

yeah its kind of hard to really see detail but i get the jest of it.
are you using an aquarium for a fruiting chamber?

yeah, it's working really really well. The damp perlite on the bottom pretty much keeps the humidity in the mid 90's and the two bubble stones force it even higher while providing FAE. I do fan it when I get a chance and mist the walls sometimes, but for the most part, this Fruiting Chamber is very self-sufficient.

Great stuff! I've been watching your progress. I'll be starting my first grow soon as well.

Thanks for the comment!

yeah, I've been real lazy updating this but my first flush was a little over 55g wet. But it was a ton of little skinny fuckers that dried up to like .5g each. So I have all these little tiny mushies now haha. Oh well, some fruit is better than no fruit. I was just looking forward to picking some monsters. I think it may have to do with my strain. It seems that they typically grow very tall and skinny unless provided with *beyond excellent* conditions. I have not been too impressed with cambodians so far.

I'll post some pics of the harvest when I get a chance. Anyway, thanks for watching.

You got 55g's wet from you first flush? How many cakes does this include?

But anyways, I'm looking forward to my first grow in a couple days. I ordered from sporebank and should hopefully be getting my Golden Teacher spores any day now. I would definitely go with Golden Teacher next time though as I hear they have larger than average fruit. I'm not sure if I'll be posting a log or just my final harvest, but you're story has definitely taught me quite a bit of stuff.

oh boy he just said he lives with his parents.

the old guys are gonna rip on you now.

i would go back and esit that out if you wanna get some helpful information

Ghost420 said:

oh boy he just said he lives with his parents.

the old guys are gonna rip on you now.

i would go back and esit that out if you wanna get some helpful information

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I can only hope that his parents either A. actually don't care about such thing. and/or B. He is giving his parents a cut of the harvest.

MrBaker said:

I can only hope that his parents either A. actually don't care about such thing. and/or B. He is giving his parents a cut of the harvest.

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Lol, most of my relatives loves mushrooms!

got some cambos on the way gonna do the same proc from shroomery,

your second set of jars looked way better colonized than your first...
what did you do diff.

oh and im tuned in too see the harvest =]