First Time Shroom Grower PF-Tek

ive gone to fields with friends and we would each fill a 5 gallon bucket...those fields were truly magical

Thundercat-ive got an incubator..temps normally at 80
but i need to bring up the temp in my fruiting chamber so my mushies will grow

I'm stuck into a lease until oct of 09. But in the mean time, I'm trying to decide where I'm gonna move next. It may be canada, though I'm seriously considering colorado as well. I just gotta figure out the options, and figure out what I will be dling for work. I can get a transferwith my company to Colorado, but they don't have stores in Canada.

Why can't you incubate the fruiting chamber? Is it to big?

colorado is a good choice if you gonna stay stateside - its easier to grow bud for a living in canada

I would love to grow for a living, but I think I would need something other then savings, o get me threw till the harvest. I've heard that the only real trick to moving there is to get a job, and they will pretty much let you in as long as your not a felon or something. Or I suppose I could find a cute canadian girl and get married, though I bet my GF might have a problem with that. lol

fruiting chamber needs light, incubator needs no light
im fruiting cakes and incubating jars, so i need 2 different chambers

ive got an aquarium that i took from the neighbors when they moved so im thinking im going to use that as my fruiting chamber and use plastic wrap to seal the top and use a aquarium heater to bring the temps up

Thundercat said:

I would love to grow for a living, but I think I would need something other then savings, o get me threw till the harvest. I've heard that the only real trick to moving there is to get a job, and they will pretty much let you in as long as your not a felon or something. Or I suppose I could find a cute canadian girl and get married, though I bet my GF might have a problem with that. lol

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well whats good fro the goose

dude im headed to colorado soon hopefully, and ive been thinking about just leaving the US for good and going to canada..either way would be a great improvement on my current situation in louisiana..probably the shitest place you could be for weed

I don't know about the shittiest, but I second leaving the US for good. I thought this was supposed to be the land of the free, not the land of the oppressed. Between the economy, and the prohibition, I feel fucking oppressed!

I innoculated 8 jars 33 days ago using 10cc of B+. Have not seen any new growth in the past week. What to do ??????







I was concerned about them drying out, how many days is too long for 100% growth.

dude i still got cakes in jars i am waiting on....

things look ok but not great just keep them constant temp and have patience.

one trick is not flip jar over and tap to loosen the cake as if you were birthing but with the cover on.the cake should shift and air should be exchanged from pressure difference.

try adjusting your temps if you can do it accurately.

dont go over 86 and probably not below 78 but maybe you need to do something different like that, just change to one temp and wait a week.

if no results, go the other way and wait a week


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Skinflute, the jar on the right hand of those pictures looks like it is pretty well colonized, the left one could prolly use more time. Thats the tough thing about mushrooms, they kinda grow at their own pace. You try to give them exactly what they want, but its my understanding that some times they just take longer, and some times they grow fast.

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dude i still got cakes in jars i am waiting on....

things look ok but not great just keep them constant temp and have patience.

one trick is not flip jar over and tap to loosen the cake as if you were birthing but with the cover on.the cake should shift and air should be exchanged from pressure difference.

try adjusting your temps if you can do it accurately.

dont go over 86 and probably not below 78 but maybe you need to do something different like that, just change to one temp and wait a week.

if no results, go the other way and wait a week


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just to be clear mass, are you saying he should flip the jar over and tap it or no? I've wondered about that myself, but all of my jars seem to be colonizing at least a little, and it's been 7 days so i;m hoping i haven't done anything to screw em up.

Every Tek I've read lately has stated I should have full colonization within 14-28 days. I could not find an answer anywhere as to what happens if you go past the 28 days.
Is 40 days too long? or is 60 days tooo long? Is it necessary to re-hydrate your jars after so many days?

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Every Tek I've read lately has stated I should have full colonization within 14-28 days. I could not find an answer anywhere as to what happens if you go past the 28 days.
Is 40 days too long? or is 60 days tooo long? Is it necessary to re-hydrate your jars after so many days?

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there is a section in shroomery that i read about birthing a cake when its not complete. there is info there as to why it may not be growing.

i think it was under the contamination section and if i feel like diggin for ya instead of looking at porn i may post a link.

least im honest.,

if you followed the recipe and did not over temp them (which is hard to do)
then you have two variables at this point. lights and temps.

they should be in as much darkness as can allow and you should find a way to monitor your temps.

i think that i have read if you ABSOLUTELY have to birth an uncomplete jarr, then try to scrape off as much unused cake as possible done to the mycelium and MAYBE treat that small area with a light H2O2 solution to prevent bacteria.

the info is there, keep searching. you should learn about contaminants anyway to give self idea on what to possible expect and what you can get away with.

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this link should have three parts.

the second part is where you can get info on birthing a cake if not complete

and much more. i would read it

Heya Skin!
Looks like they stalled. Also looks like you don't have any fresh air exchange - no biggie. You prolly should go ahead and birth them, otherwise you gonna get rotten brown rice flower (or whatever). As above, scrape the un-colonized parts off before you soak, be carefull not to break cake.
It's a tough call, but without having fresh air exchange the jars will stall. The way you get air exchange it to roll up a wad of polly fill in tin foil about a nickel in size, and push it through a (nickel-sized) hole you create in center of lid. Looks like a stove pipe with cotton puffing out the top. (use polly fill though - not cotton).
Your next project will go much smother this way.

this is what you call high science, no pun intended, well maybe a little

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and Links...

2 days ago when I last posted, I decided to remove the top layer of tinfoil which were covering my inoculation holes. Them bastards took off like a raped ape Went from 50-75 to nearly 100% just by letting them breath.

that's sick man...looks great!