Let's Grow Mushrooms - A Beginners Gigantic Bulk Attempt with PF Tek

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Senor SmokeAlot

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got any sisters? haha just kidding no disrepect, but DAMN!!, thats some serious work and commitment. ur mushroom guide got me pumped on growing them. lookin this grow op got me thinkin.ummm. na, no way i can pull that one but nice work. dont get caught with all ur...hobbies there.

oh and dont mean to toot my horn,TOOT TOOOOT, but i got some pins/pin heads growing, my first. thanks too all ur good info and write up.
 
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noobdestroyer

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Senor SmokeAlot said:
yea i dunked them in distilled water, i had some left over, and submerged for a lil over 24hrs,then rinsed and rolled in dry verm. put them in the chamber and now they're in my closet, which is a lil colder then i had anticipated, so i got a lil space/room heater thing in there.

ques. though....do i have to re-hydrate my perlite often, my rh is about 70-80, i need 95+ right? do i remove the cakes,with a latex glove, pour some water and then cake back in? its all been smooth sailding so far,i'd be really upset if i lost some cakes during fruiting.

p.s. damn that perlite is messy right out the bag. i was gonna rinse the dry perlite in the shower but it made a mess,haha,so i sent in my back yard to do it,now theres a bunch of lil white dots on the lawn.hehe
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whats the point of rolling in verm after the dunk?
 
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noobdestroyer

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researchkitty said:
It provides a fresh surface for the mycellium cake underneath, and encourages pins to form through it.
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if we have a white myc. cake it would form pins all over it correct? it would make sense to me if we were trying to make a bigger cake, the myc would spread through the new verm. but if the cake is the size we want,and will shoot out mush all around it as is, i dont understand adding more verm now. just seems like it would be exposed to more potential contamination time. and if the cake will sprout as is, whats the extra verm doing? thanks fun post-weed-learned preharvest project
 
DarthD3vl

DarthD3vl

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first off your verm should not have contams on it, you can bake it in the oven to make sure, second the cake once fully colonized is nearly impossible to contam, the verm provideds extra moisture for the cakes, cakes expell much of there internal moisture into the shrooms as they grow having more moisture allows the cakes to utilize more moisture to grow larger or more pins while not fully drying out the cake. im sure there are other reasons to but im tired and high and brain is little frazzled cause i dropped some cid two nights ago
 
dankies

dankies

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cool beans man. Inspiring as I have wanted to do a big grow since botany in Highschool. Just starting now, found a few select strains of syringes. Going to do BRF and rye seed in a jar and a little tub. See how that works out for me, just a little nervous about being so sterile... I wont have a good air vent system but have a college built mushroom box thing that keeps the temps up. ( Not a terarrium per say but, big green old school mushroom box)

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dankies

dankies

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Dunk n roll is where after you fully colonized and left alone for a week, you let them sit in water in a dark spot for 24 hours, then put fresh cooked verm on them and sent to the FC, correct?
 
researchkitty

researchkitty

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researchkitty

researchkitty

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Padawanbater2 said:
How long did it take you to acquire the knowledge you represent in your grows? They're very impressive
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For mushrooms, just about when the thread started is when I learned. Learned as I went, as you can see by the many errors and things corrected along the way with the help of people here.

RIU is the place to learn, just post a pic up and dont be a douche and everyone is pretty eager to help I think! :) For pot, I grew on a smaller scale for about 2 years before........ First year was a mess.... Second lovely........
 
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Senor SmokeAlot

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kitty's right,rui,herself along with some others(that have threads going) is how i learned....

so thanks to RUI,kitty and all the others that help with ques,give ideas and tips.

now i got friends asking me how i did it, haha i wont tell them, most of them are pretty imature still and stupid.hehe one of these fools was like,dude when ur done growing we can sell together, i was like umm noo dumbass thats not wat i had plans to do or even want to do. this was for me to learn,have fun with and make a lil project out of...the latest projectim working on(has nothing to do with mush/bud) is hooking up a humidifer to my lizards tank. always working on something haha
 
DirtPoor

DirtPoor

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You really have some great threads going ResearchKitty; a perfect example of what I'm hoping for in the near future :)
 
DirtPoor

DirtPoor

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Ok so I just found out that since I live in GA, I can't get any shroom spores :( They used to grow all the time around here in the cow fields in their dodo, but now the farmers add stuff to their feed so shrooms don't grow. So sad I have never been able to do any...
 
jimbizzzale67123

jimbizzzale67123

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DirtPoor said:
Ok so I just found out that since I live in GA, I can't get any shroom spores :( They used to grow all the time around here in the cow fields in their dodo, but now the farmers add stuff to their feed so shrooms don't grow. So sad I have never been able to do any...
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Just look for different species that grow else ware and find some and make a spore print.
 
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