help me grow shrooms + rep

i have everything from spore syringes to the brf i tried and i have 6 syringes of p.cube puerto rican strain and i have my incubator at 82 degrees so please tell me what i am doing wrong. i have 8 jars and im waiting on them,but besides that nothing has happened so please help + rep. pictures of your stuff and etc would help. any advice

sounds like you did everything right maybe just a slow colonizer? You cooked the jars in the pressure cooker let them cool and inoculated the jars and have them in the dark right? I only grew them once just followed the steps that was in all the tutorials and it worked for me.

how many ccs did you use per jar?

one hole or more?

Pipe Dream said:

sounds like you did everything right maybe just a slow colonizer? You cooked the jars in the pressure cooker let them cool and inoculated the jars and have them in the dark right? I only grew them once just followed the steps that was in all the tutorials and it worked for me.

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yeah i did that but what temps do i have the incubator at so i know what the temps will be inside the jars because i dont want to kill the spores or anything and i dont know about colonizing because there is nothing at all no growth nada so what should i do ?

stupidclown said:

how many ccs did you use per jar?

one hole or more?

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4 holes and a little bit more then 1 cc per jar and i got 8 jars

nellyatcha said:

i have everything from spore syringes to the brf i tried and i have 6 syringes of p.cube puerto rican strain and i have my incubator at 82 degrees so please tell me what i am doing wrong. i have 8 jars and im waiting on them,but besides that nothing has happened so please help + rep. pictures of your stuff and etc would help. any advice

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what kind of incubator, heat mat? water bath? heated box?

and how long ago did you inject?

stupidclown said:

what kind of incubator, heat mat? water bath? heated box?

and how long ago did you inject?

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hova-bator incubator and injected like on the 1st of this month and on the 2nd as well. temp inside of the incubator is 86 degrees. the guides said to keep it around 86 degrees because it grows the fastest that way .

86 maybe to hot the insides of the cakes will be warmer i'd say 80

and its only been 3-4 days this is not magic it takes time to grow

stupidclown said:

this is not magic it takes time to grow

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I'm about to flip my jars over. its taken them a month. lol. However, i don't have an incubator or anything.

takes a week or two with an incubator

nellyatcha said:

i have everything from spore syringes to the brf i tried and i have 6 syringes of p.cube puerto rican strain and i have my incubator at 82 degrees so please tell me what i am doing wrong. i have 8 jars and im waiting on them,but besides that nothing has happened so please help + rep. pictures of your stuff and etc would help. any advice

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nelly if you did everything right, and you spores werent bunk. you should have seen a fuzzy mycellium growth begin in 3-5 days.... either your spores were bunk, your substrate to dry...... wich wont aloow the spores to catch and colinize, or your sub. was too wet...wich also gives same results..... i say scrap it and start over..

its only been 5 days give it another week at least or maybe even longer before quiting .sometimes spores are older and take longer to germinate than others .even in ideal conditions it could still normally go this slow .

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86 maybe to hot the insides of the cakes will be warmer i'd say 80

and its only been 3-4 days this is not magic it takes time to grow

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i was told that 82 is to cold and i was told to keep it around 86 degrees and in some vids it says the closer to 86 degrees the faster it will grow and also i had some in there from last month that never did anything and my spores look slimey

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nelly if you did everything right, and you spores werent bunk. you should have seen a fuzzy mycellium growth begin in 3-5 days.... either your spores were bunk, your substrate to dry...... wich wont aloow the spores to catch and colinize, or your sub. was too wet...wich also gives same results..... i say scrap it and start over..

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well i just ordered more strains pes hawaii and mazatepec. from http://www.micro-supply.com/mushrooms.htm and im going to see how those was and i tried a very wet sub and a med and a kinda dry one and my humid is at 80%

Yeah when its cold and especialy with older spores it sometimes takes a while before you see anything. Think, I've had some jars that took like almost 2 weeks before things started to be visible.

I had to edit this post as I was confused by what I had read. Anyways...

What about the tops of your jars? You need to have gas exchange, not air exchange. If you show no growth of any kind then you may have the jars either too wet or too dry. It takes practice to get them in the right range throughout the jar for even growth. Many people design lids that allow the moisture to escape and this is a problem as well.

If you keep posting Ill keep answering.

And I see that you've been paying attention to the moisture content. I would consider switching when you can to another method. The pf tek is just throwing cakes in to grow right?

Buy a rubbermaid tote, cut four holes on two sides opposite each other. The bigger sides. The holes should be about 2 inches wide, and there should be two near the bottom where the top of the cakes/substrate will be and two should be near the top. Then stuff polyfill (2 bucks for a bag at craft stores) into the holes. Then you cut out a big rectangle in the lid, slap some clear plastic over it to make it airtight but let light through, and you have a growing chamber. With a base of wet perlite the humidity should go sky high, then you adjust a fan to blow on one side of it so the air and humidity slowly go out the polyfill. The polyfill is perfect because it doesnt wick moisture. I would do this but then make the entire base of the rubbermaid my substrate. Pulled lots out of these things back in the day.

What is in the PF tek again? I have used birdseed almost exclusively because it is so much easier than anything I tried early on.

Oh, and I never have had to use an incubator. Ive heard many people make fun of them though. Incubating is such overkill for something that is really all about moisture content and how even it is throughout the medium.

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Yeah when its cold and especialy with older spores it sometimes takes a while before you see anything. Think, I've had some jars that took like almost 2 weeks before things started to be visible.

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how old were the spores and wwas it a syringe?