A Complete Pictorial & Editorial Shroom Grow!
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Syke1
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Thats sucks bro, but its not like you actually lost anything except for some substrate...Sterility was compromised somewhere obviously. This is one of the draw backs from this method, if you do pick up a contam it will spread to all the jars you are knocking up. However, This is true for anything myco related.
Personally I've used this Tek for LOTS of jars and never had a contam. This Tek is generally used to replace Liquid culture which is REALLY easy to contam AND WHICH I CANT DO FOR THE LIFE OF ME..LOL
ndangerspecimen101
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I'm a bit stumped...So I actually have to wait until the jars are fully colonized before injecting the water?
Pics will be up shortly!
ndangerspecimen101
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Here they are in there "almost" full entirety!
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ndangerspecimen101
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Should the whole cake on the bottom of the jar show white mycelium? For it to qualify as fully colonized?
Syke1
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Sgt. Floyd
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ndangerspecimen101
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Ah bro come on now... you know I do shit proper
Yes, they've been in the incubator since day 1...at a constant 82 degrees! Also, I do see the cakes shrinking a bit... So i'll give it another 5 days that's it... and then the mycelium water technique spurs into action
ndangerspecimen101
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I want some of those big flushes that ANC pushes out! Straight eye candy for the soul
Better than a can of campbell's chicken noodle soup
Sgt. Floyd
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I figured you did. Be sure to keep us updated on the water technique. It's something I want to experiment with in the future.Ah bro come on now... you know I do shit proper
Yes, they've been in the incubator since day 1...at a constant 82 degrees! Also, I do see the cakes shrinking a bit... So i'll give it another 5 days that's it... and then the mycelium water technique spurs into action
moobyghost
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This may sound like a stupid question, but could you grow mushrooms from a petri dish?
ndangerspecimen101
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You can generate some wicked spores on there.... which in effect can grow you mad mushies
ANC
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petri dishes are used to grow out spores from shrooms collected in the wild, it enables you to transfer non contaminated sections to another plate until you have a clean dish, with only mycelium.
It also makes it possible to identify more viable sections of mycelium. Also it can be used to clone mushroom tissue into a true mono strain, but I prefer a proper liquid cultre for this.
As for big flushes, you realy want to work from one of these clone isolates. Your first grow from multispore will fruit unevenly over a couple of days, with big variation in size and potency from shroom to shroom.
It is important to take some spore prints after fruiting for future use and storage in case of failures. Then to actualy make a liquid clone of the best fruit from the largest and fastest growing cluster, and do your future grows from that.
It is a simple procedure requiring only some spent coffee grounds, water and sugar. I'll talk you trough when we get there.
It also makes it possible to identify more viable sections of mycelium. Also it can be used to clone mushroom tissue into a true mono strain, but I prefer a proper liquid cultre for this.
As for big flushes, you realy want to work from one of these clone isolates. Your first grow from multispore will fruit unevenly over a couple of days, with big variation in size and potency from shroom to shroom.
It is important to take some spore prints after fruiting for future use and storage in case of failures. Then to actualy make a liquid clone of the best fruit from the largest and fastest growing cluster, and do your future grows from that.
It is a simple procedure requiring only some spent coffee grounds, water and sugar. I'll talk you trough when we get there.
moobyghost
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I have none of the ingredients to do shrooms, I just was wondering wouldn't it be easier to inject the fungus onto the petri dish and vola. Skip a whole bunch of steps.