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you could turn the jars upside-down. if my jars stall that is what i do. good luck!

thanks dub, i think i will lower the temp. it is at a steady 81. i had a couple of jars go green on me recently, mabye that could of been avoided.

hey dud, are you saying that you keep your incubator in the 70's?

the crumbled cakes will work. it will also yield more. i started the same way....first brf cakes, then crumbled cakes and casing, and eventually moved to grains. i found a nice popcorn tek on shroomery.org. very easy and good yields.

if you want bettter yeilds you should change up your methods. i suggest using popcorn or wild bird seed. i case mine with 50/50 peat moss and vermiculite. the cakes are great for beginners, but casing is where it's at. you could also crumble and case your cakes for a better result.

 be careful with your temperature. 85 is a little high. you want the mycellium to beat out the contaminates. i keep my incubator at a steady 81. the cakes are good for beginners, but i found popcorn very easy to work with. it is cheap and fast to colonize.

i have grown all of them. my advice is to do the same. GT's were my first and i did just fine. just make sure your methods are sterile and follow the teks as close as possible. are you doing brf cakes or grains??? and remember, it is not the strain that is important, it's who you share it with.

i am looking for a good tek on growing azurecens. want to expand my horizons.

hey shroomzer. good to hear from you!! i cased 12 jars (peat/verm) and incubated. now they are pinning and in the fruiting chamber. this my first grow attempt since last year. all is well!! HAPPY TRAILS!!!!!!

it is nice to see some familiar names. i moved and the pc was packed away for some time. i was going to start a new thread, but the hell with that. here is my question....are certain strains stronger than others??? i read that psylocibe bohemica is rather potent. don't quote me on the spelling. :rolleyes

i have not been on this site for some time now. just wanted to thank everyone (malabar, fattrout, dub, shroomzer) for all of your help last year. i was just starting out and knew nothing about growing. after some reading and some input from some great poeple, i was on my way. i just knocked up 12 jars of popcorn with a spore print i have been saving. i'll post pics soon. thanks again!!!!!

most of them will grow just fine. in the correct conditions of course. just take some time and read through the threads on this site. all the info is here. good luck!!!

yo trout,it has been a couple of weeks. did you perform the other half of the "experiment". i always heard that caps are more potent, but never had the means to put it to the test.

is it a fact that poo will produce better yields? never tried it, but i have a friend with a horse farm.

malabar, when you did your casings, did you use the plastic lids that go with the container?

do you think i can get the same results using popcorn? it does become the shape of the mason jar until i shake it up. always searching for different avenues.   

malabar, what did you use to case with? did you roll them in verm?

just check the pf-tek on this site. it is pretty straight forward and easy to follow. it is how i got started. good luck!!!

one more thing shroomzer, about how long do you let the potion simmer?

i like the sound of the slow cooker. shroomzer, how much herb do you use with a half of gallon of milk? and why soy milk??