thanks a lot guys. Have put a few more holes in as this is what shroomery forum users insisted aswell. will put a towel over to keep bedroom light out also- and will fan twice a day to see how it goes. Have had small pinheads on one of the cakes but they look really stunted. Will keep trying- just hope the cakes haven't dried out whilst I was re holing the FC; were sat for about an hour on tinfoil on table. Thanks again!
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PF - Tek / help please!
February 14, 2011, 02:30:41 AM
Hi
I am a third time grower, but first time in about 18 months. Cakes have been in the FC for 2 and a half weeks now and still no sign of pinning.
The house I live in is quite cold (about 60 degrees), mainly due to the time of year. I have just yesterday put a fish tank heater in a water bottle to try and warm things up but don't yet know how effective this will be.
I think that the winter season could be a factor in the cakes not pinning as my previous grows were conducted in around summertime, when weather is warm, and were successful with no contamination though, that said my first batch took a long time to start to pin.
I took the cakes out of the incubator after about 26 days at what appeared to be 100% colonization. They were then dunked/ submerged in water, put in the fridge for 24 hours as standard, rolled them in verm and put them into my home made terrarium- which has worked for me before.
Bought a HTC-1 hygrometer the other day to try and monitor things better but not too sure how reliable or accurate it is- it reads 99% humidity and 16 degrees C (about 60 F) but the FC doesn't look so humid as only small amounts of condensation droplets on the sides/ lid.
I would probably be a little more patient and see how the heater works out but I am a little worried by the smell. where previously the cakes have emitted a fresh, fleshy mycelium smell, there is a not so good, moist, foisty FC that makes me worry that (having read other peoples posts) the cakes may be dieing/ rotting/ or even be contaminated. As far as I know there are no signs of contamination in the mycelium upon upon birthing them. Upon removing my cakes from jars there was a white fluff on the dry vermiculite protective layer but I took that for the mycelium extending through as it was a thick layer of dry verm.
All there is on the cakes now is kind of white nodes that have formed from the white fluff that the cakes normally grow- I think my misting may have been too heavy and has possibly caused this. Even so, the white stuff that normally forms over the verm hasn't grown much.
Don't know what to do from here- would be devastated to have to throw them after all this time and effort. Think it may be possible that they need re-dunking and the perlite re-running through water to get the moisture/ humidity back up. Getting January amounts of indirect sunlight (9-10 hours). Will they grow at all?? Any ideas or help would be massively appreciated. Many thanks
Anotherview of the cakes.
I am a third time grower, but first time in about 18 months. Cakes have been in the FC for 2 and a half weeks now and still no sign of pinning.
The house I live in is quite cold (about 60 degrees), mainly due to the time of year. I have just yesterday put a fish tank heater in a water bottle to try and warm things up but don't yet know how effective this will be.
I think that the winter season could be a factor in the cakes not pinning as my previous grows were conducted in around summertime, when weather is warm, and were successful with no contamination though, that said my first batch took a long time to start to pin.
I took the cakes out of the incubator after about 26 days at what appeared to be 100% colonization. They were then dunked/ submerged in water, put in the fridge for 24 hours as standard, rolled them in verm and put them into my home made terrarium- which has worked for me before.
Bought a HTC-1 hygrometer the other day to try and monitor things better but not too sure how reliable or accurate it is- it reads 99% humidity and 16 degrees C (about 60 F) but the FC doesn't look so humid as only small amounts of condensation droplets on the sides/ lid.
I would probably be a little more patient and see how the heater works out but I am a little worried by the smell. where previously the cakes have emitted a fresh, fleshy mycelium smell, there is a not so good, moist, foisty FC that makes me worry that (having read other peoples posts) the cakes may be dieing/ rotting/ or even be contaminated. As far as I know there are no signs of contamination in the mycelium upon upon birthing them. Upon removing my cakes from jars there was a white fluff on the dry vermiculite protective layer but I took that for the mycelium extending through as it was a thick layer of dry verm.
All there is on the cakes now is kind of white nodes that have formed from the white fluff that the cakes normally grow- I think my misting may have been too heavy and has possibly caused this. Even so, the white stuff that normally forms over the verm hasn't grown much.
Don't know what to do from here- would be devastated to have to throw them after all this time and effort. Think it may be possible that they need re-dunking and the perlite re-running through water to get the moisture/ humidity back up. Getting January amounts of indirect sunlight (9-10 hours). Will they grow at all?? Any ideas or help would be massively appreciated. Many thanks
Anotherview of the cakes.
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