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#61
PF - Tek / Re: In search of help and advice.
July 18, 2008, 03:48:19 AM
No, this doesn't happen often.

One last thing that I could think of is that the jars were still hot or very warm when you inoculated them?
Oh, and have you shaken the syringes properly before inoculation?
#62
General topics / Re: freshness
July 18, 2008, 01:19:54 AM
Depending on the temperature and the freshness of spores you should see first signs of growth between the 3rd and 10th day after inoculation.
#63
PF - Tek / Re: In search of help and advice.
July 18, 2008, 01:18:35 AM
Then my guess would be that the spores are bunk.
#64
PF - Tek / Re: In search of help and advice.
July 17, 2008, 12:51:13 AM
Hmm... the substrate looks ok, but I can see no mycelium. Do the jars emit any unpleasant smell?
#65
Cultivation / Re: fruiting
July 16, 2008, 12:48:03 AM
Light.
#66
PF - Tek / Re: In search of help and advice.
July 16, 2008, 12:46:36 AM
Were the spores fresh? How does the mycelium look, bright white or more greyish? Do the jars emit any smell? Did you take care to inoculate so you see the spore water drop run down the surface of the jar?

If the spores were older, then it can take a week or so for the growth to kick off.

Replacing the lid on sterilized jars is generally not a good idea, since there are big chances you bring contaminants in.

Can you make photos of the jars?

#67
Cultivation / Re: Azurescens bed is bleeding
July 15, 2008, 12:49:05 AM
You should remove the plastic and apply a thin(1-2 cm) layer of dried leaves and debris from the forest floor.
#68
PF - Tek / Re: perlite instead of vermiculite?
July 12, 2008, 11:37:46 PM
No.
#69
Cultivation / Re: On contamination...
July 01, 2008, 06:51:49 AM
>Is contamination of big factor of growing mushrooms? Do they get contaminated very easily?

It is a big factor, yes. The surest way to contaminate a substrate is to touch it with anything that has not been sterilized directly. Dirty hands, spoon, needle...

>With clothes in the room and near the jars/fruiting chamber, will my mushrooms get contaminated easily?

More easily than if you hadn't had those there, that's for sure. How easy...hard to tell.

>A week in advance of growing them, should I continuously spray Lysol to disinfect?

I don't think this would change anything much.

I was thinking of putting the jars in a seal-able box so they're not just wide out in the open.

As long you open this box at least every couple of days, this sounds ok. Or you could let the jars colonize in a fruiting chamber(plastic box with holes filled with polyfil)
#70
I would go with wood chips or grain.
#71
Quote from: psilocybin warrior on June 29, 2008, 02:30:55 PM
If this is your first grow I wouldn't be too concerned with potency just yet.

I agree, the first concern should be to get them to grow at all.
#72
Cultivation / Re: still on time to make a new bed?
June 29, 2008, 07:04:25 AM
No, leave them alone, it is now too late to enlarge them if you want them to fruit this autumn.  You can enlarge them next March. The bed might look completely colonized on the outside, but the mycelium has to penetrate through the wood chips, and this takes time.
#73
Cultivation / Re: bad shrooms?
June 23, 2008, 02:34:11 AM
Hard to tell without seeing it.

Mycelium death for P. cubensis has been established at 106°F, but you shouldn't keep it it a higher temperature than 80°F for best results.
#74
>am i going to grow mushrooms in my muscle?

No.
#75
I do actually.
#76
Cultivation / Re: Type of rye seed
June 17, 2008, 06:36:59 AM
A feed store could have rye. Or you can use wheat, it is similar to rye.
#77
Cultivation / Re: Type of rye seed
June 14, 2008, 05:36:15 AM
Quote from: Baph on June 13, 2008, 07:08:20 PM
Rye Berries are the same as rye grass seed and/or rye grain.

Rye grass seed is NOT the same as rye grain and can not be used for the same purpose.

Ryegrass seed is seed of grass plants meant to start lawns (Lolium perenne). It is used for producing sclerotia of for instance P. mexicana.

Rye grain is the seed of the rye plant(Secale cereale). It is used for spawn or substrate.


Ryegrass seed on the left, rye grain on the right:




The blue dust could be an added pesticide, possibly a fungicide, this you definitely don't want.
#78
Cultivation / Re: Overlay?
June 02, 2008, 03:35:23 AM
Lower the temperature towards 70, apply a very thin casing on top of what you have, and spray and strands of mycelium coming trough  the casing with short bursts of water spray.
#79
General topics / Re: got another one for ya anno
May 29, 2008, 01:20:40 AM
If you already have grain spawn and you use 2 strains to inoculate one bag it is unlikely one will prevail. What is more likely to happen is that each strain is going to colonize isolated portions of the substrate and won't grow together to one big block. The result will be that when it fruits, you will have many smaller mushrooms fruiting from the various portions of the substrate, perhaps even at different times,  instead of a normal flush.
#80
You can use either  fluorescent or natural light for the fruiting phase. You don't need light for the colonization phase.

If you are unable to find or buy a pressure cooker, you can also sterilize the jars using a big pot with a lid.
In this case steam the jars for 1.5 hours in a pot lid on. Use only approximately 1 inch of water at the bottom.
You might have to add some water to the pot during steaming due to evaporation.