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#44
im not growing any right now but i will for sure start again soon i also have a kind of grow diary of them
 
#45
Have y’all look at this thread? Might be something in there! I can’t link!
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#46
Hey @doober I’m hoping you can give me a hand.

I can’t seem to get my mushrooms to fruit. Not sure what’s going wrong.

I made two, half pint pftek cakes, as shown in The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible. Rice flour and vermiculture mix, with a touch of gypsum, steralized, and innoculated with about 3 ml of mushroom spore. They colonized the jar well, I waited about a week after full colonization before popping them out, submerging them in water for 24 hours, and rolling in sterilized vermiculture. I placed them in a tropical terrarium I grow plants in, as I figured the 75 degree temperature and 80 percent humidity would be good for them. They never fruited, and about three weeks later developed mold.

So I built a small fruiting chamber. The fan runs on a timer to get fresh air, it’s sitting on a heat pad and has a humidifier, so it stays about 77 degrees and 90 percent humidity. I tossed two new fully colonized cakes in there, and they didn’t fruit. Three weeks later they developed mold. So I tossed them. I bumped the humidity down to 80%, and tried again, this time with one that was dunked and rolled, and another one that was just pulled out of the jar and put in the chamber. They didn’t fruit either.

I tossed a bag of Reishi in there, and they bloomed fine. But when I put a bag of pink oyster and king oyster, they don’t appear to be doing too well. And now the pftek cakes are developing mold too (been about a month or so).

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
 

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#47
WhatWouldBobDo said:
Hey @doober I’m hoping you can give me a hand.

I can’t seem to get my mushrooms to fruit. Not sure what’s going wrong.

I made two, half pint pftek cakes, as shown in The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible. Rice flour and vermiculture mix, with a touch of gypsum, steralized, and innoculated with about 3 ml of mushroom spore. They colonized the jar well, I waited about a week after full colonization before popping them out, submerging them in water for 24 hours, and rolling in sterilized vermiculture. I placed them in a tropical terrarium I grow plants in, as I figured the 75 degree temperature and 80 percent humidity would be good for them. They never fruited, and about three weeks later developed mold.

So I built a small fruiting chamber. The fan runs on a timer to get fresh air, it’s sitting on a heat pad and has a humidifier, so it stays about 77 degrees and 90 percent humidity. I tossed two new fully colonized cakes in there, and they didn’t fruit. Three weeks later they developed mold. So I tossed them. I bumped the humidity down to 80%, and tried again, this time with one that was dunked and rolled, and another one that was just pulled out of the jar and put in the chamber. They didn’t fruit either.

I tossed a bag of Reishi in there, and they bloomed fine. But when I put a bag of pink oyster and king oyster, they don’t appear to be doing too well. And now the pftek cakes are developing mold too (been about a month or so).

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
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there's a lot going on in there, if your trying to fruit actives/psilocybe's I would do them on their own and I would do it in a dedicated shot gun fruiting chamber, if I had to guess I would say a combination of your heating mat and fan pulling in air is breeding bacteria, the heating mats will def introduce contams through stagnation and heat, with all the moisture and dirty air I would say something is getting in there and causing a problem, does it ever smell stinky in your fruiting tub? if it smells like anything but fresh earthy mushroom you can bet on bacteria. 77 degrees is a little warm, they may colonize a little faster but its warm for fruiting conditions.

the more you add things like fans and humidifiers you'll realize they're just new vectors for contams. if your doing pf-tek let your jars hit full colonization, and place them in a shot gun fruiting chamber, its essentially a tote with a bunch of small holes in it, with wet perlite in the bottom and just cover the holes with micropore tape, they're really basic and nothing beats them imo, except for spawning to bulk in a mono tub.


another thing to remember is fruiting is initiated by water evaporating, if you have a humidifier in there keeping it high the mycelium wont pin and fruit out for you. and if it fruits before full colonization its the mycelium trying to out run contams and drop spores to ensure survival.

you should built a shot gun fruiting chamber, don't fan or mist it until after the first harvest and then when you rehydrate inject water into your cakes instead of misting to minimize aborts.

Basic Principles of the Shotgun Fruiting Chamber (SGFC) - Mushroom Cultivation - Shroomery Message Board

This is part of my series "The Basics" Principles and construction of Shotgun Fruiting Chambers (SGFC): This guide is not focused on PF/BRF cakes per se. It's really just the basics of how the SGFC
www.shroomery.org www.shroomery.org
 
#48
doober said:
does it ever smell stinky in your fruiting tub? if it smells like anything but fresh earthy mushroom you can bet on bacteria.
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No, it just smells like earthy mushrooms.

doober said:
77 degrees is a little warm, they may colonize a little faster but its warm for fruiting conditions.

the more you add things like fans and humidifiers you'll realize they're just new vectors for contams. if your doing pf-tek let your jars hit full colonization, and place them in a shot gun fruiting chamber, its essentially a tote with a bunch of small holes in it, with wet perlite in the bottom and just cover the holes with micropore tape, they're really basic and nothing beats them imo, except for spawning to bulk in a mono tub.
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So, I had the tub, and I was going to start making a monotub. But then I figured, it would be easier to hook up a humidifier (that I already had) and a fan (that I also already had) than it would be to drill a ton of holes in the tub, waft new air in every now and then, and spray with a hand mister.

But maybe not, lol.
doober said:
another thing to remember is fruiting is initiated by water evaporating, if you have a humidifier in there keeping it high the mycelium wont pin and fruit out for you.
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Alright, I think between the temperature, and the 80-90% humidity, that’s what my issue is.

I’ll ditch the heater, and the humidifier, and drill some holes in the sides of the tub to convert it into a monotub.

Thanks bro!
 
#49
When I tried Pftek, I had perlite on the very bottom. A tiny led at the top. I would spray the perlite now and then to keep condensation.

I then had that tub in another tub with an aquarium heater and water for the heat. Not too hot though. For my 2nd attempt, they actually fruited.

Soak the cake, roll it in vermiculite and stick in the fruiting chamber. I read for subsequent flushes let soak in the fridge.
 
#50
WhatWouldBobDo said:

The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible : The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms | Virginia Haze; Dr K. Mandrake | download on Z-Library

Read online or download for free from Z-Library the Book: The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible : The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms, Author: Virginia Haze; Dr K. Mandrake, Publisher: Green Candy Press, ISBN: 9781937866280, Year: 2016, Language: English, Format: PDF, Filesize...
z-library.sk z-library.sk

Although personally I think it's worth buying. Ymmv
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here is the revised edition
z-library seems to good to be true.

The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible - The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms (rev. expanded ed. 2024) | Virginia Haze, Dr. K. Mandrake (PhD) | download on Z-Library

Read online or download for free from Z-Library the Book: The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible - The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms (rev., Author: Virginia Haze, Dr. K. Mandrake (PhD), Publisher: Green Candy Press, ISBN: 9781937866952, Year: 2024, Language: English, Format: EPUB...
z-library.sk z-library.sk

it's been years since I've messed the fungi, but I'm blown away at all the P. cube strains
 
#51
about to get a monotub and start pushing. Keep it pushing crazy locs styles
 
#52
holditnowHIT.IT said:
here is the revised edition
z-library seems to good to be true.

The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible - The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms (rev. expanded ed. 2024) | Virginia Haze, Dr. K. Mandrake (PhD) | download on Z-Library

Read online or download for free from Z-Library the Book: The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible - The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms (rev., Author: Virginia Haze, Dr. K. Mandrake (PhD), Publisher: Green Candy Press, ISBN: 9781937866952, Year: 2024, Language: English, Format: EPUB...
z-library.sk z-library.sk

it's been years since I've messed the fungi, but I'm blown away at all the P. cube strains
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I grew some z strain very different from the shrooms I had before the dose is different from every strain hard to tell how much to take first time but it was a blast growing them 🍄
 
#53
WhatWouldBobDo said:
No, it just smells like earthy mushrooms.


So, I had the tub, and I was going to start making a monotub. But then I figured, it would be easier to hook up a humidifier (that I already had) and a fan (that I also already had) than it would be to drill a ton of holes in the tub, waft new air in every now and then, and spray with a hand mister.

But maybe not, lol.

Alright, I think between the temperature, and the 80-90% humidity, that’s what my issue is.

I’ll ditch the heater, and the humidifier, and drill some holes in the sides of the tub to convert it into a monotub.

Thanks bro!
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you want to make a shotgun fruiting chamber for pf-tek, a mono tub is for bulk spawn with shredded cakes or preferably grain
 
#55
Looking for a shroom but I don't have a clue what it was.
they were the smallest dried shrooms I could imagine. the caps were thin and small and the stems were so thin, but holyhell did they pack a punch.

like 3 or 4 fell on the tent floor when dude was bagging up my ounce at a hookahville. and he told me to eat them.
I couldn't believe the buzz from just that little bit.
Any Idea what they may have been?
 
#56
holditnowHIT.IT said:
Looking for a shroom but I don't have a clue what it was.
they were the smallest dried shrooms I could imagine. the caps were thin and small and the stems were so thin, but holyhell did they pack a punch.

like 3 or 4 fell on the tent floor when dude was bagging up my ounce at a hookahville. and he told me to eat them.
I couldn't believe the buzz from just that little bit.
Any Idea what they may have been?
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Liberty caps?
 
#57
holditnowHIT.IT said:
Looking for a shroom but I don't have a clue what it was.
they were the smallest dried shrooms I could imagine. the caps were thin and small and the stems were so thin, but holyhell did they pack a punch.

like 3 or 4 fell on the tent floor when dude was bagging up my ounce at a hookahville. and he told me to eat them.
I couldn't believe the buzz from just that little bit.
Any Idea what they may have been?
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Cyanescens maybe.
 
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