First Time Shroom Grower PF-Tek

[jollygreengiant8]

ive got little pins poking out on the middle cake now

IM READY TO SEE SOME SHROOMS!

 

[ststepen420]

1541 Psilocybe Azurescens Spawn bag


if it doesnt work when you click on it then take the time to type it in and dont say i didnt ever do nothing for you. Those are the most potent shrooms you can get and i got them last year and harvested and havent touched them since, only watered a couple times on the wood chips and this years harvest is coming in, should be about another month.

 

[ststepen420]

k well it works so enjoy!

 

[jollygreengiant8]

1541 Psilocybe Azurescens Spawn bag


if it doesnt work when you click on it then take the time to type it in and dont say i didnt ever do nothing for you. Those are the most potent shrooms you can get and i got them last year and harvested and havent touched them since, only watered a couple times on the wood chips and this years harvest is coming in, should be about another month.

hey ststepen thanks for looking in at my little grow

thanks for the link..$34 and a bag of bark you can grow them outside?
this sounds very interesting...please tell me more

what kind of yield could someone expect from one of these beds?
and are you telling me that the bed of bark sat all year after your harvest, and you watered the bark a few times and now they are growing again on the same bed?

+rep for the info..thank you

 

[ststepen420]

yeah they grow back...im no scientist so i cant really explain how they work but yeah they grow on woodchips, as far as i know they wont work like most others and grow on rice cakes or whatnot. Im not gonna say a yield because that depends on how you do it, how many bags you bought, how big a bed you put them in and all that good stuff. I had about 38 dry grams and that was after i ate some fresh a couple of times. They are without a doubt amazing and just dont over do it with these because its not like eating some cubensis. My sister had to lock me in the bathroom because i was hearing people outside and was trying to talk to the people who lived under her out on her balcony and i know they had to know i was so fucked up. Oh and a good tip is next time you trip go to youtube and search grateful dead throwing stones animation, it should be a black and white looking thing with some little gnomes, watch that....well watch it now and think about watching it during a trip...its fucking trippy man

 

[ststepen420]

oh and i forgot to tell you they dont start growing till around the first frost, they arent like other shrooms that need a warm and humid enviroment

 

[Thundercat]

Hey JG, things look like they are coming along well.

Thanks for the link ststephan, that looks sweet, I've wanted to do an outdoor shroom grow. Much more low key then outdoor pot. I'd love to have like 3-4 differant beds of mushrooms outside, that all harvest at different times. Some that harvest in spring, some for summer and some for fall. Have year round mushrooms every year!!!!

JG there are all differant kinds of magic mushrooms, that grow in all sorts of mediums, and in different enviroments. Most can be grown outdoors, its all about creating the right place for them to grow. It makes sense that they would grow back year after year, or atleast for seveal years. The mycilium will grow, and spread in the wood chips. In the winter it will lie dormant, just like any mushrooms in your yard or woods. Then the next year you'll notice them growing in the same spot again.

 

[jollygreengiant8]

that sounds pretty fucking sweet. seems easy as hell too.
would it be a problem if i do indeed live in a warm and humid environment?
ive got a while before the first frost.

would this be low key enough to do in my backyard?
i think i have the perfect spot to make a bed, its almost always shaded and it would be hard to see..especially with sticks and shit over it.
I dont want friends or neighbors snooping around my shroom patch.

the link said that the mycelium grows on certain woodchips..
so would i have to make sure to get a certain woodchip? or any chip will do?
and did you use 1 bag of chips and 1 spawn bag?

I wont be able to grow anymore pot for a while..
so i thought id try to grow a continuous supply of shrooms so this is right up my alley

 

[jollygreengiant8]

JG there are all differant kinds of magic mushrooms, that grow in all sorts of mediums, and in different enviroments. Most can be grown outdoors, its all about creating the right place for them to grow. It makes sense that they would grow back year after year, or atleast for seveal years. The mycilium will grow, and spread in the wood chips. In the winter it will lie dormant, just like any mushrooms in your yard or woods. Then the next year you'll notice them growing in the same spot again.

This is what I had thought..shrooms grow, weather gets cold, mycelium goes dormant but the particular mushroom that ststepen is referring to is a cold weather shroom. I was thinking that the summer heat would bake the mycelium, killing it.

thats just what i was thinking

 

[misterdogman]

if you have a pressure cooker then just go to grain an then spawn your grain to Horse poo coir coffee mix with some worm castings, no paticular ratio, like a gallon of each but less like 3 cups of coffee grounds...and a 7% gypsum and 3 cups of verm, after the jars are colonize mix it in a tub with 2 2 ince holes stuffed with polyfill and connect an air pump to it, keep the RH high and spray to keep it up until you see hyphal knots an then case it with a low or non nutritive casing layer like verm perelite or verm/peat moss even coir will work but COIR oes have nutes, almost as many as poo but it works...giver her 18 hours of light a day and let em breath freah air an in 3 weeks in a small tub youll have ounces of shrooms depening on strain...

the PF tek was esigned for personal use for people with no pressure cooker but IMHO its a waste of time and even harder or just as hard as going Millet an then to horse poo...way better yields and quality from the better nutes, worm castings and poo make MONSTERS...wall to wall flushes. You wont regret it.

 

[misterdogman]

Hey JG, things look like they are coming along well.

Thanks for the link ststephan, that looks sweet, I've wanted to do an outdoor shroom grow. Much more low key then outdoor pot. I'd love to have like 3-4 differant beds of mushrooms outside, that all harvest at different times. Some that harvest in spring, some for summer and some for fall. Have year round mushrooms every year!!!!

JG there are all differant kinds of magic mushrooms, that grow in all sorts of mediums, and in different enviroments. Most can be grown outdoors, its all about creating the right place for them to grow. It makes sense that they would grow back year after year, or atleast for seveal years. The mycilium will grow, and spread in the wood chips. In the winter it will lie dormant, just like any mushrooms in your yard or woods. Then the next year you'll notice them growing in the same spot again.

I actually think your just seeing the spores the mushies dropped grow back, I never heard of any Mycelium that sticks around like that, not even cold loving shroomies do that,.... not that I know of....there may be some that do im no mycologist but I am pretty sure the shrooms grow there outside, drop spores, which lie dormant til spring,... and then re-grow like seeds,
spores=microseeds kinda
just for shrooms....

but then again you can get myc out of a jar and regrow it on grain making it perpetual....and then keep it in the fridge so maybe its possible but I think its just new spores...

 

[Thundercat]

I actually think your just seeing the spores the mushies dropped grow back, I never heard of any Mycelium that sticks around like that, not even cold loving shroomies do that,.... not that I know of....there may be some that do im no mycologist but I am pretty sure the shrooms grow there outside, drop spores, which lie dormant til spring,... and then re-grow like seeds,
spores=microseeds kinda
just for shrooms....

but then again you can get myc out of a jar and regrow it on grain making it perpetual....and then keep it in the fridge so maybe its possible but I think its just new spores...

I'm no scientist either, so I could be wrong, but just like you said, about the fridge, I believe thats what happens. The mycilium lies dormant just like if you stick a colonized jar in the fridge. I'd have to do more research, but I believe thats what I've read.

 

[jollygreengiant8]

so its been 2 days since i saw the first pin and thought id update with some pictures.

here are the two cakes that are pinning..still waiting on the third

 

[bobharvey]

Hey Jolly, how long have your cakes been in the fruiting chamber?

 

[jollygreengiant8]

hey bob..i birthed the two cakes pinning now 18 days ago..a long time, believe me i know
but my FC was inadequate and temps were low.
so about 5 days ago i put them in the aquarium with an aquarium heater to help with temp..and in about 48hrs i saw the first pin.

 

[bobharvey]

I have a warming blanket under my fruiting chamber. I birthed mine ...lets see.... one friday, two sunday, and two tuesday. So far I haven't seen any pinning and I was just wonder how long I would have to be waiting.

I keep my temps between 75-79 F and the humidity is like 99% so...idk, I guess I'll be waiting for a while as well.

 

[jollygreengiant8]

my temp was a steady 64 but with the heater it keep its at 70 but wont get any warmer but it seems to be doing ok

did you dunk and roll them or they were birthed and went straight into fc?

 

[bobharvey]

Oh yeah I dunked them for 24hrs, then rolled them, and put them in the FC. I don't have a damn bottle to mist them so that is probably the only thing that I fucked up on. Oh well, I plan on taking one or two prints and making a syringe and doing this again except a lot better. It took like the longer side of 5 weeks for my jars to colonize and now I guess they may take a couple weeks to pin and fruit. The I got Golden Teacher because it was supposed to be easy to cultivate but I guess on the next go around I will do everything a lot better and hopefully get faster colonization/fruiting.

Btw I had no problems with contamination on any of my jars. I sterelized each batch twice because I was afraid that I didn't do it long enough the first time. I think I sterilized it first then let it cool. That way if anything was in there to germinate when I sterilized the second time it would have killed it.

Long story short I'm in the same boat as you as far as this shit taking forever lol. I just wanna kill my ego so I can see what life is like without it.

 

[jollygreengiant8]

hmm i dont know..it seems like they shouldnt be taking that long, it seems like you have good conditions for them to grow..i guess theres not much else you can do but wait and watch..hopefully all goes well and you can enjoy an ego-free perspective

"I just wanna kill my ego so I can see what life is like without it"...i like the way that sounds

 

[Thundercat]

The wait is the worst part. Its always that way with shrooms. When you eat them, then you wait, when you grow them, and you wait. When your on them, and some times it just feels like a wait, lol. Any ways even with the right conditions, I"ve read that shrooms kinda just grow when they want to, or should I say are ready to.