Let's Grow Mushrooms - A Beginners Gigantic Bulk Attempt with PF Tek

researchkitty

researchkitty

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dreamwalk said:
Wow, great bud, great shrooms! I'm really starting to get jealous! lol. Can't wait to get my shroom grow up and going...

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any of the required materials.... :/
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Wal-Mart sells everything you need. There isnt anything they dont have other than spores!
 
ANC

ANC

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Appart from a syringe with soe spores, all you need are 6 wiskey tumblers, some heavy duty foil, vermiculite and popcorn, a presure cooker, some rubber bands, micropore tape/plaster from the pharmacy, A large tub to use as a fruiting chamber and a shitload of perlite to fill it like 2 inches deep.
 
ayr0n

ayr0n

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ANC said:
Appart from a syringe with soe spores, all you need are 6 wiskey tumblers, some heavy duty foil, vermiculite and popcorn, a presure cooker, some rubber bands, micropore tape/plaster from the pharmacy, A large tub to use as a fruiting chamber and a shitload of perlite to fill it like 2 inches deep.
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oh thats it? j/k. Yea i havent grown shrooms but it seems like theres several relatively inexpensive ways to do it, and most of the materials are easy to obtain.
 
ANC

ANC

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lol, I look in occasionaly, the only threads i don;t realy pay attention to are pharmaceuticals and RCs.
 
ZenOne

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Hey Awesome set up! Going to build my self one wen i have the time/money/space lol
so what did you exactly use for lighting? i know you said Christmas lights is what your were going to use but i didn't see any pictures of that anywhere.
Anyways again awesome grow!
 
researchkitty

researchkitty

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ZenOne said:
Hey Awesome set up! Going to build my self one wen i have the time/money/space lol
so what did you exactly use for lighting? i know you said Christmas lights is what your were going to use but i didn't see any pictures of that anywhere.
Anyways again awesome grow!
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Thanks! I'm using a 96W T5 thats in the room right now and natural daylight as they are close to windows. I would have strung up christmas lights but I'll get to why in a minute........


Update time............... :)

So far dry weight is 15 ounces dry off of 9 drawers. That gives me a little less than 2 ounces for the first flush per drawer, which is 4.75g of dry mushrooms per cake. That is my OFFICIAL weight report.


So far dry weight is 15 ounces dry off of 9 drawers. That gives me a little less than 2 ounces for the first flush per drawer, which is 4.75g of dry mushrooms per cake. That is my OFFICIAL weight report.


So far dry weight is 15 ounces dry off of 9 drawers. That gives me a little less than 2 ounces for the first flush per drawer, which is 4.75g of dry mushrooms per cake. That is my OFFICIAL weight report.


I say it three times because no doubt in a page later someone will say "zomg what was ur yeeeeld?!?" without reading. :)

Most of the cakes are starting their second flush, half pinning the other half will be rolled tonight from yesterdays dunk then in the drawers they go.

I threw out about 7 or 8 cakes with green mold on the bottoms of them. I think they were too wet from spraying so much before I used the gentle mister. That's resolved, so we'll see if it happens more again.

On the cakes that took the longest to fruit and harvest, they had the most aborts. It seems the aborts are from the cakes losing their moisture over the last week or two then not finishing the shrooms out. That's OK, I want a jar of them for me and another reason I wanted PF TEK right away instead of bulk.

Will have some pictures once they are all re-rolled and back in the fruiting chamber.



And some more news........ I found a building perfect for me, and everything will be moved to it within a month or two at best. Its 2300sqft, so there's a lot of space. I'll be finishing out this cycle of PF TEK and finishing the flushes and then ending this journal and re-starting a bulk grow journal after. The building is dark inside, no windows, so I'll be installing those extra lights for the shrooms in the shroom room when we get to that point.


Till tomorrow with pictures............................... :)
 
dreamwalk

dreamwalk

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researchkitty said:
Wal-Mart sells everything you need. There isnt anything they don't have other than spores!
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I thought I had read that online, but my local Wal-mart super center blah blah doesn't seem to carry much. I've asked for Vermiculite and Perlite; they have neither. I didn't see coir either :\ I did get the tub though :) (They have the jars and other house hold things.)


Is there anything I can substitute?
 
ANC

ANC

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Check out a garden centre. I get my verm and perlite from a builders and hardware shop, or the nursery if I feel like driving far.
Ask if the stuff has been treatd with anything.
Remember you want wide mouth jars, else use whiskey tumblers and make a lid with foil and a rubber band. get some micropore plaster/tape to make breathing holes and reseal innoculation hole.
Coir is not realy a must have.
 
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dankillerbs

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More fresh air would have stopped that green mold. Were the contaminated cakes in the center of the tubs by chance? Any of them? Once mycellium fully colonizes a substrate it is quite resistant to contamination. At that point lots of fresh air is how you avoid contamination. Although fine misting sprayers are recomended, its not the sole reason behind your contamination. Mushrooms get rained on in the wild, but they also get A LOT MORE fresh air to dry them off. Ill bet none of the contaminated cakes came from the drawer with holes on every side, or did they? Any trip report?

Peace!
 
ZenOne

ZenOne

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researchkitty said:
Thanks! I'm using a 96W T5 thats in the room right now and natural daylight as they are close to windows. I would have strung up christmas lights but I'll get to why in a minute........


Update time............... :)

So far dry weight is 15 ounces dry off of 9 drawers. That gives me a little less than 2 ounces for the first flush per drawer, which is 4.75g of dry mushrooms per cake. That is my OFFICIAL weight report.


So far dry weight is 15 ounces dry off of 9 drawers. That gives me a little less than 2 ounces for the first flush per drawer, which is 4.75g of dry mushrooms per cake. That is my OFFICIAL weight report.


So far dry weight is 15 ounces dry off of 9 drawers. That gives me a little less than 2 ounces for the first flush per drawer, which is 4.75g of dry mushrooms per cake. That is my OFFICIAL weight report.


I say it three times because no doubt in a page later someone will say "zomg what was ur yeeeeld?!?" without reading. :)

Most of the cakes are starting their second flush, half pinning the other half will be rolled tonight from yesterdays dunk then in the drawers they go.

I threw out about 7 or 8 cakes with green mold on the bottoms of them. I think they were too wet from spraying so much before I used the gentle mister. That's resolved, so we'll see if it happens more again.

On the cakes that took the longest to fruit and harvest, they had the most aborts. It seems the aborts are from the cakes losing their moisture over the last week or two then not finishing the shrooms out. That's OK, I want a jar of them for me and another reason I wanted PF TEK right away instead of bulk.

Will have some pictures once they are all re-rolled and back in the fruiting chamber.



And some more news........ I found a building perfect for me, and everything will be moved to it within a month or two at best. Its 2300sqft, so there's a lot of space. I'll be finishing out this cycle of PF TEK and finishing the flushes and then ending this journal and re-starting a bulk grow journal after. The building is dark inside, no windows, so I'll be installing those extra lights for the shrooms in the shroom room when we get to that point.


Till tomorrow with pictures............................... :)
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Awsome!:D Look forward to seeing the finish of this and the beginning of the next grow!:D
i will be finishing my current auto-flower grow and turning my closet into a shroom chamber,
will be replicating your methods as it seems pretty productive,
Thanks for answering the lighting question, so how far above the containers is it?
i'e grown mushrooms before but just the "pre-made kits" i know they don't need lighting for anything but to start fruiting,
just wondering if you could take a picture of where the light sits?

Would be greatly appreciated!
I will be buying these syringes from Ralpsterspores

http://www.ralphstersspores.com/CAN/product_info.php?products_id=13

http://www.ralphstersspores.com/CAN/product_info.php?products_id=26

http://www.ralphstersspores.com/CAN/product_info.php?products_id=73

Any thoughts on them? or personal experiences with the shrooms you have, might sway my buy ;P (big producers, fast colonizing, any Trip reports?)


Thanks For Your Help :)
Im sure your a busy girl.
 
researchkitty

researchkitty

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ZenOne said:
Awsome!:D Look forward to seeing the finish of this and the beginning of the next grow!:D
i will be finishing my current auto-flower grow and turning my closet into a shroom chamber,
will be replicating your methods as it seems pretty productive,
Thanks for answering the lighting question, so how far above the containers is it?
i'e grown mushrooms before but just the "pre-made kits" i know they don't need lighting for anything but to start fruiting,
just wondering if you could take a picture of where the light sits?

Would be greatly appreciated!
I will be buying these syringes from Ralpsterspores

http://www.ralphstersspores.com/CAN/product_info.php?products_id=13

http://www.ralphstersspores.com/CAN/product_info.php?products_id=26

http://www.ralphstersspores.com/CAN/product_info.php?products_id=73

Any thoughts on them? or personal experiences with the shrooms you have, might sway my buy ;P (big producers, fast colonizing, any Trip reports?)


Thanks For Your Help :)
Im sure your a busy girl.
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Thanks :) So far all strains are good as the other. Havent tripped on each yet of course, but grow-wise I like them all. There's no harm in growing a bunch of strains of shrooms at once since they arent nutrient tempered like pot is and dont have different 'flower times' either. Grow all the strains man! :)

For the light I have right now it isnt pointed directly on anything except a bunch of clones. It makes the room white of course. The day sunlight is next to the bins as evident in the photos so that's the majority of the light they get. When I go in the new place in a dark room, it'll have christmas tree lights strung around the tubs. Unless I find another easy method, of course. ;)
 
HeatlessBBQ

HeatlessBBQ

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do you guys know if pf tek cakes can be used for bulk spawning methods when casing?
using coir, verm, pickling lime, crushed oyster shells, and EWC????????

+rep for those who answe
 
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