PF tek - Shotgun Terrarium - GT & Cambodians Cubensis

thanks for the input purps!!!

i personally think it'll be fine as well.
so tonight or tomorrow im going to birth 4-8 cakes...

ill post as soon as i do.

stay up to date!!!
=]
 
Good stuff HEATLESS. Gonna be noccing up 10 jars with B+ tonite. Take some pics I wanna see those suckers crowning lol.
 
todays tasks have been complete!!!

i got my clamp light with 26 watt daylight 6500kalvin CFL and timer today!!!!!!
drilled holes into my terrarium. im using a plastic tote that'll fit 12 cakes comfortably.
i used a 1/4" drill bit and drilled holes 3 inches apart.
so that makes 8 holes by 6 holes on 4 sides including top and bottom. and 5 holes by 6 holes on two of the smaller side panels.

all i gotta do tomorrow is buy my spray bottle, big bag of perlite and a tray to catch some remaining water/moisture from terrarium.

im going to elevate the terrarium with 2by4 blocks or bricks and set those on the tray.

i have decided im going to keep the terrarium in a closet and the temperature is 72-74 degrees F
the lamp may slightly raise the temp. but doubt it, CFLs are not hot at all.
 
Hey Heatless, stoked on your progress! One thing to consider is a closed closet doesnt get much fresh air, its mostly stale air so your should air out your closet regularly also. Ive done monotubs in a closet but its a common practice with monotubs to have a small fan circulating air in the room, so that helps with air circulation in a closet with monos... problem is your not recomended to have a fan with a shotgun chamber because it messes up the natural process of how it works... So... I advise you to either leave your closet door open all the time as I do(recomended), or use the door to fan the closet out whenever you go to mist and fan the tub. Also, different cakes at different stages in the chamber shouldnt be a problem... just make sure and watch the older cakes for contams closely and toss em at the first sign. Also, all the cakes should pin in a proper built shotgun, but dont expect the same pinset from all of them... When working with multi spore syringes you basically have hundreds and hundreds of "strains", each of which will have different qualities... Some big, some small, some potent, some weak, some clusters, some single fruits.... any cubensis mushroom traight may be waiting to fruit from your cake. Often the crazy pinsets you see when the whole cake is covered in fruits of the same size and appearence, those are done by strain isolation. CHEERS! keep us posted!
 
thanks for all the advice broski!

the closet im keeping the terrarium in will always be kept open.
so no worries there.

and thank you for the clarification on birthing at different times.

i got a few things to do but in the next few hours ill be birthing 6 cakes!!!!
ill post pictures later
 
quick question heatless, when your jars were incubating were your jar lids loose or tight? I've got my lids tight right now with the tape removed off the innoc holes. I read somewhere the loose/tight lid depends entirely on how much moisture is in the jar. I have no idea how to tell how moist they are, but they dont look dry.
 
cant really say i know.
that last week of incubation i opened the jar lids a few times to speed up the process.
i did this for CO2 release and oxygen exchange to make sure the mycelium didnt stall and grew faster.

some of the lids were tight, some of them were kind of lose but not much.

you wont have any issues just as long as you follow the recipe and use the correct amount of verm, BRF, and water for 1/2 pint jars.
 
Hey man if your jars are having trouble finishing I'm
guessing it's because you have the tall skinny half pint jars... If you can, grab yourself the short wide mouth half pint jars... They aren't as deep as the other jars so myc has an easier time colonizing them... Also with the tall ones gravity tends to pack the bottom of the jars more tightly than it would with the shorter ones leading to slow colonization of the bottom... Which parts were the last to colonize? Just a suggestion because I would never open an uncolonized jar myself, just sounds risky to me. If you have the 4 innoculation holes uncovered like you should, they should provide plenty of gas exchange to colonize 100% fine.
 
makes sense.

it think they are slower because the amount of spore fluid i put into some of the jars.
some got more, some got less. maybe im wrong but i understand your logic.

everything is looking awesome!!!
the cakes are into 14 hours of dunking in cool water
 
thanks, I'll leave the jar lids tight with holes uncovered. I got the short 1/2 pint wide mouth jars and followed the pf recipe so i should be good.

cant wait for the rest of your journal heatless... Almost paying more attention to this thread than my own grow lol
 
today is the first today of pinset initiation!!!!

i dunked the cakes for 26 hours.

the photos show that the RH is not at 95%-100%

this was changed after the photos were taken.

everything is looking AOK:clap::-o:leaf:
 
Hey man, just so you know, most hygrometers suck and aren't reliable. If you want a decent one go to a cigar shop and get one that can be calibrated. But really, since you built the shotgun correctly you shouldn't have and rh% issue, so don't stress if that thing isn't reading as high as you think it should... If your perlite is moist and your tub is raised up, you should be golden. Also, a proper built fruiting chamber doesn't really get condensation on the walls, that's not related to humidity... it's just was it is, condensation... Which forms when it's warmer in the tub than in the room it's in... With a proper chamber it gets enough air from the room to keep the chamber the same temp, which doesn't cause condensation. Just clearing up some common misconceptions about humidity... Cakes look great by the way! Can't wait for some pin porn! Haha
 
The perlite looks a little wet to me? Anyways, I've read you get the same results from .5ccs of spores as you do from 1cc. That's with 4 inoculation holes though, so I don't know if it differs with less holes.
 
dankillerbs said:
Hey man, just so you know, most hygrometers suck and aren't reliable. If you want a decent one go to a cigar shop and get one that can be calibrated. But really, since you built the shotgun correctly you shouldn't have and rh% issue, so don't stress if that thing isn't reading as high as you think it should... If your perlite is moist and your tub is raised up, you should be golden. Also, a proper built fruiting chamber doesn't really get condensation on the walls, that's not related to humidity... it's just was it is, condensation... Which forms when it's warmer in the tub than in the room it's in... With a proper chamber it gets enough air from the room to keep the chamber the same temp, which doesn't cause condensation. Just clearing up some common misconceptions about humidity... Cakes look great by the way! Can't wait for some pin porn! Haha
Click to expand...

your words have made me feel awesome. haha

i cant wait to show you all some pin porn.
sooo excited!!!
 
Noob: Why do you dunk the cakes for 26 hours? It's just in water right?
btw those cakes look healthy and ready to produce amazing flush's :]
 
Karmapuff said:
Noob: Why do you dunk the cakes for 26 hours? It's just in water right?
btw those cakes look healthy and ready to produce amazing flush's :]
Click to expand...

26 hours is the exact time i took the cakes out out of the water.
24 hours is the right time but i took em out at 26 just beacause i had to do something for 2 hours before taking them out.

and yes, just water, distilled or filtered water.
 
Hey man those are some nice looking cakes. I have 8 jars of Ecuador I'm thinking about birthing tonight or tomorrow. They've been fully colonized since about tuesday or wednesday. This is my first time growing so I'm still debating the dunk or not. I might just wait til after the first flush since I'm paranoid as hell about getting contam.

Man, I've been wanting to do this for so long. I can't believe how easy PF Tek is. 8 jars and no contam :). I have a little 400w space heater that I kept on low and that kept my area a constant 80 degrees. Think that's why they colonized so fast for me. Got 4 more syringes (2 more ecuador, 1 golden teacher, 1 puerto rican) that I can't wait to get going! Maybe I'll start a grow log.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Dapper_Dillinger
1st run pf tek blue meanies and golden teachers
6 7 8
Replies
140
Views
10K
SuBlimE420
S
Morbid Angel
PF Tek advice
Replies
1
Views
716
canndo
canndo
nanners1
gg4 s1, banger glue & some autos.
Replies
6
Views
671
PadawanWarrior
PadawanWarrior
RatKing
Liquid culture to pf tek ?
Replies
6
Views
2K
canndo
canndo
T
Instructions for making Cannabis Oil/RSO
Replies
1
Views
2K
TPTB73
T
Back
Top