If you are interested in the lids, you can buy them prepared or make them yourself with filters, ports, and RTV that is available from Amazon. I’ve since changed approach, which you can see on 2 of the jars. Instead of messing around with ports, filters, and RTV I just drill a 1/4 inch hole in the plastic lids and cover it with micropore tape. It’s best to use plastic lids. The metal lids will rust over a 4 week colonization period.
Yeah. I’d just give up after the contamination of the most recent set of jars, but I have a Boomr Bag that needs to be used before it dries out. They only keep a few months.
This will be the last grow for a long while. I’ll have 6 years of shrooms instead of 5 after this grow. lol
If im not mistaken i read awhile back that you mirco dose .4grams for 3 days then a day off or something like that? I have considered mirco dosing for maybe 2years now. Doing much more reading into it than i have for anything else. Takes me awhile to understand some things though so its just been a whole learning process.
I have learned a lot fallowing along your page to so i appreciate the info you share and have shared.
How much weight would you say 6years of shrooms is?
About 500 grams. I do 0.4 grams every other day as microdoses. It’s a heavy dose for those who haven’t taken psilocybin for a long time. Tolerance to psilocybin builds up very quickly. A naive user might get a little zing from 0.4g. I start feeling it at 0.6 grams.
I was taking so much a couple of years ago that I could take 2 whole grams with no effect at all.
This is what I have for now. Each jars holds about 100 grams.
I’ve had some minor visuals when I took a bit too much a couple of times, but I’ve never tripped balls on psilocybin. The last time for that experience was in college with LSD.
Hell yeah my friend, I hope you get 4-5 flushes. These bad boys are like 92-95% water so sub rehydration is key to good repeat flushes. If you keep it hydrated it’ll fruit until it gets bacterial or too weak to fight off rogue molds
The average home, depending on the source, has between 200 and 500 mold spores per cubic meter of air. A good percentage of those spores will be a mold called trichoderma. Trichoderma is by far the most common mold to contaminate your spawns.
Air restriction, Lysol, peroxide, gloves, and masks are all your friends.
Nice work . Thinking of jumping in to shroom growing in the near future. When I saw your stash I immediately thought of The Trailer park Boys last episode gobbling down a half pound of shrooms before turning into cartoons.
Edit it is protected so have to open in app. Anyway a pic will have to suffice.
Looks close. The bottom of the bag in the 2nd pic isn’t colonizing. Is it wet at the bottom?
The dark media that is still exposed in the second pic tells me that it still needs more time to colonize. The entire block should be entirely covered in white mycelium before attempting to fruit the block. Fruiting a block too early will drastically reduce yield.
Time for colonization with these bags is a problem. It can take months for them to fully colonize. I colonize half-pint jars of popcorn and it takes 6 weeks for them to fully colonize using spores. You can reduce that time to 4 weeks if using liquid culture instead of spores.
It is wet at the bottom. Temps dropped drastically so wrapped a towel in a heating pad and set the tub on it. Currently temps in the dark tub at 73-74*F. Little moisture on the sides of the bags as well. Heating pad has been installed for about a week. @NLG123 his all in one cake doesn’t even look close to having as much colonization as mine does so just wondering wth. lol.
The cake does look pretty wet. Overly wet media will really struggle to fully colonize. I’d give it another week and if you don’t see more colonization, then go ahead and fruit it. If you don’t see visible progress in a week, then it isn’t going to happen.
Yeah kinda feel like it got more visual moisture once I added the heat. I’m thinking it stalled out. I added heat. One of the bags gained a small amount more. Maybeeeeeeee. I may try to fruit how the directions say to fruit it and see what happens. Instead of just introducing it into the boomer bin.
Be sure to maintain a sterile environment. Fully colonized blocks have a developed immune system. Less than fully colonized blocks are more susceptible to contamination.
I expect it was a little too wet. Cob web mold is pretty rare when growing shrooms. Google “field capacity.” No grow media should ever be more wet than field capacity.
If you can squeeze a drop of water out of a grow media, then it is too wet. Humidity should be maintained at 85 to 90% when fruiting.
. Thinking of jumping in to shroom growing in the near future. When I saw your stash I immediately thought of The Trailer park Boys last episode gobbling down a half pound of shrooms before turning into cartoons.
