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[rockyfungus]

Ready for spawn. Thinking a few filters are failing, few look a little off. Cooking up some CVG and have my casing materials ready.

 

 

[fahtster]

Yeah probably a bit bacterial.. how far away from the germ plate did you transfer? I usually have bacterial spawn when going from the swabs but it’s never stopped me from getting a flush and with PE, one is usually all I’m going for anyway. I had 12 qts of PE that looked like this



Put out banging flushes..



It was a weird bacteria.. didn’t smell bad at all.. all the jars smelled like mushie goodness. It was only when I cloned that I got consistent clean looking spawn. All your spawn looks decent enough to spawn I’d say.

On another note, I’m doing a couple more pea+ clone 16qt sub second flushes in 2.5 gallon ziplocks with needle holes poked every couple inches in the top of the bag. These guys are looking a little ragged because I’ve had to tear down my lights and hide all my tubs because some maintenance ppl are supposedly (they have us a window of 5 days from 9am - 6pm and it’s already 3 days in and a no show.. like wtf?) so they’re stretched more than I’d like. But it’s a really nifty tool (ziplocks for second flush) if you need to use the tub for a new sub but want to take the current sub to another flush



Last shots of my final PE tubs for the season... I’ve got way too many PE.. thank god for vacuum sealing. Ppl are gonna get mushrooms for gifts all year lol. These are over done and as soon as that 6pm hits I’m gonna chop em



They’re so gnarly.. lookin like they’re gonna eat me lol

Faht

[rockyfungus]

Yeah the one baby jar is slightly bacterial, not enough to prevent some fruits. I just wanna get a few swabs of PE.

The baby jars were 1 transfer off swab, and the containers are transfer 2. Just noticed my plate with swab was exposed to air, should be salvageable. Multiple backups either way.

Those are crazy looking

[ElPirana]

Hey fahtster, these grows have been awesome! I wanna try out some of your tips. I just happened to have one last tub of PE fruiting, all blobs of course lol. I had a couple agar jars ready to go, so tonight I made a couple clones. Hopefully they will be contamination free and I can try some improvements in fruiting these soon.

[fahtster]

Cool! And thanks for checking my stuff out!

I told my gf this is the last PE bin for a long time and she said “thank fuck, I’m so sick of smelling those damn things” lol she ain’t wrong these were extra stinky.. had to let them go too long.. definitely writing “tea” on these vac bags


2nd flush pea+ in a ziplock.. these grew with basically no light and restricted FAE


Faht

[Microbe]

Cool! And thanks for checking my stuff out!

I told my gf this is the last PE bin for a long time and she said “thank fuck, I’m so sick of smelling those damn things” lol she ain’t wrong these were extra stinky.. had to let them go too long.. definitely writing “tea” on these vac bags
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2nd flush pea+ in a ziplock.. these grew with basically no light and restricted FAE
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Faht

That's bad ass growing in a ziploc bag. I feel that many varieties/strains of cubes do very well neglected. I mist right when i put in to fruiting and only after flushes but no misting or fanning in between. Cubes seem to grow bigger when neglected IME.

[fahtster]

Heres the other ziplock 2nd flush.. this ones better but the 1st flush wasn’t as big



Faht

[Arathu]

Dude.......Unicorn Bags and other manufacturers are going to send the legitimate businessmen from the Chinese mafia over your way so you can tell them that dollar store zip-locks ain't the way to go......

 

I'm mean look! Hahahaha easy-peasy.............just beautiful man!

 

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[fahtster]

Haha.. thanks! I should say these are for a 2nd flush.. the grains were colonized in jars and laid out in a 16qt tub.. I needed the tub but wanted to take the sub further so I put it in the ziplock. Just so no one tries colonizing in a zip because I don’t think that’d work out very well.

Faht

Edited by fahtster, 25 February 2021 - 10:52 AM.

[rockyfungus]

Thanks for the swabs if you're still lurking. Some classic pheno!

My casing seems to be colonized, which I thought I was trying to avoid.

 

Edited by rockyfungus, 07 March 2021 - 01:39 PM.

[jrh]

Did you double case?

[rockyfungus]

I mixed bulk and spawn. When the top consolidated, I added a thin layer of a 50:50 casing.

Edited by rockyfungus, 07 March 2021 - 05:33 PM.

[jrh]

Ah. I believe Faht did 1/2" of peat/verm (no coir) at 5 days and another 1/2" 5 days later.

[rockyfungus]

Thanks, I'll reread his notes and try that for 2nd batch

[jrh]

@Faht When you spawn to bulk, you mix spawn and sub and put it in the tub without adding a layer of CV on top, right? I put the top layer on by habit so it looks like I'm going to be ready to case somewhere around day 10.

[fahtster]

For the PE, I don’t add the top layer but I do for regular cubes

Faht

[fahtster]

Hey Rocky.. you still your pics of those tubs finished? They looked great and I’d like them in this thread if you wouldn’t mind. Up to you though. You did a great job!

Faht

[rockyfungus]

These dicks?

 

[fahtster]

Thems the ones.. thanks yo!

[southernblues]

So stoked! I have some PE and PE Uncut on the way, def gonna drill out my tubs and case like this thank you!