The Manic Mushroom

[Atulip]

Played with some agar today.


APER looking good as always.

Z not looking so good after a week. I read somewhere the bubbles are bacteria.

A tiny bit of growth on one of them.

Enigma looks similar.

So I transferred some of the mycelium to new agar.

 

[Atulip]

Another week passed for our grain bags.

Wild Texas will be ready for a monotub soon. APER shortly after that.

Looks like I gave it a break and shake last week. Don't remember doing it but growth is scattered around nonetheless lol.

Jedi Mind Fuck coming along nicely

Enigma looking good

Jack Frost as well.

And lets not forget the other APE Reverts

Just a little peek at our MVP

Noticed a Veil broke on the side shroom above. Went ahead and plucked it.

 

[Franklin Sinatra]

Another week passed for our grain bags.

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Wild Texas will be ready for a monotub soon. APER shortly after that.
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Looks like I gave it a break and shake last week. Don't remember doing it but growth is scattered around nonetheless lol.
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Jedi Mind Fuck coming along nicely
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Enigma looking good
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Jack Frost as well.
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And lets not forget the other APE Reverts
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Just a little peek at our MVP
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Noticed a Veil broke on the side shroom above. Went ahead and plucked it.
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That wild Texas has me interested. I'm gonna get some wild spores next year and attempt an outdoor bed.

 

[Atulip]

That wild Texas has me interested. I'm gonna get some wild spores next year and attempt an outdoor bed.

I'm surprised at the Wild Texas growing the fastest. From multi spore syringe I expected an extra week or so compared to the APER from already colonized agar. They both should be ready for Monotubs later next week I think. Hopefully we'll have fully harvested our first MVP flush then.

Peek at our MVP this morning

The blue is bruising. I've plucked 11g dry. The fattest dried is 3.8g so far.

 

[Atulip]

Minor update. Looks like the heat mats might be doing more harm than good, so I unplugged them. I noticed some of my bags are avoiding growth near the bottom.

This one is growing more on end where the heat mat doesn't cover.

Lifting the bag slightly of one in the middle of the heat mat there's no growth on the bottom.

 

[Atulip]

Growth looks to have slowed and most of the veils have torn so we're gonna harvest everything today. I've been slowly picking the ones as the veils break up to today.

Our first pin was 10-14

Started seeing more on 10-17

10-19 Onward Growth exploded

10-20

10-21

10-22

10-23

10-24

And finally today 10-25

I harvested about half the remaining tub this morning; I'll give them 12 hours at 158F in our mini dehydrator. I'll harvest the rest when they're finished and fill the dehydrator back up.

Harvested 39g dry so far.

 

[Atulip]

Everything's good and dry now. First Flush MVP, 94g dry. Largest was still only 3.8g dry. The fattest was a bit hollow, only came to 3.6g dry. Soaked our cake all day in water and ready for a second flush.


Let's peek at the agar.

One of the APER cups has eaten all the food coloring. I don't know if this is normal or maybe a sign of bacteria.

Enigma looks bacterial to me.

Z strain seems to only be bacteria. Tossed it.

Took a couple clones of the MVP to save for later grows.

Little peek at our Yeti at 9 days spawn to bulk.

 

[Atulip]

Time for Wild Texas to go in a tub.


Mixed about 80% of each bag together in the bottom of the tub. Then added a layer of grain spawn before the casing layer.

APER hasn't made much progress this week. Maybe another week and we can tub it.

Checked on the grain bags, all good except one lone APER. This bag went right in the trash.

And here we have a nice little shelf for our totes.

 

[Atulip]

Our first baby Yeti is here today. 2 weeks from spawn to bulk.

MVP on it's second flush after 5 days

Wild Texas still has a bit of colonizing to go.

 

[Atulip]

MVP has some tall boys this flush. Hoping that bottom left corner isn't contam.

More baby Yetis

Mixed all our bags. Most were around 20-25% colonized.

Enigma a little ahead of the others. Looking forward to this one.

APER looks to have made little progress these past 2 weeks