Naughty.Psychonaut

another thing to concider is the grow space itself. is it a tent? was it owned by someone else? do you have good FAE and circulation? hows conditions?

@silverdelange what's up man, yeah you got a typical fungus gnat there. eggs that was in the top 5cm of soil hatched. go check your pots for larvae in the top soil. First off, is the plant healthy? A fully healthy plant should be "unfavourable" to insects, molds and diseases. as for the spots on the leaves, I think you might be dealing with another kinda insect. mites or thrips. 2 ways to mend your soft bodied insect infestation that will benefit the plant also. Get 2 or 3 heaped table spoons of Diatomaceous Earth, sprinkle it on the top soil after watering as to not get it soaked, but have a dry layer of it on the top soil, can be mixed in lightly. The plant will benefit from the calcium, silica and other forms of nutrients the DE will add to the soil. This will kill the larvae and other insects that move around on the soil surface. Other way is to get some BioNeem and Pyrol, spray the Pyrol to help kill off the infestation, use the BioNeem on a weekly schedule to keep it under control. the plant benefits from the Neem oil ⁶helping it build a strong imune system so it can fight back against pests and diseases by itself. NB - this can NOT be done during flower. hope you still vegging?

woah this is an amazing offer!!! and those gentics!!!! I might have to clear out some space! Garlic Sorbet sounds nice, had my eye on the Gorilla Glue a while back but never got to run it.

fuck yeah excited to see what happens here got a couple totemic seeds up my sleeve, might run one or two outdoor this coming season goodluck man, hope it's smooth sailing!

Welcome welcome, my condolences brother. you are with a great bunch of new family members here I am also very interested in the ultrasound extraction!!!

welcome to the mad house amazing setup, amazing plants and amazing weed!

it was time I had enough of the blurple, I keep getting busy for like 5 min before remembering to switch it off, then I look out the tent and everythings dark and it's an instant headache. anyway, think the girls recovered well from the stress put the scrog net up, might do another layer depending on how they grow out in the next few weeks put the flower light in, still on 18/6 maybe 3 weeks I'll flip to 12/12 wire management here helps me sleep like a baby at night

@Adansonia digitata bro, I cringe every time this shit comes to mind. I apologize aswell

what am I making up??

again, this is exactly what I said....... then you tried saying my information is incorrect. if you weren't butthurt about my setup being built the way you would've built it, or whatever is making you feel the way you do, you wouldn't let that cloud your ability to understand what you're reading. listen here, as much as the dark is not a requirement light is also not a requirement. as proven by my setup. so where exactly you wana go with this? you want me to rebuild my setup cz you read something somewhere??? give it up man

yes, I said this, literally in my first reply to what you said, here it is and I restated it, trying to make it clear for you the sole idea that you wana tell me data captured from an actual experiment I actually did is wrong, is taking it personal, brother............ I am not aiming to take over the market and fill up my pockets here. I am aiming to sustain my hobby of growing mushrooms on a bigger scale. If I can get a local contract to ensure my rent and other essential resources are all covered, I'll be happy and keep on growing. good luck to you in general man

got home late last night with the urge to get busy, here's what I did. repot into 30L, FF green bag, mycoroot in the soil, DE top of the soil. watered with tap water. did some hst took photos this morning blurp on. will give another week with this light for them them to settle and make some new growth then bringing in my the new light

what's good @Pandy Indeed, I do. During colonisation the mycelium will expel much less Carbon dioxide than needed to form good reproductive organs, however there will still be a build up inside the bag. Fungi breathe in Oxygen and breathe out Carbon dioxide, so fresh air is needed, just much less than when time comes to fruit. What I do, after packing bags, wipe down with alcohol, get a sterile medical needle, poke holes roughly 2.5 to 3cm apart from eachother all over the bag.

the fact that you would refute something that's already been prooved goes beyond me, you don't have to believe anything, but take note of this, learning requires the ability to not assume one already knows everything. and that based off ego and emotions, with an attitude like that you will run into a few problems in life

well besides the plenty of photos I originally posted acting as literal proof, I will try to go dig up the photos I took when we did the actual test. these tests where done exactly because of the things you're saying right now. half of the mycology community sais what you're saying. but what happens when you put it to the test? another point, we wanted to see what works for us. in our situation. conditions and all, mushroom life can be very sensetive and small environmental changes can have big impacts. so to find out what works for us we wheren't too concerned about what others say or think. we're not out to teach anyone how to do anything. we've got the info, enough of it to play around and see what gets US the best results. as we are only focussing on the oysters for the time being and obvious that this is the mushroom we're speaking of here since there's only oysters in my photos, we ran Elf, Grey and Pink oysters. The difference was most noticable with the Elf, but definitly a difference across the board. we took 10 bags of each, 5kg substrate per bag. 90g of spawn per bag. 5 Bags Elf uncovered - 24 days till 100% colonised 5 Bags Elf covered - 14 days till 100% colonisation 5 Bags Grey uncovered - 19 days till 100% colonised 5 Bags Grey covered - 15 days till 100% colonised 5 Bags Pink uncovered - 17 days till 100% colonised 5 Bags Pink covered - 15 days till 100% colonised. some of the uncovered pink oyster actually started fruiting out the top of the bag. I assume there was a hole. I have seen mushrooms even growing fruiting bodies in complete darkness, this doesn't mean mushrooms SHOULD be grown in the dark. it just means it can. we should always look to biomimicary. nature is flexible and can bear and endure strange forms of manipulation, this doesn't mean we HAVE to push those limits.

@Adansonia digitata you're saying dark room isn't needed for colonising. I know this, and if you understood what I said correctly, you would know that this is what I meant. point is, the information I gave based on my dark room isn't incorrect, as a matter of fact it is spot on. and I know it is and I don't even need to have any back and forth about it. you asked me what it's for and I told you. for someone to say information based on experiments is wrong is funny

bro, you can just show me proof of your results and my mind will be fully changed. based my setup off findings I made through the years of doing this. I definitly didn't come from nothing and set up a whole mushroom production facility, some research has been done here. and I am not talking bout reading a book on how to do this and that. research as in getting my hands dirty and doing real life experiments.

I would like to highlight again what I said before as you are probably aware that mushrooms need a form of "shock treatment" to signal they need to start making fruit bodies. Now, light surely isn't a primary trigger for primordium formation, but using the factor of going from dark to light aids in the shock treatment... if you're saying there is no difference in total darkness and a light source to mushrooms..... I just wouldn't say that, it's absurd. ofcourse mushrooms sense light. again, let me highlight this,

hmm...... seems very strange then that I would get the results I did with the tests I did. I don't even wana go into "this research said this" and "that research said that". I want proof. care to show me some experiments you've done to back what you're saying? and then maybe coming by my setup and show me how to get the right results?

Amazing, as always!!! this bit got me curious as we would all love to have plants constantly praying, this is what I would like to get at. correct me if I am wrong, but you're growing in FF premium classic and using biobizz? if you see your girls aren't praying away in their religious ways, before noticing any other problems such as discoloration or burnt tips, what's usually the first thing you think of? and what do you do in those cases?

update 6 days later they coming along nicely Sour Lemon OG, girls a bit thirsty Banana Hammock Zkittle #1 Zkittle #2 Zkittle #3

@Bos thanks man! if you're interested in oysters on a small scale I can give you few easy steps to follow and you can get some hay colonised with mycelium from a mushroom bought at the shop. Oysters such as grey, white, pink, yellow, blue oysters work best for this. Shiitake, Lion's mane, Shimeji and even King Oyster and the White button and Portabello mushrooms need a bit more intensive care. if you talking bout active ones, can walk you through easiest method for small scale with those too @Adansonia digitata thank you thank you! hahah yeah I've offered up my weekends long time ago, found myself with a whole lot of free time. I do thorough clean out on sunday, keeping both rooms as clean as I can. during the week I just pop by every second day for an hour or two. Do harvests, small clean ups, check ups. Not too much effort thanks to the Sonoff. the marketing is more time consuming right now the dark period helps a bunch when introducing fruiting conditions, the sudden light acts as another shock mechanizm to get the mycelium to fruit. resulting in earlier pin sets. we've actually done a few tests with few strains. let the bag sit in the fruiting room and one next to it with a black bag over. colonising times was even quicker, so quicker colonise and fruits. just think about biomimicary, where do most mycelium grow best? below the surface. even though you get mycelium on the surface sometimes, you might not need the dark for colonising, but it sure helps. and gives you another angle to come at it when comes time to fruit. @Prom hahahah yeah they can teach one a lesson real quick!!! the oysters you don't even need to be that sterile with, I do open air inoculation and cold lime treatment to get my substrate "sterile". Haven't had 1 single spot of contamination in over 100kg of treated substrate. with the active shroomies it's a bit of a different story. still easy, but you have to get a few things in place before just going at it all willy nilly. I have a monotub going every other month

What is up good people, here is a little something I have been busy with the last few months that I think some of you might like... a Mushroom Farm, well getting there hahah This is as primitive as things get, I plan to make a few bucks out the place to cover the expenses and invest to get something proper going. Building the same setup with Isoboards is what I am going for, already got quotes to get some frames welded for hanging and making use of vertical space as I have plenty. Just waiting for a cash flow. I teamed up with a guy who's doing the marketing, I am doing all of the growing. Any questions welcome. Incubation "room". Dimentions: W2mxL3mxH3m. Wood frame to hold thick black plastic to create complete dark room. 1/3rd of the wall on the left is covered with 90% black shade net folded double so the the room can breathe, but let minimal light in. inside incubation, with few colonising Hard to get a good pic, but here is the grow room. W3mxL5mxH3m. wood frame to hold a UV protected opaque plastic. door open. RH on 98% The Reservoir. I got a 70L thick black tote bin with a constant water level, pumping ultrasonic fog into my grow room. you can see the whaft it pumps out Inside the Res, I got a M6 fogger, they sent me the wrong floater and I had to improvise with a pool noodle, works 100%. I got a water line pumping water into the res (visible in photo above) with a floater valve to shut it off and keep it from running over. got a 20cm inline fan system running, if I put the fogger off it sucks the 98%RH down to 40% in 10min. got a piece of the black shade net over the mouth of the fan to keep spores from building up inside the fan, gets cleaned weekly. most importan, Sonoff TH16 booooiiiii once I get the grow room going, I have to leave the fan off. put the fogger on, let it build to about 95%Rh, then I switch the fan on and leave it on. I got the fogger running on the Sonoff, when the RH drops below 90% it kicks the fogger on, once it reaches 98% it switches back off. Room never really gets wet, except for minimal droplets that form on the floor over a period of day, walls are never wet, but air stays very moist. very important. Now, some shroomies

what's up @jordz2203 I myself am very much out to support local, even made a thread a while back regarding SA cannabis brands and how to help these guys make it out here. building on what crex said, raw is a company a step above the rest. to "compete" with them, as anyone who enters the industry would have to, would be like a David and Goliath situation. and I want to highlight the big meaning behind what I just said, and that is that it is completely possible!!! a thing to keep in mind though, is that Josh Kesselman, the founder of raw papers didn't want to create a brand or big name, he wasn't motivated by taking over the market and making big money. he traveled the world and did research on papers trying to find what works best. at the moment they have people in Alcoy, Spain, producing their papers from trees that only grow there, gum from trees, and a whole bunch of science behind the diamond pattern on their papers that help it burn even. RAW is really on another level by now, there really isn't any competition for them, because the other guys who make the same papers as them end up loosing money because the process is so expensive and nothing sells as good. if you wanted to produce rolling papers and have the whole world buy them, just make papers forget about quality and focus on the business end, your papers will sell, but even then you competing with rizla and all the others. if you wana go for making a big name/brand for yourself, I wouldn't enter the market with rolling papers on my mind. I would look at the market, what's doing well, what are people looking for right now? if you can brand something you need the products to flow as soon as you get your name on it to help your advertising. start there, create the name, and outshine the rest. remember, there's already a local market you gona have to compete with also