[Cheebabear]

Well, just to update on the Mazatepecs. The 2nd flush did turn out better than the first but still fell short of what I was hoping for from 9 cakes. I had a lot of aborts and eventually I scraped the 9 cakes clean and dunked them using the bleach tek. Only this time after dunking I broke up 3 cakes at a time and put them into a tub with the bottoms blacked out and cased them with peat, so that I ended up with 3 tubs. I put them in a cooler with a heat bomb to keep temps near 78 - 81oF but so far I can't see any myc poking through the casing layer. Here are some pics of the total yield from 2 flushes and the current casings. I was able to get a couple of good spore prints and I ordered some of Hippie's premium substrate mix. It is a lot easier buying it from him than it is trying to find all those ingredients, and it's not a bad price either. The ground up brown rice I used is pretty old and I think that may have had something to do with the grow, that and/or because the spores were fairly old although they were kept in the dark in the fridge.