r/unclebens • u/Rilkespawn • 7d ago

Question Question about timing my grow

Planning my first grow and am impatient to get started. I should receive my cultures this week. I haven’t seen much discussion about how long each stage should take, and I have to be gone for a week at what seems like a pretty critical time in the grow.

Best I can tell, it takes 6-8 weeks from inoculation to harvest. If I inoculate when I have originally planned, I’ll have to be gone from the end of week 4 to the end of week 5. While I like the idea that this means I won’t be tempted to mess with the grow and potentially cause damage, it seems a pretty important time to monitor the fresh air exchange and misting as necessary.

Alternatively, I could simply delay inoculation a bit so that the week I’m gone is week 3/4, approximately the first week or so of spawning to bulk (which seems like a great time to leave it alone to do its thing).

Am I thinking right about this?

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u/AncientSpores 6d ago

Yuo're very welcome friend. FOr a future grow look at ochra. It used to be called natalenisis but they made a mistake in naming it and fixed it recently. It's very aggressive, twice as potent as GT and about the same as TW.

I prefer daisy chaining grows myself actually. When I'm actively growing I'll knock up a 2-3 spawn sets, then when I send those to sub, I knock up a couple more so there's a steady flow of stuff to do. You can learn things that work for you and your genetics and grows that you can apply to the next ones.

GT is a nice mild strain, one very commonly referred to for newcomers to the hobby. Tidal Wave is a hybrid of B+ and Penis Envy and is about twice as potent.

When it comes time to test your grow this calc has been pretty handy for me. If you have a large hat size you may find you need to boost the dosage up a bit. I do and I need about 25% more than the recommend dosing. My GF has a average head and the dosing is spot on for her. (more brain mass needs more based on the data coming out of the clinics in Cali)

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u/Rilkespawn 6d ago

Thank you for the advice. This entire sub has been such a great place to learn!

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u/Rilkespawn 6d ago

If you care to read how I got to this point, you can see that part of my journey here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychedelics/s/yJ9sZCz5rw

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u/AncientSpores 5d ago

I unfortunately don't have any advice that I can in good conscience offer to guide you in your journey as I'm not a certified anything. But I truly wish you a successful outcome.

I can offer my own and my GF's experiences. My brain is very hard wired 'science', I take nothing on faith and haven't for the 55 years I've been alive, it's just now how my brain processes input, I question everything and need hard proof.

She's hard wired 'woo' on the other hand. We are literally the epitome of Yin and Yang and it somehow works beautifully for us.

What I get out of my trips is typically an fun and entertaining time. That alone is a bright spot in my life. I enjoy seeing the end results of my brain taking a walk down visual alley. I've taken 7g of decent cubes and 5g of strong ochra which should have been on the far far side of level 5 trip and it was just OEVs, CEV's for me, at no point was I not fully in control of what was going on, at no point have I ever gotten get any sense of other worldly.

I do unfortunately see a fair bit of death imagery on my trips but without going into it, if I see another 5 years of life I'll have beaten some very serious odds. So it would be more surprising if I didn't see that given it's always at the back of my mind. It's why I started trying things like THC and magic mushrooms last year. I don't want to go out regretting not having experienced all I can in the time remaining that's safe to do so for me.

My GF though has gone through a heroic trip on 4g of ochra when 3g was probably enough but she wanted to see the other side. And she had a very spiritual trip that lasted 8-9 hours. She came back with visions and the 100% unshakable faith that we, us two, have been soul mates in the past and will be again in the future.

So take that for whatever it's worth to you and again, I truly deeply hope you find what you're looking for.

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u/Rilkespawn 5d ago

One thing that seems to be truer than not is that the community of people who seek solace from psychedelics is more empathetic than just about any other arena in my life. You are part of that crowd. Thanks for the well wishes!