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m420's Syringe making Tek
Nuke water for 8 minutes, suck the hot water in a syringe and let it cool.
Put a metal tray in the oven and put a glass jar in with it. Heat oven to 400°
and bake for 30 minutes. Let cool and reheat oven to 190°. Open door so
that you can slide out the rack and use the jar on top of the metal tray (tray
is to work on). Wipe syringe needle with rubbing alcohol and flame sterilize
it. Now open the print you have and lay down next to jar. Squirt 4 ccs of water
into the jar, and scrape all the spores into the jar. Now squirt the rest of
the water into the jar going back and forth, not swirling the water. Stir for
a few seconds slowly (swirling in a circle makes all the spores stick to the
jar sides). Now slowly suck up the spore water. You should now have clean syringes
ready to inoculate.
Comments by Anno:
>Heat oven to 400° and bake for 30 minutes. Let cool
and reheat oven to 190°.
>Open door so that you can slide out the rack and use the jar on top of the
metal tray (tray is to work on).
This so called Oven
Tek is known to be notoriously unreliable. It works for some, it doesn´t
for many others.
IME working in a clean, draft free room or a glowebox is better.
>Squirt 4 ccs of water into the jar, and scrape all the
spores into the jar.
Using 1 whole print for 1 syringe is a waste of spores. Using an area of
the print measuring 1/3in x 1/3in is more than plenty.