Posted by DARKINTENT (09/24/16 08:54 PM)
Why is simmering necessary does the soaking for 24 hrs not do the trick?
Posted by daveontheroc (10/14/15 04:35 PM)
please hlep me. how should my lids be prepped?? i wanna use tyvek

Posted by brookespot2010 (10/13/15 01:04 AM)
I bought my first spore syringe four months ago. I'm the queen as doing things half assed. Unless your goal is growing every kind of mold and fungus, I have learned many times now, that doing these procedures half assed and hoping to get lucky does not work. After building a small clean room with painters plastic and a staple gun, and hosing the inside down with Lysol, hosing myself down with rubbing alcohol, I filled my little room with an electric PC, bottles of water, karo, and a brand new spore syringe. To my delight the first strands of puffy bouncy beautiful mycellium appeared in just a couple of days. Yesterday, I used some of my LC to innoculate several jars of popcorn substrate and two bags of WBS. I'm blown away tonight by finding gorgeous mycrllium at the bottoms of the popcorn jars. If I had built the super easy little clean room four months ago I would have saved myself a huge amount of time, effort and heart break. The lesson has been hard learned and its definitely not over yet, but seeing those white ropes tonight makes the journey so far, worth it. If anyone just starting reads this, I urge you to listen to what is said about making your work space sterile. If it's impossible ( roommates who are sloppy, dogs that think its funny to poop on inside, smoke of many kinds, etc) build yourself a little clean room. I'm so glad I didn't throw in the towel!
Posted by Censor (01/10/13 11:27 AM)
Is it possible to supstitute a pressure cooker with a pressure canner? Thanks
Posted by kadian420 (06/07/12 09:47 AM)
i wish you good luck massmedia!!!
Posted by mayhem250 (09/24/11 12:28 PM)
I bought a PES Hawaiian 12ml Spore syringe from Micro-supply. Innoc'd 8 wide mouth quart jars filled 2/3-3/4 full of yellow popcorn (prepared as suggested) I gave them each 1.5ml(cc) of spore solution 4 days ago. I have them in a homemade incubator keep at a consistent temp of 82 degrees. Still no sign of germination or growth. Typically what is the average time for germination on popcorn? I used to use WBS as my spawn but lately I can no longer find "all natural" wild bird seed. I didn't want to take a chance with the possibility of chemicals on the WBS, but in the past I was seeing growth on my WBS within 3-4 days tops. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Posted by massmedia (04/21/07 12:57 PM)

im planing on doing a large outdoor patch.

this will be my first time, but have been studying for almost a year in preperations. wish me success!